For those who are new, here is the learning process. (well, from my experience anyways)

http://wiki.openttd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Learn the basics of setting up your very first road/rail transport by following the Tutorial.

After the basics, you'll learn how to add a second track, to make trains more efficient by running them down the same direction. Think of it as a highway to handle lots of traffic.

Learn how to use signals, start from the very basic, to one ways, to pre-signals, and combos.

Learn the many types of station set-ups, and also junctions, to enable your trains to cross with style, and efficiency.
Have fun

download the newgrf if u want latest plane such as dreamliner or airbus a380

http://grfcrawler.tt-forums.net/
http://wiki.openttd.org/wiki/index.php/NewGRF_List

This post has been edited by amirsubhi: Sep 29 2008, 02:05 PM

Any of you TTD kaki's tried OpenTTD Co-op GRF pack (7.2) ?

I've been trying to download the pack, but it seems the website just keeps disconnecting me(I've tried several connections from diff. PCs), can someone help download and re-uploaded somewhere like rapidshare?

http://www.openttdcoop.org/wiki/GRF

[Added] Hmm.. seems to be moving slowly now. Will upload if anyone needs it.

This pack adds a lot of new industries. And will make cooperative gameplay better.

This post has been edited by sihumchai: Sep 29 2008, 04:19 PM

Done downloading. Took me 5 minutes.

Anyone wants it on Rapid?

I guess the website just had some problems then. I've got it now too Grif, I'll PM you my MSN so we can get a game sometime.

I'll just put a list of active OTTD players here, so we can identify who, and when we are able to play

Feel free to add up your names.

1. Sihumchai Transports
2. Grif Transports
3. Amirsubhi Transports

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Just some screens from the game. There are 32bpp graphics(currently we're playing in 8bpp), but that will take some time to complete. In the meantime, we'll relive the glory with the old graphics, when it's done, it'll surpass SimCity 4 smoothness


This post has been edited by sihumchai: Sep 29 2008, 06:33 PM

I think I enjoy this game along with other old abandonwares more than most of the modern games, dunno why, just can't seem to get addicted to any of it.

lol used to play this game when i was a lil kid
no idea on how to play before lol

just build the tracks and station

cant wait to play online with you guys... im still in learning process

bro sihumchai
how come i cant play the malaysia scenario??
it says that missing grf files has been disabled
btw im using openttd ver 0.61

remembered playing a demo of it when i was a kid . loved this game . lets hope it'll still be as fun as when i was a kid

I'm trying to figure out what the missing GRF files are too, but the wiki doesn't state which GRFs are used

I think you can try playing the scenario through the "Play Scenario" option. That worked for me.

But if you wanna get 'experimental', you can try downloading the OpenTTDCoop GRF Pack 7.2. It includes a lot of fancy GRF's, maybe you could just try activating some(or all), and then MAYBE the error message would go away(and then, we'd be able to host the Malaysian Scenario Online )
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0.6.2 here, but currently 0.6.3 is out, and everyone is slowly moving there(the servers).

We should upgrade.
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I'm thinking of hosting a server daily after 6pm or something through my own connection. Will let you guys know when it's up

For those interested in hosting their own(why not?), it only needs 2kb up/down per client. Pretty small bandwidth if you ask me

OpenGFX Graphics Replacement Set r1
included in OpenTTDCoop Pack



This post has been edited by [AM]: Oct 5 2008, 04:49 PM

@ [AM]: You playing with that GRF? Or is it supposed to go with the M'sian scenario?

If anyone wants to play together, let's trade up MSN.

[Added] And oh, regarding the Graphic Replacement Set R1, it's included in OpenTTDCoop's 7.2 pack too It's beautiful.

This post has been edited by sihumchai: Oct 5 2008, 04:10 PM

how to install openttdc? theres lots of folder here

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ok now i got it on.. theres lots of stuff to add which is needed

This post has been edited by [AM]: Oct 5 2008, 04:53 PM

I need help in setting up the GRF. lol i never played with additional contents.

Just copy all the NewGRF's into the data folder. OpenTTD will scan all the files available for use there.

Then when running OpenTTD, go to the NewGRF settings and add in what you need.

Some NewGRF's are good, some much more realistic(like coal cart got speed limit of 104km/h).

Tried this few days back but not sure I sucked at it or what, can't really generate much income. And my railways all 1 track only

Check the 'Cargo Payment Rates' by clicking and holding on the Graph icon. This will show you payments rates in days in transit(in days of 20's).

Passengers have the lowest value, and their paying rates degrades over long travels, like 20 days or more. But passengers are good because large cities have more than an abundance of supply of passengers as opposed to regular cargoes.

Stuff like coal can take a longer time to travel without degrading much of its value. And it's one of the higher paid cargoes in the game, close to goods/foods and valuables.

Realism can be much applied here, for example goods (let's say 3D card la as the cargo), while you take 6 months to bring it down to a city, the value of the cargo has degraded why? You guessed it, the 3d card also obsolete by the time it reaches there

Even the loading of the cargo FROM the station to the TRAIN (y'know when the % goes up and down when picking up/dropping goods) also affects the days in transit, so don't have overly-long trains for industries that produce very low goods(e.g. 38 Tons of Coal Produced Last Month That's about only enough for a train with 3 cargoes/van long!).

Send things far, send things fast. But do keep in mind of the payment rates in transit My friend once did a mammoth-train(like 20 cars long), carrying like 600+ passengers for 6 months plus across the map(another 6 months just WAITING for them to fill the train), but only earned 20'000 because of the long travel

Got it to work now. Thanks.

New industries are like a fresh breeze of air. I was beginning to get bored of the old Wood -> Goods -> Town supply chain.

And a good train network will have at least 2 one-way tracks for the trains, with multiple track stations to handle many trains unloading/loading at once.