Hello I am new, 2 questions

[Alucardvincent]

I am new not only to Trainz 12 also for this kind of games I am more a strategy guy like Total War games and a Tycoon guy; I was dragged when I saw the interactiveindustries stuff to this game

I playedthe tutorials, this looks lots of fun but I have a lot to learn, I know nothingabout mechanics; in the last tutorial I was confused about the different kindof brakes (3 different brakes so confusing! ) and it was funny when I was going slope down; trying all kind of brakes trying to slow down the train

For startingI have 2 questions:

Load andunload stuff is fun; and the interactive industries is what dragged me to the game. But something a bit annoying is to not know what has each wagon I had to right click and see info on each wagon to check what wagon was already unloaded and which one had still cargo. Is there not a fast way to check all your wagons and their cargo?

One of the offerings of the game is a lot of stuff to download. Since I am new and I want to drive and do missions (sessions?) to know the potential of the game I think I would like to download first routes and missions (sessions?). Where can download those? I saw a list of stuff to download but it is not noted what kind of item is each one on the list.

 

[Retro00064]

Welcome to Trainz!

For your first question, it depends on whether the train-car's load is "visible". If it is a "visible" load (e. g. a coal hopper or similar hopper with a exposed load (e. g. of coal)), then you may notice a difference in the appearance of the load that depends on how much cargo is loaded into that train-car. For example, an open coal hopper may appear to be empty or have only a small load of coal if the hopper is empty or the amount of coal loaded into that hopper only a small amount, but when the hopper is full, the hopper will appear to be full of coal. Note that some train-cars (e. g. boxcars) do not have visible loads or visible indicators of the amount of cargo inside, so with these, your only option may be to right-click on them to see what and how much cargo is loaded into that train-car, if any.

Regards.