Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

I just noticed that the home page for the Railroad Tycoon Info site is shut down (http://www.railroadtycoon.info/index.php) as well as the discussion forum for Railroad Tycoon games (http://www.strategygametalk.com/). Does anyone know the full story behind this? If you go to either railroadtycoon.i...

thegrindre wrote:I don't recommend any 'real' road kill. Use a gun or a trap and kill it fresh instead...

How 'bout if your cat drags one home (still kicking)! Of course, in my woods the coons are bigger than the cats, so the cats can only catch the babies.

-- Cliff in Virginia

Is there a tactic to encourage or force an AI investor to sell the stock which they have bought in your company? Or are you stuck with an AI investor in your company for the rest of the game? It is also possible to bring about the bankruptcy of one of the other tycoons. Some are very conservative (...

Cliff, Trainmaster is going to be a super mod to RRT3, and it will be fully Vista compliant and capable. In fact, I am going to include the exe I am using in the d/l. The only problem is that you will need the CD to play. If I can get the no cd crack to work, then I'll have that available too. I go...

RT3 will work in Vista but only up to version 1.03. Version 1.04 (Coast to Coast Expansion) will not work right in Vista, nor will 1.05 or 1.06. !$th_u$! Hawk! Now I know how to do quotes like a professional. About running RRT3 on Vista: What's the fun if I can't use C-to-C Expansion or the 1.06 pa...

3. Invest for personal profit in the AI company stock. Turn the AI company into a milk cow for your PNW. Yeah, and I've even had to "pump up" flailing AIs that I've invested in -- so that they can keep earning money for me. :-| Now, this is far from a "Quality" Post, so let me a...

WPandP writes: I think OilCan means that in a case where you are trying to compete with an AI and out-serve them, you are building your own parallel route with your own stations in the served cities. He is pointing out that the hotels and restaurants and such are going to be that much more profitab...

OilCan writes: If you are avoiding an AI company by building dual rail networks, then always place a hotel in cities which have dual stations (yours and theirs). !#2bits#! Don't avoid the AI companies ! Take 'em over if you want & when you can, but always make it a point to connect to the AIs f...

JoshM Wrote: The trick is to put both stations in the same economic cell or square so that they both have the same prices and cargo. I have also put two stations in the same city -- but far enough apart that prices are slightly different. Then I have a short train running full-time between the two s...

I have found that dairy farms are very, very profitable -- but it only makes economic sense when you can buy them brand new (when they sell for $400K). Most dairy farms earn about $150K-200K per year.

Hi JSS - No need to raise your blood pressure Cliff, No worries mate. Anaconda Smelter: The Greenwood Anaconda smelter folks have the following proposition for you. If you place a station at the east side of the smelter between the smelter and the warehouse and before 1902 connect this station to th...

Too ****** frustrating! !hairpull! !hairpull! I made the connection to Midway early, and got the bonus & land grant. But my station at the Anaconda smelter near Greenwood never got credited -- after hauling dozens of irons the first year after connecting, the yearly blurb credited me with zero l...

Hi JSS - On my SCBC1896 map I have 16 listed companies. All of those companies either run a railroad or own industries and one of them is a bank. I've been meaning to contact you for a couple of weeks about your diabolical British Columbia scenario. This one is meant to take more than 3-4 hours, and...

I supose I could make a really difficult version of the map. Industrious-Ballbusterious. :D Just for the helluvit, I reloaded my saved game (just before it kept crashing), STOPPED the last 5 trains and let it run. It made it into September 1890 without crashing, so I started the trains -- one at a ...

Hi Overland - My next map will have multiple companies. Can't wait to give it a try! BTW -- this is probably a stupid "newbie" question -- I have never created maps: How did you get the animated river/harbor?? Is that something pretty special, or just another feature of the map editor? Any...

Hi Wolverine - There are two "Cheshire" maps, "Cheshire County NH" and "The Cheshire". Are there major differences between the two other than the start date? Two totally different maps/scenarios. I found Cheshire County to be the more difficult of the two when I Beta-te...

Hi Overland - Sorry you had a problem. Do you think it was the map? Don't know. Is there anything in particular which happens in August 1850 which might accidently trigger a CTD? Raising the point requirements is not a problem. I had gold set at 24 at one point and I believe my high was 28. Anybody ...

Hi again - This last time (the one just described) there were LOTS of irons, as well as coals -- don't know if that was just an extra good seed, or if you revised the basic industry. Anyway, I had two strong steel mills (each making over $1M annually), and could have had at least one more. -- Cliff ...

Hi Overland - I just email Hawk "Industrious version 2" with the following changes: Gold event set to monthly instead of yearly. I made the zero view an overview of the map (an idea I took from Lama, I think it was). The Lowland sink hole station has been replaced. Oil has been removed. I ...

Hi LWVRR1964 - I did a test run on this map last night. I did well but 4 of the 6 railroad companies went bankrupt within 10 years. On my test run, none of the AIs lasted 10 years -- I bought 'em all out, most of them after I had connected to them, or connected them together, so that they weren't op...