Mission 5 - Economic Miracle | European Campaign Transport Fever Guide

Last update: 06 December 2016

This time around, you will have to rebuild the post-war Germany. In this mission, you will mainly rely on air transport. At least, this is what the game assumes, because this is easier said than done.

The first task is to deliver citizens from districts of Koln to the airport, to train airport staff and pilots. Act fact to establish the first air connection. Then, you can build a new airport. Remember that it does not have be located among blocks of flats, where construction costs are not too high. Remember to set out a bus line to the airport. Passenger movement will increase and you will find people willing to travel by plane. Buy one, or two new planes. Otherwise, you will be waiting too long for the investment to pay off. Your goal is to make a profit of 2 mil. from air connections, after you subtract the cost of building the airport and buying machines. If you notice that the number of passengers is low, expand/add new busses into individual cities. As soon as possible, build another airport near Hamburg and establish connections between each of the airports, 1-2 planes each.

Be diligent with your resources. In the meantime, establish a truck connection and transport goods to the other side of the river. After you complete this task, you will be able to transport goods to other cities, which is highly profitable. Dispatch several trucks to Koln and Stuttgart. Although the trip is long, you will surely be happy with the profit.

Now, you have to focus on the appeal of each of the cities. Tourism is to reach 10% in each of the three main cities. And this is where problems crop up. In the current game version (build 11807) this system is quite convoluted for this mission. Presumably, you will always be able to reach only several percent in one of the cities, whereas you will be able to make it in the other two.

Make sure that the number of passengers on airports is not too high. Long wait times translate into how much people are interested in that line. Expand city connections and try to reorganize them. Then, establish transport lines for goods into commercial districts of each city. This should bolster interest in citizens. Apart from that, although this does not stand to reason, establish a bus connection between main cities. This should also increase the number of passengers.

If, in spite of your efforts, all this fails, your final solution should be...demolishing of commercial buildings. Cities quickly restore them and the destruction cost is high. Do this when the city maintains the level of 7-9% and it does not go any higher. Pause the game and demolish as many commercial buildings as possible. Within a month, this factor should go up by several to a dozen-or-so percent (depending on how much you have actually demolished). Probably, this is not the way the system was supposed to work, but for now this is the only solution that will let you complete the mission.

Medals

For the reasons provided above, it is impossible to obtain the Money Gives You Wings medal, unless you spend 40-50 years and focus on the problem of appeal of connections. When it comes to obtaining the Heavy Traffic medal, there should be no problems with that, although it is best to keep additional planes garaged. Otherwise, this will create a high workload and planes will be circling above the airport endlessly.