[OTTD] Valle's Screenshots

[Valle]

Hello Everyone,

Some of you might remember the two screenshots I posted in the Random Screenshots thread a while (page 27) ago - I finally decided to create my own screenshot thread. Here I'll continuously post screenshots of my games that I usually run as multiplayer games with a few friends in OTTD CargoDist with as many NewGRFs as technically possible.

The current game is a 2048x64 game used by 3 players in total (including alluke, another member of this forum) with a special focus (well, at least my personal one) on developing a cross-map main line with a few branches and a high-speed railway. It's quite old already (and pretty saturated), having started roughly 500 in-game years ago from an automatically generated map using French town names. A total of three companies are active:

1) Azurian Railways: operator of the intercontinental airports at Cognac and St. Flour and the railway network
2) STT (75% owned by Azurian Railways): low-cost carrier for passengers using buses, ferries and mid-size aircraft, and generic cargo company using road vehicles and ships. Operator of the St. Flour Metro and two freight trains on a short, isolated railway.
3) Silly Line (75% owned by Azurian Railways): small cargo company operating 11 trucks, 23 industrial trams and 3 freighters, but also 5 passenger ferries in the Toulon area.

I'll start with the technical stuff - a map overview and the GRF list - and will then show you where everything began in this first post. Further pics (partially showing the development) of the main line itself will be added in a couple of hours.
Of course, comments, criticism and suggestions are welcome.

[Katve]

Pretty different style map than "normal" screenshots. Waiting for the more shots! Good job.

[Valle]

Thank you, Katve.

Leaving Cognac, the main line runs along a bay at a relatively high level, entering the first station, Alençon, at a higher level than most of the rest of the town. Just after the station, a short unelectrified branch line through the town of Alençon towards the bay and an abattoir in the outskirts of Cognac begins. The small airport in Alençon, operated by low-cost carrier STT, sits in a site where a cement factory was previously located. Economic problems forced it to close 100 ago, but most of the tracks, including those to bayside Cognac where a construction industry / hardware store had been supplied, had remained. Azurian Railways took the opportunity of a growing demand for public transport along the Bay of Alençon and revived the old, unused tracks to create a light rail system operating four Stadler GTWs. Due to the fact that there is a nearby abattoir, a cattle farm is now located directly next to the airport of Alençon.

Heading north from Alençon, the slight descent to the cities of Digne and Guéret begins.

[Valle]

Originally being two rather small towns, Digne and Guéret have shown a considerable amount of growth over the past 500 years and grew into one major urbanized area of roughly 115,000 inhabitants (counting in the smaller town of Cannes) now.

[kotssmurf]

I very much like these screenshots!

[Purno]

Looks very nice indeed

[CrossSide]

Different, I like it! Looks like the map is almost full? I'm curious what comes next!

[Seeker]

Like the screenshots and i do like that bridge at the top of Guéret that allows taller ships under Sometime I wish it was possible to have a lifting bridge like Tower Bridge London in game to act like a level crossing.

[Leanden]

What station set are you using to make the station in the north west of Alençon?

[Pilot]

What station set are you using to make the station in the north west of Alençon?

I think its one of the stations in MTSS.

[Valle]

Thank you everyone. The game is in its closing stages, but I'll post up the pictures piled up during the past 100 years that I deem worth posting.

@Leanden: A321Pilot is right - that station is a part of MTSS (Modern Train Station Set). It's the Jena Paradise Plaza station.

On to the next lot!

[Valle]

...and another one!

[Valle]

Here comes the last purely geographic post before we reach the main railyard.

[Pilot]

Nice Shots

[Valle]

Thank you very much, A321Pilot!

Here we are: we have reached the Chateauroux Railyard. Located in the outskirts of the city hosting one of only two pass-through stations to be used by both the main and high speed line, this is the place where almost every surplus locomotive or railway carriage of the whole network (apart from the Cognac region) is stored for possible re-use or for spares.

[Badger]

Nice pics, I like your style of play.

[PinkMoon]

Like the screenshots ! The trainyard is very nice

[Valle]

Thank you very much, I'm glad you like them. After the break I had to take due to my semester exams, I'm back now, and ready to post the remaining screenshots of the game. I'm no longer able to launch CargoDist g4dd2678f, so I'm rather happy I collected the screenies required beforehand. Moving on to Le Mans via Chambéry and Orleans now!

[Valle]

La Rochelle - Aubusson - Montpellier

[Valle]

Montpellier - Agincourt