What do you actually do in Trainz?

[Yakutsky]

So? What do you do?
I've been curious about this...

Do you drive a short route once in a while, a long one perhaps?

Do you love watching your trians drive by?

Creating your own route?

Etc... what do you do in Trainz?

Me, I'm trying to figure out how to get all the dependencies for all the routes I've downloaded which I can't find really.

But the most fun I have with building my route, which will take me a few months or years to complete. (or never)

 

[Pellerijn]

... starting over again and again is the main task for me. I start a route, get new ideas or content and just have to start all over. Never a dull moment.

 

[mattm]

... starting over again and again is the main task for me. I start a route, get new ideas or content and just have to start all over. Never a dull moment.

I know that feeling. Good to know i'm not alone.

My main thing is Surveyor. I do do the occasional Driver session, but they're only basic, with the default rules, and mainly for the purpose of easing my current state of frustration with Surveyor.:hehe:

And then it's back to Surveyor, to start yet another route.

I'll get it one day. I hope.

Matt.

 

[emalton]

making a route then have to wait days and days for dls to start working again. Also most of the time trying to edit 2004 london underground content to work with 2010!

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Classifying and fixing Trainz assets....I mean, that is the game isn't it?

I remember once there was this guy with the same forum nick as me, who used to have fun creating layouts and then got heavily addicted to making new assets. He seemed to be really enjoying himself back then. I wonder what happened to him..

 

[Gary_Evans]

Classifying and fixing Trainz assets....I mean, that is the game isn't it?

I remember once there was this guy with the same forum nick as me, who used to have fun creating layouts and then got heavily addicted to making new assets. He seemed to be really enjoying himself back then. I wonder what happened to him..

Boy oh boy do we miss that guy with the same nick as you :'( .
Happy Holidays

 

[barn700]

Making locos (lots of them) and helping others solve problems.

Very rare that I spend time driving a route, just to test my creations

 

[IsambardKingdomBrunel]

Creating a route with a mate.

 

[jrfolco]

My main interest in Trainz is route building. That’s mainly what I’ve done since I started in September of 2002.
I enjoy finding an area to model, creating it in TransDem, and completing it, ready to upload.
I also get a tremendous amount of satisfaction in sharing my work with others in the Trainz hobby.

I spend about 20% of my time in Driver, making up consists, and running them in AI, or exchanging cars at various industries.

I’m not much for posting on the Forum, but I manage to find time every day to see what others have to say.

 

[davesnow]

1. I love creating routes in Surveyor. It's fun designing your own little world... laying out the land, inserting track, highways, building towns (and naming them is fun, too! ), Factories, rivers & streams, forests, etc.

2. I also love being the "local" engineer, shuttling rolling stock between industries in my locos, being careful to watch signals and speed limits. Of course, I only use the main line when the dispatcher gives me the okay, because there are quite a few Class 1's who use the tracks, too! (I'm talking about A.I.'s in case you're a newbie.)

Yes, it's a computer game---- but to many of us, it's even more. It's a place to relax, to be creative, to learn about railroads (railways), to share ideas with other Trainzers, and to help others solve problems..... but, IMHO, mainly to have fun!

Dave

 

[bolea]

Record some videos and recreate Spanish consists

 

[Richard_Dodge]

RE What do you actually do in Trainz?

I like to design a system and operate it when it is ready. At the present I have a Standard and Narrow gauge route that is interconnected. Part of the route is laid out with duel track age which makes for an interesting operation. Also have several industries scattered through out the system with lots of mountain climbing etc,

Richard

 

[JCitron]

I'm into Surveyor as well. I've only uploaded a small route, but I've been working on a mega route that I started back with TRS2004. The route is now about 220 miles long and still growing.

Trainz is like a giant model railroad. There are various aspects of the hobby that suit different people. Some people are into script writing, others into making content, operations, or landscaping.

Script writing is like the wiring, the under pinnings we don't see directly, but make everything work. Route building in Surveyor is like building the benchwork and make the layout come alive. Driver is the operations side of the layout.

What's great about Trainz is there is no mess and really very little expense other than an FCT if you want faster downloads, and a decent computer.

The other neat aspect of this world we make, is it can really be of any size you want it within limits of your computer. This is quite unlike a model railroad that would barely fit into a barn or city block. How else can you get thousands of miles of trackage without resorting to reverse loops, hidden tracks, staging yards, and a lot of scenic compression.

So for me Trainz is an escape from the rotten things we do all day. There's no one asking me for help unless I'm in the forums. Since I don't create much content, I like to give back what I can, so I do it through user support, which I do best. I don't have to worry about deadlines, unless I setup my own schedule, and I can have things as realistic as I want with no one else telling me I'm wrong.

John

 

[ocala]

My time spent in Trainz

is 2/3 thirds building, 1/3 third driving I quess.

 

[sawyer811]

I enjoy the whole lot. I love route building, its something i enjoy more than anything. Yet i spend about half my time in driver, even if its only to test my layouts. I do spend a lot of time creating sessions for Philskene's routes, especially the Port Ogden and Northern. I love messing around with the LARS tracks, creating different commodities to pick up and such. I get just as much enjoyment out of running the layout.

 

[dricketts]

Man it's hard to say... all of it so entertaining.

I love watching trains proceed with orders on a route, building routes, searching for new content like a piece of treasure, and spending time on the forum. It's all good stuff.

I would really like to start learning to reskin and then I can add that to my long list of things I love about Trainz.

 

[ct_krogen]

So? What do you do?
I've been curious about this...
Do you drive a short route once in a while, a long one perhaps?
Do you love watching your trians drive by?
Creating your own route? (for the last 2 years even?)

Etc... what do you do in Trainz?

Me, I'm trying to figure out how to get all the dependencies for all the routes I've downloaded which I can't find really.

But the most fun I have with building my route, which will take me a few months to complete.

run a route set up iportalsto send trainz to other users....

 

[ray_whiley]

Very much the same as during over forty years of conventional railway modelling: not much operating, but mainly creating models especially buildings. And unlike those forty years, being able to share them with others and see how many find them sufficiently attractive to download them.

Ray

 

[UP5521]

for me,I mostly like to reskin steam engines in fictional colors,sometimes I drive around the routes that are already included in the game,however,I like building my own railroad,not just for my own enjoyment,but to test out my reskins as well!

 

[NikkiA]

Recently... debugging and fixing various bugs in the \ts2010\scripts folder to stop the stupidity of all scripts ceasing running when one runs into an exception - train.gs ? I'm looking at you specifically!