The Imperial Court of the Master Logistician - Mini Metro

[amusingthebrood]

Next job, try the extreme and see how badly it goes.

Three attempts, each improving. 200 odd before I got a station that I physically couldn’t connect. Then 500, which had been my target, and finally 1,500. If I had received an extra line, I might have squeezed out a little more, but in the end only dark blue could join the stations up and it and green collapsed.

I think I shall move on to Paris.

http://i.imgur.com/0V0C6ZU.gif?1

[amusingthebrood]

I cannot work out what will work for New York. I’m sure I didn’t struggle this much with it the first time around, but can’t get above 800. Does anyone have any working plans for it?

[Ffrog]

This really is a lovely little puzzle game. However, if I could I’d love to be able to mod in station names. Maybe have them appear randomly from a list appropriate to that city, or from a user defined list (a la XCOM).

That would also let me play Monington Crescent while the network slowly descends into chaos.

[Ffrog]

I cannot work out what will work for New York. I’m sure I didn’t struggle this much with it the first time around, but can’t get above 800. Does anyone have any working plans for it?

I tried New York for the first time today and really struggled. I don’t know how random the station placement is, but for me every station east of the river was a circle, I just couldn’t deal with it.

[amusingthebrood]

I tried New York for the first time today and really struggled. I don’t know how random the station placement is, but for me every station east of the river was a circle, I just couldn’t deal with it.

That was usually the case back when the game was first released, it doesn’t look to have changed. I had one triangle east of the river in three of four games yesterday, but the rest were always circles. I try and use the ends of two lines to fetch from the circles; I’d rather loop but I never have enough bridges.

That would also let me play Monington Crescent while the network slowly descends into chaos.

Goodge Street

[Ffrog]

Goodge Street

Ah, I see you’ve started using the classic RPS rules of 1873. In that case, i’ll go for… Oxford Circus.

[Ffrog]

My scores in Paris, New York, and Berlin are uniformly rubbish. But I’m pleased with 2,166 in Melbourne:

http://i.imgur.com/zDUFobs.gif

For some reason, my interlocking loop system worked really well here.

[Ksempac]

After a few tries, i succeeded at the St Petersburg challenge in a very convincing way. Not only did i reach the 1500 passengers mark with only one line using bridges, i actually pushed that to 2100 without breaking the constraint.

https://imgur.com/BwRUJrR.gif

A few things i’ve learned with these attempts:

• Sometimes, it’s harder at the beginning than it is later on. I scrambled a lot when there were few Eastern stations, and no obvious way to connect them to my only line with bridges. The square station that popped up on the East side around the 600 or 800 mark made my network a lot smoother: no more people going to square pilling up at each of the interchanges.
• A line with just 2 different stations, not connected to anything else, can work fairly well if you’ve got new stations that don’t really gel with your network. Triangle passengers go to circle station, circle passengers go to triangle station, and stations never get full (well, for a while at least).
• Similarly, if you’ve got a small line that ran well (in one attempt I had one line in an island with 3 stations only), you can remove your locomotive there to relieve another line in distress, the small line should be fine for a while and easy to relieve once you’ve fixed the first problem.

[Gus_Smedstad]

thought that it might be a good example for the tunnel switching required for the achievement.

Tunnel switching isn’t required. I did it fairly easily just by doing what Ksempac did - the line with the tunnel was quite short, and didn’t do much other than shuttle people across the Thames. Most passengers don’t need to cross the river - early on it’s just Square passengers, and once there are squares on both sides of the river, it’s only uniques.

That said, I find that I have no idea what I’m doing when I’m playing this game. I feel like I do things more or less randomly, extending whatever line happens to be closest to a new station, and loading up more locomotives and carriages wherever there’s congestion. There’s no plan, and I don’t feel like I’m learning how to play better when I play.

[Blackice]

Revisited Mini Metro to try out the new maps. Almost unlocked extreme mode on San Francisco and Seoul but just fell short on both.

San Francisco - Reached 1205 on week 8 - needed to reach week 9

http://i.imgur.com/1zv7GUP.gif

Seoul - 1271 passengers, needed 1400 with only one line using tunnels. Was royally screwed by all the late-game squares appearing to the north of the river.

http://i.imgur.com/cz4b8PY.gif

One recent update added the ability for lines to cross (no need to go through a station any more) but trains run slowly over crossing points.

Still a fun game, especially while my brain is a bit frazzled by real life stuff. Anyone else going to return to try the new maps?

[Pink_Gregory]

I’m going to avoid clogging up the WHYBP (whybp!) thread and put them here now.

Just over 1500 on Washington DC for the daily challenge; quite pleased. It took longer to overcrowd with the long lines than I though it would (eventually the yellow line did it for me). I could have probably reconfigured it all at about the 1000 mark, but I find that it never seems to do me any good. Oh well.