[OTTD] NutsnBolts' Screenshots

[NutsnBolts]

Been a looong time since I last wandered about here! Started playing OTTD again this week after having spent a little too long playing Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven; bit of a change of pace, to say the least. Anyway, only one for now since all my other shots are at home - but here's the game I've been messing with. Started in 1940, I seem to recall, and is sort of loosely meant to be South African/Rhodesian.

I tend to build absurd networks, with long trains and big block sections, and often with flat junctions too (mostly down to laziness and convenience, not to mention compactness). Mostly I play with the Tropic Refurb Set, which allows me to have lots and lots (and lots) of Garratts. I tend also to like long trains, big hills and generally dramatic picture ingredients. As a result, the network is not the most efficient in the world (oh boy is it not), and the junctions (which tend to get bits and bobs added as time goes by) are generally messy as anything. Nevertheless, the overall result can be quite striking. Here, for example, is a section of the network at 31/8/2195.

The main line, of 8 roads, runs East-West, losing four of its roads at Leeuwelsum where a large station serves the factory. Just SE of Drogerheim, another large and heavily-trafficked station handles goods, food, rubber, copper ore and oil, plus through traffic intended for oil refineries and factories elsewhere. The average output of the Leeuwelsum factory is somewhere around 7,000 crates/month of goods.

North and South of the spinal main line and entirely isolated from it, are the four-road passenger lines for the towns and cities north of the river. The network there got a tiny bit out of shape, but fundamentally is part of a vary large cloverleaf formation of lines, centred on Klein Tildrecht/Valkerveen/Uithsowater and covering all the major cities.

All trains, incidentally, cover 14 tiles.

Among all this rail activity, numerous ships also ply the waterways (heavily extended over the years), and road vehicles scurry about like a disturbed ants' nest, watched over by the constant hum of passing planes.

[NutsnBolts]

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Uithuisermeer Forest and its environs, including the tangle of trackwork at its throat. A CT60 snakes its way across the junction from the SE (i.e. bottom), while a slower service makes up time alongside. At the bottom of the picture, another CT60 can be seen negotiating the exit from Groot Hoendoschede.

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An overview of the area Klein Tildrecht/Uithsowater/Valkerveen. The three towns have effectively merged into one with a combined population of about 100,000 or so. KT Vic is in effect the hub of the passenger transport network for the map, since it can be reached directly from almost any other of the major stations.

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Another overview, this time of four towns in the desert. Each is served by a large main line station, with Bestevorst North acting as the main station for Viknsdaal. Vinksdaal's name was left off the station as a snub, since the local authority proved very troublesome during construction!