Main Screen Functions in Sid Meier's Railroads

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DIXON GILLETTE: To the upper right here are our Cash and our Time indicators. This is going to tell you how much cash you have on hand that you can currently spend, and it will also tell you the month and the year. To the right of that are our play buttons. The Play button will adjust your game speed. You can either go full speed, double speed or half speed depending on what you like. This is your Pause button. And the button to the right is your Game Menu which will bring up a list of options that you can either adjust graphics in the game. You can save, load your game. You can retire, quit to your main menu or quit to your desktop. Directly below that is your Quick Buy and Sell screen. These are collapsible windows that you can use to buy and sell yours and your competitor's stock. It's similar to your--what you can do on your Competition's Report. Then here to the bottom left is our Mini Map and our Quick Access buttons. Right here is your Buy Train icon. When you want to buy a train, you can click this icon or push R on your keyboard. Directly below that is your Build Depot icon. You can either click this or push B on your keyboard. Below that is your Lay Track button. If you need to lay new track, you would push this icon or push T on your keyboard. And then we have Double Track. This will lay parallel track alongside other track. You can click this icon or push D on your keyboard. Now, of course, we have our mini map here in the center, which gives you information about where you're at, gives you your--also information about where goods and industries are on the map. The top two buttons are your Goods and Train sliders. By clicking either of these, a slide-out window will appear and you can highlight a particular good. And then down here on the mini map, you can see where that good is located, and you can also see who is demanding that good by the diamond with the exclamation point in it. The other slider is your Train slider. It will give you information about all your trains that you are currently operating. The buttons to your left is your Reset Camera Position. To reset your camera at anytime, you could push this button or by pushing scroll lock on your keyboard. Below that is your Event Log. You can click this to view the events that have happened in the game that are no longer displaying on your main screen. Then we also have Go to City. You can bring up a list of cities that you can jump to automatically with this pull-down menu here. So we can go directly to Illinois, or you can also push Ctrl G on your keyboard to bring up that city list as well. And finally the button below that is our Chat. To send a message to other players, we would push this button, and you would type your chat. And you can also push Enter on your keyboard to bring up your chat window as well. So that's about it for your user interface.

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