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[martinuzz]

Any tips?

1) Have a spare keyboard, for when you bite through your keyboard in frustration, because, dem signals
2) the community forum / wiki has decent guides on how signals work, up to very complex terminal station traffic flows.

[Descan]

Distance  is great for coal. Like, across the map, use fast trains, 60k or more per run.

[Iceblaster]

Alright. Can someone explain Signals to me so I don't have to ask later... ooor should I just look it up?

EDIT: Random trivia. Wasn't this the game that Microprose slipped a Skyranger from XCOM in?

[Graknorke]

Alright. Can someone explain Signals to me so I don't have to ask later... ooor should I just look it up?

They make trains stop sometimes.
Other than that I understand nothing. There's a bunch of rules and variations on the signals and they act differently depending on the junctions an signals around them and... yeah. Learning OTTD probably takes the same amount of time it would take to learn to draw or play an instrument or construct spacecraft.

[Remuthra]

Alright. Can someone explain Signals to me so I don't have to ask later... ooor should I just look it up?

Well, I find the easiest thing to do is to just make a loop to string a bunch of trains through. Just create two sets of tracks, one with a one-directional signal set one way, the other going the other way. (Accomplish this by dragging the signals the way you'd like the trains to go.) Connect the two stations up that way and you can run three or four trains, depending on distance, from there. For more trains, you'll probably need more platforms, which will require more advanced signal finangling.

[Descan]

I... just use tunnels and bridges when I need to cross tracks. >____>

[Remuthra]

I... just use tunnels and bridges when I need to cross tracks. >____>

The real problems happen when you get to that stage of the game where you need to be conserving rail distance to make a good profit. Then you need to start getting different trains going different places using the same stretch of railroad, and you need to engage signal hyperfinangling mode to prevent the world from exploding.

[Iceblaster]

If we ever play a game of this I'm sticking to buses

They seem to be the simplest thing

[Remuthra]

If we ever play a game of this I'm sticking to buses

They seem to be the simplest thing

Actually, I consider buses essentially just simpler trains. The real simplicity comes when you establish boat and plane transportation, where no track is needed.

[Aklyon]

engage signal hyperfinangling mode to prevent the world from exploding.

I just use planes at that point, but thats apparently meh.

[Silent_Thunder]

Anyone have an opinion of OTTD vs Simutrans? I've played OTTD, and just downloaded Simutrans, but I really can't see much of a difference, excluding that Simutrans actually gives products desitinations to take them to, as opposed to how OTTD does it the other way around.

[quinnr]

Does anyone know if this takes a lot of processing power/bandwidth to host? I may be able to put something together if it's not too high and if I can find my missing cord.

Ninjaedit, it doesn't appear to be too high, so I'll look around for that cord.

[ank]

Does anyone know if this takes a lot of processing power/bandwidth to host? I may be able to put something together if it's not too high and if I can find my missing cord.

Ninjaedit, it doesn't appear to be too high, so I'll look around for that cord.

I read this as:
"I'll put it together if I'm not too high"

[miauw62]

It's been a while since I touched OpenTTD, so let me look up one or two things so I can explain it...

You know what? I'll just link to what I used to figure out signals the first time: http://www.facepunch.com/threads/showthread.php?t=917356 Just scroll down a bit, and there's a wonderful series of images that explains signals perfectly.

It's a wonderfull series of signals with two of the most important ones missing~

[BigD145]

That thread is from 2011. I think some things have changed since then.