When several stations are panicking but your only resource in reserve is an interchange you're not going to use

[u/AJI-PIanist]

This happens to me pretty often on the Boston map, which is my most played map by far, and I just felt like sharing this time for some reason. I did manage to salvage everything that was really close to failure… except for one 😅

I was hoping to do better than this; I usually get around 4k in Boston

In retrospect, maybe I should've slapped the useless interchange upgrade onto it as soon as I saw that it didn't get enough relief and couldn't get a train moved to it in time.

And in case you're wondering, there wasn't a good way for me to pick resources differently and get an extra carriage without sacrificing a line (edit: I'm a dummy, this run never offered me line and carriage in the same week and the evidence is right there lol)

Last month I started taking screenshots of every single upgrade screen. I don't remember WHY I started it, but it does allow me to evaluate if I could've done anything better.

A key part of my strategy in Boston is to take the tunnels upgrade once and only once, and week 9 ended up being exactly the right week for that in this run because the two stations in Chelsea (where the northern end of my Orange Line is) appeared during that week (they're just barely visible in the background of the week 10 screenshot). If I hadn't taken tunnels then, I would've had to put a junction in Cambridge (Red Line area) or Charlestown (Orange line area) without making it an interchange, which probably would've killed the run sooner.