Configurations - Learning Experience for Piglets?
Aug 6, 2018 16:00:54 GMT -6
Post by Dakota on Aug 6, 2018 16:00:54 GMT -6
I am a newcomer/inexperienced Run8 user. Back in early May I Joined SRS and started trying to learn real-world ops with some greatly appreciated help from Clint. I've been offline for a few months (work busy and learning a couple of other rail simulators). Anyway, back in in May one of the problems that came up was the hump configuration at Barstow being messed up. I have a sneaking suspicion I was the cause, though I'm unsure what I might have done to cause it. I had done a tutorial by Oleander which involved the Newberry Ballast Pit and Rheox. These industries were not present in my Run8 so I assumed I needed to MAKE them, which I did. A good learning experience. Later (and I can't remember how) I discovered that these are part of The Depot+ Config Files. So I downloaded them, including the Hump config and followed the (complicated) importing processes. I don't know if my having these configs somehow later polluted the SRS configs. Maybe (??) I did something that caused the SRS hump config to be loaded with the Depot one I had. Again I am a newcomer. I can't say when but I plan to come back and try to participate here again. I appreciate the offer of the training sessions by Clint, and plan to take advantage. First I have to refresh my basic operating knowledge. Anyway, in anticipation:
Maybe some of the above are not problems at all. I just want to understand what's going on so as to avoid screwing things up for others (at least with respect to shared configs!).
- How can I make sure I don't pollute the configs for SRS?
- How can I get the configs locally so I can practice offline?
- I already figured out I can "capture" the state of the server by doing a World save, disconnect, then load the World. Is this safe? Do I get the SRS configs somehow that way?
- Is there a way to save the SRS configs? Should I even DO this?
- How can I avoid config conflicts between SRS and other servers I might end up using?
- Run8 R5 has a giant note to save SoCal industry configs. Why?
- Run8 R5 says you must install San Bernardino before R5. This makes me thing R5 includes a SBD update. How dies this jive with SRS?
Maybe some of the above are not problems at all. I just want to understand what's going on so as to avoid screwing things up for others (at least with respect to shared configs!).