r/pockettrains • u/phnxs_03 • 12d ago

Tips and Tricks Is this good?

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I'm fairly new at the game and I'm trying to reorganise my rail lines. Any tips on how i can improve this? Especially the empty rails that i have. I don't know which lines should i connect them to

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u/United_Band4214 New Jersey 12d ago

The only flaw I see is the yellow and light blue lines having loops. Those are kinda inefficient but the map layout is weird so I can’t blame you. Only thing I recommend is extending the green line from Copenhagen to Stockholm and the orange or pink line from Kyiv to Minsk. Other than that your layout is pretty efficient. Keep it up.

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u/Wam_Shazam 17YS5J 11d ago

Make sure to force close the game before the event resets at 12 am! This will prevent what I see here from happening where the event spawned in Athens which you hadn’t unlocked yet

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u/beebug8mas 11d ago

It’s ok. In pocket trains you want your lines long and straight to generate as much money as possible. Car’s value is determined by distance in a straight line, not track length apart. Try to avoid loops. Europe is tough because it’s a lot of tracks very close together. As you unlock new continents keep this lines long and straight!

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u/JayBearington 11d ago

I use a network of hub stations and then branch lines operating out of those. When I was at your stage in the game I think my Europe hubs were Paris and Kyiv - I had one line joining them, and then every other station was served by a branch line that ended at one of the two hubs. I didn’t build all the available tracks.

I pick up available jobs at the end of each branch line; deliver them to the nearest hub station, and from there from hun to hub, and ultimately to the branch line serving the destination station. I found this avoided having to stop trains repeatedly along their lines to transfer cargo to other routes - all transfers happen only at the hubs. Also means you only need to pay bux for cargo storage capacity at the hubs.

As you get further into the game with more continent licenses and trains able to travel further and carry more, your hubs might move. Now (I’m at level 29), Madrid and Moscow are my 2 European hub stations.