@GrumpyBedlam Thanks for your comment! I agree it takes quite some train rides to save for items, let alone train upgrades. In fact, all my trains are still at level 1. Yet I wonder, if you’d remove the stations, certain tasks (e.g. residential building upgrades) would still require items that can only be obtained from railway stations?
One aspect of the trains is very nice. If you click on a riding train, you get this movie of the train traveling through your city 🤗
To my earlier point though, I believe a train station should give population boost under ‘Transportation’ much like e.g. a bus stop or helipad.
I have 6trains now and all stations at my largest city are in a region, stations as close as possible together, except one small station on another island now. Its almost a separate game like omega. Both, you play for yourself. I started forced as a beta player, and get used to it now. Another of my cities (lvl18) has 5 stations (because i played beta). What i did, i removed almost everything, and bult the track from top to bottom, added residences around the rails and roads, and special buildings which i stored temp. Unfortunately i do not reach the same amount of residents anymore (i had 500k) and lost 50k residents. I do stay at lvl18 though and still saving for upgrades. You get used to the gameplay.
Thanks @schiphol-plaza ! I also lost population in Frosty Fjords when adding the railway station. The map is so narrow, that it’s difficult to put both homes and specializations around the station. This is exactly why I’m asking EA to give railway stations a Transportation bonus.
In Limestone Cliffs, the railway station was part of an organic city expansion, so it didn’t “cost” me anything, and I built it for minimal impact to the city. See below image.
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