OTTD Hints and Tips.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Yep.

IME, maybe 10% of mines have a chance of continued growth/awesomeness.

Best way to do it is to make sure all your mine stations are at least very good rated, usually 2 trains parallel and making them long enough to do the job works well.

If a mine expands, add and extra 2 coal wagons and repeat.

[Dog Pants]

*Thump*

You hear that? It was the corpse of OTTD crumpling to the ground. It's been one of those games that seems magical and deep when you start playing it, then it hooks you as you think you're getting the hang of it and can start being good, then later horses you to shoot it it in the face when it kicks you in the balls by revealing that actually it doesn't matter whether you know what you're doing or not. You open the game, think 'fuck, what's the point', and close it again straight away.

Disclaimer: I may not just stop playing it for good, just so nobody laughs at me if they find another 40+ hours on my xfire next week.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Or you could just be doing it wrong, it's very rare I have anything consistently lose me money.

[Dog Pants]

Well it's not that, more that I don't seem to have a lot of control over the game. I can run in point-to-points and make a profit until the cows come hope, but that's no fun. I'd like to be able to develop an area by building a network, but that doesn't seem to be an option if I've very little control over the success of an industry.

[Roman Totale]

I was planning on doing a little beginner's guide type thing - not because I'm particularly good at train crack, but because I started off not getting it in the slightest to making lots of money.

It will be very basic.

[Dog Pants]

It really is needed at the beginning. Once it clicks stuff like signals are painfully obvious, so much so that people forget to explain them, when beforehand they're utterly cryptic.

[Roman Totale]

I still haven't placed a single signal. Partly because I can't be bothered reading about how they work (Stoat keeps our tracks pretty) and partly because I think they involve witchcraft.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Signals are dead easy, but I personally don't bother with them 95% of the time.

I'd rather get stuff moving fast and simple, than spend 6 months designing a route, then have the farm disappear because no-one's moving the produce.

[Dog Pants]

You have no soul.


That's happened to me.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

[Roman Totale]

I need something to stop me playing this game.

Does anyone have any meth?

[friznit]

I need something to stop me playing this game.

Does anyone have any meth?

Dwarf Fortress will stop you playing Trainz!

[Roman Totale]

1950 - 2020

I have no idea how long that took me. After a while I was just pissing about making towns bigger and buying lots of planes. Didn't set up any industries after about 1985.



And yet I still don't know how to make electric train tracks.

[Roman Totale]

Oh yeah, fuck the basic guide I was planning - I never want to touch this game again.

Now back to the dorfs...

[friznit]

Weekend well spent

[buzzmong]

Oh crap, I've finished uni now.

*installs*


Edit: For those who weren't aware, 1.01 is out now. Lots of bug and a few security fixes.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Weekend well spent

[shot2bits]

Weekend well spent

i thought id spotted the traincrack symbol on xfire, i tried to ignore it as id been secretly planning railroads in my head for the past week and considering playing it and then feeling myself die a little on the inside

[friznit]

I made the mistake of installing the Industry Resomething or Other Set. You spend less time planning railways and more time actually making stations. Merely cosmetic, but it's fun in a weird OTTD sort of way...