SLC S28 Week3 - SteemitTTD - CityBuilder
Hello everyone!
Today I am here to participate in the challenge of playing OpenTTD game organized by @sergeyk. If you want to join then:
Task 1
Task 1 has several mini tasks and parts. I will cover them one by one.
How long the game has been running on the server
I have searched n-ice.org and I have found these several servers. I am choosing the #1 server which is city builder. The game is running on the server for the last 7 minutes.
I joined it and I saw that there were no any players playing game in this server. So I left the game and now I will choose any other to analyze the players. I think I need to choose a server with bigger play time.
Now I chose another server which is #9. The game is running on this server for the last 1 hour and 32 minutes. I hope in this server there will be some players.
Which players are playing, what are their results?
1 player is playing the game in this server. At first look I have seen the profile of the player and it seems the player is a lady which is running very long trains. The trains are moving very slowly because of a lot of wagons attached to it. I counted and there were around 23 wagons with one train. I saw the value of the company was growing rapidly because of the delivered cargo.
Who do you think is experienced and who is not?
It looks like the player who is playing the game does not have a lot of experience and does not have a good strategy. She did not build HQ of her company. Maybe she learnt about the trains and she loaded the small engine with a lot of wagons. Due to this reason the trains were moving very slowly.
The crash of the trains show me that she is not experienced user and does not have good understanding of signals so that a train can wait when the other train arrives. Both the trains collided with each other and many passengers also died.
Explore what they transport and with what vehicles. Who do you think will win this game?
I carefully analyzed about the transportation of the company. I noticed there were two trains and several buses and mail trucks. Both the trains were used to transport passengers and mails from one town to the other town. Both the town were at very far from each other.
The role of the buses and mail trucks was very important. These busses were picking passengers from different stations within the town and then transferring them to the train station. Similarly the mail trucks were bringing mails from different corner stations in the town and then transferring them to the train station.
She was the only player who was playing the game. After the collision of the trains her company was declared as bankrupt. Her company was closed down by the creditors and all the assets were sold off. If I continue playing the game the probability is that I will win the game.
What new things did you see that you had not seen before?
Personally I did not see anything new which I have not learnt from @sergeyk. If I see anything later I will mention that but for now I have not seen anything new here.
Task 2
In order to complete task 2 I am joining n-ice.org #6 server. The game play time of this server is 24 minutes.
Another player is already playing in this server. It is good to see that player because it will be
fun playing with that one instead of playing alone.
I have created my company and I will start playing the game following the recommendations of the professor.
I placed my HQ in a town which had more population than 800 so I was recommended to relocate my HQ to claim the town.
Then I have built the HQ of my company in a smaller town and I have claimed that one. Now I will work here to grow this town.
Currently the town is not growing. For the growth it is requiring three items to be delivered.
- 80 passengers
- 32 bags of mails
- 64 tons of coal
Initially I have started 2 buses in the town to deliver passengers between the corner stations. It will help to complete the requirement of the passengers deliver in the town.
Then I have bought two mail trucks to deliver mails in the town from one station to another station. I have tried to build stations where they can cover the houses to get more mails.
I have bought two coal trucks to bring coal from the coal mine and deliver it to the power plant which is in the town. I have added 2 more coal trucks to deliver more coal to the power plant because the coal was staying there at the coal mine.
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I was working continuously in the town. But suddenly I got the message that the goal has reached so the game was over and a new game started there.
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I have provided passengers, mails, and coal to the town. I provided all the items as required and you can see after reaching the required threshold my town started growing.
Initially my town was growing after 86 days. Actually the sped of the provided cargo is very slow and due to which the growth is also slow.
I added more buses and mail trucks in the town and the speed of growth automatically increased because the speed of delivered cargo was also increased. My town was growing after 64 days.
Later on I added more stations in the town and also connected the town with another town to bring and provide passengers between these towns. After this my town started growing after 15 days.
My town was growing rapidly and I have crossed 1000 population in the game. Now recently for the further growth of the town my town is ow requiring wood because a sawmill has been built. So I will start providing woods as well.
I have started delivering woods as well to the town and the town is growing swiftly.
 | Town is growing every 11 days |
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 | Town is growing every 10 days |
Task 3
As my town is growing so it requires more things for the further growth. My town has crossed 2000 population and now it s requiring goods for the further growth. Now I will provide goods to the town.
In order to provide goods to the town I have connected a grain source to the factory which which will get grains and livestock heads and produce crates of goods which will be provided to the town and it will continue growing.
I was unable to join my company and I was sad. Then I rejoined the game and I was able to join my existing company.
 | All products delivered |
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 | Town started growing (78 days) |
 | 49 days |
 | 20 days |
 | 4 days |
Currently the other player is at rank 1 and I am at 2nd place. Let us see if I surpass that player or not. The competition is very tough. The population of his town is more than mine. I need a lot of supply of passengers, mails, wood, coal, and goods to succeed by overwhelming that. The goal is to achieve 4000 inhabitants. My competitor's town's inhabitants are already 3804.
I worked very hard. I connected many wood sources to provide woods continuously to the sawmill of town. I added many more stations to fulfill needs of passengers and mails. My coal supply was already good.
Another big challenge for me to provide goods. It was the major problem. I found a nearby factory and started providing it corn and livestock. I connected that grain station with many other and picked grain and livestock from there with the help of train to pick over it quickly.
It started producing goods. But the production of the goods were not good enough to fulfill the needs of town in time.
In order to increase the production of goods I started providing iron ore to steel mill and then steel to factory. It increased the production.
I saw an oil refinery nearby. I had some oil rigs and oil wells in my town and nearby the oil refinery. I made the road to provide oil to the oil refinery and to get goods. It worked and I was able to produce a lot of products here and I provided those to the town as well. My town started growing fastly.
Finally I surpassed 4000 inhabitants first and you can see there are 4136 inhabitants.
I played the game continuously untill I win a reach the goal. Indeed it was not easy and simple. You can see the popup that my transportation company has achieved the goal in 3 hours 11 minutes, and 59 seconds.
One important thing which I noticed is that if we provide cargo to the town slowly then it will not work and the town will not grow. Because if the required cargo is not delivered simultaneously and in time then the town will not grow.
I would like to invite @kouba01, @chant, @issambashir, and @fombae to participate in this contest.
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After the train collision, she most likely lost the desire to continue playing and issued the resetme command, which liquidated her company using
resetmecommandAnd what's new here is long transportation distances!, long stations, long trains, and SEVERAL locomotives—I didn't show this.
Playing with another competing player is really more interesting, even when you lose—you learn experience from them. And when you win, it's just pleasant.
On this server, there's a slightly different script (I didn't have coal, only mail, passengers, and goods).
You started off well, but the player who played before you won probably because they started earlier and had likely played this game mode multiple times, while you were doing it for the first time.
But you even won—though it wasn't necessary; the main thing is participation and writing the report.
Indeed, delivering cargo infrequently isn't great for this type of game—regularity is more important here.
Yes it was an amazing experience in the game.
One thing which I noticed when I reached the goal and won the game then the transport company of the other player was destroyed automatically. Is it by default?
Yes, in 98% of servers, as soon as a player wins, other players "lose".
But if you register on the server (i.e. on the site) - you can get points and achievements.
There are a couple of servers that do not restart for a long time
And there are servers for simple players