Birth of an Empire
The year is 1860, and you have just been handed the keys to a business opportunity. You, and possibly your business partners and rivals, have been given the task to bring prosperity to a rural region that missed out on the first Industrial Revolution, but is ready to be brought up to speed in time for the second wave.
The task will not be easy. Almost all of the towns in the region are small and have only the basics of a functional society. Some, but not all, of the towns are connected by some rough wagon routes, but most of the towns are isolated in the wilderness. There region mostly thrives on local agriculture. There are only a few basic primary industries established, and no secondary industries. You will need to carefully manage your money and resources, build out the infrastructure and invest in industries in order to make a profit.
But, there are profits to be had. The region is bountiful in all manner of natural resources. Once you are able to reach them, extract them and process them, your company will reap profits hand over fist. Are you skilled and capable enough to turn this rough and rugged region into a gleaming beacon of modern society? Are you ready to become a Transport Tycoon and a Master of Industry? Are you ready to pay the cost to be the boss?
The provided scenario is considered basic - it provides support for New RoadTypes and TramTypes (NRT), has basic vehicle support for NewGRF industries, and a small amount of eye candy to make the scenario look good. These files should not be removed. However, you may desire to enable other NewGRFs (such as vehicles, stations, and objects) to customize it as you see fit.
REQUIRED OPENTTD VERSION: This scenario is only compatible with JGR's Patch Pack v0.37 or newer in order to take advantage of the many features available in this patch pack. You will also need to enable the scenario editor if you wish to add NewGRFs. Please see the noted previous and continual warnings regarding changing NewGRFs.
Required NewGRFs should not be removed. Older or newer versions of these sets may be substituted if OpenTTD recognizes them as compatible NewGRFs - WITH THE EXCEPTION of FIRS 2.0 betas (do not upgrade!) . Optional NewGRFs were included for aesthetic purposes and can likely be removed or replaced without causing a corruption in the scenario. Adding new NewGRFs should not present any issues, however CHANGING OR REMOVING NEWGRFS MAY CREATE A PERMANENTLY CORRUPTED GAME! It is advised that you be very selective in which NewGRFs you choose to add. Adding vehicle NewGRFs (trains, planes, road vehicles and ships) may alter the economy of purchasing and selling vehicles, and removing them may not reset the default settings. I intentionally chose an early start date of 1860 in order to take advantage of NewGRF sets which have early vehicles. However, feel free to include the NewGRFs you want and change the date if necessary.
All of these NewGRFs should be available either via the in-game content download system (BaNaNas). If you cannot locate one, however, please do not post here, instead send me a PM. I will help you locate the missing file and then update the post here with a link.
This scenario is being released completely untested. After working on it for months, it has reached a point where I am ready to put it out there and see what people think. I mostly created it just to see how nice of a sandbox landscape I can create. I have no idea if this will be too difficult to master, maybe I don't have enough infrastructure to make it possible to be competitive, maybe it's too easy at this point, maybe I need to add some NewGRFs. I just don't know what will happen, but we shall find out, won't we?
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Historical Releases & Changelog
Version 2 for JGR's Patch Pack - Released October 7, 2020
Version 1 for JGR's Patch Pack - Released November 1, 2015
Version 1 for Spring 2013 Patch Pack - Released June 18, 2014
