Release Railfever 2.8 · iebb/railfever

Railfever 2.8 adds mail, a second cargo. Play it at https://iebb.github.io/railfever/.

Mail

Towns post mail to other towns. Offices and shops post more than homes. Stations collect it from their own walking catchment and accept it when they reach enough buildings and a mail-carrying line serves them.
Mail vehicles across the eras:
- mail vans to couple into trains (wooden, steel, then InterCity vans);
- road mail vans and trucks;
- post buses that carry passengers and mail together.
- Metros, light rail and trams carry no mail.
Add vans in the train composer, or with the van stepper in a line's window, and run mail-only trains if it pays. Upgrades keep the vans and replace only the coaches.
Mail pays for the whole journey by how fast it arrives. The fare is split between the vehicles that carried it, by distance. Each change costs 10%, as it does for passengers.
Mail figures in every window: vehicles, stations, lines and towns. The demand map has a Passengers / Mail toggle showing mail flows between towns.
AI companies add vans to their main lines when the forecast pays, and run mail by road.
On a typical railway mail earns about 15–20% of the passenger income.
Mail heading for a station that stops accepting it (for example, after its streets are removed) is lost and not paid.

Saves from 2.7 load in 2.8.