Just questions

[dercookimonster]

Hey I'm new here (obviously) and have just downloaded the openTTD. First of it's awesome but I have a few questions

1. But why are the graphics not like transport tycoon deluxe, they've taken a step backwards or am I missing something?

2. In railroad construction, there is a waypoint (option next to the station), what does this do?

3. What do the full load any cargo, all cargo options do?

4. I know this was in TTD but what does funding new buildings in towns do? Just increase population?

5. What is the minimum population for a town to accept goods?

[SwissFan91]

1) Can't answer that. Depends if you're using original graphics, or OpenGFX.

2) You can place waypoints, and then give a train an order to go via there, and they will - like a one tile station basically. See wiki for better explanation.

3) Someone else can answer this. Try wiki.

4) It gives the town money to build more commercial buildings, I believe. Wiki.

5) Not too sure, it's probably on the wiki somewhere. I want to say ~1000, but I could be wrong.

[dercookimonster]

Thanks!

What do the commercial buildings do? Increase population?

Oh and how do I change the graphics?

It says I am currently running open graphics, there is no option to change. How can I make it to the good (well better) graphics

[SwissFan91]

No worries... everyone is new once!

- I guess commercial buildings do increase population, whether directly or not I'm not sure. It could be that commercial buildings are built, then the town builds residential buildings so people can work there, which increases population. I'm not too quizzed up on this, someone can answer this better!

- Check this out. Basically, you need a group of files from Transport Tycoon, before you can run the original graphics.

[dercookimonster]

No worries... everyone is new once!

- Check this out. Basically, you need a group of files from Transport Tycoon, before you can run the original graphics.

Can I just copy and paste these files?

Sorry it says what to do in the wiki, thanks for being so helpful!

[TheNewTeddy]

Buildings accept goods. Use the "?" button to see which ones.

[dercookimonster]

Hey guys, I just thought I would tell you I figured out the graphics thing.

It is much easier to just uninstall the game then re-download it. Then when you're re-installing there is an option to copy the files over from TTD cd-rom. I don't know why I missed it the first time.

I found this much easier then copying the files over manually (which I did try).

Who ever has done all this work for free is a legend!

[Rieniehh]

3. What do the full load any cargo, all cargo options do?

I would love to help you on this one (If you haven't found the answer already)


Full load any cargo means any so if you have like Passengers AND Mail it fully load one of the and then continues
So that basically means that Full load ALL Loads everything so Full with Mail and Passengers

Ofcourse every Combination is possible (Grain and livestock etc..)

[dercookimonster]

Hey guys, another question. What is a good ai to download, I want something challenging but not too difficult

[dercookimonster]

also, does building a good transport thing next to an industry (wood, coal, iron ore, farms) make the amount of stuff that that industry produce go up?

I know that was worded really bad but hopefully someone will understand it...

[Terkhen]

Regarding industry production, see http://wiki.openttd.org/Game_mechanics# ... production

[Brumi]

About the AIs, check out this page: http://wiki.openttd.org/Comparison_of_AIs
Suggestions are welcome if you have any idea how to include how challenging and difficult an AI is So far there are some links to threads where these AIs are tested.

[buckethead]

If you want new graphic files:

http://grfcrawler.tt-forums.net/

http://bananas.openttd.org/en/

(download and then place the .grf file in documents-openttd-content download-data)

Also look at the screenshot topics, they're very helpful to learn new game strategies, and if you find a vehicle, a station or a building in the pics that you aren't able to find ask the user of the screenshots to post a shot of the grf's you use.

Have fun!

[Michi_cc]

(download and then place the .grf file in documents-openttd-content download-data)

Do you like your NewGRFs to be overwritten, deleted or otherwise mutilated? While that's an exaggeration, content_download is still a directory managed by OpenTTD and for OpenTTD use only, and not the place to store your own things. The proper place to store self-downloaded stuff is in OpenTTD/data/ (without content_download in between), as clearly described in readme.txt.

-- Michael Lutz

[buckethead]

Works fine with me... No mutilation...

[Eddi]

that's what the guys at Tschernobyl said.

[dercookimonster]

hey guys another couple of questions to update my thread

1. My planes seem to be disappearing? There isn't anything telling me that they have crashed... they just disappear

2. Is there a way to replace the current type of vehicle with the same type of vehicle? Like with the groups? Because I can only replace the vehicles with a different type? Obviously this is because my vehicles are too old.

[Eddi]

ad 1. check the news settings (click and hold on the newspaper icon in the menu)
ad 2. advanced settings => vehicles => autorenew when old

[dercookimonster]

Aghhh got the auto replace thing, that is soooo useful.

But for the message settings I have everything on full except for Industry changes and subsidies...

The accidents/disasters is on full.

[Jacko]

5. What is the minimum population for a town to accept goods?

When using the '?', when you highlight a building it says (e.g. for a house) pax: 4/8, mail: 1/8
for a commercial building it might say: pax: 5/8, Mail: 3/8, Goods: 3/8

for goods you need to have enough Goods buildings to make 8/8 or more so 3 of the previous building would make 9/8 which accepts goods for your station (of course all buildings need to be within the station catchment area or it doesnt work). Its similar with industry, not every part of the industry actually accepts its cargo, e.g. the oil refinery, it takes up about 15 tiles but only 2 or 3 actually accept oil.