[HN Gopher] Simutrans - Transport Simulator
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Simutrans - Transport Simulator
 
Author : colejohnson66
Score  : 35 points
Date   : 2022-02-09 21:16 UTC (1 hours ago)
 
web link (www.simutrans.com)
w3m dump (www.simutrans.com)
 
| jonathankoren wrote:
| I'll definitely have to give this a try. I enjoy the model train
| set feel of Transport Tycoon. I tried OpenTTD, but I never could
| get the text look right, and something always felt off with it. I
| do like they have smarter routing algorithms though.
 
| JoeyBananas wrote:
| How does this compare with OpenTTD?
 
  | l0b0 wrote:
  | See https://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-
  | index.php?page=...
 
| MikeDelta wrote:
| Download version 123.0.1; never seen a version that high.
 
  | copperx wrote:
  | Version inflation is a real thing. Emacs brought high version
  | numbers into the mainstream, and now Nvidia Drivers and
  | browsers are at the forefront of the movement.
 
| pm90 wrote:
| There's something about trains and transport that I find
| irresistible. I loved riding trains to school, and try to use
| them as much as I can. I absolutely loved SimCity, specifically
| the parts that let you build rail/subways to connect city blocks.
| I loved Factorios train mechanisms and hope to play with
| Satisfactory some day. Recently started Cities Skyline and I've
| been obsessed with it.
| 
| What I would really love is for something like a Minecraft but
| for building trains/managing transport systems. All the games
| I've played treat trains/transport as tools rather than the
| central focus. But this looks like it's something along that
| line; definitely going to check this out along with openttd.
 
| mig39 wrote:
| Looks like a great game to try tonight! In the spirit of
| Transport Tycoon?
| 
| But man, there's something really off-putting about downloading
| from Sourceforge. I can't put my finger on it, but it seems
| scammy.
 
  | [deleted]
 
  | mr337 wrote:
  | I was thinking it was in spirit of https://www.openttd.org/,
  | but looks like independent?
 
    | detaro wrote:
    | It predates OpenTTD by more than 5 years (i.e. early versions
    | were more contemporaries to and in the spirit of the original
    | TT(D)). I remember finding it on magazine a free-/shareware
    | disc in elementary school and played it quite a bit back in
    | the day and then off-and-on in later years.
 
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