You know you've played OTTD too much when...

littlemikey · **Joined:** Thu May 24, 2007 12:30 am **Posts:** 114

You think you can destroy any building you like by bribing somebody.
When your car breaks down, you go complain to the admin for allowing breakdowns on this server.
You try and make the train turn 90 degrees, then claim that its unrealistic.
You drive through a tunnel that has a bend in it, then claim that isn't possible.
You add a prio to your driveway.
You try to fit a train into your shed.
You take a cow, some steel, and some grain to a factory and ask for goods.
You remove the yellow light from all the traffic lights in the area.
You plant lots of trees to gain street cred.

Add your own!
-LittleMikey

bugfinder · **Joined:** Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:49 am **Posts:** 245

[*]you ask the lady at the bank counter for a keyboard so you can press ctrl alt C to add 20 mil into your account
[*]putting 2,000 trains in a depot is a normality in your game

pecet · **Posted:** Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:13 pm

Nice

Normandy333 · **Joined:** Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:01 pm **Posts:** 11

-When you forget that people use roads to travel

zooks · **Joined:** Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:36 am **Posts:** 160

when..

- youre standing on a station platform and see 2 trains behind eachother on the same platform you keep thinking about a way to do this in ottd
- everytime you see 2 trains entering and leaving a station simultaneously you scream: pbs got in trunk!
- you see a ship in the harbor you wonder how many ships are stacked there
- you just jump on the first bus or train you see not caring for its destination
- you are seeing gridlines in your garden
- you find out that you just have been gazing for 2 hours at a 2-track tunnel going under a river
- in your eyes the world is no more then a threedimensional openttd version
- you wonder why your city has more then 5 bus stops

Addiction · **Joined:** Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:01 am **Posts:** 16

zooks wrote:

when..

- youre standing on a station platform and see 2 trains behind eachother on the same platform you keep thinking about a way to do this in ottd
- everytime you see 2 trains entering and leaving a station simultaneously you scream: pbs got in trunk!
- you see a ship in the harbor you wonder how many ships are stacked there
- you just jump on the first bus or train you see not caring for its destination
- you are seeing gridlines in your garden
- you find out that you just have been gazing for 2 hours at a 2-track tunnel going under a river
- in your eyes the world is no more then a threedimensional openttd version
- you wonder why your city has more then 5 bus stops

Rofl xD Nice thoughts.. I'll try to think of some then edit this post when I do o.O

athanasios · **Joined:** Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:09 am **Posts:** 3138

When you fall asleep on your keyboard everynight!

littlemikey · **Joined:** Thu May 24, 2007 12:30 am **Posts:** 114

zooks wrote:

when..

- youre standing on a station platform and see 2 trains behind eachother on the same platform you keep thinking about a way to do this in ottd
- everytime you see 2 trains entering and leaving a station simultaneously you scream: pbs got in trunk!
- you see a ship in the harbor you wonder how many ships are stacked there
- you just jump on the first bus or train you see not caring for its destination
- you are seeing gridlines in your garden
- you find out that you just have been gazing for 2 hours at a 2-track tunnel going under a river
- in your eyes the world is no more then a threedimensional openttd version
- you wonder why your city has more then 5 bus stops

Very nice ^_^

Mr. X · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:58 am

- you wonder why all the airplanes are faster in reallife then trains.
- you read a newspaper article about a just newly opened railway service and ask yourself why there ain't no people clapping in the background.
- you are an engineer and run over all the busses of other companies.

cmoiromain · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:36 pm

you see a weird train and wonder if it's been found on grfcrawler
a kid asks you something and you direct him to the wiki
you wonder why the train company director has such a normal face
you begin to think of a town rating whenever you see a station hall that hasn't got 4 000 people in it
you begin planting colourful signs in your garden to tell your wife what to cook for dinner when she comes back

Mr. X · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:51 pm

- you assume that your national railway company also uses newgrfs for new train designs.

thebrightside · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:10 am

-You wonder why your national railcompany doesn't put on no breakdowns
-If you are the only one not surprised by trains crashing into each other or hitting other vehicles on the rail.
or (for the dutch)
-If you wonder why Prorail is run by newbies.

Don't worry...railway travel in the Netherlands is reliable...and safe. :roll:

bugfinder · **Joined:** Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:49 am **Posts:** 245

- you scream to god: "Why, WHY, WHY?!!", when you see that a station in real life can't really fit 1,400 people and 200 tones of mail in it.
- you set up your hq in a secluded cottage and expect it to 'grow' into a huge building.
- you look at the orginal transport tycoon deluxe game start shivering on the floor bart simpson style.
- you hear about the next new and exciting .grf you just have to have and start salivating at the mouth homer simpson style.
- you start enslaving .grf producers to feed your addiction.
- you dress up as a train every time they have a free-dress day at school.
- you start playing ottd as a dream as you are sleeping.
- your mum has to call in 10 muscle men just to pull you away from the mouse.
- your parents have to use the chat window in ottd multiplayer on their computers just to tell you its dinner-time.
- you have nothing but the ottd songs on your mp3 player.
- you ask your dad to mod your chair so it is a toilet so you don't have to get up while playing.
- failing the above, you shamelessly have to use nappies in order not to get up.
- you see a fully loaded passenger train crash in real life right in front of your eys and you say: "Meh, no biggie..."
- you ask your pregnant wife if the little one can start playing ottd 'early' if you know what I mean.
- you start preaching ottd as a religion.
- you press your digital video recorder against the train and hopes it gives you a view of the train.

bobingabout · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:33 am

* you want to press the fastforward button to make a bus/train arive quicker
* you wonder why signposts contain more than just writing
* you wonder why the name of your bus-stop/train-station isn't floating above it, with a nice little picture of a bus/steamtrain.

thebrightside · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:35 am

bugfinder wrote:

- you scream to god: "Why, WHY, WHY?!!", when you see that a station in real life can't really fit 1,400 people and 200 tones of mail in it.

I think a large station can easily hold more than 1.400 people in it. Utrecht Centraal has about 145.000 passengers a day. Spread evenly over 24 hours that's about 6.000 an hour. Seeing as there no trains during the night hours and most passengers are at the station during the morning and evening commute.... I think you know what I mean.

bugfinder · **Joined:** Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:49 am **Posts:** 245

Quote:

I think a large station can easily hold more than 1.400 people in it. Utrecht Centraal has about 145.000 passengers a day.

Make that rural stations then, not central ones obviously.

- you consider suicide as your best opton when there is a power outage during your game.
- your teacher realises that a rising in your grades is either due to: 1) A miracle or 2) You bothered spending time looking up the answers which because of the amount of time you spend ottd, is also a miracle.
- Not using the cheat window as your No. 1 Money fix is your No. 1 goal
- you go spastic at the person interrupting your game with sandwhiches
- your life objective is to try and 'jump into' the game
- you want this forum to be a mini window in the game.
- you acutally think it is possible in real life to build a tunnel under a coal mine, oil well, or iron ore mine.

White Rabbit · **Joined:** Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:15 pm **Posts:** 1725

ittlemikey wrote:

You add a prio to your driveway.

What's a prio?

RainierWatcher · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:29 pm

*You wonder why air travel is so safe in reality.
*You are amazed at how level crossings are activated when the train is still what feels like 100 miles away.
*You are amazed at the sight of a car on a road.
*A plane flies higher than 500 metres to your general amazement.
*You become paranoid that a big eye is looking at you from the sky with a cursor near your head on the "demolish" function.

DaleStan · **Joined:** Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:06 am **Posts:** 10285

bugfinder wrote:

- you scream to god: "Why, WHY, WHY?!!", when you see that a station in real life can't really fit 1,400 people and 200 tones of mail in it.

You know you haven't played anywhere near enough OTTD when ...
- You think mail is measured in "tones" [sic].

thebrightside wrote:

I think a large station can easily hold more than 1.400 people in it. Utrecht Centraal has about 145.000 passengers a day. Spread evenly over 24 hours that's hours about 6.000 an hour.

So, when I transfer data at a rate of approximately 3 GB per hour, that means that there's an average of 3GB bouncing around my network? I need to formalize this new storage technique. Especially for gigabit-ethernet; since that can achieve 450 GB per hour. I didn't have to buy that new disk after all. Just use the network for storage.

You failed to state your other assumption: That the average time spent there is 1 hour. That is an absurdly huge time to be spending in a train station. At least in enlightened countries where the trains do useful things.

Figuring an even spread and average time there of 20 minutes, that's only about 2000 people at any given time. Which is still over 1400, but not by nearly as much.

Ameecher · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:10 pm

bugfinder wrote:

- you go spastic at the person interrupting your game with sandwhiches

I think you should reconsider your language. Spastic isn't a very good verb, I can think of other less offensive ones, perhaps 'angry' or 'annoyed'?

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