Seeker's adventures (OTTD)

[Seeker]

Just started a new game and decided to have a go at a screen shot story.

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It had taken 5 years of hard labour and small profits off tram services to get the foundations to B.J.Cox's grand plans, but at last the London and Ashford Transit Company has begun passenger services from Lewisham to the City of London, and cargo transport at Folkestone Docks for the local Factory.

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Now with a steady income coming in, B.J.Cox now sets his sights on connecting Ashford to London but this is going to take some heavy civil engineering as the journey has many hills and rivers to navigate. More news to follow as it happens

(Any comments, suggestions or criticism is welcome but please ignore any spelling errors.)

[Gremnon]

I like the newspaper pic, if nothing else for the amusing side story.
I don't think we've seen anything quite like that before.
Looks like an interesting start though.

[LaSeandre]

Haha, Monty Python reference. Love it.

[Seeker]

Thank you was working on the newspaper for an hour lol

If I used a Monty Python reference it was an accident lol, what part do you mean? (I can't really remember any MP I was only a kid when it was on

[Seeker]

Extra extra read all about it

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[LaSeandre]

...If I used a Monty Python reference it was an accident lol, what part do you mean?...

The side story, about wielding bananas. See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

...(I can't really remember any MP I was only a kid when it was on

Don't worry, I wasn't even alive when it was on!

[Seeker]

With two local link lines running busy services from near by towns and villages to the Capital and cargo from the mines to Cannon Street London Bridge is slowly becoming a busy station and will soon require a new track layout. In shot is the sister engines 'Halley's Comet' and 'Fire Fly'.

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The temp Mine layout just west of Erith sees two 4-4-0 engines delivering Gold to the Capital. In shot is 'Gold Rush' just leaving the station on its out bound run.

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Here is what the whole Capital currently looks like with its main Passenger Station Charing Cross serving two local lines into kent. One following the Themes to Erith, the other currently terminates that Lewisham.

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[Seeker]

The latest release of The Daily Journal

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Biggin Hill Mines just prior to the closer that has almost crippled the company. It took almost two years to complete the line to batteresa power station for it to only be running for four years. The mine annouced closer just after the train loading in the shot delivered its cargo.

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Not long before the financal difficulties London Charing Cross when through a major expansion from two platforms to four and a new ticket office and departure hall so to cope with the increased traffic terminating at the station. In the last few years the city has doubled in size and a new tram line has been opened to help ferry people across the from Piccadilly to St. Paul's called the Central Line.

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[Seeker]

Hello all

Ive not posted any screenshots for a while now but thought i'd post one from a game I been playing recently. It's the King Edward IV Bridge which spans the narrowest section of Lake Wintermore, connecting Dover on the South coast to Peterborough on The North. A journey which before construction on the bridge took almost 9 hours.

You have to ignore the bad shading on the bridge I've not yet mastered that

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[Klaasgras]

That is one epic bridge!

[Supercheese]

That is one epic bridge!

Indeed it is.

[FLHerne]

Incredibly epic. It does rather highlight OpenTTD's weird scaling though.

Also, is that actually built/drawn in-game, or drawn onto the screenshot? If the former, it's even more epic

[Seeker]

at the moment its drawn on a screenshot but I am looking into if it can be placed as eyecandy in sections.

[FLHerne]

The odd thing is that it looks perfectly in-scale at first glance (because it is, at least with the trains on it). Then I look at the ships and think "Hmm...". Then I imagine a normal TTD suspension bridge next to it, and my head asplodes*...

*This is the first, and probably last, example of me using the word 'asplode' on a web forum.

[SwissFan91]

at the moment its drawn on a screenshot but I am looking into if it can be placed as eyecandy in sections.

From my limited knowledge, that wouldn't be possible without horrendous clipped errors. The object would simply be far too big! I think anything over 100px starts creating problems.

[Seeker]

Just a quick shot of a busy Harbour city where many holiday travellers start their journeys to the near by island resorts. Smaller high speed ships carry people on short hops around the coast. The ageing 1905 cruise ship HMS Titan has just left port for its final trip around the bay and two modern Liners The QM1 returning from a trip around the north Islands and QE1 just setting off for the South.

Hope you like.

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