Post originally by Cedric Chin at 2005-01-12 10:12:53
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Great review. Despite this being your first Rails game, your review is quite accurate about the Rails series.

Communism Falls is the only mechanic that's different for this Rails game, so I'd like to know more. Did the event cause players to play (eg. plan) differently? I'd see how the 20% loss would affect players late in the game, but other Rails games have Taxes, which pretty much does the same. I'm guessing that the 2M fee late in the game doesn't affect players much. At best, I think players would just build routes to avoid, say, zig-zagging across the USSR border. But if the best routes are taken, some players may be foreces to build this way.

Thanks,


Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^