Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewsm!jonesie From: jonesie@cbnewsm.att.com (charles.e.jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Railroad Tycoon Message-ID: <1991May29.203649.5886@cbnewsm.att.com> Date: 29 May 91 20:36:49 GMT References: <1991May28.163346.3759@pinet.aip.org> <12188@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 43 In article <12188@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> mblakele@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Tad Blakeley) writes: > > So I don't use VM. Then I can play the game, but odd things keep >happening. For instance, if I remove a station from a train's route, the >train may take "Signal Tower" as its objective, giving me an "impossible >destination" error. I can override it with a priority destination, but >then it'll be back. Notice that when you look at a train's schedule, the station that the train is currently headed for is highlighted (Or, rather it is black while the rest are grayed.) When you remove the train's destination station from the list, the train continues to that destination, despite the fact that it is no longer in the schedule. There is no 'next station' highlighted in the train's schedule at all, at this point. Once the trains gets to the old destination station it no longer has *ANY* destination designated, so it defaults to waiting at the "Signal Tower" for further orders. And this is the way you've left the train - with no 'next station' to go to. As you said, a priority destination will override this situation, but that's not what you want. What you need to do is select one of the four stations, then choose the 'GO TO THIS STATION' menu item. The chosen station will how be 'black' as opposed 'grayed', the train will start off towards that station ASAP, and the schedule will be followed from there. Chuck Jones cej@ccsitn.att.com [So what's the best retirement anybody's been offered? I don't hear a lot of bragging. My only retirement so far was as a Mayor. But I got a *hot* RailRoad in progress now!! It streches from San Diego to Rock Island, all the bonds are repaid, and I've got $2,000,000 in cash to burn tonight, and it's only the 1920's.] [Oh Yeah, my gripe. Gee thanks, Sid Meier & Microprose. As if I wasn't missing enough sleep *already*.]