I wanted to build a city and its suburban lines or Metro. So I did.
What you have to do is take over the system after a general strike with all the equipment in the wrong place and some of it substandard, and get the trains running again. You have only FIVE YEARS to do your job.
It *can* be done!
Let me know on here how you get on!
Taleisin - Building Bridges in the Sky -
Scrimshaw Added by Taleisin Tuesday, April 12 2005
This scenario is about surveying and gradients.
You have to connect the coastal towns of Scrimshaw and Marlinspike via Wallop high in the mountains that lie between them. To do so you have to build an evenly graded railway. Steep is expensive and sand runs through your fingers. You don't have any locomotives that are good at climbing.
There is plenty of money to do the job; your skill lies in laying out and building a railway that is elegant and realistic. Bring your hiking boots and theodolite!
Taleisin :Building Bridges in the Sky:
Millefeuille Added by Taleisin Sunday, April 10 2005
I wanted to explore a couple of things. First the contrast between surburban travel and long-distance journeys. Second the battle between a player and several computer opponents. Oh, and another slightly surreal landscape.
So ...
It is 1930 and your travels take you to the French speaking coastal province of Millefeuille (literally 'a thousand leaves').
The challenge is more fully described in the scenario briefing but the gist of it is that you there are six competing entrepreneurs and you can only win by putting the other five out of business and being the only outfit in town.
Remember Fosse-Lyes Hottmudd? It just got worse ... MUCH worse!
The Hottmuddi introduce you to their cousins in Hexum, where no less than SIX civilisations are living in perfect disunity. Your task - if you have the bandwidth to download the 1024 x 1024 map - is to unite all six peoples with a working railway linking all 115 cities.
Will you succeed? Can you find the traces of the great railway that existed in a previous age (see pic)? Will you benefit from the legacy of the past? And what IS the meaning of the great glowing couloured pillars?? Onward! Hexum needs you!
Taleisin "Building Bridges in the Sky"
Isle of Man Added by Taleisin Saturday, March 26 2005
The Isle of Man is only 30 miles (50Km) long but it has its own parliament, its own legal system, its own language (Manx) and its a tax haven. Manx cats have no tails.
Can you build it a railway?
This is v2, improved finances. Apologies ... the first two people who downloaded v1 got no reduction of costs for narrow gauge construction and running and the effort of staying in business was exhausting. This is more fun, you might get to build lines tracing the routes of the five original Manx companies (well, that's the main ones anyway ...)
Version 2, posted March 24 2005, is a slight improvement on the original posted March 21st. Only change from 1.1 is a few lakes that exist on the ground and some very slight changes in gradient affecting Blaenau Ffestiniog, Barmouth and the Tallyllyn railway's route from Towyn to Abergernolwyn.
Incidentally the heights are about right in feet - which makes the mountains a touch dramatic but it looks good and gives you some fun track building problems to solve.
I've played it a few times now and there are some Bronze, Silver, Gold aims suggested but they are not built in as events.
But if you really want to try and pit your wits against the sheep then you need to fulfil the Gold objectives - connect Abergele, Holyhead, Caernarvon, Portmadoc, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Barmouth, Machyntlleth and Bala -
AND
* build mountain railways up Snowdon and Great Ormes Head * build the narrow gauge railways from Portmadoc to Blaenau Ffestiniog, from Caernarvon to Portmadoc via Beddgelert, from Towyn to Abergernolwyn AND from Machyntlleth to Corris. * build the tunnel from Dolwyddelan to Blaenau Ffestiniog *have a nuclear power station at Trawsfynnydd
If you get all these you can award yourself PLATINUM!
If your railway from Portmadoc to Blaenau Ffestiniog is on a continuous gradient, level or uphill all the way, so that horses can pull the empties up and the full trains can come back by gravity, then award yourself the JAMES SPOONER ENGRAVED SLATE MEMORIAL PLAQUE!!!!
What next? Shall I do the Isle of Wight or the Isle of Man?
