What is OpenTTD?
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe (TTD). As president of a start-up transportation company in 1950, you have a choice of building rail, road, air and maritime transportation routes to build up your transportation empire. Outsmart your competition by beating them to attractive passenger and commodities routes to become the game's highest-ranking transport company by the year 2050.

OpenTTD is based on Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon Deluxe and introduces a whole set of new features, including multiplayer support, better stations and vehicles, larger maps and a host of other options. OpenTTD runs on Linux, Unix, BeOS, OS/2, Windows and a few other platforms.

List of players
Lapsus
cykuzio
Jalis
Ryukendo99

But I've never heard of Transport Tycoon!
Well, Have you ever heard of Rollercoaster Tycoon? I'm sure you have. Who hasn't played that game at least once, seriously. Well, the original Transport Tycoon, and it's successor, Transport Tycoon Deluxe are made by none other than Chris Sawyer, The mastermind behind the massively successful Rollercoaster Tycoon series.

The games have similar visual styles, and are both awesome fun.

Here's a screenshot of Rollercoaster Tycoon


And here's one of OpenTTD!


Okay, so how difficult is it to get into?
The interface is fairly intuitive, and it's easy to get a simple train setup shipping coal to a nearby power plant to make you some money.

There's always The OpenTTD Wiki that contains a manual and a simple tutorial to get you familiarized with the controls, and is a great way to get started.

The #openttdcoop Wiki is a good place to look for some more advanced concepts and strategies.

Where do I get it?
Go to The OpenTTD website. You can get the latest stable version from there, but I'd recommend the latest beta, as the installer includes the options to download a free graphics and sound set, Plus that's what I'm running on my server.


I want to play online!
Well I've got some good news for you! You can! Hop on the Toribash IRC and /join #openttd ! I've got an 18-slot server running, 8 companies max, with ap+ to manage it, and act as an IRC-to-game bridge!

When you're on, you can simply say !help for a list of commands that the bot will respond to. You can get the server address by saying !ip and the current server password by saying !password . I've set things up this way to stop random outsiders from joining, so you'll always be playing with your fellow Toribashers.

This looks extremely awesome, I've always loved tycoon games, I'll try it once you get the online server up

Yay! I've played it on my Itouch but buttons were too small.

I love tycoon games too!

We definentely need an IRC channal for this.

Server is UP!

Also, I'm way ahead of you on that Ryukendo99, I registered the channel before I started making the thread :3

Harr.
Downloading now I guess.

I'm gonna like it, played RCT since 2007 :3



Edit : Setup cannot continue without TTD location, what the hell , I set an install location. :<
Edit : NVM, I'm dumb.
Edit : Keep getting errors. :<

Good times, played with zaarock, jalis, qegola, cevius etc etc.

man, good times, I should start playing again ;o

Lapsus: put the detailed server options etc in the first post(well, defaults the server has)?

I'll probably get around to playing this when I use my mac more. Hopefully we can get some more new players.

Heh, i'll just bump this, started to play this today, seems to be enjoyable enough,

This game is great!I've got the basics down,I don't know if the irc channel is still alive though :O,though we need to revive interest in dis shiz.