Competition

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I have decided to make a transport tycoon competition. I have two competitions:

Competition 1

This competition is for more advanced players. Download the Competition Scenario, set the difficulty to hard and play it. The aim is to make as much money as possible by 1998. This does NOT include company value. The person who submits the game with the most money will gain 1^st place, and that game will be available for download. I will also mention the top 5 places, but I won't put up their saved games. I have designed this scenario to be quite a challenge, even advanced players should find this challenging!

Description of scenario:

This is Sub-Arctic Climate. There is a long water way which cuts across the centre, which is just narrow enough for bridges. Either side of the water way there are maximum height ridges, 6 squares across at the top. Industries which supply and demand are on opposite sides of the ridges, as with two medium sized towns. However, there is a road which tunnels under the ridges, going from side to the other. There are other towns dotted around the place.

Things to think about:

Once you have £1,000,000 you have enough money to build a railway across the centre. So what do you do? Do it and hope the profits are worthwhile? Or keep the £1,000,000 and hope it will give you first place
Boats might come in handy? Think about it.
You have the infrastructure for roads, but do you invest in road vehicles or go ahead with trains?
Aircraft might seem a good idea, but are the towns really large enough? And will you be able to keep ratings sufficiently high?
A lot of this is in the economics, to get money you have to spend it, and in big quantities for this scenario, so you will have to decide carefully where returns will be good.

I have 1 entry for this competition

Competition 2

This is a more straightforward competition. Download the scenario of the British Isles and play it on medium difficulty and build 80 profit making trains in as shorter time as possible. 1^st place will go to the person who gets 80 money making trains at the earliest date and their saved game will be available for download. I will mention the top 5 places.

Description:

This is the British Isles made as accurately as I possibly could, with industries more or less in the right positions. Towns are in the correct positions and I have made them of an appropriate size (relatively speaking of course, London for example has in fact a pop of 7 million). A large amount remains water, and the very low population of Ireland (3mn) is simulated by very low amount of towns and few industries. This scenario was constructed using atlases, so is reasonable geographically accurate

Things to think about:

Build build build may not be the best course of action, if services cost money, it may slow profits stopping you from further investment,
80 trains is the maximum number, so you may need to take over competitors if they run services.
You can use other forms of transport, another form of transport may bring in a lot of extra cash for more trains services, you decide.
Try using integrated rail networks. One railway per train would get a bit hectic, how do you think the real life British rail works, which has about 15,000 trains running every day?
Look at the hints in my railway guide, they may help when running a very busy railway network.

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