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I used to play this a lot with a friend. We made a map called “German Reunification” which simulates the separation until 1989 and subsequent reunification. The map is made from real elevation data and city geocoordinates. https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Community/Scenarios/Real%20World...
What made OpenTTD a great success that it's playable out of the box. Most open source game remakes [0] are engine-only and you still need the graphics, arts, sound, and music assets to make it a 100%, and actual playable experience. OpenTTD started like that too but from the very beginning it was a goal to "detach" the game from the original as quickly as possible. It was released in 2004, the actual graphics replace…
>New art is being drawn in the style of the original game, using the original 8bpp palette. The graphics should be a similar but distinct version of the object in question - no graphics may be copied at all from the original. The new sprites do not have to be the same size as the original, but need to be similar so as to fit into the game as expected.
https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Archive/Community/Graphics%20Rep...
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I was about to ask if the proceeds of the Steam version go to the OS project, but I see it's free-to-play. I should get it that way, it's convenient and auto-updates and the like, and they will get good statistics from Steam that way. But also I have a backlog of games I still need to finish, including ones that scratch a similar itch like Satisfactory and Factorio.
If you like Factorio, it's worth trying Dyson Sphere Program as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFsrmLhC00 Original soundtrack recorded with live instruments. Grooviest thing I've heard in years.
Man, TTD music was the only management game that made me HYPE to get down to managing. Like I vividly remember Sim City 3000 music as well, but that game was more chill, like a sunny winter day. TTD was like a spring day where you plan you call the pinkertons to bust some unions while smoking a cigar.
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I wish you would have given some concrete examples as I was curious what experiments are possible with your code in OpenTTD. There was only one I could find: "exploring the performance of trAIns". I looked at the "trAIns" link and cannot understand what it does, other than being GPL licensed. It's all very cryptic, without any explanations. To me that stands for "if you don't know already, you need not apply". Too ba…
Ah thanks for the suggestion! Will see if I can add examples or otherwise make things clearer
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I am looking at https://github.com/michalc/OpenTTDLab/blob/main/examples/02-... and wondering if this isn't hyperthreading being enabled. If you have 4 real cores, with 2 hyperthreads, the system reports 8 CPUs. But that's fake. Hyperthreads share most of their compute and register resources, so they only work well if a core is spending most of its time waiting. 2 hyperthreads both doing full compute will basically w…
I wonder if the plot would look similar if you disabled hyperthreading but kept the same number of workers.
But I since found that 4 are “efficiency” cores, so that could be the reason for the poor scaling(?)
I love this game and I also spent quite some time playing original TTD as kid. However I do wonder if there are any good modern contenders to it. My kids play games on an Android tablet. Even though OpenTTD runs there it doesn't feel native to the touch UI and overall looses the appeal to modern games (which are regrettably 99% crap but there are real gems too). Long story short, anyone can recommend a high-quality p…