Layouts

[switchmaster]

My fellow TRAINZER'S:
I don't know if any of you have encountered this problem with layouts that one add to their program. I have installed several new layouts and opened them up in TRAINZ 2010. The scenery is very well done. It seems that the person spent a lot of time and effort to produce a wonderful layout. Problem: TRACK WORK. You put a freight or passanger train in one of the yards and go to driver. You find a loaction or station to go to and you pick that choice. No go. Instead you get a message: NO ROUTE ASSIGNED. So you run the train yourself and find that somewhere down the line the track is not connected or a switch lever has been omited. So now I have to fix the problem. Right now I am working on a rather large and complex layout. As I finish 3 or 4 boards I save it and run a train or several trains to see if I have a problem. If none, I continue. If not I fix the trouble area and rerun the trains again.

What I am saying is it doesn't take a lot of trbl to find problems before one sends it out to the world. Now before I get a lot of flack about this post, it is not with every layout or any particular member. It is just happens on occassion that I have encountered it.

 

[ct_krogen]

i find thsi all teh time in buig routes...

 

[sniper297]

That's why I put out beta versions, the problem is I never get any feedback on the beta versions - if I don't know it's broke I can't fix it, if people don't test and report bugs it gets uploaded with bugs.

 

[lorenw]

I've wondered why there needs to be beta testers for a route. Don't people drive there routes after they build them? Just wondering.

 

[Dap]

I've wondered why there needs to be beta testers for a route. Don't people drive there routes after they build them? Just wondering.

It is always helpful to have someone else review your work. You can easily overlook the same flaw time after time when a second pair of eyes will spot it at once.

 

[RRSignal]

Agreed. It's like copy editing/proofreading. You can have an eagle eye and re-read the same copy three times, but another person can still spot an error you overlooked.

 

[lorenw]

makes sense. Thanks.