ASDF what doBasically, the way this works is, you want to make money. The way you do this is by being better than all the competitors in the way of service.
The way you actually make money is by transporting some form of good from point A to point B. This could be people, wood, coal, whatever. However, people are really lousy in the cash department and everything else can have 'disasters': blights can befall a forest, production at an iron ore mine can go down, so on. The same can also happen in reverse. And blah blah blah blah blah blah more game mechanics blah...
You want to connect certain places to certain others. For example, you would love to get coal to a power station or wood to a sawmill. There are, unfortunately, a few things standing between you and this goal:
- The terrain. Mountains love to be right between two subsidized cash points.
- The local government. You can't just demolish a city because you say so.
- The bank. If you run out of cash, your projects aren't going anywhere fast.
- The competition. If a competitor builds a rail road right in the route of your cbrown town, you're pretty much screwed.
So, let's have some orders! What should we look at first?