new and unfinished

[baz66]

Just read apost from someone who commented that he has a number of projects going and knows he'll never finish them. I wonder how many trainzers are in this category. I myself have started dozens only to give up when, as it gets bigger, it gets worse. Anyone else?
baz

 

[pfx]

Why yyyyesh! It's happened to me many times. I'm still to get a route uploaded.

 

[ray_whiley]

I must confess to having the same problem. But I don't see it as a problem - I quite enjoy creating new routes even though most of them never seem to get finished. I look at some of them from time to time, do a little and then move on. Experimenting with new ideas is good fun - and that's what it's all about. It's just like starting model railway layouts - never completely finished.

Ray

 

[nfitzsimmons]

I've got five or six under construction, and I doubt I'll ever finishe any of them. Each one is a different period and/or genre than any of the others, and when I get tired or bored with working on one of them I'll just move to another one for a while. And I'm still having fun.

 

[cascaderailroad]

One should have just one or two favorite routes ... or things get too complex.

On my route I have @ 300 + miles (or possibly 500 + miles including brachlines).

When I get tired of the mainline construction, I switch over to a branchline construction, on the same route.

Even the Horseshoe route from Huntingdon to Johnstown gets kinda boring, and seems to be just an up and over the mountain route, after thousands of hours working on it.

Fortunately this route has an unlimited number of branch lines to keep me sidetracked, and keep me refreshed.

 

[nfitzsimmons]

One should have just one or two favorite routes ... or things get too complex.

I would do the same, but I have too many different interests. My 1930's Colorado narrow gauge just doesn't mesh well with my south China route, or my modern east coast class one route and my 1950's modwest interests..

But I do agree with the branch line school of thought.

 

[peghorse]

After some ten years I am determined to finish my grand project. It may well turn out to be useless, but I will persevere with it.

That's the trouble with having a good route, you enjoy it so much, you don't really care whether or not you get to upload

wait.. what?

ummm yeah.. u know what I mean

 

[bendorsey]

I make items to be used in routes so I can comment on unfinished routes but what bugs me is a when a Trainzer asks me if I would please make (this or that) and I say yes - all it just takes is photos or drawings and basic dimensions and I never hear from them again. The really sad part is the item would be great for Trainz.

Ben

 

[pware]

In the early years I started a number of projects (layouts) which were abandoned for a variety of reasons - sometimes because a newer version of Trainz had appeared which took me off in a new direction. But during the last few years I have finished and uploaded each new route that I started (the first 2 were fictional and the last 5 prototypical - the later were the more challenging but I'm not sure which I enjoy more) although some were more than 12 months in the making.

Peter Ware

 

[ray_whiley]

I really must stop making new content in GMax for some time and concentrate on finishing my West Norfolk Railway, also upgrading Dukes Denver (my first uploaded route) to TS2010 standards. And I must put on one side my Belgian trams, American short line, UK tram museum, Cathedral City UK trams (Birmingham inspired), - and a few more!

Ray

 

[baz66]

OMG ther must be thousands of routes out there waiting to materialise. We should all get together and upload at the same time. Zec will have kittens.
The replys are about what I expected. We are our own taskmasters and are always looking for that improvement and we get bored too easily.
baz