This is excelent addition. For years (at least since I was working with the day lenght patch momentarily) I have been dreaming about "delayed building" which would mean designing the routes (with a lot cheaper price) and then building them in relatively realistic speed. (not draging 1000 miles of rails in single day, like it happens now.) And though this makes only the first half happen, It's still excelent step towards the idea.
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we have been using these since the release in all our multiplayer games.
(don't know how we did it, but the difficulty jumped a lot with very challengive map and some new grf'es. First time in last decade or so, found hard to stay profittable in this game...
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However planning tracks made the change big enough in building costs so that while I am still not making huge loads of money, I can survive from 1830's to 2030's.
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