This
is a truly remarkable game, I have always been a fan of strategy,
but this game takes things to extreme. You are a business tycoon,
who builds transport networks, surprisingly enough. The thing is,
it sounds rather dull but that could not be further from the
truth. Every time you start a new game, you have a completely new
landscape, the towns and industry are in very different places,
so each new game takes on a life of its own. Also it is a
constructive game, I get a real sense of achievement when I
complete a large network. Once you have done that you can sit
back and watch it all in action, it is visually appealing. The
graphics in this game have a very solid and pleasant look, check
out the Screenshots. As for the wonderful music, a whole range of
midi sound tracks, this is midi which sounds lovely on all sound
cards. Considering it only costs £15 I only wonder why everyone
doesn't have it. I need feedback about this site, so please send
me your comments. When you are through here, why not visit
the rest of my homepage. If you are interested in high speed
trains, look at my fast trains section.
In the beginning there was
plain and simple transport tycoon. It was great, and then they
updated it, added a scenario editor along with a Martian graphics
set. This allowed you to play god, put all the industries and
towns where you wanted them, model the landscape without
restriction. However the real breakthrough came with the arrival
of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. This meant slightly more lush
graphics, more music tracks, but more importantly 3 new worlds.
Now you could set up transport services across desert and
rainforest, across the ice on high northern mountains, and the
bracken of Canada. Unlike the Martian Graphics set, this was much
more than a graphics set, different climates had different
industries to connect, and had different strategies as well.
There is also a toyland climate, although I am not so keen on
that one, as one of the things I like about transport tycoon is
its realisticness, you loose that in toyland. See also: A new
version of TTD
Due to repeated requests I
have decided to add this section as of Tuesday, August 26, 1997.
Updates:
After an extended period of neglect (due to life's various other commitments) I have returned to care for my website in late 2001. I have started by fixing a lot of broken links. I hope to provide more information soon!
This has wonderful detail,
such as the fact you can flood land by lowering it next to water,
also trees will grow all the time, and you can plant them and
watch them grow before your eyes. However, local authorities have
their opinions, they are very environmentally conscious, you cut
down too many trees and they will not like you. In fact they may
even stop you building your station, so watch out. High ratings
with the council allows you to destroy a lot of buildings in
town, useful when you need somewhere to put a passenger station.
Ratings improve by providing a reasonable service in the area, or
planting a lot of trees in the area. Another fascinating thing is
the Lumber mill, environmentalists won't like this... you can
fund the construction of a lumber mill in the surrounding
rainforest. This will cost a lot of money, however in hot climate
wood is the best paid commodity around. The lumber mill works by
cutting down the rainforest around. It has a fairly high
production too, so it gives a wood service a tidy profit, making
the initial investment worthwhile. However, after about 30 or 40
years, all the rainforest in its threshold is gone, production
drops dramatically, occasionally stops all together. You get
around this by planting lots and lots of trees, while they are
cut down, it gives the rainforest time to re-establish, well, it
gets complicated!
In order to improve my web
pages on the Internet I need feedback from everyone who looks at
these pages so if you could take a couple of minutes to fill out
my form I would much appreciate it.
The purpose of these web
pages is to promote transport tycoon and to provide a resource
for the online community. I have written these web pages entirely
by myself using various things such as old friednly notepad and
Microsoft Frontpage Express (its free!). The frames have been
designed for Internet explorer 4 at 600x800 resolution or higher,
although I have tried to make it as netscape friendly as
possible. I don't believe in legal disclaimers. I am not so
paranoid that I worry someone across the other side of the world
is going to sue me for a mispelling! I have tried to make this a
site which has what everyone wants, without trying to compete
with other TTD pages. (It is silly to duplicate information that
is already on the net). Comments and suggestions related to the
site are welcome: webmaster@o-keating.com
One thing. DO NOT ASK ME TO SEND YOU COPIES
OF TTD! I WON'T DO IT
Chris Sawyer (the auther
of transport tycoon) is on the internet and has released his
e-mail address for which he can be contacted for questions
relating to transport tycoon:
Please note that this is
the address to use, some sites may still advertise his address as
cws@aol.com - do not use this one since it will become
disfunctional sometime in the end of June 98.
His first appearence on
the internet was in late Autumn of 1997 when he contacted Thor
Hovden (runs the transport tycoon fan club) and set up the
"Chris Saywer Channel". Since his e-mail address is now
on public release the Channel is no longer functional, but worth
a look:
Here you can download a
demo of Transport Tycoon (Original Version) You are limited to
only 2 years of play and you cannot use anything other than
trains although the competition can use everything
I really would urge people
wanting TTD not to download it illegally since that means Chris Sawyer will miss out
on the income he might have recieved should you have bought a legitimate copy. We want
to make sure Chris gets money from TTD otherwise he might not have an incentive to make
any sort of sequel to TTD!
Where to buy TTD
Transport tycoon deluxe (and original) can be purchased from the American based online superstore CDMag.com:
Also transport tycoon original with scenario editor and martian graphics can be purchased from www.reserve.co.uk, which is a British based online superstore.
This
is a truly remarkable game, I have always been a fan of strategy,
but this game takes things to extreme. You are a business tycoon,
who builds transport networks, surprisingly enough. The thing is,
it sounds rather dull but that could not be further from the
truth. Every time you start a new game, you have a completely new
landscape, the towns and industry are in very different places,
so each new game takes on a life of its own. Also it is a
constructive game, I get a real sense of achievement when I
complete a large network. Once you have done that you can sit
back and watch it all in action, it is visually appealing. The
graphics in this game have a very solid and pleasant look, check
out the Screenshots. As for the wonderful music, a whole range of
midi sound tracks, this is midi which sounds lovely on all sound
cards. Considering it only costs £15 I only wonder why everyone
doesn't have it. I need feedback about this site, so please send
me your comments. When you are through here, why not visit
the rest of my homepage. If you are interested in high speed
trains, look at my fast trains section. 
