Silver mine

Silver Mines require Silver and Coal to produce more Silver .

There are Silver Mines on Land including one which serves two cities at once.

Transporting Silver does not produce Reputation Points like most other Resources do.

Once a Silver Mine is exhausted & deplete of resources, it can be either Restored by 10% using an Engineer or sold for 2,100 and rebuilt nearby.

Cost to Build/Upgrade & the Amount of Resources

• Once built, the Silver Mine must be assigned a Silver Mine Manager .

	Lvl						Stockpile
	1	2,500	50	50	03:00:00	5,000	62,500
	2	5,000	65	65	06:00:00	10,000	125,000
	3	7,500	80	80	09:00:00	3	187,500
	4	10,000	110	110	18:00:00	5	250,000
	5	10			10:00:00	5	infinite

Contracts

The Costs and Revenue for each Contract is dependent on the Locomotive & Special carriages used to complete the Contract.

I.e., Locomotive Costs + Costs for each Carriage attached determine Total Cost with respective, cumulative Revenues.

The Time required to complete each Contract is dependent on the Locomotive's Speed & Level of Route taken to Transport Silver to the City.

While a Locomotive's Efficiency may affect the Default Locomotive Costs below, Carriage Costs are consistent and remain set, regardless.

Locomotive (Default)

	Costs			Revenue
Lvl
1	660	60	03:00:00	4
2	1,700	150	08:00:00	10
3	3,500	270	17:00:00	20
4	5,000	370	24:00:00	34

Special Carriage

	Costs		Revenue
Lvl
1	264	24	3,000
2	680	60	7,500
3	1,400	108	15,000
4	2,000	148	21,000

Armored Special Carriage

	Costs		Revenue
Lvl
1	198	18	6,000
2	510	45	15,000
3	1,150	81	30,000
4	1,500	111	42,000

Contracts

The Time required to complete a Contract can be changed depending on the Locomotive's Speed and optimized by upgrading the Route. While the Silver and Experience as the Revenue in the table can't be modified by any other factors. However, the Costs of Silver and Coal can be modified by the Efficiency as a dividor in the table. Using fewer Carriages than possible significantly reduces the efficiency.

If no Locomotives are available, the game will display an unmodified Loc with 1 Special Carriage as a placeholder.

Silver Contract on Land			x Number of Carriages
			Special Carriage			Armored Special Carriage
Contract			costs		revenue	costs		revenue
Urgent	03:00:00	4	660	60	3,000	594	54	6,000
Rapid	08:00:00	10	1,700	150	7,500	1,530	135	15,000
Standard	17:00:00	20	3,500	270	15,000	3,150	243	30,000
Lengthy	24:00:00	34	5,000	370	21,000	4,500	333	42,000

Example Contracts

• Level 4 Silver Contract comparison using Carriage Data above & respective Locomotive Efficiency Ratings at Locomotive (Upgrade Levels) noted below:

Train		Costs		Revenue
Locomotive	(#) Cars
Rocket (0)	(1) Special Carriages	5,000	370	21,000
Rocket (5)	(2) Special Carriages	10,000	740	42,000
Pacific (0)	(2) Special Carriages	11,000	814	42,000
Pacific (5)	(2) Special Carriages	9,000	666	42,000
Decapod (0)	(3) Special Carriages	11,000	814	63,000
Decapod (3)	(3) Armored Special Carriages	9,500	703	126,000

Hints and Tips

• Any contract can be speed up with Coal instead of Gold at 1:29:59 remaining and less. To maximize silver production, select the first contract over and over again and speed it up with Coal. To decrease the time, remember to upgrade the track. A stock Decapod with no upgrades and fully upgraded track can complete the first contract in 2:06:00. Hence, every 36 minutes you can complete a contract. With 3 special carriages, you can get a rate of 250 silver per minute. With 3 armored special carriages, you can get a rate of 500 silver per minute! This will drain your mine fast so be sure to have plenty of Engineers.