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Can't get train OTW into Matlock 29/05/2015 at 05:02 #72814
maxand
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Thanks for all your feedback, constructive or otherwise!

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A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom and gloom pessimist.

Just to see what would happen, on the twins' birthday their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.

That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.

"Why are you crying?" the father asked.

"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken." answered the pessimist twin.

Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.

To which his optimist twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"

– excerpted from How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life by Peter Robinson
Well, if you really want a challenge, on my second attempt at Derby, by 16:50 I've already got 72 trains stuck in there even with sim speed reduced to about 70%. Maybe on the third try...

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Can't get train OTW into Matlock 29/05/2015 at 09:48 #72830
Gwasanaethau
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" said:
Thanks for all your feedback, constructive or otherwise!

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A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom and gloom pessimist.

Just to see what would happen, on the twins' birthday their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.

That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.

"Why are you crying?" the father asked.

"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken." answered the pessimist twin.

Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.

To which his optimist twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"

– excerpted from How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life by Peter Robinson
Well, if you really want a challenge, on my second attempt at Derby, by 16:50 I've already got 72 trains stuck in there even with sim speed reduced to about 70%. Maybe on the third try...
That made me smile! Thanks Max!

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Unfortunately this would make me think twice before uploading a save game, even if I think i've discovered a legitimate hard-to-repeat bug, as I would wonder if I would end up mocked for not doing a particularly good job up to that point.
I certainly didn’t mean to mock. Apologies to maxand if that’s how he felt. We are all aware that this was really early on in his SimSig career and thought it would be a challenge to try and get out of a situation that had developed. After all, there is an entire downloads section dedicated to uploading saves of difficult situations to challenge people to get out of them.

I also figured that Aussies, like us Irish, don’t mind laughing at ourselves when we do some really silly things. Have a look at some of my ‘bug reports’ to see how I’ve messed up my fair share of times too!

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Can't get train OTW into Matlock 30/05/2015 at 12:42 #72876
AndyG
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My attempt, playing for SimSig points rather than reality.




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I can only help one person a day. Today's not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look too good either.
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Can't get train OTW into Matlock 31/05/2015 at 19:54 #72917
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