

The stupid things the AI tries to pass as traffic routes has to be seen to be believed.An Entrepreneur Is You: The series is considered one of the classics of the "tycoon" genre of business sims.Tropical towns in the desert require Food and Water. Arctic towns above a certain elevation have to have Food delivered before they grow. The alternate climates in the Deluxe version have additional restrictions.This is necessary in some cases because towns will only pay for Goods once they build enough high-rise buildings, which only happens once they reach a certain size. You can accelerate, but not control, the growth of town buildings by dealing in Passengers there. This includes the building of roads, but you can assist in doing so if you want to coerce the development of a town in a specific way. The towns will automatically develop over time, without your assistance.The effects of events like World War II or the 1970s oil crisis on the economy are completely absent.Acceptable Break from Reality: Even the most sprawling metropolises will only house about 30,000 people.The Transport Tycoon series contains examples of: OpenTTD is still being regularly updated, and was released on Steam on April 1st, 2021. The most valuable information can still be found at TT-Forums, with only the TTDRussia Forums showing any other activity to this day. Sites that were once useful such as Owen's Transport Tycoon Site and the (now-defunct) Transport Tycoon Semi-FAQ ( Archive link ) were very informative fansites around the Turn of the Millennium, but are almost useless now. Transport Tycoon, TTDPatch and OpenTTD have a very long, complex history. The original game was superseded officially by its 2004 Spiritual Successor, Locomotion. Most of them were fortunately fixed in Transport Fever, a Surprisingly Improved Sequel launched in 2016 with backwards compatibility for most Train Fever mods (either natively or using a mod that autotranslates the code so it to be usable with Transport Fever). Train Fever was an attempt at a modernised Spiritual Sequel by Urban Game], however it had a myriad of limitations and bugs. There is also a Fan Sequel of sorts, called Simutrans, but it's an indie game only Inspired by and not related or legally connected to the Transport Tycoon series. The Deluxe version introduced uni-directional signals, that only allow a train to pass in a single direction. The original Transport Tycoon allows only bi-directional signals, which allow trains to pass in either direction. The primary difference between the games is how signals operate. It contains numerous bugfixes and gameplay improvements, including new transport modes and UI. Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an updated version.


An expansion pack for the original game, named Transport Tycoon World Editor, was also released in 1995, which featured a scenario editor (which was eventually included in Deluxe) and a "Martian" set of graphics. The two games in the series are Transport Tycoon (released in 1994 and now referred to as Original) and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (released in 1995). Transport is provided in all four major modes air, rail, road and water, though the most profit tends to come from rail and then air. The apparent object of the games is to end up with a monopoly of transport services for a usually randomly generated map. Transport Tycoon is a pair of business management simulation games created by legendary Scottish game developer Chris Sawyer (of RollerCoaster Tycoon and MicroProse fame).
