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JerikTelorian posted:What GRFs are you using to start earlier? Does it have any older style trains/transport? GRF list:  2CC trainset has trains from 1840 and should be used in conjunction with nutracks. Only thing about 2CC is that the running costs are pretty excessive, as with the train costs. I have running costs set to a quarter because I play for fun. If you have inflation on with full running costs good luck making a profit after 50 years. eGRVTs has vehicles from 1700 to the present day (from 1700 to 1890 or thereabouts its all horses). FISH is a ship mod and sailing ships has ships available from before 1800. Finally aviators aircraft is an airplane mod with planes available from about 1920. Progress as of 1950, 20 years in now:  
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That looks awesome! How's playing with NuTracks? I've never used it but I always think it would just be an annoyance. I guess it adds another dimension to network design?
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Nov 3, 2012 16:36
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All these posts and not even a server to crash trains into each other. A super long game with the .grf extentions might be amusing, though. even if it wouldn't have hovercrafts.
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Nov 3, 2012 22:23
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Jonnty posted:That looks awesome! How's playing with NuTracks? I've never used it but I always think it would just be an annoyance. I guess it adds another dimension to network design? Thanks. It's really good, I never really liked the monorail track type and it replaces that which 'metro' rail and boatloads of subway trains. Also it's nice to be able to build high speed rail separately from other tracks. Here's a final network map as of 1961: 
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Nov 4, 2012 10:07
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I finally figured out how to do signals, but I can't figure out why my trains keep entering and exiting the depots sometimes. Is it some weird thing with the routing system or is my block set up wrong?
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Dec 7, 2012 22:57
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Zeether posted:I finally figured out how to do signals, but I can't figure out why my trains keep entering and exiting the depots sometimes. Is it some weird thing with the routing system or is my block set up wrong? They often do that if they need to turn around, or when your layouts are overly complex and it seems like a reasonable thing to do cos all other paths are blocked. Post a layout on which it keeps happening and we'll have fun telling you how to make it better 
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Dec 7, 2012 23:25
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Here's the layout:  In this picture you can see where one of the trains is entering the depot. It then comes out the same way it went in and then stops at the station and turns around after loading.  I did this initially to practice using signals which is why my money is huge (I cheated)
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Dec 7, 2012 23:42
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They'll just do that due to how they're hard coded to do check up and maintenance if they pass by a depot(like driving right by their entrance like you have). You can usually fix it by making the depot a few track pieces away from the actual route. Give it a try and report back.
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Dec 8, 2012 00:14
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I just tried it and they still do it even with the depot away from the track. I even tried putting in another signal to try to lock the trains onto their route.
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Dec 8, 2012 01:05
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Trains are set to get serviced once in a while, I think there is a setting to change the interval or disable it.
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Dec 8, 2012 01:07
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Either that, or move the depot one square along the track and put a signal in between the depot and the junction. Depots have built-in signals, so there might be a pathfinding oddity telling the trains to go get new directions.
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I downloaded a new town name newGRF but I can't find it in the options and town names are still "silly" in game  Do I have to do something else to get proper US town names??
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Dec 26, 2012 18:04
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Just reinstalled this after forgetting about this game for two years or so. What are the fun/cool GRFs and add-ons everyone is raving about these days?
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YF19pilot posted:Just reinstalled this after forgetting about this game for two years or so. What are the fun/cool GRFs and add-ons everyone is raving about these days? I'd like to know this too. I've been rolling with the EC whatever economy mods and well they are pretty cool.
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Jan 6, 2013 05:43
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Do you guys think the base game would be simple enough for a seven-year-old to pick up? I'm figuring signals and track-laying would be too much for my niece, but maybe planes, boats and road vehicles would be a bit simpler?
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YF19pilot posted:Just reinstalled this after forgetting about this game for two years or so. What are the fun/cool GRFs and add-ons everyone is raving about these days? FIRS replaces all the default industries with about 50 or so industries that all interconnect. it's pretty awesome. For anyone wanting to play multiplayer, the reddit openttd forum has had a multi player game of FIRS going for a few weeks now, it's pretty active if anyone wants to come play. http://www.reddit.com/r/openttd it's listed in the side bar as server two.
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Thel posted:Do you guys think the base game would be simple enough for a seven-year-old to pick up? I'm figuring signals and track-laying would be too much for my niece, but maybe planes, boats and road vehicles would be a bit simpler? I started playing this game when I was about five years old and had no trouble. That said, I remember my dad editing something to give me some ridiculously high starting budget. To be honest, I can't imagine this game being much fun for a kid that young without a money cheat.
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Jan 12, 2013 03:56
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Just let the child play with airplanes enabled. When I was 7 that let me build big train networks, hell it works now.
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Jan 12, 2013 03:58
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Thel posted:Do you guys think the base game would be simple enough for a seven-year-old to pick up? I'm figuring signals and track-laying would be too much for my niece, but maybe planes, boats and road vehicles would be a bit simpler? Complicated track laying maybe, but you can still do pretty well with very basic back-and-forth tracks that don't require any signalling. It won't be the most efficient possible setup, but it's still entirely possible to thrive with a basic passenger network like that.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Complicated track laying maybe, but you can still do pretty well with very basic back-and-forth tracks that don't require any signalling. It won't be the most efficient possible setup, but it's still entirely possible to thrive with a basic passenger network like that.  It has that model railway appeal.
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YF19pilot posted:Just reinstalled this after forgetting about this game for two years or so. What are the fun/cool GRFs and add-ons everyone is raving about these days? zbase is pretty cool. It's a 32bit graphics set with extra zoom levels. I believe it's complete at this point. http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=61581
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Is there a good picture of a large double entry station using path based signals? We built a lot of them back in the day when we had an MP server, but now I can't find one online to copy. I found these two pictures on the OpenTTD wiki: http://wiki.openttd.org/File:Screen_shot_2012-03-24_at_7.08.39_AM.png http://wiki.openttd.org/File:Sharedepicterminus.png The first picture is small and I'm too dumb to extrapolate that to a larger station. The second picture is big but doesn't use presignals. I think I could just replace the first signal in every branch with a presignal and get rid of the rest, but I know that sometimes it gets gummed up. The description of the first picture says that the lower version won't gum up, but I don't know how to make it larger.
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Speaking of MP servers, any chance the goon server could go back up? Any non-goon servers people like?
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The server I use to host it is still there, I just haven't bothered to start the OpenTTD dedicated server. Though I have been craving to play it again. Do we want to use our custom patched version with the extra goodies, or the latest vanilla code?
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I don't think the newer versions added anything important. We can stay with the patched one.
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less than three posted:The server I use to host it is still there, I just haven't bothered to start the OpenTTD dedicated server. quote:Do we want to use our custom patched version with the extra goodies please please please please please I just started a single player game in 1850, but I crave horrible goon competition 
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Okay, I'm working on it now.
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Okay, let's Go Hog Wild! Here is the latest version of the custom code, you'll need it and the associated GRFs to play. Windows x64 Windows x32 Mac OSX ord.nekonex.com / lljk as usual.
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less than three posted:Okay, let's Go Hog Wild! NewStations seems to have been updated - could you update the version on the server or link/host the old version somewhere? http://www.ttdpatch.de/download.html edit: oops was playing on the linux version, didn't realise everything was in the zips Jonnty fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jan 20, 2013 |
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less than three posted:Okay, let's Go Hog Wild! Is zBase included in this? What other GRFs do I need to run this?
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Trains remain to be stupid shits.
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YF19pilot posted:Is zBase included in this? What other GRFs do I need to run this? All the GRFs are included in the archive.
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If you're using the OS X version, you will need to `chmod +x` the openttd executable inside the OpenTTD App package. 7z does not preserve unix permissions.
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Jan 21, 2013 21:47
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New game up. Gimmick: BUILD YOUR OWN TOWN.(tm)
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Jan 22, 2013 06:01
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It looks like the cargodest patch is a lot better this time around. Before it wouldn't figure out a network until a train actually arrived at all the stations, but now it's gotten my whole passenger network figured out before my trains have gotten to their stations for the first time.
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Can we get a reset please? edit: yay sincx fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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Jan 26, 2013 03:51
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sincx posted:Can we get a reset please? Yep, it's reset.
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What year are you usually resetting?
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Darth Llama posted:What year are you usually resetting? Whenever somebody says reset. Usually not before 2045 though.
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I'd like to put in a vote for switching to 2cc. There's not much strategy with the base trainset, just keep your network small until maglevs and run everything with chimeras.
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