Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

Seems you are getting the hang of this particular scenario, Ray :) And if you make it with steam locos, all for the better, just goes to show it still gives enough room for different styles of play. Events-wise, things get a little less busy as you go along, with fewer but larger must-do's.. but I w...

:) Ray, a lousy player wouldn't hang around in a forum about the game. Hence, if for no other reason that this, you are far from being a lousy player, I am sure. Electric vs. Coal: Problem is stopping for water... Steam Locos need water. Those available, in particular, need a lot of it and stop too ...

More than having money or not for industries, EPH, I found the problem to be the lack of market to sell whatever your production chains provide after a few years. Demand is pretty sparse and after a couple of years, prices drop all over the country. But maybe with better managing and a little more &...

Ok, i admit, first versions were too hard. I dare to say that even the full version is still difficult. But i did bring down the quotas and avg speeds a bit more, and i also changed the rule to ignore missing passengers quota if economy is in recession. HOWEVER, i can win this everytime i test it no...

Good to see this sparks interest. I have started a map on this... height is sorted and a few cities placed but not many and nothing else. This is yet another scenario I will work on, but still haven't found the time. Pictures of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Southern Sudan and Yemen coast wo...

I went back to this save and let the timer run to 1914.

It is just the ledger that ain't right, as i got the medal.

On another note, Bulgaria is an impossible win, and so is Ottoman Empire, at least to me :D

Yes, sugus, I agree that this scenarion doesn't give much freedom. That much is part of the idea and i know a part of the community prefer games with more leverage and possibility of making money with industry. This one is quite the opposite and i thought of it as a fresh, out-of-the-ordinary, chall...

I have only one scenario of my creation up in the archives, another one in beta stages and a third one still to come.. You're welcome to review any or all. Your offer is much appreciated :D (but i hope you realize that in some scenarios it will be an enormous task, as there may be hundreds of events...

.. when i get the bug in, i just can't stop until i get the scenario done ..

I know i hardly gave you guys time to play beta2, but here is beta3:

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Any comments appreciated, as always.

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.. that's out of my league

:) Well, moblet, you just created an impossible problem ! You see, changing how steep the terrain is at this point means arop would have to start from scratch. Because that is the first thing to do when importing a heightmap, and it can't be changed after. (i'm assuming you mapped jamaica from a hei...

After several attempts, I have found two ways of making a company viable enough to reach gold. One is connecting Beira to the main river (the Zambeze), and then grow form there, as profit from hauling goods and people will generate at a reasonable rate. Another, a bit trickier, is to connect Nampula...

Add personal interest in Africa, with increased interest following FIFA world cup in South Africa, with recently working in a scenario and a book that i just finished reading... Result is a random search on "rail track ethiopia" on google. Resulting in this newspage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/...

New beta version - i found the other to be too demanding for a beta, and i don't want my testers to be put off ;-) . --- attachment removed --- Some more programming included in this one: - events programmed up to about 1961, plus newspaper events as markers for stuff after that. With a hectic week ...

Thank your for the time testing it, Ray of Sunshine. I have come to the conclusion 50 passengers is too much as well, and in my trials i only managed to do it once. Current state of development already has those 50 replaced by 30. It's nice to see people thought the idea was fresh. I worried that pl...

(yep, I am replying to my own posts) Since the last post, I have made some effort into painting the map, and I am so proud of my evolution that I want to share a new version of the map. All comments appreciated. Also, research on this led me to change quite a bit on the economy in the meanwhile. Hen...

Well, I have more to say on this. As I said, I am loving this scenario, even if it is a little too industry-based, and I already played it from a number of different perspectives. However, the same keeps happening. No matter how I go at it, ledger never gives me credit for connecting Istambul and Vi...

:) Problem isn't being allowed to use AI track and stations or not - is not realizing it until the very last year. I still think this is the coolest scenario i played for a long time.

I've been with some time in my hands and am still trying a medal from a Bulgaria or Ottoman start..

Played to 1914. Should have got Silver in the very last year, but didn't! I checked the scenario events after that only to find out that Vienna and Istambul must be connected by my own stations and that i can't use AI stations for it. So, despite being beautifully designed all the way through, it wa...

Hello again. I struggled to decide where i should place this topic... Attached is an incomplete early version of a scenario I am working on. It is significantly different from most i have seen here, as its base map is a city and regional reach. Also, bronze silver or gold will depend only on prevent...