Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

Old saying: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Try it with no cash cheats now.

I have not found this to be true in most cases with certain industries. Yes the profits are high at the start, but even after several years of production, I get at least 20% return on investment (ROI) from most Lumber Mills./ Sure, which is what I meant by "fast and high profits initially whic...

Real men drink beer staight from the keg. Glass? Meh.

Well I think that's oversimplifying a bit too. Take a common start to a game. Say you have a bunch of logging camps that have almost no demand for their logs and pulpwood. Price might be anywhere from zero to $5, and each camp will have a stockpile. If you plonk a sawmill in the middle of the bunch,...

:mrgreen: Ok this is something I haven't seen before. Was messing around with the south east Australia scenario again, and the station for the Gold Coast was right on the water's edge. Had a steel mill just inland of it and was wondering why the thing wasn't working even though iron and coal were be...

Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! (0!!0) Just been playing this one again for fun, and for testing some stuff. The geography is sorta accurate, if the Great Dividing Range was like the Himalayas. :mrgreen: By Himalaya standards it's really more like a collection of molehills. That's what you get for...

Yup, I only play steam anyway just because I like steam trains and it is a game after all. I do tend to choose the most reliable locomotives available in the scenario, just because regardless of how "ultra cool" a loco may be it wont haul stuff if it aint running. In practice this tends to...

Another way to do it would be to divide the 200 years up into a series of shorter scenarios, kind of like The Age of Steam. You could have a "theme" associated with each "chapter" in the railroading history of the US. I like that idea too. Much better IMO, because it breaks thin...

Hear ye ! Hear ye! The caboose does reduce breakdowns by 50%, just like it's supposed to. !**yaaa Ok, so I haven't replayed Mexico and Italy without cabooseseses yet, just because I was a bit bored with Mexico and Italy. Will do them later. However I have just done two tests cases (caboose and no ca...

SInce I was testing on this scenario last night, I tried something different just for fun. Usually I hook up Brownsville > Reynosa > Monterey > Torreon as my first big run, then go to Chihuahua, then go to Mexico City via Zacatecas, then buy into Texas and go to Houston. This time I decided to hook ...

Ok, did a Mexico test case last night. This is much the same conditions as the Italy test, and has a caboose on all trains. Trains ran from January 1877 to January 1895. Ended up with 29 Consolidations (oldest - 18 years) and 16 Dukes (oldest - 16 years) and 1 Shay (2 years old). Loads hauled - 5275...

Nope. You have to delete the bridge and build a new one. Costs a bit, but is quick and easy if you just do it on pause.

Ok, have done the first test for teh cabeesi. Aint doing them all at once. :-P I thought about using cheats for cash, just to get a big railroad running immediately for the maximum amount of testing time, but decided against it. I figured the real question is "What advantage can I expect over t...

Bonzer. Things are looking up. :-D Just played the first campaign game as a trial run and it seems to work perfectly. I did it like this: Cleaned out all the previous installation stuff > Installed game from disc > Upgraded to CTC/1.04 > Patched to 1.05 > Get a PM from Hawk > Installed the Vista fix...

Ok, got the game today. Installed it, but she no go. Version is 1.0. I'm getting the dreaded "Wrong disc inserted" error. Of course I do actually have the play disc inserted, not the installation disc. Have installed CTC and the 1.0.5 patch and the Vista fix already. Have set compatibility...

Hawk is right about locos not refilling until any resource is below 50%. I've checked that one myself several times. That can lead to erratic oil and water levels if you just plonk down sheds in the middle of a run and expect things to work. TBH I'm not much interested in testing the difference bet...

What really helped me a lot was when someone built a Munitions Plant in Ft. Wayne a couple of years before the Civil War started. Needless to say, I made a KILLING hauling ammo for the Union Army. It's even more fun if you get a map that has good supplies of iron north and south. Then you can make ...

I don't mind having crashes in the game. Trains do crash occasionally, so it's realistic to have the odd crash here and there. I just like to keep them to a minimum (as would any real railroad). If I get more than three over a 25 year scenario I know something is going wrong somewhere. Often I get b...

This has always been one of my favourite scenarios. There's just something cool about Italy, and when a friend told me it was impossible to get gold with steam I just had to prove him wrong. :lol: Story is that it is definitely possible to get gold, with all steam*, on Expert setting. In fact on a g...