July 7, 2012 7 Comments

Orderless Multi Cargo SRNW – My first article!

written by LoPo

Introduction After PZ Game 19 – some community members decided to play a Self Regulating Network (SRNW) game. However, the idea behind this game was challenging and rather different than the SRNW games we have seen on the public server. Because this game was, unfortunately, never finished it will not go to the archives. Because […]

September 28, 2010 8 Comments

Advanced Building Revue 07: Stations

written by V453000

Building stations is one of the most essential things in OpenTTD. To build a station doesn’t require any experience (besides knowing which button to press), although construction of a station that works perfectly requires some deeper and in under-rated amount of knowledge. The point of this article isn’t in showing all possibilities how to make […]

July 27, 2010 4 Comments

Building 101: double bridges and you

written by XeryusTC

Introduction From the very start that you start building networks in OpenTTD you’ll need to have different tracks crossing each other. When you just start out this will be done by just simple level crossings which aren’t very efficient (except when using YAPP/PBS), later on you will start using bridges and tunnels to do this […]

March 25, 2010 1 Comment

Advanced Building Revue 02: Splits

written by V453000

We have had many articles about mergers, merging, balancing, packing, and so on because it definitely is one of the most important parts in our every game. This one is about the counterpart. Splitting. In this article I would like to describe most of the types of splits and show the possible usages.