Transport Tycoon Empire: City

Get ready to dominate the world of transportation as you amass a fleet of vehicles, deliver cargo, complete contracts, and even engage in city building strategy to achieve greatness as the ultimate transport tycoon! Your goal is to develop the best strategies so that your cargo reaches every train station, airport, and dock in port cities worldwide. With a variety of trains, trucks, ships, and planes at your disposal, conquer every seaport, meet all transport demands, and watch your city thrive. Whether you're involved in repairing bridges, environmental protection, supplying theme parks, or constructing space centers, success hinges on your strategic prowess!

Emerge as the top transport tycoon

This Transport Tycoon Empire simulation isn't just about trains—it encompasses all modes of delivery. Manage your dispatchers to oversee train conductors, ship captains, and expand your workforce when the company expands. Top-notch logistics are essential alongside impressive trains and trucks if you aim to reign supreme and become a logistics master.

Upon successfully completing tasks, you'll gain access to new trains, trucks, planes, and boats in preparation for even bigger challenges awaiting your town and the world!

Develop a global metropolis

Are you looking to transport goods, assist contractors, and experience the essence of a tycoon game with foundational business principles? Is the desire to leave a legacy missing in your gaming experience? Buckle up for an all-encompassing tycoon adventure that includes a city building simulator sandbox! Assume the role of mayor in a small city, elevate it into a bustling metropolis, purchase land, construct buildings and public transport infrastructure at your discretion. Personalize your city, upgrade your company headquarters, and add complexity to your railway transport simulations. Enlarge your train stations, establish factories for processing acquired goods, and dispatch trains, planes, trucks, and ships globally.

Key Features:

• Diverse transportation options: control your vehicles departing from sea ports, airports, and train stations to distribute goods

• Dispatcher management - appoint a reliable transport manager to streamline traffic and ascend as a transit king and premier tycoon

• Build, beautify, and personalize your miniature city to etch a lasting mark on the world

• Construct a global railway empire with a multitude of remarkable trains, shining as the ultimate train tycoon

• Acquire trucks and excel as a truck tycoon too!

• Dominate the skies and multiple airport cities with your aircraft fleet—given that we inhabit a world with airports galore

• Explore different regions to construct an epic empire —from deserts to city islands, to barren lands and frozen territories!

• Gather rare vehicles and enhance them to transport more cargo —from classic steam trains to futuristic airplanes

Transport Tycoon Empire City Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Deliver Much-Needed Supplies Around the World

1. Refreshing Old Infrastructure

Much of the roads and railways of the city are in a rather poor shape. You will first be tasked with clearing these up before you can start collecting resources. Most interactions within the greater city area will consist of sending out your Vehicles either to collect resources from deposits or delivering resources to clients in exchange for money and experience. For now, your first task is to clear out the road leading to the coal mine.

All destinations have a “filter” on what type of Vehicles can access them. These categories are split into trucks, trains, boats, and aircraft. This is further indicated by a set of small icons to the right of the client page. In this case, you send out your only truck to clear out the road to the coal mine. Once the road has been cleared up, you can send Vehicles to collect Coal from the mine. The coal mine can be visited by any truck, train, or boat you might have, but the tutorial will limit you with your starting train for now before you can send any compatible vehicles. Later on, you will unlock another deposit in the form of a nearby Iron mine.

There is an upper limit to how many Vehicles can be out doing Contracts, as you only have so many Dispatchers that can manage them. You start with three Dispatchers, and you can hire more, temporarily, or permanently, in the following ways:

You can “rent” a Dispatcher for a set duration, either by watching an ad or by spending City Dollars, the premium currency of Transport Tycoon Empire. Dispatchers hired via an ad will only work for about an hour, while Dispatchers rented with City Dollars can work for either one day or one week, depending on the option chosen. Dispatcher packs are also available through in-app purchases, offering three Dispatches that will only work for three days. 

You can buy a permanent Dispatcher with City Dollars, who will remain with you unless you create a new account. The number of permanent Dispatchers is tied to the level of your account, so you can only buy permanent Dispatchers one at a time.

Early into your Logistics career, 3-4 Dispatchers are plenty. Most of the early Contracts will not take as much time but as you go on, you will encounter Contracts that require a lot of resources, on top of taking up to an hour for your Vehicles to complete their rounds. While Contracts are not timed, knowing how to prioritize Contracts is important so that you can meet the current demands while contributing to long-term projects. 

Ensure that you do not have most, if not all, of your Dispatchers occupied with the same Contract because this will stifle productivity for the next hour. You can upgrade your Vehicles to hold more resources per run, which we will discuss later, but most of the time you can expect to send more than one Vehicle to complete a Contract. You can view a list of available Contracts by selecting the pallet and crate icon at the lower left corner of the screen. 

There is an upper limit to how many resources you can stockpile as well, indicated by the warehouse icon at the upper left corner of the screen. You can tap this icon to get a better breakdown of what your warehouse currently holds, and you can dispose of excess materials by selecting the trash can icon above each item. Warehouse capacity can be upgraded in increments of 100 by spending Silver Coins, the standard currency in Transport Tycoon Empire. Later on, this will require increasing the population of your city as well, which will be unlocked at Level 12.

Contracts are divided into three categories: Casual Contracts, Story Contracts, and VIP Contracts. Each Contract can reward experience to increase your account level:

Casual Contracts typically require resources you can gather or refine and can take up to an hour to complete. Along with the above experience, these Contracts typically reward Silver Coins.

Story Contracts are used to progress through the main story, and also use resources you can gather, but take less time to complete. Story Contracts usually have multiple parts, each part awarding Silver Coins. Completing the Story Contract expands the city with new buildings, which is either just for flavor or unlocks new resources to gather.

VIP Contracts are unique in that they require Mail Letters, which you can only obtain through a mechanic, which we will discuss later. Like Story Contracts, these take less time for your Vehicles to complete, but reward special resources you can use to acquire new Vehicles or consumables for certain upgrades.

You will not create a thriving logistics network with only two Vehicles, so now we will move on to obtaining and maintaining your Vehicles.

2. Motor Pool

You start with only a truck and a train to your name, so you will have to own more Vehicles to make more deliveries at once. As mentioned above, VIP Contracts can award special resources to acquire new Vehicles; those particular resources are Keys that are consumed by opening Vehicle Boxes, available by pressing the store icon at the upper right of the screen. 

Vehicle Boxes come in different tiers, with each tier having different probabilities of getting rarer Vehicles. The most basic Vehicle Box costs 100 Keys to open or spending 40 City Dollars instead. Vehicles have five rarities in total: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary.

On the lower left corner of the Vehicle Box screen, you should see a list documenting the probabilities rewarded by Vehicles based on their rarity. Above that list is a number indicating the current Region these Vehicles can operate in. The first Region you start in is called the Highlands, and later Regions will have their own selection of Vehicles for you to manage and collect. 

Once additional Regions are unlocked by increasing your account level, you can select what regional vehicles you want the contents of the Box to be before committing to a purchase. There are 12 Vehicles available per Region, and any duplicate Vehicles picked are converted into Screws, which are used to upgrade your Vehicles.

You can bring up the list of currently collected Vehicles by selecting the Vehicles icon just above the Contracts icon, and it should display your collected Vehicles first, arranged in descending rarity, followed by all the unowned Vehicles. In the Vehicles menu, you can upgrade your Vehicles directly from there or select a Vehicle for a more detailed look. The stats of the selected Vehicle are as follows:

Screws: Displays the current number of Screws you have in your possession. Like the Vehicles they upgrade, they come in matching rarities.

Model: Just a depiction of the Vehicle in question. Tapping the eye button below it lets you get a closer look.

Capacity: This dictates how much cargo a Vehicle can carry before being sent on a Contract. There are two values displayed: the current cargo limit, which is how much cargo the selected Vehicle can hold, and the maximum cargo limit it can reach with upgrades.

Upgrade: This displays the current cost of upgrading your selected Vehicle, in Silver Coins and Screws. You can upgrade the Vehicle as many times as the maximum cargo limit allows.

Durability: Naturally, Vehicles gradually break down with every Contract they are sent to, and eventually they will be rendered nonfunctional. Fortunately, this element of gameplay does not come into play until Level 15. When a Vehicle does break down, it cannot take Contracts until it is repaired, which requires certain items that change every time a Vehicle breaks down. 

This means that maintaining a varied motor pool per Region will let you continue Contracts while other Vehicles await repairs. Some Vehicles also have a different rate of breakdown compared to others. Until you reach it, you do not need to worry about this.

Evolution: Unlocked only at Level 68, this lets you tweak your Vehicles even more. Evolving a Vehicle increases the maximum cargo capacity even if you have fully upgraded it and reduces its rate of breaking down.

You might have noticed that aside from Dispatchers, you can only send two of each Vehicle type out on Contracts. This can prove problematic if you have sent two trains out on Coal collection while a casual Contract that requires Steel can only be reached by another train. Similarly, we mentioned earlier how you can only upgrade your warehouse until you have to increase the population of your city. 

By Level 4 and Level 12, you will start unlocking more features to meet up with demands. You can access these features by selecting the city icon at the lower left corner, directly below the Contracts icon.

3. City Planning 101

At Level 4, you will unlock refineries that let you convert raw resources into new resources which you can use to complete certain Contracts. These new resources can either be delivered to Contracts or modified in turn to produce more resources. The first refinery you unlock is the Smelter, and we will use it to discuss how refineries work in Transport Tycoon Empire in general.

In the Smelter, you can select an order on the left side of the refinery screen to create a new resource, consuming base resources in the process. The list of orders also displays the duration of production just above a given order. In this case, you can produce 40 units of Steel in exchange for 20 units of Coal and 20 units of Iron. You can place up to two orders for each refinery, which can be expanded to six orders with City Dollars. Refinery orders are processed one at a time, and can be sped up in two ways:

- The first way is by watching an ad, which can only be done once every few hours.

- After consuming the ad, you can only spend City Dollars to speed up production until the ad can be used again.

As you level up, you unlock both new refineries, to produce resources, and new recipes, for preexisting refineries. For example, one of the new refineries you can unlock is a Forge that lets you process Steel into additional resources. You can convert Steel as is into Fasteners, which should not be confused with Screws despite their similar appearances. 

Combine Steel and some Iron to produce Ball Bearings or combine the Steel with Fasteners to fabricate Excavation Buckets. There is a whole tree of production to unlock in Transport Tycoon Empire, and this does not take into account the later “raw” resources you will have to deal with down the line.

At Level 12, you unlock the rest of the city for expansion, which is located to the left of the refineries. There are two main areas of the city for you to manage: the inner city proper and the docks.

The city proper has you customizing the layout of the city with buildings and roads, which produce both Mail Letters, used to complete VIP Contracts, and Silver Coins via taxing the locals, which can be collected from the town hall in the center of the city. You can place pre-built buildings within the city limits as needed, but they require connecting roads to work. 

The most important buildings are Economic Buildings, which consist of apartment buildings for people to live in. These buildings not only increase population, which is required to upgrade both the warehouse and the town hall but also produce Mail Letters, which can be tapped to collect them as needed. These apartments can be upgraded in exchange for Silver Coins and resources to increase both the number of people they can hold as well as the number of Mail Letters they can produce. You can only upgrade a limited number of buildings at a time, though you can increase this cap later on. 

The amount of free space for expansion is small, but you unlock the means to expand it at Level 15 along with Vehicle repairs. Level 15 also unlocks items needed for upgrading buildings past a certain point, though either way you can only really upgrade refineries through leveling up or spending City Dollars.

At the bottom of the city are the docks, a truck depot, an airport, and a railyard. These control the maximum number of each Vehicle that you can send out on Contracts. Upgrading the relevant buildings increases the maximum amount by 1 per level, but remember that each upgrade has a corresponding upgrade limit. As more of the game world opens up, these buildings become very important as you will be sending multiple Vehicles for Contracts and ensuring that substitutes are available for delivery trucks that are being repaired. 

Strategic Paradise and Simulation Haven

Melding elements of ship, railroad, and plane tycoon games with intricate vehicle models, grasp the role of a city tycoon builder and venture through a map teeming with exciting locales. Set in an unnamed landmass, this riveting game offers a fusion of American and Euro truck simulators, transforming into a spectacular Euro train simulator and airport city manager, presenting an array of planes for your usage. Experience laden sea ports bustling with mammoth cargo ships plying across vast oceans and rivers, striving to emerge as the foremost port city ship tycoon globally. Witness engaging introductory scenes spotlighting all vehicles, providing insights into the experiences of European truck drivers, American train conductors, and airplane pilots under your employ.

Note: Transport Tycoon Empire is a free-to-play game. Although entirely playable for free, you can accelerate your progress through in-game purchases.