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Offline Raven3

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Railroads
« on: August 20, 2014, 10:58:07 AM »
Where and on what occasions do you encounter railroads/trains in the game?

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Re: Railroads
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2014, 11:12:02 AM »
Trains resupply the factories. Fly to one and look out for the railroad, Ground Vis Mode (Shift-F4) may help with that. Trains run every 10 minutes.
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2014, 11:23:18 AM »
Lusche is it practical to knock out all the trains?

If you could knock out all trains at the same time, would it have a significant effect on that country?
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2014, 12:25:30 PM »
Each train car destroyed (including engine) adds 0.7 minutes of downtime to all objects at that factory that are already destroyed.
In effect, you are significantly extending the factory downtime if you are able to block auto resupply by continually destroying the trains.
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2014, 03:22:43 PM »
To add, idk how practical it would be since destroyed or successful trains will respawn every 10minutes on the track, but as lusche said if they're in need of resupply and you can stop the trains, you'll add a notable amount of downtime.  Not enough to keep the down indefinitely, but enough to make the trains lucrative targets.

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Re: Railroads
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2014, 03:26:46 PM »
Quote from: Babalonian on August 20, 2014, 03:22:43 PM
Not enough to keep the down indefinitely,

In theory, you could almost triple the factory basic downtime of 180 minutes... that would require to start the moment the factory goes down and keep on doing it without break.
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2014, 03:33:45 PM »
Always interesting.  Thanks Lusche and  Babalonian. 
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2014, 09:32:49 AM »
Yes, thanks guys!!!!!
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2014, 12:55:03 PM »
Did not know this . cool  :aok
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2014, 08:51:22 AM »
 Near each strat there is a building that the train tracks end at.  The trains run like clockwork every 10 or 15 minutes you will see one if you hang out at the strat. 

Stay below 3k AGL when attacking trains.
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2014, 05:23:09 PM »
Quote from: Rob52240 on November 10, 2014, 08:51:22 AM
Near each strat there is a building that the train tracks end at.  The trains run like clockwork every 10 or 15 minutes you will see one if you hang out at the strat. 

Stay below 3k AGL when attacking trains.


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Re: Railroads
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2014, 08:09:16 PM »
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2014, 08:45:54 PM »
Hehehe, that's the way to do it.

Live longer than you do attacking the factories directly, too.
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Re: Railroads
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2014, 10:54:56 PM »
Quote from: caldera on November 10, 2014, 05:23:09 PM

Train vulching:



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