Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

Good to see new faces. Sorry about your computer, but glad you are fine. Yeah, over the years we have gone pretty deep into understanding the nuances of the game.

I stumbled across the great train race via a recent video on youtube. A lot of footage of 4 grand steamers running side to side. Figured it was worth a share.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsFmkrVDpg

Teaser:

The game is still getting new players regularly you can tell from steam etc.. But I guess forums are a dying breed. Which is sad. I read awhile back that search engine results are getting neutered as well, a smaller, more business focused "web" if you will, so that surely doesn't help. Per...

Normal RT3 scenarios are not compatible with Trainmaster. You need to play maps made for it. Check here: http://hawkdawg.com/rrt/rrt3/TM/tm-map_index.htm . Trainmaster has a reworked cargo system, cargoes/industries have been removed, added, or re-purposed. But the biggest difference is probably agr...

This is not a "normal" scenario. From my understanding the author intended it to be so. Look at the length. From what I understood it's meant to be a "sim" that will keep you playing for 100+ years. Part of this seems to be a lean starting seed. This is a quote from the author hi...

Those instructions about Coast to Coast are only relevant if you are installing from an original disk. 1.05 was released in 2004. Coast to Coast is called an expansion (yes it added content), but it is also a patch (1.04). For all reasonable purposes an install of version 1.05 will have the Coast to...

Did you follow all the instructions in the readme for Trainmaster? I assume you didn't use the MSI installer. Did you run the installer in administrator mode/make sure you have permissions for the folder it's in. For example locations like Steam's default folder, or in Program Files (x86) could run ...

I took a look at this. Looks interesting, but the "survival" aspect isn't really my thing. I don't want to wait till 1965 for a medal. The tougher start doesn't allow a casual approach. It's a cop-out to then slump into fat and lazy after working hard to get the company on good ground with...

Here's a thread: "Weird things RT3 does". If that's not enough, try searching for "bug*" on the forum.

Ok. I didn't use a "default" 1.06 install. Turns out that the last event is for the USRA 0-8-0, which is not part of the "default" pack. Wolverine references this loco at the end of the original thread for this map. Other people had the problem also. In a default install we see &...

How many times did you play this? That sounds like a "random" bug. Is it repeatable? Sometimes rebuilding that section of track can fix things. Did you try this?

I downloaded the map from the archives. It's saving fine for me. (Side-note: Didn't see the German version in the archive.) The map file does contain "( )" characters. We know the game is fussy about "odd" characters. But as I said: works fine for me even with those characters. N...

It's a late reply. I was going to, but then forgot. After binging on TM to get Warrington Wire done, I haven't done much in RT3. Romania would be interesting for sure. I'm not a history buff, so I'm sure I would learn a few things. :-D Accurately simulating the Orient Express seems like a challenge....

Just curious about the real world economics you mentioned. Are they part of the Romanian (?, page seems to have .ro suffix) report you linked? To paraphrase a bit my thoughts: it seems that adding "modern tech" to construction equipment and methods (greedy corporations, record profits they...

Maybe it causes "no harm", but it's also not the normal behavior. We see Bauxite and Chemicals in the UI from 1830, and in the case of Bauxite a solid red (aka useless) price map for them for 50ish years. TM is admittedly not "very concerned" with a clean-look UI in other cases. ...

Question here: does anybody know if there is a good reason that some cargoes like Bauxite appear way before their first use appears? From what I am seeing, looks like the cty file has the final* control on when a cargo shows up. Bauxite is set to 1800. *Another requirement: building that produces it...

Here's a new version of this. It should be "done." I'm happy with it like this. Interesting to play even if you know the behind the scenes. :-D There are multiple ways to play it. I threw in an event to reward the player with 10 points if they make it through the first 15 years without any...

I followed all those changes except one. Seaforth added condition - connection Warrington to Seaforth is FALSE Duplicate event Seaforth -connected condition - connection Warrington to Seaforth is TRUE Maybe there is a way to get access rights to Seaforth that I missed? As far as I can tell none of t...

Points for city connections: I was going to make a simple notice where TV1 (L&M) was # of points for next target, and TV2 (L&M) was # of cities for next target. Getting "fussy" about length for the formatting alignment meant I ended up with 4 events instead. Maybe that helps you un...

Ok. Let me first say how my thinking developed: As I played with the scenario I developed the idea that the connections into Wales and beyond is a sort of "help" for the "more casual" players. . . . Actually a double-edge sword because of penalties involved in those connections. ...