Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

I think this is one of those scenarios where you always need to take a few times to get the Gold. Bronze is very easy, and a good player can get Silver at the first attempt. But for gold, you really need to plan - and knowing what's coming ^**lylgh .... helps. Thank you for the spell check Hawk, and...

I know that you had mentioned that you had no control over the engine crashes, which I am sure is programmed into the PopTop... There is two options for engine crashes in the editor. Off or on. Other than that, you can adjust the engines reliability with an event or two, but I don't think that will...

Hey all again Thanks for all reviews with that version. 3 downloads and 3 reviews it's really all I can ask for. As I said before, I have also spotted a few bugs and this-makes-the-game-too-easy aspects. Primarily, those would help anyone who chose Italy, Only some of the territories were supposed t...

To my knowledge, unfortunately, you cannot add houses or population to the cities via game events. You can only add industries. As to create a map on a random island, I would advise thinking like this: 1. what resources would the island have to offer - these would be demands in the ports 2. what doe...

!*th_up*! And in the end, you'll find out that the beta version you're playing won't even acknowledge that bronze..! Current version in my machine has that sorted. I also spotted a couple of bugs and some tweaks needed. Soon, a final version will be ready. Was great to read your game-story, Ray. I r...

Welcome. Ocean is never automatically placed. You need to use paint-fill for it. As for the height of mountains - more often than not, you need to try a few times, changing those modifiers at start, when the game loads the height map. And, as my own rule, never smooth anything out - do it after you ...

Eheh Completed two projects actually. Gibraltar and Ethiopia (which is just about ready). Yep, as I said, Ethiopia is a poor paint job - will have to dedicate some time to detail now. I also messed up the map early on, filling it with ocean up to 700 or 800 - after correcting that, the texture went ...

Thanks for the details, Andybis.

Gold, silver and bronze conditions are now done. Going to wait for a few more reviews/tests and then send this one to hawk (hopefully with a little more detailed paint job thrown in as well).

Cheers.
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Oh my! You are right. I kept reminding myself to do those as well, but being such a simple task (I hadn't do it before as the numbers on those conditions were still to being tuned) I just forgot in the end. That's why I need other testers.. I just tested to make sure any changes I made were working,...

Ever tried Opera?... It's much faster than IE or FF, and the "speed dial" (which other browsers copied now) is a winner.

Spent this morning painting the map.. not entirely proud of the work, but to be honest, I wanted a beta version out and on the test bench. So, finally, a full beta. Economy, events, territories and painting, all is in it already. As for the territories issue. I couldn't find my way around it, it is ...

I also assumed it was like that. And it is, as long as territory has "borders visible" set from start. A hidden territory cannot be closed unless you close the one it is being re-mapped to. (confusing uh :-? ) Just done some tests, and from what I can gather you can only close territories ...

Just play tested a bit and found a few things wrong already.. A couple of typos, a few sentences where my poor English fails on me, somalia-ethiopia border looking wrong and most importantly - effects due to war aren't happening the way I wanted. Apparently, a hidden territory will not stop being hi...

As I said, it was almost ready.. --- ATTACHMENT REMOVED --- This version has all events programmed (apart suggestions and improvements by the members of this exquisite forum). Since the last release, I have also changed minor details in economy and corrected territories for historical accuracy. This...

Almost ready.. just tunning up war effects and second version will be posted here today.

Then there's the whole matter of painting the ****** map, but I reckon the final version will be another week at max.. by then my situation-with-extra-time-available runs up anyway.

:-) Those will be included in this scenario. Been reading Wikipedia and adding events to the scenario... A fun part of it will actually be the Italo-Abyssinian war in the 30's. Did you know there are written documents where Mussolini acknowledges and authorizes mass use of mustard gas? And that he a...

Funny to see an Italian being the first to take interest in Ethiopia.. eheh, a little bit of history repeating. I am planning to include a little bit of history in this scenario.. real history, which I am still to investigate and introduce. Game "story" might be something along the lines o...

I know, I know, too much time on my hands.. I had a few projects hanging, and these last 2 weeksI have been in a kind of partial holidays... So, that results in scenarios jumping in, one after another. But after this one, a pause is due. For now, I am presenting a draft... As you probably start to g...

Just a quick note here saying the map/scenario is being worked on. Meaning this topic is getting old... jump to "reviews" to check out Ethiopia scenario. Right after this post, I'm uploading a draft version, with rivers, cities and a working realistic economy (well, realistic except that t...

If it ain't a Windows problem, something like that could signal a hard disk faulty sector..

Run a diagnosis on the disk, or try a second install in a different directory.