I just got Locomotion today and I am delighted with it!
I have completed the first two "missions" in the Begginer level. When I try to start the third "Weatherworld" I get a small red popup (just like when you have no money to build something) saying: "Missing Object Data ID: 508/979EE8100D0920B0"
Anyone have any idea what could be the problem? Other levels seem to be working fine, even in Easy or harder...
Thanks for any help!
P.S. By the way, in case you are interested in hearing the excellent music in this game when not playing, you can get it by doing the following:
1 - In your game install directory you will find a folder called DATA, tipically in C:\Program Files\Atari\Locomotion\Data.
2 - Sort the files by Size
3 - The bigger .DAT files, down until one that is 9.3Mb are the music.
4 - Copy these files onto a new folder of your preference.
5 - In this new folder, not the game one, change the extension of these files from .DAT to .WAV
6 - Play them in your favourite sound file player. I use Winamp 5.
Hope you like this small tip. I tried it because in TTD the songs were midis with a different extension. The hard part was to determine what extension was right (tried a few like mp3, mid, etc...).
Have fun!
P.P.S - Chris Sawyer rules! I can't remember any such brilliant games programmer since Mike Singleton (Lords of Midnight, etc...) in the old ZX Spectrum days!