Ep 4 - The First Jam (Let's Play OpenTTD)

[@LugnutsK]

Thanks for everyone's patience waiting for the next episode. Unfortunately have been busy with life, should be back in December or January

[@Etrehumain123]

3:55 I never thought my favorite way to spend a sunday is to enjoy timelapses with excellent calm music. Thank you so much man.

[@Etrehumain123]

9:00

[@pablo.g]

Great! I'm loving this series, can't wait for the next episode

[@Giekeme]

Small addition: putting the depots in that position (on the exit track just past the X at the front of the station) only hides the depots from the main network if you have 90° corners disabled in the options (Settings -> Vehicles -> Routing -> Forbid trains and ships from making 90° turns -> Off) Good episode as always. Looking forward to the BBH build

[@LugnutsK]

Very true. I'm just very used to 90* turns off

[@aquila7561]

I just use reversers XD

[@LugnutsK]

@@aquila7561 Yeah if you have 90* on it becomes very tricky to hide anything from trains

[@markosz666]

Thanks for the answer! :) Everytime I learn something about OpenTTD. I am enjoying this series and waiting for the next episodes (especially the logic trains. I saw them on reddit and those look interesting) :)

[@krawc0]

A tip to avoid having to check on your stations constantly - you can open station list and sort it by total waiting cargo, then resize it so that it only shows 4 or 5 stations with the most stuff on them. Keep that window open and pinned somewhere in the corner

[@Dextrian1]

Thanks for another great video!

[@sparksp3069]

Hello LugnutsK. Great Videos and information. I love playing openttd and i am looking forward to more of your Let's Play videos. I know you have a busy schedule, however i request you to start back this lets play and post your videos, your contents are really interesting and informative. Thanks.

[@Skyblu2112]

i'm really enjoying this series so far and im learning a lot so please keep them coming! I can't wait for the sideline hubs next episode, would you by chance be able to explain them as you're building them?

[@LugnutsK]

Yeah, at least for the first one I want to try to explain and built it in real time. I want to make a proper BBH/SLH tutorials so this will be kinda like a test run I suppose.

[@Skyblu2112]

@@LugnutsK that would be amazing ive learned a lot watching you so that would be really good

[@thedumgamer2046]

Great video lugnuts, only thing is I think you should use some streetcars from the oil refinery to that town next to it just as a temporary solution and also to grow it incase you want to do passengers just so you start using the oil to make goods Edit: also can you explain to me on the coop discord about the path signals thingy at end of stations? I’m a bit confused

[@Giekeme]

I think he mentioned it a little bit the first time he did it. When the trains come out of the depot without the path signal they would reserve the entire junction at the front of the station, meaning no other trains can enter/leave. The path signal separates the junction from the station and because the backside of a path signal is a pathfinding penalty it hides the depot from the mainline. This can be a good thing and a bad thing, no trains going to nearest depot and getting lost, but because of the pathfinding penalty the trains will always prefer the other platform, unless its already occupied resulting in trains not getting auto-replaced. The depot at the exit track is a better option imo.

[@hoody8279]

Any more of these coming?

[@LugnutsK]

Yes. But it will probably be in Dec/Jan as life has gotten in the way.

[@pieterpost563]

Ctrl x is the transparancy menu 😊

[@dessheehan6468]

Loving the series, keep it up. Are we to expect on episode per week?

[@Yvax99]

I wonder why there is still no "fix" for map colours. Actually I never looked at this, maybe ppl are using it. But ye, its really bad to see some structures on the map. Also I dont really like soo early years of the game, where everything is super slow. Tho it will have huge advantage for us when u get into 2000s. There will be tons of fast trains, so many junctions, maybe 4 or 6ways!. I am super hyped for that

[@LugnutsK]

Just checked, there is a way to change the map colors in the settings, but perhaps that will just make different industries hard to see. And it will take some time to get fast trains, but at least that means there will be plenty of episodes :P

[@aquila7561]

Is your slh missing prios XD

[@LugnutsK]

It's not build to OpenTTDCoop specs ;)

[@linuxgaming69]

I really don't understand the terms "main line", "backbone hub" and "side hub", or whatever the terms are. It all just looks like a mess of train lines and junctions.

[@LugnutsK]

The "Organizing HUGE Junctions" video explains exactly what those terms mean if you haven't watched it yet. But TLDW, backbone hubs are the main junctions, sideline hubs are smaller junctions that serve primary industries. Personally I think "junction" is clearer than "hub" but I didn't invent the names :P

[@linuxgaming69]

@@LugnutsK I went back and watched it again. It all looks good and clearly runs well, but I honestly don't think I could get my head around it. Saying that I don't play co-op games at the moment... but I will! Keep the videos coming. :-D

[@dotintegral]

Great content. One suggestion though: could you consider adding some background music for non-timelapes? I think it could enrich the videos nicely.

[@dessheehan6468]

I was also going to suggest this, maybe after the introduction chat put the music playing and adjust the volume then between the timelapses and commentary.

[@mmneander1316]

I prefer videos to not have background music during segments containing spoken comment. Easier to follow the spoken comment that way. I think this video series so far has done things perfectly.