Can you kind folk put your heads together and come up with a bunch of short beginner activities for me? These would be for exhibitions (though of course upload them to the site so everyone can enjoy them!).
The routes to use are:
Mid East UK, Ruabon-Llangollen-Bala, NRR 5 and Talyllyn.
Stock - entirely up to you.
Goals:
Short, 15-20 minutes for someone who is new to train sim.
Easy, minimal use of reversing points. Where you do use reversing points put messages up saying "ok, stop and turn around..." much like I did on UKTS 3 (move coaches) with Mid East.
Easy, nothing too hard. Example: Freight from A to B, Passenger from A to B, Passenger with a couple of stops, small amount of shunting etc.
Try and show off good stock, have plenty of other things happening while the user is doing their work, and use particularly good areas of the route.
I have 7 such activities on the Mid East CD so feel free to take inspiration from them.
Remember, the goal of these short activities is to WOW the people using and watching them - so don't stick to realism, that's unimportant for these in my opinion (though it would be nice to be at least plausible
), these are about having something engaging and fun to watch as well as drive. Drivers of these activities could be young or old, experienced or not. Bank on no experience I'm not too fussed how much stock you need for it either - seeing the same train over and over won't be as good as two or three different ones so let's see variety.
Be creative and let's see what we can come up with!
Matt.
