Transport Tycoon Deluxe Challenge

[Eagle of Fire]

The point of this challenge is to get to 100000000$ as fast as possible time wise playing Transport Tycoon. I have included in this post my own score. It is pretty weak in my oppinion, but it's only a start to get you started on beating me!

What you need to do to enter: play TTD and get to 100000000$ worth of money in your company value. You will notice that in my screenshot I have 100000000$ but 16000000$ more in company value, this is because I realised later on that someone could just sell all or most of his vehicles to get to 100000000$ early and would go beyond the point. Better not bother and go directly for the Company Value instead.

When you provide the screenshot, you will need to open the window showing your Company Value at the very least. All other interesting points, like for example my HQ could be interesting also, but is not needed.

Let the challenge begin! :D


In the hall of fame, we have so far:



1.) Luxurious with 100,059,492$ on November 21th 1973 (August 22 2005)
2.) Luxurious with 100,047,228$ on July 12th 1983 (October 4 2005)
3.) Hkizzle with 100,072,084$ on October 14th 1983 (May 8 2005)
4.) Another Guest with 100,058,758 on April 23th 1984 (July 2 2005)
5.) Eagle of Fire with 100,232,082$ on August 3rd 1985 (May 7 2005)
6.) Bjarte with 100,068,130$ on September 7th 1989 (April 15 2005)
7.) Eagle of Fire with 105,247,152$ on October 18th 1991 (February 8 2005)
8.) Another Guest with 100,011,494$ on December 7th 1991 (June 26 2005)
9.) Eagle of Fire with 116,489,644$ on August 1996 (November 1 2004)
10.) planecrash with 200,041,902$ on January 16 1999 (February 3 2005)
11.) Shrek with 100,054,380$ on June 2003 (July 12 2005)

[Eagle of Fire]

Here is my screenshot:

[Stroggy]

I believe you accidently posted in the wrong section.
This is 'art' :ok:

[FreeFreddy]

Is moved now. ;)

[Eagle of Fire]

It wasn't posted in the wrong section, you can't post images here!

Unless you use your moderator power to allow this thread to have images posted... Then it would be fine by me! :ok:

[Caged]

I love TT, but I can't see the use of ships. Their so slow compared to trains

[Havell]

Ships can be very profitable when oilrigs start appearing on the map because they can carry lots of oil, they usually make me ?20,000 ($40,000) per year so you just build them and leave them to it while you do other things and use the steady flow of income.

[Eagle of Fire]

In that game, I got ships earning around 160,000$ a trip. Granted, they did not make many trips in a year, but as soon as I get a steady flow of ships coming from the rig to the dock, then the cash can't stop coming in!

The best part is not the ships. It is when I build an airport or a train station to get all the goods from the Oil Refinery... Then the cash really flows in!


Edit: here is a screenshot of later in the game since I continued playing and are now 20 years later than the first screenshot. I wish to take your attention on the cash the boat at the dock just sent in my bank account... And I hope you get the point. :sneaky:

[Caged]

hehe, I'm still trying to get above 20 million. It keeps going down because as I get faster trains, I hate building bridges, so I build causeways so they can go full speed. Only problem is that building up land in ocean is very unprofitable. Does pretty good later on though.

[Eagle of Fire]

A little talk with Kosta and we now can upload images in this thread. Thanks a lot Kosta! :ok:

Everyone should be able to show their record now, so start playing and beat me. :D

[UberDave]

I only broke 100,000,000 by 2001. I'm from the UK though and I was using GBP instead of US$ does that make any differnce? I'll try again. What are you guys using for screenshots? I tried pressing the Print Scrn button but that didn't work, I'll have to try HyperSnapDX or something. :cry:

[Rogue]

Try Snag It (http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp). ;)

I never played this game, even I am strategy fun. :blink: :crazy:

Will try it probably this weekend. ;)

[Eagle of Fire]

From ExchangeRate.com: 100,000,000 USD US Dollar = 54,143,000 GBP Pound Sterling.

This would mean that you're halfway there, by current standards (I have no idea what standard was really used in the game).

To make a screenshot I used the option built in the game itself. Go on the big red ? and hold the menu there until it dropdown (instead of using the ? option) and go to "Take a screenshot". You then only need to convert the .pcx to .jpg and post it on this thread. That's what I did so I am pretty sure it will be alright for the image size limit of this board.

I recommend that you use US$ dollards for the challenge. Having to convert the currency each time would be hazardous at best and may result in false convertions. If everyone use the US$ standard from the game then we will be absolutly sure that everyone is equal.

I also tryied to make as much money as possible with another landscape (I always use the random generator). I took the desert landscape (for the sake of not always playing the same thing, which get boring) and managed to only get 36,000,000$ by my old record (1996). There is probably a set landscape which bring more money than the others, and so everyone knows I did the current record on the default temperate landscape.

[Havell]

On transport tycoon most exchange rates are very simple, most are 10x or 2x US$, 1GB? = 2US$. This means that UberDave got 200 million dollars and beat us all.

[Rogue]

Is game made in units (no mather what units are)???

Is it the same number of units you have to pay for somehting?

[Eagle of Fire]

Well I don't know much about currencies. Unless someone can give me the official standings of the game I won't go into transferring them from one currency to another.

The challenge is quite precise on one thing tough; the point is not to get as much money as possible but to get to 100,000,000$ as soon as possible. Thus this mean that Uberdave would come second to me because his snapshot would be from 2001, whatever the total $ would really be.

[Rogue]

How the heck you play this game? :blink:

Right now I got some stady income, but still far belove 100000000.

[Eagle of Fire]

Hehehe... Then that's why it's a "challenge" ;)

I actually thought it would be easy to beat... :blink:

[goblins]

A small sidenotes :ot: well not much simutrans is a similar game (freeware avaiable from simutrans.org) its also a very good game to play.

[Eagle of Fire]

This screenshot should give you a hint on how I manage to get so much cash early.

Look at the money I gathered with my trains after 5 years... :sneaky:

[planecrash]

WOW i just made ?100000000 just gettting ready to post and noticed u wanted $

i have no screenshot when i made $100000000 but this is ?100000000 which i converted into $.

http://www.geocities.com/robert0_87/Scr7.gif

thanks Eagle of Fire for your help and tips

[Eagle of Fire]

I'd be interested in knowing how you converted it? Is there a way to do it from the game itself?

Also, as stated on the first post of this thread, you should go with the Company Value instead as it's probably way higher than your bank balance. :D

[planecrash]

ok that "spanner" ( the button top right, next to the pause button) click once on it. then a opition window will open up. i think the first option is the one u change it. click on the drop down menu and pick one.

i think i stick with $ thu looks better :)

[Eagle of Fire]

I guess you mean top left? ;)

That's very nice, I never realised you could change it this way. I'll add you to the highscore list right away. :)

Too bad that you waited so long tough, because with this screenshot you end up being 2nd under me when it's obvious that you had an incredible start... :(

[Rogue]

Can you have two trains on the same rail? :blink:

[Havell]

Yes, but they'll crash :)

You can have three or four trains on a double track if you space them out well and have I good signal system.

[planecrash]

yeah Eagle of Fire at the start there was 5 very big town (i mean big for a new game)

i used road to connect them at first look like a gaint cross :)

then once 'ok airplane' came in i connect the towns using airports money started flying in. I not a plan that works all the time but if u look in that last year.. i got more money from planes then trains.

in fact the other company keep blowing up my train :D
:( dumb red buses.

[Bjarte]

Which difficulty are you playing on? I sound like your playing on easy but I not realey sure. It hard thats offers the big challeng but I can try to get more money than you but if you play on easy it not so fair.

[planecrash]

i pick HARD then change the terrain to hilly coz mountainous is just too crazy with a town on top train move so slow u get no money and never make the subsidys.

or make space for a airport which cost so much my money nearly runs out

and it realy gets bad when there is only 2 house :(

[Danny252]

I always use pounds.. anyway, time to fire UP TTDX and WIN! here trains.. good beaties ;)
buying out other companies is a good way to get cash if they're rich. buy them up early, and then finish them off with one fell swoop later.. :D
anyway, I shall win. da class 37s, 47s and HSTs shall beat da lot of ya. ZOOM. now to make it fair I have to uninstall all these upgrades I have..

[planecrash]

just had a second great start this could be the best and Danny252 yeah buying other companies is good coz then they are not in your way but u have too many train stations at the one place :ranting:

i had 2 oil Refiners and sawmill with the one stations LOL too many good trains :)

[Eagle of Fire]

Feeling challenged I decided to try again and do a new record. :)

This time I played around with the difficulty settings... I guess a game can be made easier or harder by those settings. Should we decide on a set setting before going on again to this challenge or we allow anything as long as one get by 100000000$ as soon as possible?

Anyways, here is my new record. My usual strategy of going early for ships did not work on this map because the oil rigs appeared really late... They had just began to appear when I've hit 100000000$. I had to compensate this with a new approach and I guess I been lucky in the end because I managed to get control of 2 extremely dense forest (one over 950 lumbers per month! the other near 500) and also got control on a coal mine which gave me over 1000 coal per month. I used the coal to start up then concentrated on the wood. Once the Woodmill was running full speed I then got the hand on the goods the Woodmill was producing and sold this to a nearby town. Managed to get around 5-6 millions a year this way. Quite profitable... :w00t:

The rest was only a question of moping up the map with as much money I could get. Never really got into human transportation on this game... A few train and a lot of busses I actually purchased from competitors but that's it... No big buck to do there.

[Danny252]

well, 'm having a go. once I take over the 2 competing companies and sell off their stuff I'll have more cash. $560,000 net worth so far roughly converted from pounds assuming ?1 = $2
I have oil trains running a route, trains taking farm produce to a factory from the same station, then wood trains taking wood from both the big station and the factory one to a lumber mill and anothe rwood route the other side of the map and even a coal route. own 50% of both companies. or was one 75%...
Anyway I hate having small individual stations if I dont have to. a 4 by 5 station works..

[planecrash]

good luck :)

im having problems i can take screenshots :(
game crashs
good start bad end :bleh:

[Eagle of Fire]

Remember Danny that your result must absolutly be posted as $. You can switch that in the option menu anytime. I suggest that you turn to $ once you think you are near that 100000000$ or you might miss it and go higher.

[ScriptBlue]

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[LittleDude]

If you change curreny i think it just changes the symbol and not the ammount and by the way eagle of fire what ships are those in the second screenie?

[Eagle of Fire]

There is 2 kind of ships on the image you are refering to. The first one is the improved version of the Oil Tanker. Goes faster and can take more oil than the original (the screen comes from an advanced game but I always switch to the new tanker when it become available. They take forever to go from one side of the map to another so speed is a huge factor. I think they have the same graphics tough) and the second ship is a cargo ship refitted for transporting Goods.

In that game the airport could not even manage to get all the goods away so I built other ships at the dock to transport some more goods to an ocean side city. It wasn't very efficient tough, would I have known better I would have done like I do right now and link the dock and the airport together. Way more efficient that way!

Of course the airships are refitted to transport goods too... ;)

[planecrash]

If you change curreny i think it just changes the symbol and not the ammount no sry it dose convert it not sure of all the rates
but ?10000=$20000 try change it at the start.

[TaloN]

ill try later, but does it have to be the green land? i do best on teh desert land

[Eagle of Fire]

It can be on any setting you wish for land. I always take the green land because that's where I do more money. I tryied the desert land once and I really had a hard time trying to get big bucks there.

[planecrash]

I love them desert, but mines close down so quick:(

Maybe a map should get made were we can try get 100000000 on that be fun I mad a map with 1 of each type depending on what it was (e.g. woods far west saw mill far east) and 8 towns small towns across the very very hilly map. What a laugh :))

Maybe have a topic of; user made maps. Might be a nice challenge.

not sure if staff let this happen coz there 400kb x that my ten =4000kb or about 4mb

[Hunter.exe]

even if they don't it's a good idea. LOL

[Bjarte]

This is a test. I have made $ 100,000,000, but I don't know how to post the screenshots. I hope someone can tell me how to do it. :help:
Maybe I need to convert it to Jpg.

Edit: I made it. I got it in.

[Eagle of Fire]

Congratulation Bjarte. With this screenshot you take the first rank! :ok:

Look at the first post of this thread for the ranking.

[Bjarte]

Thanks Eagle of Fire, but I'm not satisfied.... I think I can make it much faster. In that game it all went fine, but at some point the whole game went in to a recession and my steady income, whern't so steady any more. :crazy:

I will try again to beat my own record.

[TaloN]

on my TTTD i only get forests and coal mines with 180 units a month max....how the hell do u get 1000?!?!

[Havell]

You hasve to wait a while, sometimes they double their output, sometimes they half it, there is usually one or two that ends up with a stupidly high output in a few years.

[Eagle of Fire]

Like Havell said.

It's always a very good boost to your money income when one of your own station who was deserving such raw product to see it double. Usually just need to buy some more trains and you have so much more money. :)

Also the raw products you use from a long time with a high % delivery tend to double more often than others.

When I'm past the low money stage I always look for good money opportunity and to expland my empire. Finding industries with insanely high output is always my first target. Take those before the computer I say! :)

[Bjarte]

It is true, some industry double there output and some half it but I allso think it is a about what level you play on.

In my game the highes forest got around 500 units per month and also one farm got around 500.

My tactic is allways to get some passenger train up runding before I hunt for industry with a high output.

There is allso a graphical presentation in the game that show what "goods" that pay the most per unit.

[TaloN]

i know ive been playing TTT for years - once of the first games i bought and have never had it not installed on my PC>

ive just never noticed anythign gettting above 300 units a month.

ill keep an eye out

[Eagle of Fire]

I think you absolutly need "fluctuating economy" as option to see this happen. It's a both way luck you see, it's always frustrating to see your best industry reduced to 1/4 initial production (or close!) too... As they say in English, muck happen... :whistle:

[dirkkk196]

Can someone help me please,i do not know much about computers and i like transport ycoon deluxe,it 's the best game ever!!! :D
The problem is that i have XP and it does not work on my computer,can someone help me please?
Thnx,Dirk...

[a1s]

what service pack/processor/ram/video card do you have? you can get most of this info from control panel->system menu. without this information it's hard to help, because for example I have XP, and it works flawlessly for me.

[Eagle of Fire]

That's really not the right thread to talk about this. You should try to post something at the troubleshooting forum instead.

[Hkizzle]

After trying it out a couple of times (I'm a beginner) I have to say you guys are crazy. I didn't think it was going to be too tough, but I'm really going to have to get to know all the tricks well to do it before 1995.
I was wondering, do you guys have to reload if any industries lose productivity and save as soon as they get better?
Otherwise I tend to have industries losing production rather than gaining it.

[Eagle of Fire]

No, I never "reloaded". I hardly ever save anyways (I have autosave on if it crash)! When I aim for a record I try to play several hours straight. I found that it helps me a lot not to forget important events or to forget what I was doing when I stopped playing and thus not lose several years worth of the game trying to get the "engine" running back at full speed...

[Hkizzle]

That's really impressive then. I haven't tried on easy yet but I don't think it will be too hard to get 100Mil by about 1990 on easy, but right now I am no way near on difficult.

[Eagle of Fire]

If you look at the first post with the table, you'll see that Planecrash earned 200,000,000$ by 1997. That is impressive, my friend...

Still wondering how he managed to do that... :unsure:

[Hkizzle]

If you look at the screenshot it is actually 16 Jan 1999 and not 16 Jan 1997.

Also, I think difficulty setting matters a lot. For difficult the increased cost of building slows down income growth especially at the start and fewer industries make a big difference at the end.

[Eagle of Fire]

You are quite right. This is fixed.

Doesn't remove to the incredible amount of money he have tough.

[Hkizzle]

I think difficulty setting matters a lot. For difficult the increased cost of building slows down income growth especially at the start, and fewer industries make a big difference at the end.
Also, landscaping costs a lot of money. I guess the key is still how fast you can make money in the first 10 years.

[Eagle of Fire]

Here is my latest attemp to complete this challenge as fast as possible. I decided to play with hard settings this time, and it was a very interesting game that I'm far from used to play.

I never used a road vehicle in this game. Only (very profitable) trains to start with, then the oil rigs appeared just before the recession. My classic strategy perfectly fitting in such a scenario, I then got into boats to bring the oil to the (strangely) lone rafinery at the other side of the map. Again this was quite profitable so early in the game. Afterward I went airplane to transport the goods from the rafinery to a far away town for some major profit. In the same time I managed to build another link of profit with wood and goods.

This map was very hilly. I don't remember playing on such a map before. Thankfully the computer was very dumb and none came close to having more than one million at any given time. Only one of them was good enough to manage some good profit and I immediatly merged those 3 passenger trains he built to my own empire. I need to remember in my future games that passenger trains are very profitable once you hit electric...

Another interesting point about the computer is that they kept trying to go airplane (probably because I was already hitting all the few good train spots) and this helped me a little with the hills since they kept flattening them in a strange attempt to place an airport near all the major cities. Since it was too costly for them a lot of them went bankrupt very fast. LOL :rolleyes:


Points of interest in the game: laughing as a computer was going bankrupt at about every 5 game years, cursing as I made a mistake in mountain levelling and "wasted" a million trying to split the mountain in two and paying a million to my "far away town" for commercial buildings when they decided to stop receiving goods at the airport. Fortunatly it only took 2 game months for the airport to accept goods again.

Edit: for those who are interested in knowing this, I began playing at 17:30 and ended the game at 2:30. That's 9 hours and a half playing straight to get this record. I'm tired now. :angel:

Anyhow, here is my screenshot:

[Hkizzle]

Ok took me two weeks to experiment and figure out what works, after trying several times to perfect strategy, I finally felt cofident to go for it.

I first focused three largest cities that were close together with trains, and also industries that were not too far apart with trains. That way I would reduce the amount of money used to changing the land.

I then went to boats and used trains for industries that were further apart.

As soon as the first plane that can carry 200 passengers appeared, I built airports next to the cities on the outer edges of the map, and flew passengers across the map to maximise distance, since a lot of the flying time is taken up by take-off and landing.

Instead of linking one farm to one factory, etc. I linked as many raw material industries to each factory, refinery,etc, to create a hub. These hubs are extremely efficient as cargo planes can just keep taking off to supply the cities, and again I flew the planes across the map to get mega income.

I have to say it was the hub building, and growing the cities early on that got me to 100Mil so fast. The background of the screenshot for example was two cities that grew so much they merged, and I was able to supply them with two airports.

Sorry, no idea how to show the screenshot here, so I just attaached it. Shows 14th Oct 1983. I think I will let the game run till I get 200mil, see how long that takes.

[Eagle of Fire]

Very good, you beat me by a little less than 2 years. Damn, this mean I'll have to do it again if I want to be first again. :) I don't know when I'll have time tough.

I am adding you to the hall of fame right now.

Edit: How did you manage to get 51 trains? Company merge? :huh:

[Hkizzle]

No idea, I just built them. It wouldn't let me have more than 40 planes. I didn't test what the limit was for other vehicles.

Trains were very important for me mid game. I built long industry connections that went half way across the map, and then used 4 trains to supply. In effect, the trains continously deliver like the ship strategy, but because they go faster more money is made.

Late game, I simply needed as many planes as possible.

Also, my map was a really nice map. I reloaded about 20 times until I found a map I thought would do well. The maps I used to practice with were not good, Industries too far apart, towns badly positioned or too small, etc.

[TaloN]

theres no cap on trains, ive had over 200 trains running before (mergers as well) but there is a cap on planes for some reason

[Eagle of Fire]

There is also a cap on boats. I am wondering if we are all running the same version of the game. I know there is a free patch update which bring down a lot of bugs and new features to the game...

[another_guest]

Definitely not worth a screenshot, but still a decent way to bump this thread: just over $ 100 million in december 1991.
But it had been 5 to 10 years since I played Transport Tycoon, and this is the first time I tried the Deluxe version.

To be continued, though I have no hopes of breaking the record. Yet I'd be happy reaching it before 1990.

[Eagle of Fire]

With that score you would still be in 5th place. Worth posting if you ask me.

Your choice.

[another_guest]

http://img64.echo.cx/img64/8861/scr11bz.jpg

Difficulty level: easy

[MadMarius]

:ok: :ok: man..you peapole are ERY good in comparrison to me... :cry: ..I want to be as good as you...i only got to 500.000 company value but i had 4 milion pounds profit(1 mil. in 6 months) BUT I STARTED FROM '75,and went in minus after the furst 30 minutes of playing.. :blink: ...and what boosted me were those"misions" for the cities...with 4x subsidy :ok: ...think i gonna try to make the billion one day... :cheers:

[Eagle of Fire]

Your name been added to the hall of fame Another Guest. :ok:

[BeefontheBone]

Shouldn't the hall of fame reflect the difficulty settings? Doing it on hard is a whole different ballgame.

[another_guest]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Jun 26 2005, 05:17 PM
Your name been added to the hall of fame Another Guest. :ok:
Thanks very much :ok:

But BeefontheBone is absolutely right I think...

[Eagle of Fire]

I don't really see a difference in playing hard or easy settings. I agree that you might have a harder time winning on "hard" settings but keep in mind that the highest scores on the hall of fame right now been played on a "hard" setting. This did not stop us from getting incredible scores. :D

I think we should keep it that way so newbies still have a chance of achieving something even on easy settings.

[another_guest]

An element that works in favor of harder difficulty level is the quality of the competitors you take over. On easy their railroads are a total mess, making hardly any profit. Maybe that helps a bit?

[Shrek]

another_guest* Posted on Jun 27 2005, 11:01 AM
* An element that works in favor of harder difficulty level is the quality of the competitors you take over. On easy their railroads are a total mess, making hardly any profit. Maybe that helps a bit?

you are correct. but more profitable their companies are more money you will have to dispose to take over them. :blink: well, not that i find that a big problem as i tend to assimilate 75% of each company by the time they show up :bleh:

[another_guest]

Once more on easy difficulty:
100,058,758 at 23rd April 1984

Next time I'll try average, I'm still not confident enough to try the hard settings.

[Eagle of Fire]

You are now in the hall of fame in the second position. Congratulations. :ok:

[Shrek]

Dammit, i' m 20 years late..... :cry:

those stupid trains, boats and buses are always breaking up :wall:


well, i guess i' ll have to start it again

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/870/post1211211763981yn.jpg

[Eagle of Fire]

That's alright for a first try, keep practicing. :ok:

[Shrek]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Jun 27 2005, 02:41 AM
I don't really see a difference in playing hard or easy settings.
well, i used to think that way too, but since i' m trying to beat this challange in the "hard" level, i changed my mind.... of course it can be done, but it requires a lot, but really a lot more time to get it.

I just found out that in my first 15 years i can only settle 8 trains running. And my competitors aren' t really that good, as most of them go banckrupt very easly. and the damn trains are allway "breaking up"; in a single trip, i noticed one of my trains breaking up 3 times; that damn thing must be a piece of junk, althow it costed a fortune.

but as i am stubborn as a mule, i' ll keep trying it. :wall:

[mm_pie]

I am stuck on da hard level 2. Use aircraft, i think it works out better than trains if u build it up properly.

[a15drian]

i like playing at Scotland 1964 it's very funny and hard :D

[Shrek]

Originally posted by a15drian@Aug 5 2005, 02:23 PM
i like playing at Scotland 1964 it's very funny and hard :D
ham, hum... in case you didn' t notice, the target of this challange is to get 100000000$ worth of money in your company value as fast as you can.... if you start in 1964, you starting 14 years after everybody else.

[luxurious]

Hmmm.... This challenge looks interesting. I think, I will join in. So... new record is on the way :D

[SupSuper]

Hmmm, haven't played TTD in a while but this challenge sounds interesting, I might give it a go :)

[luxurious]

So... I am back. Here is my screenshot. Yes, i have to say, that i play it in very easy mode :D

Maybe later i try something harder.... in future

[Eagle of Fire]

That's incredible Luxurious... And we have a winner! :w00t:

[luxurious]

Call me TTD Guru :kosta:

[Shrek]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Aug 23 2005, 03:08 AM
That's incredible Luxurious... And we have a winner!* :w00t:
hey, is that valid? :Titan:

just look at the settings

Maximum number of competitors: 0
Maximum initial loan: $1.000.000
Initial interest rate: 2%
Vehicle running costs: low
Vehicle breakdowns: none
Construction costs: low
Disasters: off

with this settings it' s impossible not to win; just with the initial loan it is possible to build a dozen trains, but with hard settings, i doubt it to be possible to build more than two. and just watch at what was spent per year in vehicle running costs (in my screenshot, for 22 trains, around $1.500.00 per year; luxurious screenshot, for 67 trains, $550.000) that' s 3 times more for 1/3 of the vehicles.

sorry guys for all this; i' m not against any one :angel:, just think if you want to compare, you have to define some rules and every competitors must follow the rules. imagine there were no rules in F1 - the smart team equips a car with a space shuttle rocket and will certainly win against the ones running a car pulled by a donkey (it is a very bad example, but is just to show my point of view).

and luxurious, play it with hard settings and show us the results; then maybe we call you "TTD Guru" :twisted:

[bruno]

i use some a custom settings and i didn´t brake the records. :ranting:
i´m really bad player in this game. :wall:

[Eagle of Fire]

There is rules, and those rules allow you to use whichever setting you want. You could always use the same settings and make yourself an ultimate highscore too...

I myself used custom settings to make all my scores, except one or two which were on hard (and those are the best scores). All I can say more about this is that it wasn't just a plain dull challenge, I made those scores while having fun playing the game.

[Blood-Pigggy]

I think Shrek seems to show more skills in TTD.
Not bashing Lux, but I think that playing on Hard and amassing a large amount of money with a very small amount of trains shows much more potential in someone's playing skills.

It should be more of a difficulty thing instead of completely statistical.

[bruno]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy@Sep 6 2005, 11:00 PM
I think Shrek seems to show more skills in TTD.
Not bashing Lux, but I think that playing on Hard and amassing a large amount of money with a very small amount of trains shows much more potential in someone's playing skills.

It should be more of a difficulty thing instead of completely statistical.
i agree i think the settings ,will be the same for everybody, because some can do better with hard settings and it is different make with easy settings.

[luxurious]

Ok, I hope that now it is fair-play. :evil: I have played it at hard level. Im really TTD guru :bleh:

[Shrek]

yes :ok: now you are a "TTD" guru :bleh:

Edit: I forgot to say: congratulations :kosta:

[Danny252]

I think I've got some G-forces working on me.. All I can see if red..

[Hobgoblin]

Originally posted by Danny252@Nov 4 2005, 10:42 PM
I think I've got some G-forces working on me.. All I can see if red..
yeah i was a little "WTF"!!! when i saw the shot

not played this in years once played 28 hours straight with slight pauses to eat snacks and drink i was totally bozzeyed after :ok: LOL
gonna have a go @ the challenge if i can get the game up and running (sure i have a copy round here somewhere oh yeah i do cool (just checked)
doubt al be on the leader board but al try :cheers:

[Danny252]

Talk about TOPIC BUMP!

3 1/2 months late...

[Eagle of Fire]

As long as we have contestants, I don't care much. I'm still very open to edit the first post and add whoever fit in the hall of fame. :ok:

[SupSuper]

Competitions never get bumped, just ressurected ;)

[Rogue]

I will have to play this game again....

After I finish:

Final Fantasy IV on GBA
Monkey Island 1 on ScummVM
Master of Orion on DOSBox

Yah, it might take a while... :D

BTW, congrats to all who made it to hall of f(l)ame!

[Eagle of Fire]

Why flame? :blink:

[Rogue]

Goes well with your avatar. :)

[Hobgoblin]

eagle of fires hall of flame am with you there LOL


ok something i wrote on here before got me thinking the 1 time i maxxed out the cash so that transport tycoon couldn't handle it is when i put the intrest rates to maximum and on here the top scores are all on hard level i would suggest then trying easy level but with high intrest later in the game everything will be more expensive income will also be higher and company value will be higher i think thats why the guys playing on hard are winning although the companys are not as big inflation means they are worth more

for instance a thoretical experiment create a map with nothing but a power station and a coal mine save it start 2 games 1 on easy 1 on hard 2 stations 1 train update train when needed using same trains on each game do nothing else after 20 years the company in the hard game would be worh more because interest is linked into infltion in the game

ps this is a theory though it is based on my experience in the game i could easily be wrong but eagle (or whoever feels like it) try it
i would but profit isn't my main goal i usually make plenty but as long as i make enough so that i can afford to keep some of my old trains running (it looks good and makes smooth running of other rains more challenging) and keep building i am happy :whistle:

i did try the challenge but i get distracted from maximising profit by things like changing junctions so they look better and i like to set up lots of different trains on 1 section it makes less money but i like the challenge of making it work :ok:

[Eagle of Fire]

As the creator of this competition, I feel the obligation to :bump: this thread back to the top so others can see it too. Right now it's hidden under the heap of all the other threads and you need to search specifically to find it.

[Tom Henrik]

Pinned, as this contest is open all the time, but posting isn't really part of the game - so it sinks down to the bottom where no-one sees it.

[Eagle of Fire]

Thank you Tom. For the record, I requested this pin. :)

[sosad]

I Love TTD :bleh:

[Hkizzle]

Wow, how lame. I haven't posted here in over a year, and I find someone used a cheat to beat my record. Luxurious simply used a bug in transport tycoon to get the best score. If you look at the screenshot of his custom game you will see that he spent over 15 million in the last year alone building vehicles. This seems strange because if you look at the preceeding two years he spent very little on vehicles.

But go do this yourself, build a bus depot and keep building buses, or you can do it with trains, then look at your company value jump. It's a bug, so a person that can't win legit like luxurious can simply churn out lots of vehicles then to bump up his company value to make it seem they earned 100 million. How cheap.

Another clue is that anyone that gets 100mil should have a huge cash balance since they will get money faster than they can build. This is proven in Shrek's screenshot where he has over 80 mil in cash. It's impossible to get 100 mil without having at least a good portion of that as cash. Then you look at luxurious's screenshot from the game on hard setting. He's only got 2 mil, showing that in the hard game he spent the last year of the game simply buying vehicles to bump up his company value to get to 100mil prematurely.

Totally lame. I usually don't like to flame but anyone that cheats to win a competition even if it's for fun, to get attention and respect is sad. He should have his record taken off the list of best times, since he didn't do it legit. It's only fair to the rest of us that put in hours and hours to do our best legit.

[Hkizzle]

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/WBo...WorldRecord.jpg (http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/WBooker/WorldRecord.jpg)

Took me several weeks of retrying to finally get this time which beats Luxuries' time. Also note that his fastest time was on custom setting with the easiest options, whilst me attempt was done in hard mode which usually means it would take several years longer.

Note this attempt was done using exactly the same method luxuries used, if I did it in a normal method it would have taken me till about 1975 to get to 100 mil. But considering Luxuries' times are still up there I think it's only fair that this time is included as it was just using his method.

[_r.u.s.s.]

i have used another, very special method on this one. i have been taking some courses about marketing economy and found them quite helpful in the game. its in very strategic connection between ships buses and trains
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6397/methodsx2.jpg

[Hkizzle]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Apr 15 2007, 04:38 PM) 287071</div>
i have used another, very special method on this one. i have been taking some courses about marketing economy and found them quite helpful in the game. its in very strategic connection between ships buses and trains
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6397/methodsx2.jpg
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What you saying? That it's impossible to get that money by 1972 and I did a photoshop? I'll send the save game to anyone that wants it. If you are no where close to 1972 it might be because you suck, and not that someone else cheated.

In anycase, I already stated I used the same method as luxurious, had I used a normal method would have taken till sometime in 1975.

[_r.u.s.s.]

..it was joke=/

[Hkizzle]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Apr 16 2007, 05:03 AM) 287119</div>
..it was joke=/
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:blink:

[another_guest]

Just inviting you people to have another go at the challenge.
It's been over 2 years since I played TT and before that it was some 10 years or so.

Currently on "hard" trying to get into the top 10. Won't be a top 5 place though, had too much trouble in the beginning (4 UFO's crashing a vehicle of mine when I only had 5 - 10).
Now it's 1971 and I'm nowhere near the 100 million, but I should get there before 1990. Also my cash is piling up faster than I can spend, I might have to try flattening half cities in order to build large airports.

[Eagle of Fire]

Unfortunatly, I don't really have time for thing kind of competition anymore. I didn't update the last entries because there was some claim of cheating between two members, and I didn't have the time to fire up TTD and check out for myself...

You're welcome to take the hall of fame and start a new thread about it. You have my blessing. :)

[another_guest]

Thanks, my suggestion is I'll start a new thread if other people are interested, there's no use for a new topic if I'm the only poster :whistling:

In the end it seems I was too optimistic: it took me until 1998 to reach the $100 million (NOT exploiting the mechanism of buying extra vehicles to boost company value!)
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Reasons:
- a limit of 40 on aircraft, hit the ceiling in 1983
- extremely little industry (1 oil well, some iron and coal, only 1 lumber mill)
- noticed too late that taking over companies reduces your company value, lost some $5 million with that in the 1980's :huh:
- similar remark for large construction works such as leveling terrain: seems to reduce your company value?
- very mountaneous landscape, even for hard settings

Some history:
1950: total income 30K$
1955: total income 92K$; company value 285K$
1960: income 172K; value 444K (trying hard to double both figures every 5 years)
1965: income 292K; value 863K (saving for my first heli)
1970: income 720K; value 2194K
1975: income 2103K; value 6058K (as from now, unable to spend all income on new vehicles/aircraft or development)
1980: income 4152K; value 11942K (nicely doubling every 5 years)
1985: income 7736K; value 23400K (from now on slowing down since aircraft limit reached)
1990: income 12488K; value 46831K
1995: income 18516K; value 82316K

Perhaps I might give it another try, hopefully with more industry and/or less mountains on the map. Especially some oil would be nice...

[luxurious]

Oh..i really didnt cheat. :tai: I bought the vehicles only becouse i wanted reach limit of value of company some days earlier. I had all money in cash. I could start to play it again. To declare my mastery :tomato: !

But now i have to work...maybe during the christmass...


...i will return :ph34r:

[Luso]

I LOVE TTD :)
and whit open ttd is better! play online, new veicules houses ect

very hard maps!

i also like play whit other player in same company!

actualy i dont had time for play because the work ... but is a very good game! and is free :D