Westernmost
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New user. Frustrated with lack of manuals and other searchable documentation. Calling my route the T&E, for Trial & Error, as that's what it's taking to do anything.
Biggest issue is this: How do I back my work up? The only thing I see that even hints at it is under the DEV tab in Settings, where there's a number 7 in a field called Daily Backups to Keep. What does that mean? is that an automatic backup? To where? How do I back it up outside my computer?
Trainz is capable of producing absolutely amazing results in trained hands. But its greatest need is a basic orientation that teaches rookies like me the fundamentals of where things are and why. Like what the "Working Scales" mean, if anything - I spent an hour discovering that they don't seem to mean anything. Or what each square on a mapboard represents - an area of about 38x38 feet, in any scale, determined by laying straight track and placing a locomotive of known length on it. Or, HOW TO BACK IT UP.
For crying out loud - For as snazzy and sophisticated as this thing is, the information available to give a novice anything to start from that's not covered in the How To wikis is pitiful. So too for that matter is the fact that the wikis aren't searchable. It all adds up to a new user feeling like an outsider who isn't privy to the secret key to knowledge.
Anyway, enough venting. Any help on the backup issue would be much appreciated.
Biggest issue is this: How do I back my work up? The only thing I see that even hints at it is under the DEV tab in Settings, where there's a number 7 in a field called Daily Backups to Keep. What does that mean? is that an automatic backup? To where? How do I back it up outside my computer?
Trainz is capable of producing absolutely amazing results in trained hands. But its greatest need is a basic orientation that teaches rookies like me the fundamentals of where things are and why. Like what the "Working Scales" mean, if anything - I spent an hour discovering that they don't seem to mean anything. Or what each square on a mapboard represents - an area of about 38x38 feet, in any scale, determined by laying straight track and placing a locomotive of known length on it. Or, HOW TO BACK IT UP.
For crying out loud - For as snazzy and sophisticated as this thing is, the information available to give a novice anything to start from that's not covered in the How To wikis is pitiful. So too for that matter is the fact that the wikis aren't searchable. It all adds up to a new user feeling like an outsider who isn't privy to the secret key to knowledge.
Anyway, enough venting. Any help on the backup issue would be much appreciated.