2CC Ship Set (Former North American Ship Set) - *Relaunched*

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 02 Jun 2004 06:49

Can't you do something like this with ships:

1 ship from, let say, 1920 to 1940

next ship from 1940 to 1960 using same ID

next ship from 1960 to ... using same ID

Can't that be done?

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 02 Jun 2004 14:03

Yes, there's a ship very much like this one on Lake Winnipesaukee here in New Hampshire.

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 02 Jun 2004 19:57

Purno wrote:Can't you do something like this with ships:

1 ship from, let say, 1920 to 1940

next ship from 1940 to 1960 using same ID

next ship from 1960 to ... using same ID

Not if you want different statistics, capacity etc., which rather ruins the point...

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 02 Jun 2004 22:11

Do you ever use boats for anything? I mean, it's quite a waste, like carrying people around the same town when they want (Oh, i tell you, they want), to go all around the map in a 400mph maglev to the farthest possible town.

I say qe should include a Destroyer to patrol the coast for Russians, well, or americans... That gave me an idea, haha

DanMacK · Post by **DanMacK** » 02 Jun 2004 22:36

What do I use ships for? Well, I'm planning to use them on my Great Lakes map for one, but a ship carrying 190 Tons of Iron ore from Duluth to Gary doesn't cut it.

Basically, I want North American style ships that will haul 300-400 Tons in a single shot. I've always wanted to run a Great Lakes Shipping Empire

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 02 Jun 2004 22:42

Well, playing tycoon you realise making money is the least important thing (i mean, you have so much it doesn't matter) I once just used hovers, but actually i do use some ferrys and tankers.

DanMacK · Post by **DanMacK** » 02 Jun 2004 23:18

Of course making money is the least important thing. I like shipping sims, but have yet to see one of the Great Lakes. TTD is about the closest I'm going to get for awhile, so I may as well make some Lakers.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 03 Jun 2004 01:41

Actually, making money with the US set is much more challenging, because the operating costs are so astronomical. And in certain situations, you have no choice but to operate a service at a loss for other strategic reasons, for instance hauling food up to a mountain-top city (very expensive if you have freighttrains 5 as recommended) but you have to do it to grow the city to the point where it'll accept goods, which pays better.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 03 Jun 2004 16:10

I'm afraid the way in which i use tycoon is as a way to replace the expensive real electric trains...

However, about ships, i feel like just Tankers are necessary (of the big beast), who would want to carry livestock around in a boat?. So lakers are the most suitable option, and also the most eye candy one.

DanMacK · Post by **DanMacK** » 03 Jun 2004 23:54

Definitely Agree with the livestock comment, that's why my ships would carry very limited cargoes

. Lake boats carry Grain, coal and Iron ore, that'd be it. Maybe wood and a specific Tanker for oil.

Post by **orudge** » 04 Jun 2004 11:19

Raven wrote:who would want to carry livestock around in a boat?

I realise this isn't America, but how do you think livestock gets to/from the Orkney isles? They don't shove them in a plane!

HIH Princess Wensicia Cor · Post by **HIH Princess Wensicia Cor** » 09 Jun 2004 22:21

hello people:

here is a little something I found today in the update for Transport Giant
and the ships in the game

DanMacK · Post by **DanMacK** » 29 Nov 2004 21:44

Been working on this along with the Canadian set and the USSet. Here's a broadside of the first passenger ship. It's planned to carry 120 passengers and be available in 1920. It's based on the liners the Canadian Pacific used to have plying the Great Lakes.

AndrewA · Post by **AndrewA** » 29 Nov 2004 21:48

Me likes

Very nice

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 29 Nov 2004 21:55

It fits well in the TTD world, I think. But, isn't it floating a little too high?

DanMacK · Post by **DanMacK** » 29 Nov 2004 22:58

Well, I have since lowered it a pixel, but here is a link to a page with shots of a couple of the boats this represents (THe Keewautin and the Assinaboia)

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 30 Nov 2004 01:13

omg, it's great ship

mdhowe · Post by **mdhowe** » 30 Nov 2004 02:54

SHADOW-XIII wrote:omg, it's great ship

Agreed, excellent work Dan!

DanMacK · Post by **DanMacK** » 02 Aug 2005 22:49

Decided to continue this topic and include my fishing boats in the list. This ship set won't be useable with Tropic and will only be in Arctic and Temperate. (Except maybe the Fishing boats and passenger ships).

Current ship list for this set

Coastal Fishing Boat - 1920 - Arctic, Tropic, Temperate - Fish/food
Passenger Liner - 1920 - Arctic, Tropic, Temperate - Passengers
"600 footer" bulk freighter - 1920 - Arctic, Temperate - Coal, Wheat, Iron Ore, lumber, goods(maybe)
Tanker - 1920 - Arctic, Temperate - Oil
Factory Trawler - 1970 - Arctic, Tropic, Temperate - Fish/food
Great Lakes Bulk Freighter - 1950 - Arctic, Temperate - Coal, Wheat, Iron Ore
Great Lakes "Super Laker" - 1970 - Arctic, Temperate - Coal, Wheat, Iron Ore

A few more will be added as well.

wallyweb · Post by **wallyweb** » 02 Aug 2005 23:10

Great! Excellent! You sure you're not part Mar'timer?
Can't wait to put a couple of these in the Bay of Fundy. We'll see if they're up to handling the highest tides in the world.

Too bad the slots are so limited ... a tug boat would be just the eye candy to go with the snow plow

Don't be naming any of those lakers Edmund Fitzgerald.

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