THE NETWORK REPORT Operations now keeps a ledger of what every open line costs you per rider it carries, worst first. Each line is flagged with the reason and the fix: winding (with the miles a straightening rebuild drops from every future bill), worn, overloaded, parallel, quiet, or the only link somewhere. Every row has a View button that lands you on that line in Build, one tap from the rebuild and lift buttons the report just recommended. It appears once your network is big enough for waste to hide in. A MAP THAT READS AT EVERY SCALE Zoom out to the whole continent and the map consolidates: major cities plus everything that is yours — your depots, your selection, the route you are drawing — one clean stroke per line, no clutter. Zoom back in and the full detail returns. Large networks stay smooth. THE LATE GAME STOPS LAGGING A continental network used to crawl. The cause was the win-condition check, which cost more than the entire traffic simulation; it is fixed, and the clock runs clean again at every speed. The simulation itself is unchanged — same costs, same riders, same outcomes. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE • Trains visibly run in both directions, which they always did underneath • Drawing a second line between two cities you already connect now says so first, and what to do instead — rebuild it, relieve it, or leave it alone • Charters are purchases now, and each one raises the price of the next: growth is affordable in sequence, ruinous in bulk • Nothing below the map shifts position when partnership offers arrive or expire • Built for iPhone Duo, folded and unfolded

Smoother panning and zooming on the map. Further fixes across the store and the world picker.

TWO NEW WORLDS Europe and Japan are now playable, and they are different games rather than different maps. CONNECT IT — Europe. The trains already exist; the borders between them do not work. You inherit national networks that stop at frontiers, across eleven regions from Iberia to the Nordics, with a parliament to answer to. Fund interoperability and the traffic between countries opens up. EXTEND IT — Japan. The best network on earth, versus mountains and a shrinking population. Extending the Shinkansen means tunnelling, and long bores slip — sometimes by years. Typhoons, and riders who notice a minute. BUILT FOR iPAD The map now uses the whole screen, rotates freely, and keeps its labels readable at every zoom — city names thin out as you zoom out instead of piling up, and the fit-to-world button frames whichever country you are building in. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE • Leave a run and come back to it — each world keeps its own save • Win a campaign and keep the railway you built • Early-game costs rebalanced: the first decade is survivable now • The Director's Pass silences the one interstitial as well as the rewarded ads • Optional reminders when a run has been sitting idle, and they stop on their own