I remember playing this as kid 10+ years ago, but i never bothered learning how to properly do it, i always used airports to generate profit and nothing else lol. Anyway, i was wondering why this game was never popular to begin with? I have seen on google that this game is 20 years old now, but i do not know the story behind it, therefore i would appreciate if anyone could tell me more about why this game never "blew up" so to speak....

will there be a mod workshop for open ttd as that would be awesome to see what people would make for the game

As this is often a question from new players, I thought it would be useful to collect some best practices on how to get the best start and get your economy running. I'm ruling out aircraft as they are in a league of their own when it comes to boosting profitability, at least as long as you don't enable infrastructure costs. So far I've run a few test games (small map, 1950 start, inflation on, infrastructure off) and came to the following conclusions: 1) The classic start with coal mines and medium to lo...

Before I played the dessert scenario there were hardly any trees on the grass map. Now they're everywhere. This makes planting trees pointless as there are already too many trees everywhere. This shouldn't happen after just playing a different scenario. Now it's an eye sore. It's difficult to find anything due to the massive amount of trees everywhere. I tried uninstalling and deleting everything, made no difference....

Sometimes when I tell a transport (mostly vehicles) to go to the maintenance depot, somewhere along the way the the vehicle reverts to it's original orders and never get to the depot. I've noticed this thru several games.