Vehicle Documentation - help wanted August 26, 2009, 09:15:54 am I think it would be a good idea to create a guide to the various vehicles in pak128.Britain (especially rail) - there's quite a few vehicles out there which cover a range of functions (some express p****enger, some heavy goods). Unless you are a train geek you might not know which to use for the situation you require in the game, so I'm proposing a guide, with a brief entry for each loco (stating intro and retire year, and a typical consist and use, along with any other info that may be useful). Would anybody like to contribute to this? I can provide the information I used for balancing purposes, but I think if I made the guide I wouldn't be able to create as many new graphics. Thoughts / volunteers? Quote Selected
Re: Vehicle Documentation - help wanted Reply #1 – August 26, 2009, 09:27:35 am I'll volunteer - post it on English Wiki perhaps as well as in forums? Quote Selected
Re: Vehicle Documentation - help wanted Reply #2 – August 26, 2009, 09:27:51 am Hmm, I find looking things up on Wikipedia is generally very helpful... Quote Selected
Re: Vehicle Documentation - help wanted Reply #3 – August 26, 2009, 09:37:05 am Quote from: Maragil – on August 26, 2009, 09:27:35 amI'll volunteer - post it on English Wiki perhaps as well as in forums?Sounds a good suggestion to me - thanks!Quote from: jamespetts – on August 26, 2009, 09:27:51 amHmm, I find looking things up on Wikipedia is generally very helpful...Yes, but (a) it isn't simutrans specific (e.g. how many cars should I run this loco with?), and (b) the information isn't always there Quote Selected
Re: Vehicle Documentation - help wanted Reply #4 – August 26, 2009, 06:45:13 pm I meant simutrans wikipedia Quote Selected
Re: Vehicle Documentation - help wanted Reply #5 – August 26, 2009, 07:43:41 pm Maragil / anyone else who is interested:Here is the spreadsheet I use to do balancing. It's mostly fairly cryptic, but if you look in the rail cost tab category b is a vague description, and category c is the consist I use to do the balancing calculations - i.e. if you run the stated convoy and keep it full half of the time you will make a profit (roughly speaking). I suggest you add this info to the wiki/document/whatever as a suggested convoy (some of the multiple units have forced consists, but don't worry about that).Just ask if you're confused Quote Selected
Re: Vehicle Documentation - help wanted Reply #6 – October 16, 2009, 07:29:55 pm Hello,I took the liberty of uploading this spreadsheet to share via Google Docs. The hood, if you object or want to replace with a newer version, let me know. I'm not really understanding it too much, but I can hand out write access.http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnSgbuCFYEiadFh2cjVtSkF0Nl8wSHlvSV9ZZ1RCWkE&hl=en(I'm a Linux user with no access to MS Office.) Quote Selected
Re: Vehicle Documentation - help wanted Reply #7 – October 17, 2009, 11:42:13 am No problem with that at all, except I'm re-writing the spreadsheet as part of the new balancing process. The formulae should all stay the same though, just I'm calculating costs instead of guessing them, and I also want to add a calculation for purchase costs.Also, if anyone wants this as an openOffice spreadsheet (.ods), I can do that as that's what I use. Quote Selected
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