Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

Goodness me! What can we do? For some reason, the answer appears to be "Send more money to develop the developing world." How this is suppose to curb pollution, I do not know. Unless we are talking about getting rid of all that dirty blood money in my wallet, that does not exist. ^**lylgh...

Gwizz - I think you are missing the point. Like all large corporations, cost is not a deciding factor, nor is longevity, when bribes and kickbacks are involved. For some reason, the locals do not get as mad, when they see the state, or even better the Feds, picking up the bulk of the tab. Some how t...

2012 is suppose to be the start of a new Mayan calender cycle. According to the nuts, the world is suppose to end. Are you sure you are not playing with us Hawk.

Hmm, this gives me an idea for a scenario based around Central America and the Mexico-US border, or Southeast Europe, with some highly interesting cargos.... *!*!*! (drug prohibitionists look away now...) God that is scary, 'cause I have had the same idea. One reason is my home base. While many cit...

But you're right in a way, in that while looking at the Goods map I under-estimated the importance of ports in resource-poor Northern Germany; I was stuck in the assumption that raw materials come from the land. Ports and warehouse do many things. For instance, they constantly bleed material from t...

While I am not sure, I think you may be forgetting to check your Goods map at the start and during the game. If you look at all goods, you will be able to see the flow of goods from point to point. Most times it is by rivers or mountain gaps, things like that. Most Railroads started out by competing...

Interesting, I did not have much problem with this map. While I agree that it is quite stingy, I was able to build a mainline from Berlin to Possen? to the southeast along the river. I then spurred off to large port city sitting on the coast on the river in the northeast, sorry, sudden CRS for the n...

While the system may appear retarded, that is the one in place for over 40 years. Appear retarded? Only if you believe Socialism is retarded, which I do. The concept is totally retarded. To believe that everyone will live equally, has been a Utopian goal that will never be achieved. The reason is, ...

I believe it would depend on what you believe the purpose of government is. To eliminate the homeless and the poor, would also eliminate the need for such a large government. Since in fact, government is a corporation, this would be bad for business. While conventional wisdom says those who are home...

Oilcan - your last paragraph says it all, and it will happen. Paying the bill, will not, since there is nothing to transfer. No Gold, or silver just name. You can not even use that for TP. Your hedge will work so long as the corp does not go under. Currently most corps are running on credit not cash...

I have found that placing industries in most cases causes the map to generate more industry as well as cities grow faster. Which in turn, improves the bottom line. For instance, if a grain farm is near by, will place a brewery in the city that is in the direction that the crop is migrating. Then in ...

Well it is more reality based. If you ever go to DC, you will see houses that are 4 stories tall, but only 2 stories above the street. This happened when the B&O as well as the Pennsy filled whole areas so the rails where at a perfect slope. In DC, you walk along the sidewalk and suddenly you ha...

M091658 - Hello and welcome to the forum. Judging by some of the download numbers from the archive, as well as the fact that the maps are available elsewhere, you are far from being alone in the concept of being nuts or crazy. Unless I am mistaken, there are over 350 member of this site, and new map...

Dyslexia strikes again :oops: . Sorry about that. Politics happens, just try not to step in it. What can I say. On the other part, fingers and toes and , Yes :lol: . As for Jay's comment, I had to read it 3 times before the headache subsided just to make sure the info was what I thought it was, a ga...

Thanks Beancounter, I hope that I can be productive to both projects, RRT3 and SMR.

What am I missing here? The ledger total is $2,164,151K. Is that not $2,164,151,000.00? Over 2.1 Billion? Sorry, math gets harder when counting above 21. lol

Trillions are only small numbers when you are spending money other then your own. With that said, we can return to the topic. While I believe that I have had this occur on the stock maps also, I paid it no mind since it did not effect the VCs. One of the things about RRT3 is the ability to milk a ma...

No, I have not been to Seattle since I was 11 years old, and that was quite awhile ago. Sorry.

When it comes to upgrading systems, it is always better to let someone else be the lab rat. Surprisingly, there are always plenty of volunteers, though I do not know why. Waiting until a couple of service packs are released sounds like a good bet. In the case of Vista, that was a very expensive Beta...

But what about the option to have Big Jim whacked? Could you imagine floating bonds to pay for a hit on a mob boss. It sounds like something business would do today, come to think of it. As to language, we do not even speak the same language in different areas of this country. Deep South compared to...