WildWillyWacko
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May I start a petition to bring back the " Edit Trains " tool to " Driver Mode "
I was reminded of another reason for this feature by this quote from Pitkin:
"This brings up and interesting point. Bulk commodities like coal fall from a tipple with dust effects, and dump into a grate somewhere. I recall a few other more or less realistic situations with logs. Otherwise, a railroad is not going to devote an engine and crew while a sawmill loads a bulkhead flatcar with lumber for hours. Same with boxcars.
Some large operations like steel mills had their own railroads. In model railroading, the owner slipped around hopefully un=noticed and placed or removed plastic "loads" amongst the cars.
I don't know that "Edit Trains" is any more or less realistic than industry tracks. A huge advantage, however, is that you know immediately whether the operation was successful (at least for visible commodities). I'm sure most of us can recall spending many hours over time staring at some industry track whilst nothing happens."
My much admired friend, Philskene, seems to prefer the somewhat manual method of loading railcars by using the " Edit Trains " tool. Now, we have to enter Surveyor Mode to access the " Edit Trains " tool and later when we exit our session we are asked to save a new session instead of just making a game progress save in Driver. And, the alternative is to accidently overwrite your original and loose your starting point in the session!
Maybe this won't bother Phil cause he doesn't make many mistakes but it sure bothers me!
Wild Willy the Wacko
I was reminded of another reason for this feature by this quote from Pitkin:
"This brings up and interesting point. Bulk commodities like coal fall from a tipple with dust effects, and dump into a grate somewhere. I recall a few other more or less realistic situations with logs. Otherwise, a railroad is not going to devote an engine and crew while a sawmill loads a bulkhead flatcar with lumber for hours. Same with boxcars.
Some large operations like steel mills had their own railroads. In model railroading, the owner slipped around hopefully un=noticed and placed or removed plastic "loads" amongst the cars.
I don't know that "Edit Trains" is any more or less realistic than industry tracks. A huge advantage, however, is that you know immediately whether the operation was successful (at least for visible commodities). I'm sure most of us can recall spending many hours over time staring at some industry track whilst nothing happens."
My much admired friend, Philskene, seems to prefer the somewhat manual method of loading railcars by using the " Edit Trains " tool. Now, we have to enter Surveyor Mode to access the " Edit Trains " tool and later when we exit our session we are asked to save a new session instead of just making a game progress save in Driver. And, the alternative is to accidently overwrite your original and loose your starting point in the session!
Maybe this won't bother Phil cause he doesn't make many mistakes but it sure bothers me!
Wild Willy the Wacko
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