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Ever dreamed of being a train driver? The RailNation game will give you this opportunity. Your task is to build a flourishing transport empire, and you will have to start your journey from the time of steam boilers. Gradually, the eras will replace each other, and you can enjoy the progress, discovering more promising locomotives. The technique will need to be constantly modernized.

The gamer spends research points on transport optimization, pumping speed, expanding the number of cars, etc. To receive money, you will need to transport various goods to different cities. Do not forget about the accumulation of prestige points: they determine your rating. Sometimes you will need to make a choice between good income and popularity.

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Often or rarely, most people working on a computer play with computer games... Someone is playing solitaire, someone is playing poker, someone is more fun to shoot in an online shooter, and someone is a fan of economic strategies. I've played hundreds of games in my life. Some took the day away from me, after which they were erased once and for all, some took months and left an indelible mark in the form of new friends and acquaintances. It happened in different ways. But there are games that leave deep frustrations behind. Most often, this is due to the rash actions of the developers of these games. Today I would like to talk about the game Rail Nation and how the decisions of some people kill the game for others.

What is Rail Nation?

Rail Nation is online games and dedicated to the railways. The game requires a browser with support for Adobe Flash technology (yes, yes, the game is old) and Internet access. Unlike many online games, the game has a clear schedule of events, the start date of the "round", the strictly limited time of the internal stages of the round, and the start date of the "final" of the game. The whole journey takes 3 months, plus or minus a couple of days for the final. Thus, the developers of the game allow players to go all the way of a railway tycoon, from a single steam-powered train, to a modern company with a dozen over-modern trains. For players with a broad outlook, this may remind you of the alignment in Travian game... These players will be absolutely right, because both games have a common developer - Travian Games GmbH.

The developers guessed right with the choice of topics. Anything railroad, with a good idea and relatively normal execution, is quite rare. Scary to say, but last game from the Railroad Tycoon series was released over 10 years ago, in 2006! And of course, there was no online, no communication, it was pure water railway economic simulator. Now, simulators of the railway itself are more often released in terms of train control (Trainz series), but there are many complaints from simulator lovers to it, and strategy lovers are not interested in it in any way. Although in preparation for this post, I found something called Transport Fever, not clean Railway, but I will definitely find time for it.

So, the developers did 80% of the work and found an empty niche. It may be a very stubborn economy, albeit with outdated graphics, but online. So in January 2013 our hero appeared - Rail game Nation.

Train departs…

The game appeared in 2013 and it is difficult for me to say what was in the very first versions of the game, then it was unfamiliar to me, so I could be mistaken in the details, but the essence remains true.

So, initially there were 48 types of resources in the whole game. These resources were divided into 6 ages, 10 resources in the first age, 8 resources each in the second through fifth ages, and 6 resources in the sixth. Each era offered a set of different trains and lasted for two weeks.

The economic model is very simple. The city has a warehouse where the resources brought by the players go. For bringing resources to the city, players receive money, for which they buy new locomotives and wagons, the number of which is limited for each player. Every 15 minutes, the city consumes resources and removes some of them from the city's warehouse.

At the same time, the city is not omnivorous, but requires only a limited number of resources available on the map (four). In order for the city to need a new resource, it is required to bring in such an amount of current resources so that the city chokes on saturation (a conditional line is indicated in the game). Well, of course, the higher the level of the delivered resource (the later it is open) and the city, the higher the income for delivery. Naturally, the game is structured in such a way that it is possible to deliver the required level of resources only by coordinating the general actions of the city's players, that is, when playing as a team.

In the final, everything practically repeats itself, only in it you need to start all 48 resources and do it first among all the cities that made it to the final (10 best cities out of 50 existing ones).

Let's briefly summarize the idea of ​​the game at the time of its emergence. There are 48 resources to start. And there are 3 months to form manageable teams to complete this mission. In the final, the best teams compete with each other with better coordination, more coffee supply, thicker logs in their eyes and more gold. More details about what the game finale is and its nuances are described in a separate article.

Monetization, her mother ...

An inquisitive reader, saw the word gold and tensed. And for good reason. Any online project requires monetization. There are altruistic developers, Linux is a witness to this, but in the genre of games it is much less common and even less so here. While rail is popular among the small number of open source games (read for free), the OpenTTD project is a testament to this.

So how was monetization built when the game was launched?

The first thing that was available initially was a "plus". This is such a standard feature of Travian Games GmbH, when they make the game a little inconvenient for everyone, but for those who are willing to pay a little most of the inconvenience goes away. At the same time, it cannot be said that the presence of this function made or makes its owners head and shoulders above the rest - no, this is not so. Moreover, the game has enough ways to provide yourself with a "plus" in sufficient quantity for all three months of the game, you just need to spend some time.

The second is the lottery. This is the best find of the developers. An in-game lottery with game prizes in the form of additional locomotives, money, instant construction of buildings, research points and God knows what else. Whoever has ever been to a casino understands that gambling addicts in the lottery can lose their fortune and not notice it. It's a disease. It doesn't matter that the prize here is not in real money. It doesn't matter to a true gambling addict, he's sick. On the other hand, the lottery allows people over the twentieth years to play the game, who cannot spend a lot of time in the game, but want to feel on a level with others or even better than them. Does the lottery violate the balance of the game? For me personally, the issue is controversial, I believe that at the time of the appearance of the game, the lottery violated the balance, but after the introduction of passengers and until the end of 2016, in general, no (about this, as it were, the text). There are several goals in the game, among which there are "personal scores" and team competitions. For the former, the lottery is a big bonus, for the latter, it is insignificant.

The third is the instant construction of buildings and rails. Buildings are expensive to build for gold, but nevertheless there were and are personalities who manage to rebuild the entire station on maximum level... Usually these are the same people who play the lottery (the processes are interconnected, because money is taken from the lottery, direct purchase game currency No).

Fourth - instant shipments, acceleration of trains, mechanics. Since all productions in the game have a waiting time for loading the arrived composition, paid "instant shipments" were invented, which made this wait equal to zero. The function was actively used in the finals and in competitions for rare locomotives. The acceleration of trains temporarily added additional speed to the locomotives and was mainly used in the finals, less often in competitions for rare locomotives. Mechanics made train wear zero for 8 hours and was used by many in the normal game to save research points on train reliability research.

We go, we go, we go ...

I got acquainted with the game at its turning point, in late 2014, early 2015. I played my first rounds according to the old scheme, when there were 48 resources in the game and no passengers. Later, I started the round with the first passengers in 2015, but for business reasons I did not finish it. I returned to the game at its second turning point, before changing the passenger payment system at the end of 2016, having managed to play a round with the old passenger system and playing a round with new system passengers now. But first things first.

Before the introduction of passengers team play was at the highest level and really meant a lot. Well-oiled actions of the team made it possible to pass 2, and in the rarest cases, three levels of the city per day. The fact is that to increase the level of the city, it was required to have only 4 resources and this could be done in several ways.

Each resource comes from dedicated production. For each of the 50 cities, there may be one, less often two, very rarely three. Production facilities have the concept of "loading" - this is the waiting time for a train to load in production. It increases with the growth of the number of people who carry the given resource and falls along with the "growth" of the level of production. The level of production depends on the total amount and rate of export of the resource over the entire lifetime of the server. For those unfamiliar with the game, this is all a little confusing, but it's actually simple. When a production just opens or is not used at all, it ships the goods instantly (waiting time 0 seconds) and is not subject to secondary loading factors, but if all players in the city (25+ people) start delivery from it, then the waiting time can increase to 5-10 minutes depending on secondary factors. The recalculation of the shipment time occurs once an hour, in the next hour it changes slightly (only from changes in secondary factors).

This mathematics and the presence of several industries of the same type made it possible to make several transitions of the city from level to level of the city in a few hours or per day. The process was relatively simple:

First, the team got up on the up (transition of the city from level to level) of the city and imported the first four resources. Thus, one old resource disappeared and a new one appeared, the waiting time for which was 0 seconds. This is the so-called "golden hour" in the new production, when due to the short waiting time it was possible to get super profits. But good teams did not rush to a new resource, but imported three old resources to the maximum possible maximum of the city, after which the whole team switched to a new resource and brought it in in 15-30 minutes. In words, this is easy enough, but it was necessary to organize from 25 to 100 people so that no one pushed into a new production until the right moment, otherwise the idea would not work.

In cases where the teams wanted to do this with two resources, then after the delivery of a fresh resource and the next increase in the level of the city (when 2 old resources and 2 new ones remained), the whole team switched to old resources, allowing the new resources to "cool down", that is ... returned the golden hour to them. After that, I switched to new resources. Thus, overcoming two levels of the city in a few hours. All this required strict discipline, coordination and a team of the game. This is how the best teams in Rail Nation were formed.

It may seem that all this is somewhat far-fetched, but the top 10 cities out of 50 get to the final and one of the final tactics is to start from the last place. At the same time, the start of the final begins a few hours later, but the warehouses of the city turn out to be less than the warehouses of other participants, which gives an advantage at the subsequent distance. Therefore, there has always been a struggle for the lowest level of the city upon reaching the final, that is, for the 10th place. In the same way, the last-ranked contenders could have been knocked out of the finals, but these are subtle features of the game's strategy. And here we are talking only about the final of the game, and there are also weekly competitions of cities, in which it is more profitable to take part with a low level of the city and a high level of production than with a city that has just passed to a new level.

And then people arrived ...

Everything changed with the introduction of passengers into the game. The passengers were introduced to the game on May 21, 2015 and in my opinion was a quick attempt by Travian Games GmbH to regain the fading interest in the game. See for yourself, here are the statistics of requests for the Rail Nation combination for the last 5 years, the arrow shows the data for May 2015, you can see that the decline began after stagnation from September 2014 to April 2015.

Rail Nation statistics in Google Trends

Passengers have become the 49th resource of the game, mandatory for delivery between the growth of the city from level to level. For their delivery, special trains were and are required, which cannot carry other goods (logically), and, accordingly, require a different approach to the expenditure of research points. Thus, all the old tactics have lost their relevance, the meaning and need for coordinated team actions have dropped somewhat. No, the teams themselves did not go anywhere and were still needed, but if before the teams spent hours online fighting for several city ups in a row, now there was a need to deliver passengers, which was killing this concept in the bud.