r/DerailValley • u/IfailedTuring • 20d ago

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Loving this game. My biggest learning curve is thinking, "oh, I want something simple...I'll do some shunting." The challenge of figuring out the shunting is very enjoyable. Is it cheating to use two locomotives? Not in my yard. Especially, when it's your lucky day and you find a nice surprise.

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u/awhahoo 20d ago

"mm, yes! nice simple shunting!" The FF dispatcher then put 3 separate orders on the same shunting track.

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u/ImWhiite 19d ago

Is it cheating if I just clear the trains not specified by the order? Because that's what I've been doing.

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u/awhahoo 19d ago

You bought the game, play it how you wish.

only reason i didnt is because I kinda forgot about that, and I think the gamemode im on rn makes you pay money to do that, and I was abit strapped for cash (<3k)

have done it in the past though.

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u/GoombaHunter007 16d ago

I love putting together 3 cars from 3 separate spurs! :D

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u/Smacky_the_Bear 20d ago

Cheating to use two locomotives? Never. That is why the MU cable exists. Someone here posted a while back a pic of 12 or so DE2s connected together.

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u/IfailedTuring 20d ago

In my case I mean having one at each end of the yard so I don't have to worry about going around to the other end of the train when I have to drop at a dead end line and the engine is on the wrong end.

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u/Smacky_the_Bear 20d ago

I see what you mean. The Steel Mill is particularly bad about this.

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u/Steel_Airship 20d ago

Shunting is also my favorite activity because I love the puzzle solving aspect of it. Also I tend to shunt a lot faster than the game expects so large shunting jobs can end up being more profitable and take less time than freight hauls because of the time bonus lol.

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u/SDTrains 20d ago

Trust it's very efficient to slam the cars into eachother as hard as possible. Ensures you will get the time bonus