New to Trainz and need help

[ctboe1]

I'm new to Trainz, but have quite an addiction to train simulators. I have Rail Simulator and MSTS, plus Trainz 2006, TC 1 and 2 plus TC3, and have recently purchased Trainz 2009, and have installed the Trainz 2009 Demo to try out as well.

My question to the community is, I cannot figure out what to do after I have completed the scenarios--especially for those routes that might just have a demo scenario--I'm very fascinated with the idea of the interactive industries but I have no idea at all how I'm supposed to access them. It would appear that either additional scenarios can be set up, or somehow you take over a train in one of the premade scenarios, to access the various industries and that then you could just go on virtually forever--but like I said, I have absolutely no idea how to go about doing this--even though I've read just about everything I can from the manuals to the forums--it just still is not clear or making sense to me.

Can someone please give me a detailed response so I can go on to enjoy this game as I believe I should be able to. At present it's just not satisfying to me.

Thanks,

Christian Boe,
Dumont, MN USA

 

[john259]

I think the terminology that Trainz uses may be confusing you. Try looking up information about Driver Sessions, not Scenarios. The difference between the two is interwoven in a complex manner but to summarise:

Driver Sessions are orders for trains. Anyone can learn how to create simple Driver Sessions in Surveyor. As with layouts, complicated Driver Sessions take considerable skill to make. The manual goes through making a Driver Session which drives to a coal mine, loads coal into wagons, drives to a power station, unloads the coal, and repeats this in a loop.

Scenarios are interactive activities written in a programming language. Learning that programming language requires considerable effort. Trainz Pro Routes' SCS (Scenario Creation System) provides a simpler system (freeware; separate.versions of TRS2004 and TRS2006).

The last version of Trainz to fully support scenarios was TRS2004. TRS2006 and later don't inherently handle the creation or running of scenarios, but it is possible for experts to simulate them by creating a highly sophisticated Driver Session.

Hope this helps, keeping asking questions,

John