Message center: Train networks guide, Create the network steps

About this game

Developer: MaFi Games · Publisher: MaFi Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

The Message center doubles as the game's manual: a topic tree on the left, a full article on the right, with numbered steps, named buttons to press, and a tip for adding several stations at once by dragging a box. The article pairs its steps with a screenshot of the exact rail yard it describes, so the player can match the text to a scene they have seen. Teaching inside the game, rather than in a separate wiki, is the design lesson, and the tree keeps every topic (trains, pipes, cargo ships, logistics zones) one click from play. Frame at about 1:07 in the Update 4.2 trailer (Steam). Disclosure: no trailer burn-in or captions visible in the frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

master-detail detail-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Window List Journal Toolbar Resource bar

Screen inventory

• Message center (F2) window: Messages topic tree at left (Vehicles accessibility, Pipes and conveyor belts, Storage and logistics, Cargo ship, Assigned routes, Logistics zones, Trains)
• Trains section expanded: First train line, Configuring a train line, Growing a rail network, No-stopping zones, Exclusive zones, Train station groups, Train networks selected
• Train networks article: screenshot of a rail yard with yellow locomotives, heading Create the network, numbered steps (open Train lines and networks, press + Network, name it; add stations, drag a box to add several at once)
• Tip callouts and station-role definitions (Cargo stations: where trains load and unload cargo)
• Top HUD behind the window: power 206 MW, food, population, ship Docked, date 8 September 0277; right-side stockpile bar

Top 3 colors

#414044 23%#2b2c30 19%#545353 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© MaFi Games, Captain of Industry screenshot: Update 4.2 trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by MaFi Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-03. verified 2026-11-02: scene frame from the official Steam trailer, inspected visually at full resolution; topic tree entries, Train networks article heading, numbered steps, tip text, and rail-yard screenshot confirmed legible

No published MaFi Games fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-02, reconfirmed 2026-11-03); frames are from the publisher's own Steam trailers, used for design study and commentary, unofficial, not endorsed.

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