Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

This is my latest map, a fantasy map called Dawonia. Testing the map, with game start in 1855 (preset start 1865), I won the Gold in July 1925. Any comments, advice or suggestions are, as usual, wellcome

"Length" is spelled l-e-n-g-th, not l-e-n-g-h-t (an easy typo to make; I do it all the time when my fingers work faster than my brain)

It's also useful to put medal goals next to the current status for an item so the player can, without having to look back at the intial dialog, know where they stand relative to the benchmarks:

Lifetime Industrial Profit: $501,696 K ($100M, $250M, $500M)

Same with other requirements. If you don't have enough room on a single "Status" page event in the editor, you can add another (and another) until you run out of room on the displayed status ledger.

very much for your comments. These corrections will be included in my next version. My native language is Danish, so it happens that my English spelling is somewhat incorrect

arop wrote:My native language is Danish, so it happens that my English spelling is somewhat incorrect

No problem. Your English is by far and away much better than my Danish.

I played it - as usual when trying a new map - on normal ... and got Gold in 1920.

Somewhat surprising was the beginning, because I first had to get the access rights for Dawonia, Sylvania, Borduria and Rawonian, each for $0! (in words: zero dollar!) arop: what's the idea behind that?

Also there are some textual spelling errors, e.g. the intro text should show 25000 GWh instead of 25 GWh, and the dialog appearing when reaching the 12000 miles should present the number 12000, not 15000.

Besides these small things, the map is o.k.

Progress story in short:

1865: start in the famous city Harwan
1875: 50 cities connected
1878: $5 million player bonus for 4000 miles of track
1882: 100 cities connected
1886: $5 million player bonus for 8000 miles of track
1887: $2 million player bonus for 1000 loads of coal
1888: 150 cities connected
1889: $5 million player bonus for 12000 miles of track
1891: $2 million player bonus for 1000 loads of lumber
1905: $2 million player bonus for 1000 loads of corn
1909: $2 million player bonus for 1000 loads of grain
1910: $2 million player bonus for 1000 loads of iron ore
1911: $25 million bonus for 25000 GWh
1914: $2 million player bonus for 1000 loads of wool
1915: $2 million player bonus for 1000 loads of livestock

Anyway, arop, thanks for the fun brought by this map.

With this answer I send the beta 2 version of my Dawonia map. What's new? A) Some text and incorrect spellinng has been corrected. B) Medal goals shown in brackets in ledger. C) Pre-started company has only access to Dawonia. D) 25 mill. LTD electric production bonus is changed from 25.000 to 30.000 GWh and time limit 1935 is removed. E) For Bronce, Silver and Gold, LIP is changed to 200/400/600 mill.

This map has been very fun so far, I'm alread 12 years in. I decided to build my road around the boni, possibly hauling at a loss in order to get the extra cash fast. Very challenging!

arop wrote: With this answer I send the beta 2 version of my Dawonia map. What's new? A) Some text and incorrect spellinng has been corrected. B) Medal goals shown in brackets in ledger. C) Pre-started company has only access to Dawonia. D) 25 mill. LTD electric production bonus is changed from 25.000 to 30.000 GWh and time limit 1935 is removed. E) For Bronce, Silver and Gold, LIP is changed to 200/400/600 mill.

i'm now 20 years into your beta 2 version. it's very interesting! i currently have most of the PNW that i will need - want to up that a bit? and the industry profit's are a breeze. when is anyone going to do something hard?! i mean, i'll have at least 1 billion in cash by the time this is over, and all the cities connected. but good map anyway! it's harder than the average map, but it could use some extra hard edges to it. (the pic below is my last status in the game: 64 cities, 21 years spent, industrial profits out the roof, and so are the rail profits, i was getting 15 million a year in total!(mostly rail profits though) )

note: why is there a little smilely with a guy hugging firefox and pushing away internet explorer?(i have that. lol. the reason? my computer hates any other type of internet browser, worse than this one, anyway.)

I would suggest you to play this map on expert, and you could start the game some years later if you wish to have a harder game. I have played on expert only for years. About this map, I have some (cosmetic) changes only, and I expect to submit version 1.0 to Hawk within two weeks. My next project is a map from the real world about the large narrow gauge railway system at the Pelopones peninsula in the southern Grece. It will soon be ready for testing

arop wrote:I would suggest you to play this map on expert, and you could start the game some years later if you wish to have a harder game. I have played on expert only for years. About this map, I have some (cosmetic) changes only, and I expect to submit version 1.0 to Hawk within two weeks. My next project is a map from the real world about the large narrow gauge railway system at the Pelopones peninsula in the southern Grece. It will soon be ready for testing

ok. i'll first finish this one though. it still could use some new things, also you forgot to change one of the other territories to "not availble". i got it for 0 dollars. lol

I´m still open for suggestions about new features. Do you have some, before I finish version 1.0? The open territory will be corrected.

arop wrote: I´m still open for suggestions about new features. Do you have some, before I finish version 1.0? The open territory will be corrected.

um . . . . add in some more interesting events.

The Dawonia map, version 1.0, has now been submitted ti Hawk, and is expected to be avaiable soon

arop wrote: The Dawonia map, version 1.0, has now been submitted ti Hawk, and is expected to be avaiable soon

good. i like this map.
note: YOU ARE FROM DENMARK?!

Yes, I am 61 and Danish. I'm living in Aarhus, 383.000 inhabitants, second sized to our capital Copenhagen (1.2 mill.)

arop wrote: Yes, I am 61 and Danish. I'm living in Aarhus, 383.000 inhabitants, second sized to our capital Copenhagen (1.2 mill.)

yes, i know that city, and not from RT3. (the capital, anyway) i reaserched denmark in a class (mind you, i'm 13 ) and found reserch that denmark is the "#1" happiest place in the world.

You could try playing my map "Denmark 1875". You can find this map in the archives on this site

arop wrote: You could try playing my map "Denmark 1875". You can find this map in the archives on this site

i'm going to download it now. i saw it anyway just so you know.