We're looking for new ideas for our game again today.
Okay, Bruno.
You're the one who always comes up with new features.
What have you got for us? Can we reveal the secret? What's the career engine?
The career engine (you can see it here) is a new engine that all players will receive and is available on all servers.
It can be continually improved.
Right. How do you get it?
All players who are already at level 2 in their career
will get the engine right away when this feature is introduced.
It'll be parked in the home city on all game worlds, where you can then set up schedules.
All new players first have to reach level 2 and will then get the engine automatically.
Okay. And the engine can also be improved. How do the upgrades work?
Let me show you now. You really can improve it.
When I click on 'Upgrades' in the game,
I'll see the link to the career section since this engine can only be improved there.
When I click on it, I'll go straight to the career.
Here you can see that I already have the engine and can install upgrades right away.
In this screen you can see the engine's base stats.
I've already installed an upgrade.
At the start, it only could haul one waggon, had a speed of 50 km/h and so on.
I can unlock additional upgrades using the technology points in the top right.
I'll now make the engine 5 km/h faster for 50 points.
Or I could improve acceleration.
I can even unlock the ability to haul goods from the second era.
Greater reliability. An extra waggon…
and now it's starting to look like a decent engine!
Those who have collected many points already,
can of course install quite a number of useful upgrades right away.
Okay, that's great.
How much are these technology points worth?
One technology point is worth one career point.
With the release, your career points (in my case 1,140)
are exchanged 1:1 for technology points,
meaning I have 1,140 of those too.
And I can then invest them.
So there will be fewer of them afterwards,
but any new career points I collect will be available here as well.
And I can't improve the engine using Gold?
Nope. You can't use Gold for the career engine.
This is something special for our loyal players, who have celebrated many achievements in the game.
Okay, so there's just one important question left:
when will the career engine be introduced?
It'll take another week, I think.
You don't want to give us the exact date?
No, I can't say just yet.
But you will certainly know when the engine appears in the game.
And we'll inform you elsewhere too.
Okay then, thank you! I'm really looking forward to it.
Me too.
Bye!