[OTTD] Hectobars' screenshots (Substandard Enigmas & co.)

hectobar · Post by **hectobar** » 20 Nov 2009 18:08

i didn't know where to put this so i am saying it here. who developed transport tycoon? i had forgotten. and by the way, im no longer 13, and not your average teenager.

also: there has been nnothing updated here for a while because i am training myself up.

and, bennythen00b, this,"." is called a full stop.

Gremnon · Post by **Gremnon** » 20 Nov 2009 18:12

And the answer iiiis....Chris Sawyer.
Which if you watch the opening of TTO/D, you'll see mentioned.

hectobar · Post by **hectobar** » 20 Nov 2009 18:15

i know but i use openttd now. and i had forgotten, i thought it was him though.

EDIT: oh, i just noticed. i got 0.7.4 rc1 yesterday and i realised that on the opening screen there is a building just above the menu that i have definately never seen before.just to the right of the big yellow one. where did it come from?

hectobar · Post by **hectobar** » 06 Dec 2009 12:21

In one of my games I needed to make this junction, It looks a bit awfull ut i didn't know what else to put so.. any suggestions?

petert · Post by **petert** » 06 Dec 2009 17:31

hectobar wrote:any suggestions?

Instead of tunneling under the mainline, bridge the mainline, it will increase the speed.

John · Post by **John** » 06 Dec 2009 17:41

petert wrote:
hectobar wrote:any suggestions?
Instead of tunneling under the mainline, bridge the mainline, it will increase the speed.

Because tunnels don't have speed limits, yet bridges do?

Granted, bridges are cheaper and take up less space on a flatworld, but if you terra-form probably with a tunnel, they are faster (in the later stages of the game).

My only comment on making the junction look "better" would be do you have the traffic flows to justify fly-overs? You could create level junctions (at the small expense of delaying a few trains).

The other thing you could do with the tunnel is remove it, and have the mainline bridge the branch. Together with a little bit of diagonal trench digging that will enable you to have the branch line stay mainly diagonal, and thus "straighten" it out a bit.

petert · Post by **petert** » 06 Dec 2009 17:44

John wrote:Because tunnels don't have speed limits, yet bridges do?

Well, if there are many curve length errors, then yes, they do.

audigex · Post by **audigex** » 06 Dec 2009 18:02

Tunnel the main line under the crossover

best of both worlds. Just double up the tunnel if capacity becomes an issue.

hectobar · Post by **hectobar** » 06 Dec 2009 18:06

thank you both, but the upwards hill hardly slows my trains down, and anyways i have had an idea for it, based from John's suggestion.
PLUS: audigex, that is a ridiculous idea. if i had lots of trains on the main line, which i do, it would cause some congestion (trains waiting for another train to get out of the tunnel, whilst much fewer trains take this branch.

audigex · Post by **audigex** » 06 Dec 2009 18:16

audigex wrote:Just double up the tunnel if capacity becomes an issue.

Two tunnels takes away the capacity issue - and your signal seperation is the length of a tunnel anyway, so you'd only need to double up the tunnels once you put signals every 2 tiles.

hectobar · Post by **hectobar** » 06 Dec 2009 18:47

audigex wrote: and your signal seperation is the length of a tunnel anyway

I know, iu keep forgetting to change it to 2 tiles.

hectobar · Post by **hectobar** » 09 May 2010 13:55

Right then. Time to start afresh. I can't believe how stupid I used to be.....
anyway! This is from a multiplayer game with my brother called substandard enigmas & co. for the first time we decided to play on the same company. HE dealt with the road vehicles and I the trains. Boats and aircraft as a shared responsibility. It started off as constant arguments as one of us always spent all the money but as a team of two our company built up quicker than ever!

Here are some shots of my network. I can now make eficient networks but eye-pleasing probably not. Feedback?