Hey can you tell me what mod you used?

In this video you mention that people should give this a shot. Is there any way for me to download this scenario from somewhere?

@@dolorlux4612 wha

​@@garethbgoogle9396 no mods

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the american suburbs dont seem like a bad idea after all!

It's actually the opposite in the US-- the DOT will build them for you for free, but they won't pay for the maintenance. This is the trap that leads so many cities to go bankrupt.

@@WidelyPlayed I think the joke is that most governments dont seem to bother maintain their roads, rather what the realistic budget costs are

OTTD is also a different game and I was confused.

Also, he does things that are called exploits and are prohibited on almost all servers.

@@piotrek29798 You realise that most people play OpenTTD singleplayer, right?

@@lbsc1201 There is some official report on this? That you are so sure? Lol id say 50/50 and we are even :)

BTW, having a net worth of 1GBP* is NOT a sign that you're doing things wrong. It's unavoidable early on. Look at it this way: you start with 100k GBP which are loaned, so if you laid down some track, that track is acting as the collateral (I hope I used the correct term here) for the loan. In a layman's words, that track is, like the money, not yours. It _will_ be yours once you repay the loan. To save some expenses, one should always aim to (a) repay as much of the loan as possible or (b) use the loan as fully as possible. For example, if you can afford either track A or track B connecting a coal mine to one of two coal power stations, and let's say A (including a train) takes 80k GBP to build and (B) takes 130k GBP to build but delivers the coal to a more distant power station (which increases the payments you receive per ton of coal delivered even in cases where it wouldn't make any sense), try to get 130k GBP on hand and build B. If B is beyond your limit, build A instead and repay as much of your cash on hand as possible. (You pay interest on both loans and cash below zero, but you don't _receive_ any interest for cash above zero.) Never start small ("Oh, that oal mine is only 20 squares from a power station, let's do that!"); due to the distance increasing your income, going small is a noob trap! In fact, I'd recommend creating a 512x512 map for your first game, or at the very least 256256, as little water (one edge is OK) and as flat as possible, and without rivers. Slopes and water are just obstacles you want to minimize until you get the hang of the game. Also, you shouldn't play on Easy except for your first game. Easy takes 25% off all prices, but the economy of the game is still easy on normal and hard. Play normal after that, because the normal prices are easier to memorize. And if you really want a bit of a challenge, play Normal with infrastructure upkeep enabled. That'll become gradually harder with time (actually with network size, so you don't get penalized for stagnation). You can think of it as the game "taxing the rich." *I always play with GBP, since that's what the PC uses; every currency except GBP is that internal price or value times a fixed conversion factor, e.g. 1:2 for $, 1:4 for DM, and 1:40 for yen (not 100% sure about the last one).

So, how far did the insanity go during those 100 years?

@@hoovyzepoot dude, 1M is absolutely no problem with this method. But the micromanagement towards the last few years is complete mayhem. I could hardly keep up with buying new ships and build new blocks. I used a 3x3 base grid and connected 4 of those "blocks" linearly with 2 ports, each in the center of block 1 and 4. This gives you a 100% port coverage of a 6x5 "main block". And inside the small channel between the ports you can run as many passenger and mail ships as you want, exploiting their stackabaility. These main blocks are horizontally and vertically tileable to cover the whole map and only like 8% of the space is actually occupied for transport. It's nuts.

The Factory must Grow

This gives me strong Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs vibes, if that mad factory owner protagonist was a transport company owner/city sponsor and planner instead. The Cult of the Almighty Grid arises.

Frostpunk but megacity is the furnace

*grid

OpenTTD but it's Factorio

A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer. Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day... i got in.

It is our Life, It is our Hope, It is our Doom. It is the GRID.

Came for this comment, It is surprising how quickly it goes from cheerful lets build into deep existential poetry.

US city planners be like

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Thanks for helping improve the game. Hard to tell how many hours I sunk into it (starting from TTDpatch times), wouldn't call it many thousands, but definitely more than thousand. I remember the times when stations could finally get longer than 5 tiles, "station walking" wasn't necessary anymore, overall better usability. And then the whole newgrf system. Almost always had dbsetxl enabled in a game and the station sets like "industrial stations", "japanese stations" and "newstations" (these are the ones I remember, even though I haven't played the game in over a decade). The game music still makes me feel nostalgic. 😅

@@superdau The game music is nostalgic, without fail. Not just the theme song (both TT and TTD versions) but also in-game songs like Little Red Diesel. The game having was one of the first ever where you had an in-game song selector system (and people figured out how to put their own midi's in it long before ttdpatch was a thing). The TTDpatch era at peak was an amazing thing. So many developers with their own ideas that just refused to work together, but somehow people made it work anyway, sometimes to their chagrin (I'm nudging at original db set developer here). But it was still an assembler patch on an assembler written mess of a game code. I remember the first time someone ran the ttd code through an asm-to-c converter and just posted the results online even though that was illegal. People were scared the whole community would get a cease-and-desist any day while that stuff was around. But some C coders went through the white-lab process and replaced every single line of auto-generated code to arrive at what we call openttd now. There was uproar the day openttd got its own subforum on the tt-forums. But it didn't take long for its features to surpass ttdpatch, and the future was clear. The game we have now is so much better that it makes the original games unplayable (even if you manage to get them to run in the first place). But it's still true to the feel of the original that I don't miss it. If you have a group of friends that enjoy this game, I highly recommend playing a long-term game using daylength settings (still not in the base game, you have to download a patch pack version for it). One server running the game on REALLY hard settings with an in-game year taking an hour or more. Log in, build a bit to spend your money, min-max your routes and log out again until the next day. I posted some After Action Reports on the tt-forums if you're interested in how that works out.

I’d love that! This game looks so fun but to be honest it’s a bit confusing getting started in it.

Your work is very much appreciated and loved. Tutorials from the source of how to better use signals would be incredibly helpful, it’s been the biggest bottleneck in growing my cities and systems.

Found this in my recommendation two nights ago and finally watching it afking on OSRS. This gameplay makes me want to play this so much I installed it, and I'm greatful its free and opensource even on steam.

36:00 Potato: There may be no mistakes. We must erase aberrations Also Potato: _has a 3x4 column just 3 grid squares to the left_

@@ianmesser9289 its such a timeless wonderful game, used to play it a lot when i was younger cuz i had a mac and didnt want to pay for games. For an OpenSource game its really just maximised all possible gameplay options for a tycoon, and honestly its better than many of the more prestige Transport Tycoons that cost more

Btw, you can close menu's by right clicking in them. That alone will save you plenty of kilometers of mouse travel and time spent pointing at the X's!

@@MarijnRoorda or just press "delete" key on keyboard to close all windows

OP sounds like someone about to retire telling an promising rookie about age old tricks.

more proof that trains are the best means of transport.

@@MarijnRoorda or yonky spooky it halfway off the screen just saying it will auto delete if it’s halfway or more but not entirely off the screen which is inefficient but really fun actually.

Sounds like California to me!

but in my scenarios ...time when finally city starts to grow is really looooong or it´s just don´t start at all but it depends on game version

Imagine paying to go to work just to be filing your own bus tickets and nothing else

The US Gov in a nutshell

“That’s no moon, it’s a grid station!” - Obi-Wan Concrete

Grids! Not on my watch! Highway-right-through-historic-downtown-ha!

I've been in a similar situation, but it's been 1998. A paper sheet with a long list of games and how much space they take was circulating through the elementary school, you've picked whatever you wanted until you've filled the 650 MB capacity of the CD, then paid to a guy who knew a guy, and in about a week, you've got your freshly burned CD. My order included TTD, SimCity 2000, Warcraft 2, Duke Nukem 3d, Starcraft, both Dooms, Dune 2, GTA 1 and a bunch of other stuff I can no longer remember. In retrospect, it's impressive how much stuff fit on a single CD; everything having its cinematics ripped out to save space helped.

Ahh X-COM from 1995 I've been playing that a bit in the past couple of weeks

Very emotional tale of a PC gamer living in a poor country in the 90s

as someone who plays a lot of factcorio, i just use drones or long ass belts fuck trains its too much brain power for someone as stupid as me

Its even worse when you got multiple cities and multiple industries all connect willy nilly. The headaches I got from this game shortened my lifespan by 50 years but it was worth it. Sometimes I want to play the game but I think about the potential consequences of ever troubleshooting shit again - then you find out it was just one signal light.

OpemTTD's rail signals are actually really reliable and useful compared to Factorio. (Especially the path signals). That's sorta the issue, because they allow you to do anything you'd do IRL, so you end up trying to do really complex builds.

I didn’t know that city roads was a setting, very helpful!

Is it possible to split cities and add more city names to cause the agent to get more reach?

@@AngryKettle no, but eventually the "main" city will eventually flood into other nearby cities/towns, which has their own agent, but even if you demolish those down to 0 population, they will not go away.

there are far more effective tricks than a spiral to grow big cities

@@korenn9381 Then share them.

Exactly. And there are some mods for better airports with more runways. Should actually be in by default by now.

How would you program this though? Would the players that are missing be controlled by an AI or would that fall into the active players?

I remember when I drew your avatar

Basically, the single track between sidings must be one long signal block, and it _must include the switch squares_ on both ends, or a train will eventually occupy the switch while waiting, causing deadlock. The important thing about "single" signals is that they're never truly single, but are perma-red at the back, except for _one_ signal where it's clearly stated that it can be passed from the other side. When I was a n00b in the game, I tried forcing traffic directions with chains of waypoints. It didn't work. I thought that single signals wouldn't outlaw traffic in the other direction, but then I started reading the OpenTTD wiki, which is a goldmine of advice and information. For example, diagonal track saves distance (but no building cost) and can help with speed, esp. if your accel is poor or top speed is high. I too try to keep track as level as possible, and mostly consisting of the two directions the closest to the target (i.e. mostly one straight trak and one diagonal track type).

you absolutely don't need chain signals for functional passing sidings, normal pathing signals will do fine (I'd say better even). Potato is just bad at signals :D

Trying new styles

The Amphibious Amphibian influence spreads...

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