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"Matthew Clark" <clarkbhm@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<7B72d.7525$IO5.1721@trndny04>...
> "scotchbird" <scotch1590@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:1d8b56e8.0409151526.338b4b82@posting.google.com...
> > (Buttoneer) wrote in message
> >>snip
> >
> > Not that it makes a lot of difference but on the first scenario when I
> > use the wait until full route command for a truck picking up iron ore,
> > (yes it's iron ore and no overlap of catchment area) it says "wait
> > until full of coal" and the truck will just sit in the station waiting
> > for the coal which isn't there. Removing the command lets the truck
> > pick up the ore and get on it's way.
> 
> Don't be so quick to press the wait button. If you hold it down a bit when 
> you click it, you'll see that you can choose wait you want it to wait for...

There are lots of little hidden things in the game that don't jump out
of you from the manual but which are extremely important for fine
tuing properly.

Using waypoints makes the signals usable, for example.  the manual
doesn't make this clear or really tell you that you can click anywhere
on the track to create one.

Anyone figure out yet how to delete a bus stop?

Anyone yet figure our a speedy way to renew a bus?  When I get a bus
that is so unreliable I need to replace it, I just want a nice single
click solution.  What is get is;
Buy new bus (two clicks)
Copy old route across to new bus (three clicks)
Drop new bus and set it running (three clicks)
Stop old bus, pick it up and bin it (three clicks)

Eleven click for every single replacement.

This could be immensely speeded up and made less onerous with a single
click replacement (click on your old vehicle in the vehicle list,
click the spanner tab, click the replace button, click on the chosen
replacement vehicle in the new vehcile list).  It all takes too long
at the moment and I'm fast getting RSI.

The cities and towns expand nice and quickly though.

I've also come across the situation where a local authority has
refused me a new airport because I was fiddling about too much with
the land.  Fair doos actually, I'm sure any local authority would get
pissed off.  But as I mentiuoned above you get no bribery/advertising
etc options in this game and I think it loses a lot for that.

Overall I'm still spending hour upon hour fiddling with things and
trying to make them neater, tidier, more efficient etc, which is great
fun in its own way.