by Paul Robinson » Sat Sep 02, 2023 5:02 pm
raecoffey wrote: Wed Aug 30, 2023 4:20 am
Lmfao, where is he? Is he ok?
The guy is busy playing with his trains. That's not a euphemism, he downloaded and installed OpenTTD, an open-source clone of Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
It's a sim where you get an imaginary world with towns, and industries, and you make money delivering things from one place to another, e.g. mail and passengers from town to town, iron ore to the steel mill, grain and livestock from farm to factory, etc. You then use the money to buy more trains/buses/trucks/ships/planes, build more stations, depots, docks, and/or airports, and lay track or roadways. You have four methods you can use: truck/bus, rail, airplane, and/or ship. Each has benefits, and drawbacks. Depending on the year, rail is railroad, electrified railroad, monorail, or magnetic levitation (Maglev). With an expansion pack (also free), you can also add vacuum-tube train (Vactrain). Does not require an account or log-in, and does not require Internet access,
unless you want to download content created for the game by others. You play it the way people used to play computer games: off-line unless you want to play against others or download content. If you have no internet, that is (correctly) the only functionality you lose; the game can still be played normally.
I like the game, but I'm not a fanatic like TDarcos. Right now he's working on a map where two trains circle the edge in opposite directions. He wants to have two eight-car maglev passenger trains end up on the same track so they can collide with each other (like Gomez Adams does, only without explosives), at a combined speed of 500mph, killing over 500 people. I suppose he thinks that's fun; I don't know what the poor virtual passengers he plans to murder think about it.
If anyone is interested you can download and use OpenTTD for free from
https://www.openttd.org. I don't recommend the version for Android, it's too hard to use the game controls.
I'll try to drag him away occasionally...
[quote=raecoffey post_id=139293 time=1693394457 user_id=2754]
Lmfao, where is he? Is he ok?
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The guy is busy playing with his trains. That's not a euphemism, he downloaded and installed OpenTTD, an open-source clone of Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
It's a sim where you get an imaginary world with towns, and industries, and you make money delivering things from one place to another, e.g. mail and passengers from town to town, iron ore to the steel mill, grain and livestock from farm to factory, etc. You then use the money to buy more trains/buses/trucks/ships/planes, build more stations, depots, docks, and/or airports, and lay track or roadways. You have four methods you can use: truck/bus, rail, airplane, and/or ship. Each has benefits, and drawbacks. Depending on the year, rail is railroad, electrified railroad, monorail, or magnetic levitation (Maglev). With an expansion pack (also free), you can also add vacuum-tube train (Vactrain). Does not require an account or log-in, and does not require Internet access, [i]unless[/i] you want to download content created for the game by others. You play it the way people used to play computer games: off-line unless you want to play against others or download content. If you have no internet, that is (correctly) the only functionality you lose; the game can still be played normally.
I like the game, but I'm not a fanatic like TDarcos. Right now he's working on a map where two trains circle the edge in opposite directions. He wants to have two eight-car maglev passenger trains end up on the same track so they can collide with each other (like Gomez Adams does, only without explosives), at a combined speed of 500mph, killing over 500 people. I suppose he thinks that's fun; I don't know what the poor virtual passengers he plans to murder think about it.
If anyone is interested you can download and use OpenTTD for free from https://www.openttd.org. I don't recommend the version for Android, it's too hard to use the game controls.
I'll try to drag him away occasionally...