Transport Tycoon and Locomotion

[Whatever2006]

I guess I'm going to make a thread here since I got some interest involving transport business simulation games. I have been playing OpenLoco for a little while after I bought Locomotion on Steam, in-which I played for a brief time until Parker recommended me OpenLoco which I started playing and stick to it.

So far, I completed one of the scenarios included in OpenLoco and I decided to continue inside that scenario in a sandbox environment because I wanna do stuff there. It's a palette changer for me since I need some sort of break away from Open Rails after a failed attempt of me trying to create an activity for some train traffic...
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[monon15]

I still have these from back in the day...Transport Tycoon sucked a lot of my hours back in the 90's.

[Whatever2006]

monon15: I never played the original Transport Tycoon nor Transport Tycoon Deluxe, I do however play OpenTTD, I find both it and OpenLoco fun despite my limited playtime and experience with them, most comes down to me not knowing what to do inside a transport tycoon simulation sandbox game. 🙃 It won't hurt me on trying them out and giving them a go ever since I watched some videos about them on YouTube, MasterHellish's videos about both of them, High Iron's Locomotion video and my own discovery to those games are my inspiration on playing them.

[TrainSimJack]

Transport Tycoon was Sooo Great back in the day!

Another simple game you might enjoy is Train Valley 2 - I've got lots of hours on that one!

[Whatever2006]

Another simple game you might enjoy is Train Valley 2 - I've got lots of hours on that one!

Oh yeah, Train Valley 2, I forgot about that game. A while ago, I got that game for free from a free giveaway on Epic until I uninstalled both it and Epic at some point. It's a fun game, I should reinstall the game but when I buy it on Steam.

[NorthernWarrior]

Transport Tycoon was good, Locomotion less so. I did try Open TTD on my laptop a few months back, but it looked positively awful even in 1080p the vehicles were barely recognisable sprites.

Railroad Tycoon, again had its moments but I hated the inability to create a semi real railway infrastructure with proper signalling etc. Then the awful fluctuations in the economy just as you had finished expanding and spent all your money.

To me, Transport Fever is the latter day evolution of those games and my go to for transport strategy. Really hoping TF3 releases this year - and it will run on my PC!

[TrainSimJack]

Oh yeah, Train Valley 2, I forgot about that game. A while ago, I got that game for free from a free giveaway on Epic until I uninstalled both it and Epic at some point. It's a fun game, I should reinstall the game but when I buy it on Steam.

Steam has kept Train Valley 2 fresh for me - the "Steam workshop" has 1000's of levels created by users.

Twice a week they run contests on the steam version where they pick one level and everyone tries to get the lowest time over a 24 hour period.
They have a discord where you can see the leaderboard in real time.
At the end of the 24 hour period, the top 3 times are selected and they mail out "Playing cards" (They basically have printed up cards for each locomotive in the game).

I enjoy the game quite a bit but more so I really admire the marketing effort that goes into running these twice weekly events and then sending out cards internationally.
I can't think of a single other game that's done that.

[Whatever2006]

Oh yeah, custom levels. Wasn't there a level editor inside Train Valley 2 that you can buy on DLC? I'm certain there is at least for Epic version from the last time I saw from... ages ago, but it would be the same for Steam if I were to check it now.

Edit: I checked... I'm going to assume that the level editor is included within the Steam version of Train Valley 2. So, it might be just the Epic version where its separate then.

[Whatever2006]

I decide to play a scenario I downloaded off from the online content menu with some modifications to include the mods I downloaded for OpenTTD along with some changes in the settings. This is where my company stands as of 1925, aside from the hiccups I made I.E having a train collision because one of my passenger trains is one length longer than the platform and I tried to send it to a depot, tanking my balance in the process.
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[Whatever2006]

Small expansion? Yep, I started some services on Beaaumont, Port Arthur and Shreveport.
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[Whatever2006]

I decided to do something different, using a different version of OpenTTD, along with using the FRIS industries. It took me a few attempts to get some stuff to work and so far it's good.
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[Whatever2006]

I've got a problem... I will sort out in getting a rail line soon-ish.
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