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Author Topic: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?  (Read 26478 times)

Calhoun

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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #255 on: June 08, 2011, 04:25:49 pm »

It surely would. I understand the not liking to play on your own thing, which is why, even though its up on my PC 24/7, I'm usually not playing. But if someone hops on, I can usually divert my attention. Plus it garners interest in whoevers online in the DFC.
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« Reply #256 on: April 08, 2012, 11:45:37 pm »

This is for you Box.
The story behind this is that I almost never build passenger networks, I'm an oil tycoon, while Box is a passenger kind of guy. So I decided I'd start a singleplayer game and try to build the largest cities I could, one passenger at a time.

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This is the network map. A fairly simple triangle made up by 3 city centers.

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This is Mission. Coming in at 36,300 people, it's the smallest of the 3 cities and there is much undeveloped land and still includes a farm in the down town of the Strathcona suburb.

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This is Cochrane. At 60,800 people it is the second largest city. It's still developing into the south around the Acme suburb, but at least the farm is on the outskirts. This city is also home to the forest industry, logs are turned into wood products in Writing-On-Stone(Gotta love Alberta city names), then shipped to:

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Sherbrooke. At 109,100 people it is the capital of this continent. The bus network is in the process of being expanded to include eastern Sherbrooke and The Hamptons. As previously mentioned, wood products are shipped here to be processed and turned into paper, then goods which are shipped to Sherbrooke to better help grow this massive city.

I started this map in 1980 and it is now 2040, in a mere 60 years these cities have grown from 1,000 population to over 40,000(Cochrane and Sherbrooke are the largest individual cities). Most of that time was the game running on its own with little to no input from me, so needless to say the bus routes are lacking in buses. My next step is to complete the tracks, add a maglev track system for more passenger trains and use the rails for cargo trains, then start building more city centers to add to the network.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #257 on: July 21, 2012, 08:09:25 pm »

And here's another resurrection of this thread. I'm thinking of putting up a game tomorrow, would anyone be interested/what NewGRFs would you want to use? I'd like to keep it relatively close to vanilla since there might be a couple new people joining, but I know there are some nice quality of life ones out there. It would probably be a relatively short-lived game, though (probably only about 10 hours), just so you know.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #258 on: July 21, 2012, 08:15:10 pm »

I recommend the ECS grfs for added industries and; UK railway set and North American Renewal Set for added trains/vehicles. I also use various station grfs to make things look nice but they're not necessary.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #259 on: July 21, 2012, 08:27:15 pm »

Skipped the whole thread.

What is this game?  OP offers exactly zero information.

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« Reply #260 on: July 21, 2012, 08:30:23 pm »

OTTD stands for Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe. You build rail/boat/vehicle/air lines to transport goods and passengers around randomly generated maps with the goal of making money. Can be quite fun online with a bunch of people all trying to do better then each other.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #261 on: July 21, 2012, 08:31:31 pm »

Skipped the whole thread.

What is this game?  OP offers exactly zero information.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #262 on: July 21, 2012, 08:44:27 pm »

Ah right then, this looks neat!  How do I hop in a game with all you fine dwarven sociopaths?

Also is this going to be like other "Open" versions of games where it's hard to understand unless you played the original religiously?  Seen a lot of open-source games that are clearly tailored to the veteran's experience and are unfriendly on noobs - lack of tooltips or too-brief manual, stuff like that.

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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #263 on: July 21, 2012, 09:14:33 pm »

I haven't played any OTTD (well, maybe some really early versions of it, before it was properly functional), but have played a fair bit of TTD years ago. Is there any major differences I should know about? I'd love to jump in for a MP game, assuming work doesn't call me in.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #264 on: July 21, 2012, 09:21:13 pm »

I'm piddling in single player, looks fun in the way that you can sort of selectively choke or prosper a city depending on how you wire the transit.

Interested in multiplayer to see someone more experienced do it better though.

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« Reply #265 on: July 21, 2012, 09:22:36 pm »

I would probably be up for a round tomorrow, depending on what time it starts.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #266 on: July 21, 2012, 09:37:29 pm »

Obligatory mentioning of this mod as being the best damn thing ever.
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« Reply #267 on: July 21, 2012, 09:40:41 pm »

YACD(yet another cargo distribution mod) is the newest of the cargo dist mods, and I agree they're great, but bluerobin wants it to stay close to vanilla for new people.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #268 on: July 21, 2012, 09:44:49 pm »

Actually, YACD has stopped development, and the person who made is acknowledges that cargodist is better.
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Re: OTTD-Anyone up for a game?
« Reply #269 on: July 21, 2012, 09:48:12 pm »

Oh I was under the impression it was the other way around, alrighty then!
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