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OpenTTD is like playing with a physical trainset, you don't win you just play. That said it does offer some metrics you can compare performance on, such as: -
by jodrellblank 5y ago
OpenTTD is like playing with a physical trainset, you don't win you just play. That said it does offer some metrics you can compare performance on, such as:
- Company performance rating https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Manual/Detailed%20Performance%20Rating https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Manual/Detailed%20Performance%20...
- income and profit and cargo delivery: https://i.redd.it/am22ad5jkqv31.png https://i.redd.it/am22ad5jkqv31.png
- company finances and value: https://bugs.openttd.org/task/104/getfile/172/finances_screenshot.png https://bugs.openttd.org/task/104/getfile/172/finances_scree...
It typically runs through the 1900s and unlocks more vehicles later in the game, by the 2000s the game gets very easy to make money and the map is full and there are no more vehicles, so servers tend to have an arbitrary cutoff endgame then and you can compete "most valuable company" by the end.
There are plugins which add specific goals, such as CityBuilder where you take a small city for yourself and have to supply it with whatever it needs to help it grow, and the first person to cross a certain city size wins and ends the game. Then there are customised versions which make the vehicles more expensive, the routes less profitable, resource production is limited, and it's a lot more challenging to make a sustainable company at all.
"Master Hellish" has some good OpenTTD introductory videos on YouTube: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMXFMjZu8j8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMXFMjZu8j8