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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:06 am
by Lad491
I was just wandering if it was easy to make acts and is it very time consuming? I'd like to have a go myself eventually one day
Its like lots of things, its as difficult and as time consuming as you want to make it.

Simple activities running on green all the way with just a few opposing AI services can be knocked up pretty quickly. Once you start getting beyond that and trying to get your AI traffic to interact with the player with overtaking services etc the length of time can easyily go out of the window
As a guide one of my one hour activities would take me about 25 hours to write and test. Sounds a lot but over the course of a couple of weeks of evenings and weekends isnt really. A 3 hour activity would take at least 100 hours, possibly even longer. Im working on one now for MidEastPlus which is looking like it might be a 4.5 hour jobby and so far i must have already spent 50 hours on it and im only 35 minutes into the activity.
Have a go

start slowly, dont try to do too much to start, keep it simple until you get to grips with it, then you can start expanding your skills. Its how I started, and im sure its how pete started too.

and remember - the secret is to test, test and test again.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:22 pm
by petethetim
andylloyd wrote:
I was just wandering if it was easy to make acts and is it very time consuming? I'd like to have a go myself eventually one day.
Thanks for the Kind words Andy & everybody & Andy Have a wee go Start simple say a short run Haymarket to South Queen ferry ,Woking to Clapham Jnc & try to tick to default stock & template traffic patterns, till you get in to habit of doing your own & I speak for my self & a lot of others I'm sure people will help!! just ask PM if you are embarrassed to do it on Here
Activities are the Life Blood of MSTS
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:40 am
by petethetim
Just as Postscript you've been reading my drivel for a year today
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:21 am
by chrisiveson
a former user wrote:Just as Postscript you've been reading my drivel for a year today
True, so very true.

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:29 am
by petethetim
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:28 pm
by arabiandisco
a former user wrote:Just as Postscript you've been reading my drivel for a year today
I've just been ignoring it
