[OTTD] Hamburg scenario 2048x2048 Screenshots

[ebla71]

With my Hamburg scenario now almost complete, I finally wanted to play and share some screenshots here.

Just a brief summary of the scenario:

• 2048x2048 "real-world" scenario based on the northern German port city of Hamburg and surrondings

• Realistic placement of town and suburbs, streets, and industries

• XIS industry set with no open/no close/no fund, just play with what's there

• Allowing myself unlimited credit from the "special menue"

• Mostly building while game is stopped since focus is on construction of network, not beating economic model

• Bus stops and lines, trains all modelled after "real" time tables and connections

• The size of the map with 1 tile = 20 meters allows placement of all tracks, switches, and signals at or near "read world" positions

Savegame for OTTD v13.0 attached if you would like to check rather than use the scenario files from the linked development thread

[ebla71]

Here you see the Harburg station serving the large suburb south of the Elbe river.

If you look closely enough on the right edge, all 10 tracks of the station are there, together with the extensive network of switches which connect the different platforms and lines.

Through the center runs the Niederelbebahn to the city of Buxtehude, which is at the western (left) edge of the scenario not visible here.

The lowered line is the right-of-way of the future Harburg subway tunnel but stations still await construction.

And in the top center is the old Harburg harbour with the remains of former Harburg castle in white and some wharf still operating here.

[ebla71]

This screenshot shows the small station of Hittfeld in the south-central part of the scenario map, on the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn which connects Hamburg to the Ruhr area and Netherlands. Hittfeld is the southern-most station still on the map and therefore local trains from Harburg turn here.

All tracks, switches, and signals are placed at their "real-world" locations as in the 1980s, before the layout was simplified.

[ebla71]

Spent the last days with "laying track" in the harbor area - take a look in case you like really extended railway layouts And although some of the freight yards have way too many tracks to represent them all in the game, at least the general layout strictly follows the "real world" situation:



Also, Hamburg Hbf as the central station is now almost complete, although signals and waypoints still need to be added:



Very soon, the first train from Altona via Dammtor and Hamburg Hbf will run to Harburg and then Winsen/Luhe

[ebla71]

Promised some picture from the Hamburg scenario so here they are now:

Barmbek ist a central hub in the local subway system with also a large depot located here. Currently, only a U3 train bound for Eppendorf is departing the station but particularly during rush hour it will get much more crowded. Furthermore, suburban S-Bahn tracks north of the subway station plus another track for freight trains which just pass through



Overall, the Hamburg transport network has already grown substantially and includes the central subway "ring line" of the U3 around the Alster in the city center. Most outer branches still under construction, though



Savegame also included if you are interested but scenario now also on BaNaNaS

[Argus]

New game in version 0.97, first local train. Before the discovery of the first cars, the fastest way to work and for entertainment in a larger settlement.
I fixed the error reported above on the second screen

[Argus]

1. electric bus, unfortunately the lack of power and speed caused the gasoline engine to win for a long time.
18 years and still working in the same region. Tornesch has a subway, it's big enough for that.

[ebla71]

New game in version 0.97, first local train. Before the discovery of the first cars, the fastest way to work and for entertainment in a larger settlement.
I fixed the error reported above on the second screen

Well, in "real world", the train line actually runs between the two "hills" which you can either think of as "noise barrier" or just bulldoze them after construction of the line - but as said many times before "a votre plaisir" ("as you wish")

[ebla71]

1. electric bus, unfortunately the lack of power and speed caused the gasoline engine to win for a long time.
18 years and still working in the same region. Tornesch has a subway, it's big enough for that.

Well, "my" Tonresch is definitely a lot more humble and people are happy about a train service once or twice a day on the line to Pinneberg and then Altona (red marker on the map)



But I'm currently busy anyway to close a gap in the network on the top center, which is today the "Alsternordbahn" between Garstedt and Ulzburg (new town not in the scenario so far), as indicated by the yellow marker.

[Argus]

I assume you don't have active city growth I will also turn it off at Tornesch so that the paper mill is not in town
I don't like when the scenario is too static and nothing changes, but even extremely slow city growth is still pretty fast once the city is more serviced. On the other hand, it helped to make money quickly - it's not near the water, which is always the most profitable start, and importing wood to the paper mill also created debts.

[ebla71]

I assume you don't have active city growth I will also turn it off at Tornesch so that the paper mill is not in town
I don't like when the scenario is too static and nothing changes, but even extremely slow city growth is still pretty fast once the city is more serviced. On the other hand, it helped to make money quickly - it's not near the water, which is always the most profitable start, and importing wood to the paper mill also created debts.

As mentioned before, the original design of the scenario is actually indeed completely static, since the focus is on realistic network building. Therefore:

• Automatic city growth is switched off, you can only manually fund building of houses and thus expansion

• Industry opening, closure, and funding is switched off

• Money for building is provided by "unlimited credit" from the "special menue"

If you like a different style of game play, of course feel free to adjust settings from the game, NewGRF, and "special" menues but it might need some advanced knowledge of these options.

[Argus]

One is always learning.
I thought that when zero city growth is on, cities don't grow even if you fund them.
I don't know why I never thought to try it, but that's because I always turned it off. Also, I'm still playing with game scripts where city growth is quite limited,
Tornesch would never grow like this with a script until I got the necessary goods into it.
I also don't like to use cheat for money unless I start very badly.

[ebla71]

Railway construction around the city of Hamburg has now essentially finished, with only a few industrial sidings and a couple of narrow-gauge lines in the boglands to the north missing