Transport Tycoon!

Pacific · **on:** November 06, 2007, 04:33:12 am

Does anyone here play Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon? I find it to be such an awesome game, with a very wide range of stuff to transport (passengers, mail, wood, steel, iron, oil etc.) by various means (road, rail, air, water).

I play the open-source improvement of the original, called OpenTTD. It allows you far more vehicles and a larger station spread (up to 50 tiles!). It's also fixed some bugs in the game, which means I cannot sabotage the competitiors' railways - I really miss doing that!

dktc · **Reply #1 on:** November 06, 2007, 05:23:22 am

yea... the OpenTTD version... I've heard about it but when I saw the screenshots, I was like omg, how the *** am I going to play it?

There are so many things going on in that screen.
Btw, the tech support for OpenTTD has stopped, correct? (I fadely recalled that the last time I went to that website.)

ALFC · **Reply #2 on:** November 06, 2007, 07:16:40 am

openttd with dbsetxl

Pacific · **Reply #3 on:** November 06, 2007, 07:40:19 am

Quote from: "dktc"

yea... the OpenTTD version... I've heard about it but when I saw the screenshots, I was like omg, how the *** am I going to play it? There are so many things going on in that screen.
Btw, the tech support for OpenTTD has stopped, correct? (I fadely recalled that the last time I went to that website.)

I have no idea. I know they've released a newer version of it (presumably more bugs fixed) quite recently, since my version is out of date! I don't see any issues at the moment anyway and it's better than Chris Sawyer's original in every way. Only issue is that the game becomes taxing on the CPU when you have lots of vehicles!

blue25 · **Reply #4 on:** November 06, 2007, 10:16:20 am

I've played it once or twice in the summer. I got sick of it not working

but it's working now.

CornField · **Reply #5 on:** November 06, 2007, 11:05:02 pm

I played the original. But being how it was a 'port' of Roller Coaster Tycoon. It got old QUICKLY....

Pacific · **Reply #6 on:** November 07, 2007, 11:15:02 pm

Actually, Transport Tycoon came 5 years before Rollercoaster!

Pilgrim · **Reply #7 on:** November 08, 2007, 01:37:36 am

I play it's recent "sequel" Locomotion sometimes... used to play Transport Tycoon but gave it up for Railroad Tycoon 2... whatever

CornField · **Reply #8 on:** November 08, 2007, 03:45:37 am

Quote from: "Pacific"

Actually, Transport Tycoon came 5 years before Rollercoaster!

I'm an old guy, sometimes you have to forgive the memory........

CornField · **Reply #9 on:** November 08, 2007, 03:50:09 am

Quote from: "CornField"

Quote from: "Pacific"
Actually, Transport Tycoon came 5 years before Rollercoaster!

I'm an old guy, sometimes you have to forgive the memory........

Did a little Googling....... Its LocoMotion I'm thinking of......

StephenM · **Reply #10 on:** November 08, 2007, 05:00:20 pm

OpenTTD is good, but I can never get enough of the TTDPatch with the Scotland 1956 scenario.

Classic.

Pacific · **Reply #11 on:** November 08, 2007, 06:34:06 pm

I'd like to take a break from my 62-car oil well madness!

(and sabotaging's far more fun on TTDpatch :twisted: )

Edit: Found it.

AirHanoverInternational · **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2007, 02:38:13 pm

I played the first version of that game long ago (was it 1994?) and bought the Transport Tycoon deluxe version. Unfortunatly it crashed so many times. I was glad to find the OpenTTD version which is running much more stabil on WIN systems. It is still one of my favourite games. Never found a better game than this one although I tried different ones - like Railroad Tycoon. Does anybody know a good game in the TTDLX style?

nwadeltaboy · **Reply #13 on:** November 16, 2007, 11:46:40 pm

Quote from: "Pilgrim"

I play it's recent "sequel" Locomotion sometimes... used to play Transport Tycoon but gave it up for Railroad Tycoon 2... whatever

I play locomotion too, never played first transport tycoon though.

rodendack · **Reply #14 on:** November 22, 2007, 12:10:09 am

god, locomotion blowed, actually the whole "transportation treated as rides" issue on rct 1 and 2 sucked

I love TTD and it´s sequels, I also play simutrans but I found it to be really buggy

some other cool transportation games are Traffic giant and Mobility (this one was the most realistic of all I´ve played and it´s almost free)