Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

I'm really puzzled. My last 2 plays on this have both been on Expert and each time I've had a better start than on Normal. To get into the other territories rathen than keep paying the fees I've taken over an AI (with varying success but thats not the point). All three times I've done it the identic...

I'm still a bit puzzled about the industry start. After 2 years you get played hell with for not carrying passenger traffic and your interest rate rockets as well as a bit ($100k?) of a fine. Maybe you can carry all this? My memory is that this wasn't part of the original. I tried again both on Expe...

Done most of those things. Finally got a good seeding which allowed me to make money and completed every objective (only on Normal though) bar speed so no medal! Mainly my fault because I kept forgetting to make trains goods only, the worst being the return trips from hauling coffee and weapons whic...

Mastered the original on Expert after only a few tries. Cant get anywhere on Medium with this one. Can never make enough money from either a rail or industry start to buy into another teritory and also rarely make the passenger speed and borrowing money becomes prohibitly expensive (don't think this...

Thanks Hawk/OilCan. Hadn't seen your first thread Hawk - moved RT3 out of Programme files and it still works. Copied into "RT6" and "installed patch 1.06. Still wont run as mss32.dll missing. Found this on internet and downloaded. Still wont install as AIL....callback@8 missing. Found...

Have only just come back to RT3 as since i changed computer to Windows7 I haven't been able to patch 1.06 in which meant that most of the new scenarios weren't playable. However in desperation I've been searching for scenarios which didn't require 1.06 and found this one. Initially I quite liked it ...

Not been playing much because my new computer wont let me install the 06 patch but have tried this several times and cant find any way of getting started. Hills are too steep until you have enough cash for tunnels so you must connect coastal towns and there's simply no traffic between them. Tried se...

Yes Ray - if (say) you build a textile mill dependent on a couple of cotton farms nearby it often pays to buy them too in case they disappear - not to mention that the mill might make them more profitable.

Managed to give this one a try. Loved the scenario even though it was infuriating. Used electric lines from the start and just trains for many years which gave me a slow start but eventually money started rolling in. Was obviously going to get every objective except Weapons with 20 years to go so fo...

Every single one !!!!!!!! And as I said I'm just re-testing and on the 4 scenarios I've played its the same.

Yes - all the trains show zero on all 3 after (say) 3 years. I first noticed it on a scenario where Shays were mostly the only sensible train to use and I'd read here (or another Forum - there were others in those days :-D ) that they could go on for ever and I couldn't afford maintenance so didnt p...

Somewhere here there's a thread of mine from years ago but I cant find it but some of you may remember my commenting on individual scenarios and generally that I dont need to build these and it has no effect on the speed of my trains. Anyway having had to replace my computer I now have a PC on W7 an...

O/K I meant a PC. Anyway I've been persevering with this and have now succeded with CtoC and patch 1.05. Did this by altering my Administrator settings to the lowest possible (Windows say I'm stupid!) but still cant get 1.06 in. Anyway back to returning settings to Normal.

Not particularly for my RT3 problems I got a SH laptop with XP Pro on it (My scanner wouldn't work on 7 either - took me 2 hours to get it onto the laptop and still cant get Memory Map onto it). Transfered all the (a) original patches and when they didn't work downloaded new ones from Gamespy - they...

Thanks brunom and thietavu. Did as brunom said, no problem and then halfway through the unzip up comes "Cannot create output file" exactly as before. Only difference is that now I can still play the original basic RT3 whereas before it ceased up. Any more ideas please?

Well I'd checl - but see my Windows7 post

Thanks for that - but I'm an ignoramus! Where do I find the compatabilty updates? As I try to unzip the patches half way through I'm told they've failed - try as administrator. Do that and says Windows will try to find a solution and thats that. Try to start RT3 and it wont. Uninstall and re-install...

I'm very much regreting updating to Windows7 - not just for RT3 but for a host of other items it wont play / do. Anyway my problem here is that I download RT3 and it plays fine. Then I patch it and it no longer runs and so far I've uninstalled and re-installed it three times. Twice with patch 1.03 a...

Well puzzled by this as the original played o/k but this time in first year I was so profitable that I connected every town in the area available. No Point awarded as I'd not carried anything from Piraeus - I'd actually carried 8 loads - and at least 2 from every other town.

Hi. Shortage of time has meant that I have a dozen new scenarios to play and I've only managed this one because I've finished my packing early before I go off for a few weeks. Anyway I got gold on normal six years early. I built and upgraded all the industries and had a ton of money most of the time...