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- Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Route pathfinding
Route Pathfinding Added route pathfinding. If you specify a route destination outside of the current junction, the shortest path will be found to that destination and the train will follow that path. In the case of bidi…
Announcement8 changesFixGameplay - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Async connect and train follow
Network Game will retry connecting to the server if it becomes disconnected. Game now connect asynchronously, reducing startup/network stalls. If the server version/protocol doesn't match, the game stops retrying that s…
Patch notes7 changesFixServer - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Signal fixes and updates
Fixed bug where depots directly touch a block with platforms that load were not handled properly. This could lead to priority stealing, and non-determinism in multi-threading. This was a rare and subtle simulation probl…
Announcement8 changesFixGameplay - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Resource-specific orders
Added signal dialog that opens when clicking on a signal a second time. You can set the load orders from here, and is the only way to configure cargo specific orders. Added support for resource-specific loading and unlo…
Announcement4 changesFixGameplay - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Farming balance
Changed recipes for workshop to use leather instead of steel to boost production of farm tools. This was needed because steel was also used to produce mechanisms. Having the same input used for two different outputs cau…
Announcement4 changesFixWorkshop - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Track and route editing
Added button to remove all routes from the selected set, indicated by a nuclear mushroom cloud icon. Added button to heal track, removing a "cut". This replaces 3 connected tracks with a single track. Fixed bug where de…
Security7 changesFixUI/audio - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Prevent T-junctions
Made it an error for track vertices to be on other tracks. This was a bug to have been allowed in the first place. Unfortunately, there were some submitted solutions that became invalid due to this change. Fixed bug whe…
Announcement3 changesFixUI/audio - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Worker speed
Worker changes Added worker walking speed penalty that applies after 30 tiles and ramps up slowly over distance. This is a very lax restriction on worker effectiveness over distance that is intended to prevent cheesing…
Announcement5 changesFixBalance - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Improved track drawing
Made the selection in track drawing mode work better. It's no longer possible to accidentally try to connect to curves when not intended. Thi is something Master Hellish struggled with, so I tried to make it more intuit…
Announcement3 changesGameplayPerformance - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Route highlighting and dead ends
Fixed highly related, but technically separate bugs where trains didn't handle reversing at track terminations correctly when there were no valid exits. In the simulation, the train was allowed to reverse, and would go…
Announcement3 changesFixGameplay - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Configurable key bindings
Key Bindings Added menu to change key bindings available via button in options menu. These are saved to the bindings.cfg file. Only one key per key action now. Got rid of x to delete (use del instead). Got rid of pgup p…
Announcement5 changesFixUI/audio - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Cheese changes
Gameplay Changed useless workshop in Lyon to textile factory. This allows boosting the cheese factory by delivering textiles. Added textile factory to Naples, to allow boosting cheese. Added cheese requirement and chees…
Patch notes11 changesFixWorkshop - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Improved support for Windows 10 and old hardware
Crashes Fixed crash during startup while querying the monitor refresh rate. Better asserts that don't just crash. Now, popups message will give some diagnostic info. If the level of MSAA requested is too high, reduce th…
Event11 changesFixPerformance - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Score display
Icons for medals are displayed next to the names of the top five scores. The number of histogram bins now scales with the number of players. Info about the number of players and range of a histogram bin is shown when ho…
Announcement - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Route mode buttons
Fixed: Text in schedules list overwrites the up/down buttons. Make up/down buttons draw over the text. Fixed: Pressing up/down changes the global ID of the route, but if not all are shown then may have no apparent effec…
Announcement2 changesFix - Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Logarithmic histograms, selection, and bug fixes
Changed: Histograms are now calculated on the logarithm of the score values. This is because some of the changes are inherently logarithmic. For example, if you have a bad solution and double the number of trains, that…
Announcement6 changesFixGameplay
