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I've discovered that the most fun way to play is by turning industries off and sending only mail/passengers. Industries give far too many opportinities to earn

I've discovered that the most fun way to play is by turning industries off and sending only mail/passengers. Industries give far too many opportinities to earn big, but towns are small, and grow only when you drive people around, eventually growing to extraordinary sizes. (best trick is to serve the whole town with just one station, made by sprawling an airport with bus-truck stations and extending it to cover as much town area as possible.

dragontamer 6y ago
Goods distribution is pretty fun, because all goods can be delivered to any city. Goods contribute to growth on an independent axis as passengers and mail, so its very useful at making cities grow faster. --------------- The optional CargoDist settings for passenger / mail is excellent btw. If you plan on using any passenger / mail traffic, I highly suggest turning on that extension. Passengers / mail under CargoDist will plan "routes", and take multiple stops to get to their preferred destination. A set percentage (say 75%, its configurable) will also want to make a "round trip", and come back home. This allows for more natural "hub-and-spoke" style gameplay for your traffic systems... compared to the default where passengers are willing to be dropped off literally anywhere. In theory, "Goods" and other stuff can be CargoDist enabled as well. However, I like the idea of "fungible" items (like Coal or Goods), to provide further contrast between passengers/mail and the rest of the game.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
  Those must be new openttd features, i don't recall them being in the original game which i played to the death. Anyway, I've found just to easy to get insane amounts of money when industries where enabled. So playing with passengers only made a bigger challenge in the beginning
  - dragontamer 6y ago
    CargoDist is definitely a newer feature. I can recommend making a new game with it enabled: it really changes the game dramatically.

dragontamer 6y ago

Goods distribution is pretty fun, because all goods can be delivered to any city. Goods contribute to growth on an independent axis as passengers and mail, so its very useful at making cities grow faster. --------------- The optional CargoDist settings for passenger / mail is excellent btw. If you plan on using any passenger / mail traffic, I highly suggest turning on that extension. Passengers / mail under CargoDist will plan "routes", and take multiple stops to get to their preferred destination. A set percentage (say 75%, its configurable) will also want to make a "round trip", and come back home. This allows for more natural "hub-and-spoke" style gameplay for your traffic systems... compared to the default where passengers are willing to be dropped off literally anywhere. In theory, "Goods" and other stuff can be CargoDist enabled as well. However, I like the idea of "fungible" items (like Coal or Goods), to provide further contrast between passengers/mail and the rest of the game.

Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
Those must be new openttd features, i don't recall them being in the original game which i played to the death. Anyway, I've found just to easy to get insane amounts of money when industries where enabled. So playing with passengers only made a bigger challenge in the beginning
- dragontamer 6y ago
  CargoDist is definitely a newer feature. I can recommend making a new game with it enabled: it really changes the game dramatically.