Train not Gaining any profit.

[The Superbird]

Hi guys,
ive just got the newest version of open ttd. ive played other versions but am to be quite honest a n00b. i created a scenario with a quary and some clay pits and then further down the way a brickworks. i linked the two and had a freight train going between the two stations, it would pick up it's cargo just fine and drop it off the other end just fine. however it would not make any profit it just went further and further into debt. could anyone tell me why this is happening ?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
The Superbird.

[Yexo]

Can you post a savegame so we can have a look at it?

[The Superbird]

Erm, could you tell me how to do it please

[Yexo]

Make a savegame, click the "Browse..." button below the reply form, search for the savegame, click "Add the file" and click submit.

[The Superbird]

is that it ?
thankyou for your patience

[The Superbird]

The extension exe is not allowed.

tried uploading and it said that.

[Lilman424]

savegames should be .sav files, definitely not .exes

[Yexo]

A savegame is a .sav file, not an exe file. It could be located in My Documents/OpenTTD/saves/

[The Superbird]

i think thats it now (Y)

[The Superbird]

any help would be much appreciated.

[Yexo]

any help would be much appreciated.

Give it some time, if there is no answer after 24 hours you can think about posting again, not after 22! minutes.

Having said that, I think you should use full load on one station and make your tracks a bit longer. The route in this savegame is very short for a train route.

[The Superbird]

do you think that will help ? but the train can't help but fully load, theres thousands of tons of gaff waiting at the station. ah well u know what ur talking about.

[Yexo]

do you think that will help ? but the train can't help but fully load, theres thousands of tons of gaff waiting at the station. ah well u know what ur talking about.

I don't have the industry grf you use, so I couldn't see the industries / amount of cargo waiting. So full load probably won't help you much in this case. Longer routes will definitely help though.

[Rubidium]

First you started/began the scenario, then you added some NewGRFs that add/change cargoes, then you pressed on 'Apply changes'. At that moment you got a big red warning message with a message stating something like: danger, the following procedure can majorly mess up your (save)game/scenario, are you sure you want to do that? You answered that with yes.

So... you won't get paid because you added cargoes after the economy got initialised (the game/scenario started), so the payment for cargoes is 0.

If you would have searched the forum you would have found several other occasions of people not getting paid because of the exact same scenario.

[The Superbird]

what about the trains costing so much to run, one of them i had was taking 50 pounds away with every second :S
in the old version i never had this problem, what has changed so drastically ?

[Yexo]

what about the trains costing so much to run, one of them i had was taking 50 pounds away with every second :S
in the old version i never had this problem, what has changed so drastically ?

Then don't use newgrfs and you'll have exactly the same trains as in TTD (I assume that is what you call 'old version').

[The Superbird]

no ive always used that grf just now in 0.6.3

i classed the 'old version' as 0.5.0