Hey I just heard about Trainz for the first time yesterday when I found it on my iPad's app store. I immediately invested the 99 cents for the app and fell in love with it. I bought the game yesterday for the PC from Sim Central and finally got it installed. I havent done much with it yet and in truth have finished the iPad tutorials but not the PC toots. Other than that I have just driven around some on the routes but havent done anything real with it. I am not a train afficianado and all those model numbers in the car lists are just greek. BUT.....I LOVED Railroad Tycoon 2 (go ahead and laugh all you hardcores out there lol ). This game is gorgeous to say the least....and oh sooo much more in running the trains than RT2. Different games....I know....but what I loved about RT2 was getting routes set up where I would for example haul fertilizer to farms...grain to feedlots, meat to cities....then more fertilizer to farms etc, rinse repeat. CHA CHING! Now I am so new that I have only done a cursory reading of the manual so maybe I am jumping the gun. I know I can have fun running around the tracks, hooking and unhooking the consists and "pretend" like I am taking a load of needed (type in commodity here) from Corporation X to Corporation Y. But the video I saw shows a guy dumping cars of coal at a plant. And I read something somewhere about industries producing waybills and such. Do the industries on the route maps actuall produce anything that we need to haul and is there actually a demand for it that we need to bring it to? Or is the game just a digital version of electric trains? I DO hope there is something more that I havent uncovered yet (admittedly I havent had a chance to dig very deep, and very much a noob). Other than this one concern, OMG the graphics are to die for, and the trains look and sound so realistic I love it already. BTW...playin on an ASUS laptop with 8G memory, I am not sure but I think it is quad core with 3.2G speed???, A terra of hard drive space, and an nVidea GTX 560M board. I did load in Norfolk and southern and had to tone down the graphics a bit as it became a slide shhow but I had every thing slid to the max LOL. Congrats for a fantastic looking product and I hope to get tons of fun out of it even if I dont find a "game" in there.
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You might like to look at the CMTM system created by "Dap" it's free and it will assign destinations to cars.
For more detail do a Google search for "Trainz CMTM DAP" or similar and/or check here:
http://online.ts2009.com/mediaWiki/index.php5/CMTM/Car_Movements
Enjoy
For more detail do a Google search for "Trainz CMTM DAP" or similar and/or check here:
http://online.ts2009.com/mediaWiki/index.php5/CMTM/Car_Movements
Enjoy
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You mean, tablet?
Yes this looks like something I am thinking of if a bit over complicated but maybe once you do this it isnt so bad....kind of a fun daily exercise though perhaps.
BTW.....is there anything like AI run trains to make it look more realistic as u have to pull over on a siding to allow another train to pass first? And if so, do the signals do a good job of stopping u in time, or am I just dreaming lol?
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What appealed to me about TS12 was that you can create your own things (routes, scenery, rolling stock, even locomotives if you have the time) with the help of some other programs. If you're not into DIY, then there's plenty that is already in the game and in the Download Station that others have created. The second selling point (found out after I started using TS12) is that you can go from running the game like electric trains all the way to loading/unloading cars, traveling across the landscape and interacting with "AI" trains. Your choice! The whole point is...
Have Fun!
Andrew
Have Fun!
Andrew
No, probably not. He means one of those cooling tablets you can get at a computer store. I got one at Best Buy for about $30.00 that I put under my Alienware laptop. It has fans in it which keep the laptop cool while i use Trainz on it.
John
Even without the CMTM system (which sounds like some obscure pornagraphy acronym if you ask me :hehe
Oh well if I can do that...can we vary those settings??
btw I played that RUssian route that comes with the game and jeesh those train yards get confusing.....I havent finished the first mission yet of hauling passengers from one end of the map to the other but plan on doing that this morning. I have very much enjoyed seeing the other trains on the route being run by the AI. I am assuming I can take control of one of those trains but man I am thinkin I will get so confused in those switchin yards that I will run the train into something...like another train haha.
Also....where did I see a whole bunch of routes to download. I thought I saw them inside the game under downloads but now I dont see them? I see LOTS of stuff, cars and terrain objects like buildings and trees and stuff. Ist there a way to filter so I just see home made routes to try and download?
Also if u download them from inside the game do they go where they belong ready to use or do they just download into the standard download folder and I have to unzip them into the right folder?
sigh.....I hate beein the noob haha.
I enjoy reading your posts Jim, because of your pleasure and enthusiasm for the game. It reminds me of so long ago, over ten years now!
When you run across an industry in a route in Surveyor, such as a power station or coal mine, you can set the level of production or consumption by "clicking" upon it after clicking on the "?" symbol in the asset's fly out menu.
You can set your content manager filters to show routes available on the DLS, but beware! I wouldn't download any route unless I've read a thread about, saw some screenshots at least, or received a recommendation from someone that frequents this place. I recommend Dave Snow's routes on the DLS Miyabi and Cotton Belt.
Anything downloaded by the content manager will install automatically, and routes will require the program to grab other items from the DLS as well, so be ready for that. Before you take a run on a route, make sure it's got all the dependencies, and then...have fun.
When you run across an industry in a route in Surveyor, such as a power station or coal mine, you can set the level of production or consumption by "clicking" upon it after clicking on the "?" symbol in the asset's fly out menu.
You can set your content manager filters to show routes available on the DLS, but beware! I wouldn't download any route unless I've read a thread about, saw some screenshots at least, or received a recommendation from someone that frequents this place. I recommend Dave Snow's routes on the DLS Miyabi and Cotton Belt.
Anything downloaded by the content manager will install automatically, and routes will require the program to grab other items from the DLS as well, so be ready for that. Before you take a run on a route, make sure it's got all the dependencies, and then...have fun.
sounds to complicated atm. But here is what I mean....I am still struggling with Quick Drive mode. I go into quick drive and there are no trains on the map (I have been tinkering with the russian map Belesinko or whatever to Mosti..no reason just because its where I started...I dont even like those electric trains on the maps haha. But I digress...no trains so from the quick drive menu I can choose a new train and so I find a cool looking freight train and there is no locomotive. I cant seeem to find a locomotive unless I place one of the passenger trains. so now I place a passenger train and enable a driver and click on the lead loco in the passenger train and sit in the cab.....no control box (yes I chose the DCC or whatever its called controls) Well I got it to work once and so I just unhooked the passenger cars and coupled the freight train. I left Belesinko (sp) and promptly derailed the dam thing haha. Now when I go into quick drive I cant seem to get the controls to show up in the bottom right. The manual guys is just not very clear. It basically says you can choose quickdrive and play with whatever trains and drivers you want, but doesnt tell u how to actually do it or what it is your doing actually does. But the game is wayy cool. Maybe I need to go to the wiki and maybe things are explained better there.
Sounds like you need to take your time and learn little by little. This isn't something that you can learn instantly with no effort, if it was, it wouldn't be interesting for very long. I read posts, search for discussions on issues that I need to know, and constantly refer to to the manual that game with TS12. I have been at this for almost 2 months and am still learning stuff, and I have been playing with simulator programs for a couple of decades. I spent a week just on the tutorials in the program.
Yeh I think your right Robert, and I am just experimenting with stuff...I think I need to stay on the springfield industrial route to play around its not too big but has industries and stuff to learn. I did get to run a train in quick drive on that route but I had to put a passenger train on a track to steal the locomotive from it to run a freight train. Surely there is a way to pick a locomotive without having to steal one from a passenger train? lol
Read and study Chapter 9.7 Trains Menu in TS12 Owners manual starting at page 182.
Euphod will I have to save it then so those will always be available when I go into quick drive on that route? I guess I will go back in and play around with it. I just derailed a train anyway. :wave:
but I at least know why and will know how to do that part right. I figured out you can ctrl right click on the cars to assign them and figured out you can assign drivers to trains but still a little muddy about making the AI drivers go on routes and stuff. I am sure it wiill come to me. A far cry from the simplicity of Railroad Tycoon 2 hahaha.
but I at least know why and will know how to do that part right. I figured out you can ctrl right click on the cars to assign them and figured out you can assign drivers to trains but still a little muddy about making the AI drivers go on routes and stuff. I am sure it wiill come to me. A far cry from the simplicity of Railroad Tycoon 2 hahaha.Ok so I am gettin the hang of drivin trains but I want a reason to be drivin em. Im playin around in the springfield industrial route and I see I can load pelletized goods but the airport is wanting general goods. So I can right click on the commodity picker and assign the boxcars to haul general goods but where do I go to get the goods there? I tried right clicking and loading them with general goods chosen but it says the boxcar is still empty. Evidently the load command on individual cars is for something else. Is the Springfield Industrial still unfinished and maybe needs one of the industries set to be able to load general goods onto the box cars? Same question goes for Diesel fuel in some tankers I placed on the route.....but I cant seem to get any diesel fuel in the tankers. Would be nice if we actually had something to load and unload in these routes rather than just pedal around on the tracks?????