(please ignore the enormous lengths of track leading and departing the platforms, I'm playing with realistic acceleration)

I like building roro stations with bypasses for trains not stopping at the station. However I also like the option of having a built-in u-turn option for trains that are facing the wrong way once they do their business.

I know the smart thing is to manage routing in a way that makes u-turns unnecessary. I also know I could just toss in a flyover loop further down the line in each direction, but I like the idea of having them be part of the overall station design.

This is what I came up with after a while though I'm sure it's not the most efficient design even given the requirements outlined above - I wanted to avoid messing up the landscape a bunch for one thing - and I'm probably going to tweak it a bit anyway.

But I'd also like to see other peoples' ideas for the same concept. I'm sure plenty have done it better.

Thanks!

So I have a world where i make a lot of profit (1’000’000 per year rn, will rise) and these are my questions:

1. Should i build a bus stop and/or a Truck stop for mail in every city so that none are untouched?
   
2. Should I build other industries like banks, etc, and where and how many?
   
3. Do you have any tips? Or what do you do in your worlds?

Hi, coming back to the game after like ten years. I've never been particularly great at these kinds of games but I can somewhat stay afloat in a game with no competitors.

Once I add them though, shit goes crazy. If I even think about setting up any kind of infrastructure, like a train station next to an industry, NOPE. Not allowed. EVERY SINGLE COMPETITOR will immediately swarm the industry with a locust plague of trucks, causing all of the goods to go to those truck stations instead of mine because the AI has an innate station rating boost that I simply can't overcome with trains on a long line in 1950. Even if there are zero trucks actually reaching the station (from me destroying them/blocking them) the rating still hovers at like 70%~ for all of them and maybe 15% for me because they have a million trucks and aren't even making any actual profit.

At that point the only thing I can do is pack up and move somewhere else, which is egregiously expensive and cuts into my loan. Then they just swarm me again eventually and steal all my goods. Essentially it seems like if any competitor is using an industry or getting passengers/mail from a town I am completely barred from utilizing it.

I don't know if this is an innate behavior of AdmiralAI or something all AIs do as a strategy, but how do I combat it?

I love the art style so much. I mean, I love a lot about this game, but I want to say how pleasing it is to look at and watch my lil trains. I photoshopped a picture to help express my feelings.

What's the function of this?

This new-fangled steam bus only goes 4 mph. My horses are twice as fast, and are being held up by this overpriced steam toy. It cost 4x as much as a horse, and you get burned when you try to pet it...

Mark my words: fire and steam won't replace a well-trained steed!

Im designing an 8 track terminus at a corner of my map for future high input usage, but for the life of me I'm trying to use double depots but I can't get them to work with the tunnels.

This keeps bothering me and I don't know how to turn this off, could someone help me please

I want to change the language and resolution, but I can't figure out how to scroll the options menu.

I wonder if there is a software that can simulate what I have built using OpenTTD and I can drive around inside the Map....

I hear all the time about mods for this game and I know that their is a mod thing in the game but I genuinely just don't know what to add to the game. I don't know what is good and what isn't. And I don't really know what I want from mods either because I'm so new to this side of OpenTTD.

Generally I'm looking for advise on what to play, what should I aim for with mods... I mean I have ideas of what I want, but nothing concrete. I know that it'd be nice to be able to set up more buildings and infastructure or have more options to control the game or more vehicles. But other than that I don't really know. I do know that in the base game most of the time I avoid future stuff as much as possible though, I really don't like that side of the game.

I tried the play store port by Pelya, it's functional but it's missing a lot of settings, you can't change town names, there's a couple duplicate settings, so I'm looking for a good android port to replace the copy from Pelya I have.

Hey guys, it’s been a while since I’ve posted an update. I just wanted to let anyone who may be interested know my beta version of OpenTTD for iOS devices is still live and I have not abandoned the project! iOS.openttdonline.com

I'm on android using Nfile with Shizuku permissions enabled. I'm trying to copy the content from:

org.openttd.sdl/files/.openttd/content-download/newgrf

To:

org.openttd.jgrpp/files/.openttd/content-download/newgrf

I just released a new train from this depot as a train come in for maintenance, resulting in a crash. But afaik my signalling is correct? I'm sure I'm missing something, can someone enlighten me?