Are there any who were both RRT and TTD fans

[CWA13000]

I was a Transport Tycoon Deluxe fan and I showed the game to my best friends son-in-law when he was on a visit from New Jersey.

A while later I found out that he had tried to buy TTD and mistakenly bought RRT. I had never heard of RRT before but he sent me a copy back from N.J.

I must admit that I could not get into RRT it seemed to be a very slow starting game with little traffic and I never really took the time to learn it. I also wondered if the huge sales that I heard about later might be due to others buying the wrong game. TTD was also an economic model type of game and could be played on many different levels like when I first played it, it was a replacement for my model railroad which my family had coerced me into dismanteling. The cool thing about railroading on the computer being that when its dinner time you can shut it down and after dinner a few clicks and your railroad is reconstructed in a seconds.

Maybe I digress, what I really would appreciate would be a reply or two from someone that liked both games and could put me streight on the similarities or differences that attracted your attention to both games.

Thanks

[century242]

The drugs that the doc gave me has me confused, so could you explain what TTD is?

Thanks

Regards,
Erik Pierson
Sacramento, Ca

www.sacramentolocomotiveworks.com

[CWA13000]

Transport Tycoon Deluxe ( TTD ) was the second edition of a game authored by Chris Sawyer ( who later created Roller Coaster Tycoon ) and like Roller Coaster Tycoon there is a wrold made up of tiny squares that can be populated by things like railroad track or road ways that trains or busses and trucks capable of carrying passengers and comodities, as RRT does, providing income as they arrive at a station where they are needed. The income is used to pay off original debt and provide funds to build to connect other towns or industries.

There are many options to set and a randomly landscaped wrold is produced with randomly placed industries and towns to have trains, planes, automobiles and boats service them as you build the transport system.

You can even have AI competitors that you can buy-out later if you got the money and assimilate into your empire. It's pretty graffic with farm fields that go through a maturation process from planting to harvest.

I don't want to make waves here though I want some one who knows both games to convince me to try RRT again maybe giving me some tips on how to get a better start.

Thanks

[Jonatan]

I have TTD and TT! :D Great games, and awesome music! :7

RRT2 is also great, very nice blues/bluegrass/americana music.

/Jonatan

/Jonatan

[mrWM734]

>RRT2 is also great, very nice blues/bluegrass/americana
>music.
It's B.B. King without vocals:D

[Jonatan]

Cool, thanks for telling me that.

/Jonatan

[ASR_Q301]

Yeah, I have TTD and RTG. TTD's game play (the way you lay tracks and the buildings) with RTG's rollingstock would rock!! :D

BTW: Was there a rumour of a new Transport Tycoon where you can have multiple locos on one train?

>Mike Forster<
Perth, Western Australia

pacificnational_nr103@hotmail.com

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[Ty_train11]

I have Rairoad Tycoon II Platinum, I like the music. BTW: I can make a fortune in Britain by connecting Stoke-on-Trent (it usually has an iron and coal mine) to Birmingham (it usually has a steel mill), then haul iron ore and coal to Birmingham and a few passenger cars to Stoke-on-Trent. Then once I a fair amount of money I lay track to Manchester, (there's usually a tool and dye factory there) then haul the steel to Manchester and haul the goods to Birmingham. I usually wait a couple years to build up a good foundation of money and then connect to London berfore the other railroad compinies can get there (if they didn't start there), then spread all over Britain.

[CWA13000]

Quick! Tell me more of this rumor before they take this thread off for being off subject.

[Hagen]

Go here to get the free patch for TTD
http://ttdpatch.net/

Solves a bunch of limitations that we hate when we build our railroad.
Now you can even build along slopes, multihead trains and have up to 128 (I think) wagons on your train.

[CWA13000]

It's cool. Thanks for the tip.

[BillyRay]

Is this necessary?

[Jonatan]

In RRT2 there was two locos that you could have when in Sandbox Mode, anyone know what locos I mean? The UP 0-4-0 and A3 0-4-0, the A3 0-4-0 was my fav, very nice and a good runner. It's the loco in the attachment. If you've used it yourself, then you'll recognize it. :)

I wish that loco could be in RRT3, but it isn't. :(

Edit: The drawing is based on that very loco, so this is generally how it looks.

/Jonatan