New to Sid Meier's Railroads! scenarios?
There are two ways to use custom scenarios for Sid Meier's Railroads!
Either by hand as documented here or using SMRMapShifter.exe as documented here.
Along with the change from 7z to zip I also spent some time adding a ratings system.
The system is a three star plus, one . My reqonmandation for voting style goes like this:
- A vote of 3 stars means a above average quality map
- 2 stars would be an average map
- Below average is 1 star
Rate a map based on how much fun you had on it, on how well the map’s terrain was planned and painted, but beyond everything let your opinion guide you.
I would please ask that you do not rate a map down because of crashes, slow downs, or other major problems. If a map has a bug please leave a comment notifying of such, I will try and determine the problem and fix it, or if I am unable to I will forward it to someone who can.
These ratings should help newcomers as well as long term players in finding fun, new and or simply over looked maps.
So please vote, and do so knowing that you are helping others enjoy the SMR experience.
New file format
I have changed the compression used for the maps. Instead of using .7z now everything is compressed in .zip. While I love 7-zip, the best file compression program in existence, the use of .7z and the need for a user to have 7-zip installed acted as a deterrent to new players. So this afternoon I took a few hours and converted everything to zip. These files will be larger than their 7z counterparts but they are still small as far as downloads go.
Because I did some things automated some of the links may lead to non-existent files. If you encounter a 404 page anywhere on this site please leave a comment on the page that it was linked from, I will be sure to fix it right away.
Map: San Francisco CIC
Mapper: Calm Dragon
Make the rails sing around the Bay Area.
A trip around San Francisco Bay sounds like a plan. Simple economy starting with mail from villages.
Twelve industries available to cities. Seventeen products to move between cities.
There are several starting villages and several other villages all with one industry each.
No custom content. Original Map designed by Calm Dragon using USGS DEM data.
This map is for intermediate players.
There are challenging goals that you may work toward.
Have Fun and Happy Railroading!
Fancy late game bridges may crash the game back to your desktop,
though I have worked very hard not to allow that to happen.
I’ve been meaning to do it for months now, and I finally got my act together and added it, a image gallery.
As with most things about the site it features the work from the Sid Meier’s Railroads community. Prior to this images were scattered throughout the Hooked On Railroads forum, now they have a central location to take nest.
The section is currently populated with images from my Sid Meiers railraods screenshot collection of which only a few were captured by myself. Sadly I cannot remember who was responcible for most individual photo, but I do know that quite a few of them are courtesy of Lowwell, Jancsika and Rodea.
The next thing on my to do list is go through and tag the screenshots, add descriptions and authors, or at least the authors I remember. If you know of an image’s author please tell me in the comments, my intention is not to withhold credit, I am sadly simply not perfect.
Most importantly, if you have an image that you would like to add to the gallery just post it here in the comments, I’ll add it pronto.
Map: Texas CIC Compatible
Mapper: frizzank
Cattle and Oil are plentiful but not necessarily close to the towns that need it. West Texas is full of oil and minerals, the south has great pastures for cattle.
