Alaska Early
2009 June 24
Map: Alaska Early SAM
Mapper: jowe10
Work the vast natural resources of Alaska including the fisheries and coal. Get in on the gold rush in the Yukon.
You will also need to connect the key cities along the Alaska pipeline to deliver workers.
Starting location and skill level selected really changes the game. Goals can be very hard depending where you start. I suggest you start on the easiest skill level with only 1 competitor and then work your way toward a more challenging game.
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Nice map
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This is a great map, but REALLY tough to meet the goals. Has anyone completed everything?
Mappers tend to favor difficulty when making scenarios. Combine that with the fact that when you make something it will always be easier for you and I would expect that many of the maps here are quite a bit harder than stock ones.
With that said just keep at it, the harder the it is the sweeter the victory. And don’t worry someone will have one, even if it was only the mapper himself.
This map is lovely, but inherently flawed. Here are some issues:
1) Aside from either the Fairbanks or Fort Yukon start points, all other starting locations are too far from one or more of the required initial resources to be reached early. In order to hard 100 carloads of materials in 40 years, you really need to be able to start hauling by around 1870 or so… and if you’re having to lay rail deep, DEEP into the Alaskan wilderness just to get to those resource nodes, you’re not going to get started until the 1880s.
2) Gold is another huge issue. In order to haul gold (and not gold ore) you need to have a city, and – initially at least – the only viable way to build cities is through intercity passenger travel. This means that you’re likely going to have to double or even triple track your lines very early in order to allow this important passenger lifeline to bypass slower freights. Thus, you’re spending an enormous amount of capital outlay just trying to build a town into a city before the gold produced from your mines can even begin reaching its destination. Even with 4 trains feeding off from three mines by 1880, I didn’t reach the goal.
3) The fisheries are too few and far between to be reached from the interior early enough to make a distance. I had 2 trains doing double duty from the Anchorage fishery by 1880 and didn’t reach the mark.
The issue here really is that you’re asking far too much too early. Even if one of the requirements was reduced or dropped (the gold one being particularly asinine because of its city requirement) then the map might be doable. But right now, every time I’ve tried this, I’ve gotten to about 1895 raking in nearly 2 million a year with a beautiful, seamless railroad operation, and been off by at least 30 carloads on one resource or another.
So, good job, but this needs to be retooled. I like a challenge, but this map reminds me of bashing my skull into a wall repeatedly.
Love this map, completed it and won, was unable to reach the first couple of goals..
but had no problem completing the worker deliverys for the pipelines..
everytime I load this map it gets to “Building up Steam” then crashes to the desktop. I am using the 3GB enabler and have cleared out the user map files. What else can I do?
Read this post.
You have to clean up your “UserMaps” folder
http://www.smrsimple.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=2832