[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)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.simutrans.com)
 (TXT) 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.
        
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         | 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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