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Creator : furdude2
E-Mail : furdude2(at)yahoo.com
Type : Help/Hint File
Game : Transport Tycoon Delux
Web Sites: http://www.geocities.com/furdude2/InterpageDesignINC.htm
http://www.geocities.com/furdude2/HomepageV.2.htm
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------------------------[1]Sections--------------------------------
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Section 1.--------- Sections
a.--------- Updates
b.--------- Disclaimer
Section 2.--------- Game play
a.--------- Shortcuts
Section 3.--------- Point of the Game
Section 4.--------- The ways to get to The Point of the Game
(Prior Section)
Section 5.--------- Trains!!!!
Section 6.--------- Road Vehicles...(RV's From here on)
Section 7.--------- Planes(Air panes...)
Section 8.--------- Boats(The forgotten Transport System)
Section 9.-------- Subsidies
Section 10.-------- Terrains
Section 11.-------- FAQ's
Section 12.-------- Industry Section
Section 13.-------- Patch related problems go to this site...
site below.
Section 14.-------- Suggestions for helpfile/game.
Section 15.--------- Contact Info
Section 16.--------- Credits
Section 17.--------- Copyrights
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---------------------------[1a]Updates-----------------------------
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Version 1.0Apr 25..2005... Started Hint/Help file
My first one so be nice bout how it looks
Apr 27..same year two days later... o well any who I added 4 more
sections from FAQ's down and I am a loooooooong way from being close
to done(makes since its only been two or three days.)and have much to
put on.
Oct 11.. Corrected a few things... short cuts for F10 and Shift+F10
added the "t" shortcut as well...it turns the transparency on an off..
Nov 3.. Added Disclaimers.. added a few extra shortcuts...from below
the "t" shortcut to the delete button shortcut
June 02 2006.. added a personal best money amount and rating for the
end game record 1.7 something bil with the perfect rating added to
section 4 the point of the game section. added mouse wheel zoom
(can't believe I forgot that.)
September 24 06. Added Contact Info, forgot to do that..:D
September 28 06. I think I finished most of it, now I need some
more FAQ's.. :D the suggestion(s) areas need some ;)
Oct 02 06--- Uploaded to GameFAQ's and most of other FAQ places
allowed.
Dec 05 06-- After a huge, huge Ice storm hits my area..:) last week
I decided to look at this and update the ones at the FAQ sites, I
added a lot of vehicle Info. It's not complete.. I have the Default
trains a Train Set Michael Blunck made I think it's the DB(German)Set
and another(the information is off of George's site)I'll also be looking
for the other sets info like Pika's set and whatever other sets are
available at tt-forums.net
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---------------------------[1b]Disclaimer(s)-----------------------
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This FAQ is meant for PRIVATE USE ONLY This FAQ may not be redistributed
for profit by anyone!!! This FAQ talks about a Patch which is not
produced by the developer of the game This patch is a Cheat
(a very nice cheat) and necessary if you wish to play this game on
any XP Computer!! It has a switch that makes it XP compatible...
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---------------------------[2]GamePlay-----------------------------
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The game play is quite simple really, most of the action is by use
of mouse. there are shortcut keys and I will put them here when I
figure them out. The LeftMouseButton or lmb is the primary button
you will use, but the right button has one use it is used to scroll
around the game map with. Also if you have a wheel mouse which most
people do by now, you can zoom in and out if you have the wheel
scroll switch with the patch enabled that is.
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--------------------------[2a]ShortCuts----------------------------
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Most of the easy shortcut keys to remember are the top 12 function
keys(also known as F1 to F12).
F1 is pause
F2 is an options menu
F3 is the save/load menu
F4 is the map button
F5 is the town list
F6 is the subsidies list further discussed in section 10
F7 is for your station/loading bay info button
F8 is your financial statements
F9 is for your HQ info button
F10 Doesn’t Have a function
F11 is your companies rating button
F12 is your build new industries button
shift + F1 brings up your trains list
shift + F2 brings up your rv's list
shift + F3 brings up your boat list
shift + f4 brings up your plane list
shift + F5 is the zoom In button
shift + F6 is the Zoom Out button
shift + F7 Opens the Train building Menus
shift + F8 Opens the RV's building Menus
shift + F9 Opens the Boat building Menus
shift + F10 Doesn’t Have a function
shift + f11 brings up the plant tree menu
shift + f12 brings up the jutebox
Another shortcut is the "t" button what it does is it turns on and
off the transparency. The "z" key zooms in where ever you are..
and the "c" button Centers where your mouse cursor is, and possibly
zooms in im not sure or remembering right now. The delete button
closes all windows that are open... Don’t use it much you may close
a New Vehicle to market window. They come up and they are blue in color
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-------------------[3]The Point of The Game------------------------
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This game may not be as easy as it seems. It also seems to not have
a point but it does. The point of this game is to of course as the
title says be a Transport Tycoon... Within the game being a tycoon
just means this being the best rated company which will be explained
further on. The rating scale goes up to 1000 that is tycoon level...
This is the rating system(the OFFICIAL rating
system that the game uses). Written by Josef Drexler
Performance - this is how your company has performed since it was
started, you want as few drops as possible, a high rating
will lead to better attitude from Local Authorities and
higher passenger numbers. You can add the following
amounts by completing these objectives:
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| Points | Objectives |
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| 400 | 40,000 units of cargo delivered during the last four |
| | quarters. This objective is worth 40% of your total rating, |
| | so it's important to meet this one if you want a high score. |
| | To increase your delivered cargo, you'll need more services, |
| | faster vehicles, and more efficient layouts. |
| 100 | 120 vehicles in operation. Since TTD will only let you build |
| | a maximum number of trains, vehicles, planes and ships this |
| | objective requires you to diversify the methods of transport |
| | you use. Remember that the game counts a bus to the same |
| | degree as a Yate plane, so road vehicles will make your |
| | target easier. |
| 100 | 80 station part. A part means bus stops, airports, platforms,|
| | etc., even if several are combined into one station. |
| 100 | £10,000 minimum profit for all vehicles more than 2 years |
| | old. This objective is somewhat flawed, because: If you don't|
| | have any vehicles older than 2 years old, then you get the |
| | 100 points by default. It doesn't take inflation into |
| | consideration. Early in the game, it might be difficult for |
| | all of your vehicles to earn £10,000 per year. But as time |
| | goes on, £10,000 is worth much easier to make because it |
| | isn't worth as much. You probably don't want all of your |
| | vehicles to earn a profit. You might intend some services to |
| | be intermediate "piglet" lines that supply cargo to other |
| | vehicles which then take them to their final destination. |
| | Road vehicles often don't turn a very big profit, at least |
| | not early in the game. |
| 100 | £100,000 minimum operating profit for at least one quarter |
| | out of the last 12 |
| 50 | £50,000 minimum operating profit for all of the last 12 |
| | quarters |
| 50 | 8 different types of cargo delivered during the last quarter.|
| | This is trickier to achieve than you might think. You have |
| | to transport - and successfully deliver - eight different |
| | cargo types during the past quarter. |
| 50 | £10 million cash on hand |
| 50 | £250,000 maximum loan. So, if you are borrowing £250,000 or |
| | more, you won't get any points for this. Otherwise, if you |
| | have a smaller loan, or don't have any debt, then you get |
| | all 50 points. |
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Written by Josef Drexler!! Allowed by him to be posted!! :) (Thanks Joesf)
Note that the money needs are in £'s.. I kept wondering why I never got the
10'000 one.. then I looked at this again and said DUH... £'s Im using $'s..
thats 20'000..;)
(Side note June 02 06 made a personal victory... had well over a
billion more like 1bil 7 or 8 hundred mil.. and the 1000 at the 2050
year for the first time ever!! usually I'd have one or the other.)
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--------------[4]The ways to The Point of the Game-----------------
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Quite a bit to this section, just giving u some warning. The way to
the top is a lonely and daunting task. The way I get over this is
just shut out everything else in the game and in the real world.
For example if you concentrate on the competitors(which they are
extremely stupid anyway) you'll find yourself not doing to well
yourself. My advise here would be just don’t pay them no mind til
they either go bankrupt or you are steady enough to buy them out.
Advise on how to start, what I do is find either a coal/iron/or wood
producer and then of course the recipient of that resource that is at
a good distance from the resource. That way even in the hard settings
you will get a nice profit(in the hard setting it might be a little
pressing to do this but if you don’t go to far you should make it.)
The reason for these three to start is because they are the highest
payers and they produce material quickly...Highest payer means that
the longer the load goes you will still actually make money off it.
If you've played Railroad Tycoon(any of them) it’s the same way...
Get the goods to destination ASAP. The faster the more you make...
except its counted in squares and days not just days.
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----------------------[5]Trains!!!!--------------------------------
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Its not hard to imagine why I put this section first. For those who
haven’t played long or haven’t played in a long time. Trains are The
Transport System in this game even though there are three other systems
this game is just bout like Railroad Tycoon except it has other things
besides trains.
Trains are very, very important, and to understand them will make the
game a whole lot easier. For example most of the time in the beginning
you will get four or five subsides right in a row, naturally they are
going to be industry ones. If you set towns to be few, then rely on
industry, it's better this way anyways. Passengers are ok, and are
useful if you want to get the town to expand or need the town to have
a high rating of you. But in the beginning worry about Industries and
work on simple track layout design, that will show how to eventually
and gradually turn into a massive pile of track(literally).
Generally in the beginning with trains you have limited funds so that
means limited build length of track, so what you need to do is build a
simple line of this. Coal is a good place to start, try to find a very
high producing one(click on the industry to find out) and look for a
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