Hello respected community!
I have another good news for you!
I've just released one very special update today. Since There are holidays comming and winter nights are long and calm, I think we all have a great opportunity to enjoy huge maps and some winter quest full of magic.
Also there are even better possibilities for such a great community and talented modders to release their imagination and create even better custom maps as well. New map size unlocks more than milion tiles you can tweek to perfection and spend dozents of hours later to create our bigger-than-ever railroad network.
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Update content
- Supporting map size up to 1024 x 1024! But be aware, only those having x64 operating system and more than 8GB ram are able to use these maps (maybe some future optimization unlocks them for all players)
- Having this opportunity I've dusted off my brushes and create the new map for you: 1024_h_uk. It is based on real data not only for elevation and town locations & names, but also forest coverage mask, grass wetness mask, industry locations (some of them are having real world names) etc. This map is rather hardcore due to low industry density, but could be a nice challenge for your long winter nights ;)
- Having large maps I've also added one new station upgrade able to unlocks you +2 station size.
- Last, but maybe the most interesting, is Christmas quest. You will need to utilize your railway network / road vehicles even more to serve good things. There are unique visuals and very rare reward for you.
Just to mention an awesome way how to solve the new holidays-limited quest, I have to mention JTrucker. He creates a long train, loads it untill full and drives it himself to each destination. Each time he waits at the station for a moment and continues to anothe one. Once the train is empty, he jumps out and since the train hase only one destination with full load command in his route list, train gets back automatically, loads full and waits on JTrucker to be driven to other destinations. I love it, very elegant and roleplay-full approach.
Vouchers
For the very last minute gifts and for all of you who is not following me on social media (fcb Mashinky page), I just reminds you the possibility to get your gift voucher and steam key directly on www.mashinky.com. You may print voucher, buy the game directly there or on humble store (steam woun't give you the key directly), write the key onto the printed voucher and you have beatiful gift in just a few minutes ;)
Enjoy holiday season and big Thank you!
I just want to thank you for another (and awesome) year. You are the best community I could ever wish and it is a great pleasure to work on this game for you. I am so looking forward to the next year having some major updates almost reaching its public testing phase.
Please have a beautiful holiday season, stay safe and health and wish you all the best for the upcoming next year!
Best regards,
Jan