Play Like a Pro!

Samisu, generally a good idea ... but please rethink.

Players use the term "the golden hour" .... but it is definitely NOT the hour "directly after city level-up".

Cities rarely level up in the minutes of recalculation, but 20, 30 or 40 minutes early or late ...

Pros WAIT, in some city communities up to 45 minutes for recalculation, and then ALL have a FULL HOUR called golden hour.

If a few follow that pro tip, they spoil the waiting time of the new goods for a little advatage during the next 20 minutes for example .... ans ALL OTHERS will have a waiting time which often doubles the total transport time, plus, they have dropped the income for the new goods already.

The "Golden Hour" rule is: LISTEN to the city community, most often WAIT till next recalculation AFTER level-up, and then enjoy a COMPLETE golden hour together with all your city community mates.

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This is only one example, where those tips will not work, but increase problems. The idea is good to ask experienced players, generally (as you see from my example above), however, the players are not in the mood to think about new things, they want HTML5 and less bugs first.

Those employees who are not engaged in HTML5 migration or bugfixes, should use that time for a good FAQ, a manual, a collection of tips already made all over the forums ... players are suffering from bugs, from waiting for HTML5, they are worrying ... the mood is not to enjoy "new projects" ... plus: to integrate those pro tips, it needs IT people again to put them ingame ... they first should fix bugs.

In Era 1 and 2 don't look at prestige, earn money.

In era 6 if you already have your trains for the end game and receive engine vouchers buy some basic olympus and place them in museum. Do not get any upgrades. If you run out of money for wagons you can sell the olympus in the museum for a couple of million to use for wagons.

Twisted Angel wrote:

In era 6 if you already have your trains for the end game and receive engine vouchers buy some basic olympus and place them in museum. Do not get any upgrades. If you run out of money for wagons you can sell the olympus in the museum for a couple of million to use for wagons.

I'd rather enter EG fully loaded with wagons.

If you receive lottery tickets towards the end of an era, wait until the new era begins to cash them in. You'll sometimes get better prizes that way...maybe even a bonus engine.

If your association has a track-worker, then don't redeem the daily loginbonus of day 8 (trackvoucher) or day 14 (surprisebonus but possible 5 trackvouchers) yet.

Wait until the trackworker is gone, or until you are done building tracks for that day.

When you play for a good position...

From the 1st to the 3rd era it is time to make money to build the main buildings of the station.

From 4 Era - Prestige Play begins.

The main prestige was earned in Era 5, 6 and 7.

Stubaski wrote:

In Era 1 and 2 don't look at prestige, earn money.

Hear Me Roar wrote:

When you play for a good position...

From the 1st to the 3rd era it is time to make money to build the main buildings of the station.

From 4 Era - Prestige Play begins.

The main prestige was earned in Era 5, 6 and 7.

From my own experience, for top1s (without investing $$) :

Era 1 : station, some basic tracks (5 cities)

Era 2 : finish station (i.e. restaurant 32, CC 32, laboratory 25, hotel 25, bank to 30M (level 20 or 22?), tracks to suite your needs, basic tracks (5 cities in SoE, 7-8 in other gamemodes)

Era 3-4 : complete your tracks (in SoE, you go from 5 to 20 in that time period, a bit less for other gamemodes because you don't have twin cities).

Era 5-6 : finish the tracks, do the agressive PP-hunting + investments.

Competitions can gain you up to 200-300 gold / day, when you play the whole day.

Videos the first day are worth 10times what they are worth the second day, and those are worth 10 times what they are worth any day after that. So you should really get them if you want a top 1 / 10, leave them to those of your corp that want a good ranking if you just want to play for fun.

Also, there are a few ways to get a top 1. I go for the competition / balanced approach. Some others prefer the heavy-transport, or heavy-investment approach.

Also the tip I use most probably :

have a high-costing building in your station to redeem the -20% building cost vouchers on (It will usually be either the laboratory, or the restaurant for me).

Just launch the construction, then cancel it. You just gained a ton of money.

That's reason enough that I keep my restaurant level 31 until my laboratory catches up in terms of prices.

Same argument goes for trains vouchers. Sometimes it is better to buy a multi-slot train (without any upgrades!) just to sell it.

Klabbauter wrote:

Pros WAIT, in some city communities up to 45 minutes for recalculation,

Newbees wait. Pros go directly after city lvl up if it is at least 20-25 minutes before recalculation or even 15 minutes if there's a lot of players in the city or the factory is really close to the city.

ЛейзиБастард wrote:

Newbees wait. Pros go directly after city lvl up if it is at least 20-25 minutes before recalculation or even 15 minutes if there's a lot of players in the city or the factory is really close to the city.

Indeed, there are two (at least) different types of professionals.

Professionals tho fight for their own win, will of course haul those goods directly after level up and get a big advantage for 15 minutes and leave all waiters behind them.

In RN we meet all types of professionals:

- zero-sum gamers, who go to for their win and the disadvantage of others

- win-win gamers, who play for the fun and the advantage of a bigger community

- and all types in between

That's a difficulty of pro tipps: if you call it out, it might be good for one strategy and bad for a different one.

At the end ... a silly question: are there REALLY professional players in RN? Professionals play as their job, they play for money, no matter if the game is poker, soccer or an online game. Anybody here, who plays RN for money?     

Klabbauter wrote:

Indeed, there are two (at least) different types of professionals.

Professionals tho fight for their own win, will of course haul those goods directly after level up and get a big advantage for 15 minutes and leave all waiters behind them.

At the end ... a silly question: are there REALLY professional players in RN? Professionals play as their job, they play for money, no matter if the game is poker, soccer or an online game. Anybody here, who plays RN for money?     

1. If one starts hauling before announced time he's just a scum not a pro). But pros announce GH with conditions I say, 'cause otherwise it would be just a time spent on nothing; there's always some more cities waiting for lvl up around, especially if you play US scenario)) or you just could get some more prestige in other cities)

2. I don't know people who play RN for money, but I know people who play really a lot and know the game better than some pros in other sphere know their job))). A good coord in Endgame tells you the exact time the good will be fully hauled 5 minutes in advance and announces a new one and that's what I call professionalism, for instance). Or when levelling up a city one can save an hour for the crowd directing the process)

ЛейзиБастард wrote:

Newbees wait. Pros go directly after city lvl up if it is at least 20-25 minutes before recalculation or even 15 minutes if there's a lot of players in the city or the factory is really close to the city.

ЛейзиБастард wrote:

A good coord in Endgame tells you the exact time the good will be fully hauled 5 minutes in advance and announces a new one and that's what I call professionalism, for instance).

Fully agree. I've seen so many times, especially on SoE when the city is level 15 at the end of era 4, people telling everybody to wait for GH, 30min not being "enough".

They didn't realise that the new good would be finished in 15min because 10 people were rushing, and the city was underleveled.

Klabbauter : I wouldn't call them professionals, but as already said, some people know this game inside-out and perfected strategies to optimise time and money (sometimes for personal purposes, but often for the city's sake as well). A flexible GH rule based on the number of active rushers is one such optimization.

The caller announcing a new good early is, IMO, the biggest difference a caller can make. You gain so much time, and you can win an EG just with that. (closing 2 4-tracks goods in 1 hours, instead of a 4tracks and a 2 tracks for example). But most people don't understand the importance of calling a second good early, when there is enough time left. And so they lose 10 minutes of rush time per hour.

to summarise all this posts above about the golden hour the pro tip should be:

Always follow the call of the caller

sacroima wrote:

closing 2 4-tracks goods in 1 hours

Maximum what I saw personally was 7 goods in an hour) EG was finished in just over 13 hours)))

ЛейзиБастард wrote:

Maximum what I saw personally was 7 goods in an hour) EG was finished in just over 13 hours)))

yeah, but where I play we don't have that many rushers

sacroima wrote:

yeah, but where I play we don't have that many rushers

Welcome to Russian servers)))) btw, Aug 8th Broadway, US Express is starting))))

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