OpenTTD 15.0 released!https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0
>>2313409is anything new?
I simply can't play this childish simulation compared to the adult focused a-train games.
>>2313825What is the best A Train game?
>>2313809no
>>2313895railroad tycoon
Going to attempt to highjack this thread to talk about Transport fever 2. I feel like the map sizes are underwhelming.
>>2314223i've played openttd but not tf2 so i have nothing to add whatsoever about your take on the map sizes
>Companies in multiplayer no longer have passwords, invite specific players using buttons in the Online Players list instead>Island maps can be surrounded by infinite water instead of void>Rivers can end in wetlands if unable to reach sea>Bridges can be placed over stations and road stops>Roads can now have waypoints>Houses can be placed manually>Industries and towns have graphs of their cargo history>Improvements to menus, including a new main menu and a combined game options and settings window>Many more features, changes, and fixesHouses being placed manually sounds like it could be used to make a Soviet Republic mod.There's so much foundation here to turn OpenTTD into a city builder.>>2314223They are, but that's what TT3 will fix.
>>2313409i like how you can place houses now
>>2313963based and EGA-pilled
>>2314426sounds op
>>2314223Why does the campaign suck so much compared to the first game?>Objective 1: connect A and B>Objective 2 (unknown at the beginning): connect A to C in a way that forces you to rip up the existing route to BAlso worse music. I really can't think of many advantages over TF1.
>>2313895Tourism if you are new to the series or 9 with the latest update if you want a challenge.
>>2313943good
>>2314426I can role-play as a SimCity player while playing OpenTTD now! Unfortunately, it is not possible to construct buildings outside the scenario editor tho.
>>2315116you can if you enable the advanced setting for itEnvironment -> Towns -> Placing Individual Town Houses
you know, I loved the old TTD music so much, I haven't played as much OpenTTD but has anyone really attempted to make some sort of downloadable mod with good music, last time I checked the music wasn't all that good anyway.
>>2315116it would be way op
So ECS is dead, right? It's just FIRS and its offshoots now?
>>2314324>infinite waterusecase?>wetlandscool>house painter no worse than founding industries i guesstime to play some trains i guess
>>2314324i would love to see a city builder spin off from openttdit already has a leg up as far as im concerned because it doesnt use the awful americanised "zoning" concept
Is it up to date? My train station ratings are very low. Just let a train there all the time and another on at high speed?
>>2325620>Is it up to date?m8 the game rules are 30 years old
>>2325627Isn't there anything new? I stopped playing more than 10 years ago.
>>2325646Base oTTD is fairly conservative when it comes to game mechanics. You can get a lot of alternate rulesets as mods, but I don't know of anything that fiddles with station ratings. I think the fact that freight trains end up going as as as passenger ones because of game mechanics and should probably care more about throughput than speed in some cases, it's a relatively minor thing.The thing station rating does is give you a bigger share of goods so it's sort of self regulating anyway. Add trains as needed to transport everything and you will get more of it, that's all.
>>2325620station rating is silly and one of the more important factors is train engine age
>>2314223I feel the simulation is utterly broken and the UX is lacking to say the least.
>Master Hellish is still making videosI admire his autism.
>>2315116Just play A-Train at that point.
>>2313409What are some good newgrf's to use when you want to have and earlier start date?
>>2332296as far as i can tell they're all bad
>>2327431His channel is only 12¿? Feels like hes been around longer than that...
>>23138953DS
>>2332296How far back are we talking about? Admittedly this was quite a while back, but I tried that and it wasn't a very good experience. It turns out because of how game mechanics value speed a lot for cargo rates with slow and low capacity vehicles transport, especially overland is prohibitively expensive and hard to turn a profit on. Which is realistic I suppose, just doesn't work with transport tycoon gameplay all that much.
>>2315565There's the Scott Joplin ragtime pack, as well as one with tons of traditional folk songs. If those aren't to your liking, It's probably possible to make your own with a ton of MIDIs of your own choosing.
What is your favorited railstation design?
>>2313809Maybe you are lol
>>2332296UKRS2eGRVTSav8sailing ships + SHARK for when that mod runs out of shipsTotal Town Replacement (Early) for appropriate visualsWhat I'd use as someone who isn't into bloatcore train set gameplay.Recommend playing on a map with a good amount of water to use those ships since you won't start with the greatest options for land travel.>>2343462I haven't had that issue, but I used FIRS.
Fucking LOL, Atari released the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe on Steam and GOG, and now you can only get OpenTTD on those two platforms if you buy TTD first.
>>2361967I suppose that was part of some deal to keep it on steam. The project is stil alive as standalone though.
>>2361967i wouldn't play it without jgrpp anyway
did you hear me?JIGGER PEE PEE
>tfw I have no train autismI feel like I'm missing out
>>2356738It was a better time back then sonny
>>2362553Consider yourself equally blessed and cursed.
>>2325688>You can get a lot of alternate rulesets as modsI wish there was a mod that made the distribution less "send stuff as far away as you can". Even cargodist doesn't really help with that. I want to make cool logistics but its always a bit a of a joke compared to shipping steel from one side of the planet to the other, passing 99 factories along the way. It gives me the worst kind of autism.Some kind of supply and demand system. I don't know. Cities generate demand and satisfying demand makes them grow more or less like it is now, industry has an overhead cost that they need to offset with what they sell, the more they sell the cheaper it gets, but they also need to offset the cost to buy the inputs, the more they ship the smaller their margins have to be to cover the operating cost, if the station is empty (so they can't produce enough to meet demand) then they increase the price they buy goods at to generate demand etc etc.Ultimatel (you) would make money off the gap between buy and sell orders.
>>2363943>Even cargodist doesn't really help with thatcargodist is just broken
>>2363946It seemed to do what it said on the tin when I was using it. Mostly. Though I did have a lot of trouble balancing distribution, some rando part of a city on a fairly evenly balanced bus network would just have 2k passengers waiting at the bus stop somehow.
>>2363943>from one side of the planet to the other, passing 99 factories along the way. It gives me the worst kind of autismYou are me.
>>2363946For passengers it sort of works. There's some issues but it feels nice for them to have actual destinations and transfer and change modes of transport.It doesn't really work for freight and doesn't solve the >>2363943 issue because cargodist will only generate destination on the same network and the "meta" is to feed one factory on the other side of the planet as much as you can anyway so it will never ask you to deliver steel anywhere else.The very simple timeXdistance calculation is one of my pet peeves of the game too. The absurdity of being paid to deliver coal from further away when there's unserviced coal mine closer and why does the power plant care how fast the coal train is going anyway. They should care about maintaining throughput, not punishing me for not having my freight trains go shinkansen speeds.
I wish simutrans extended cargo wasn't so silly. It has pretty finely balanced economics for passenger and mail but it is very very difficult to turn a profit with freight. Basically impossible with freight rail.
>>2364920hold on there, simutrannywho said you could post here?this is a ttd thread
