[OTTD] Realistic Carpathian Basin Scenario

[Cudar]

The Carpathian Basin in OpenTTD

This 4096x2048 scenario faithfully recreates the Carpathian Basin using a high-resolution heightmap. Cities, rivers, industries, and forests are precisely placed to ensure high realism. The map covers all of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Moldova, as well as parts of neighboring countries.

Images

cb_in_game_map.png

In-game map

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cb_mountains_rivers_forests_austria.png

Villach, Austria

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Features

• Realistic terrain based on a high-resolution heightmap
• Major rivers and lakes accurately placed by hand, complete with named signs
• All cities with a current population over 15,000 (scaled to their 1940 population) carefully added
• Industries placed in locations reflecting real-life operations, past and present
• Forests placed by hand

NewGRF

Only two NewGRFs added, which are mostly visual improvements (both can be downloaded in-game):

• Industrial Stations Renewal
• Total Bridge Renewal Set

Feel free to add any vehicle NewGRF you prefer.


Settings

The following settings have been modified from the default, and these are my suggestions for this scenario:

• Town growth speed: Slow
• Economy type: Frozen
• Distribution mode for passengers: Symmetric
• Distribution mode for mail: Asymmetric
• Effect of distance on demands: 200%
• In-game placement of trees: Don't grow, don't spread

I’ve set the economy to frozen so that industries remain open and no new industries appear in random locations (for example, as years go by, dozens of oil rigs would appear in the Adriatic Sea, while oil wells would die off completely). I wish there was a setting to achieve this while still allowing production changes (which make the game more dynamic). I ended up making a fork of OpenTTD to modify the code for this feature. It’s not the most elegant solution, but I can share the fork if anyone is interested.


Download

Carpathian Basin (EN).scn

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Feedback

Please let me know your thoughts and feel free to share any suggestions. It’s been a while since I last played the game, and I’m sure there may be new features or possibilities I’ve missed that could make this scenario even more engaging.

[odisseus]

If you want frozen industries with the possibility of production changes, why not use FIRS?