Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
Steam News 30 March 20261mo ago

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…

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Full Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail update

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addedChanged: 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 will significantly impact your score. Adding a new industry will again significantly impact your score. These multiplicative improvements compound. This creates major differences in score that are not in line with the effort needed to achieve them.
addedAdded: Added total track length in top right overlay.
addedAdded: Press Ctrl+A to select everything.
addedAdded: If something is selected, pressing Escape clears the selection.
fixedFixed: Track drawing preview state isn't properly being reset. This makes a cost appear when entering track mode and you haven't started drawing any track yet.
fixedFixed: Crop text to window in schedule list and schedule for exceedingly long names of schedules. This also happens for save game names. Slightly extended the size of file dialogs a bit so that things can fit more easily.
  • ChangedHistograms 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 will significantly impact your score. Adding a new industry will again significantly impact your score. These multiplicative improvements compound. This creates major differences in score that are not in line with the effort needed to achieve them.
  • AddedAdded total track length in top right overlay.
  • Added: Press Ctrl+A to select everything.

  • Added: If something is selected, pressing Escape clears the selection.

  • Fixed: Track drawing preview state isn't properly being reset. This makes a cost appear when entering track mode and you haven't started drawing any track yet.

  • Fixed: Crop text to window in schedule list and schedule for exceedingly long names of schedules. This also happens for save game names. Slightly extended the size of file dialogs a bit so that things can fit more easily.

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Steam News / 30 March 2026

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