Comments on: OpenTTD: Trains and signals for beginners – a tutorial http://www.darkcoding.net/misc/openttd-trains-and-signals-for-beginners-a-tutorial/ Solvitas perambulum Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:00:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Betsumei http://www.darkcoding.net/misc/openttd-trains-and-signals-for-beginners-a-tutorial/comment-page-1/#comment-18400 Betsumei Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:01:03 +0000 http://www.darkcoding.net/?p=464#comment-18400 Can't wait to put this into practice! Nice! Can’t wait to put this into practice! Nice!

]]> By: Lars http://www.darkcoding.net/misc/openttd-trains-and-signals-for-beginners-a-tutorial/comment-page-1/#comment-18033 Lars Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:57:58 +0000 http://www.darkcoding.net/?p=464#comment-18033 Great tutorial! Especially for people like me who ran exactly into the beginner problems you describe here. Even after delving into the OpenTTD WIKI it wasn't really clear for me (hey, no offense - the WIKI is great as well! ;-)). Especially your highlighting in the images (red, yellow, etc. segments) makes the whole A LOT clearer. Thanks again! Great work!! And yep, I already figured out what you meant by saying 'Playing with virtual toy trains can be quite addictive, so remember to get some sleep' %-) Cheers, Lars Great tutorial! Especially for people like me who ran exactly into the beginner problems you describe here. Even after delving into the OpenTTD WIKI it wasn’t really clear for me (hey, no offense – the WIKI is great as well! ;-)). Especially your highlighting in the images (red, yellow, etc. segments) makes the whole A LOT clearer.

Thanks again! Great work!! And yep, I already figured out what you meant by saying ‘Playing with virtual toy trains can be quite addictive, so remember to get some sleep’ %-)

Cheers,
Lars

]]> By: Babant http://www.darkcoding.net/misc/openttd-trains-and-signals-for-beginners-a-tutorial/comment-page-1/#comment-18027 Babant Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:20:09 +0000 http://www.darkcoding.net/?p=464#comment-18027 Oh yes, the last tip is the most important one! Just yesterday, I was playing OpenTTD "just for a while", when I realized it was 6 o'clock in the morning. 8-) Oh yes, the last tip is the most important one! Just yesterday, I was playing OpenTTD “just for a while”, when I realized it was 6 o’clock in the morning. 8-)

]]> By: klaus http://www.darkcoding.net/misc/openttd-trains-and-signals-for-beginners-a-tutorial/comment-page-1/#comment-18024 klaus Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:49:29 +0000 http://www.darkcoding.net/?p=464#comment-18024 Thank you for this tutorial; the pre-signals really helped me. Thank you for this tutorial; the pre-signals really helped me.

]]> By: Phil http://www.darkcoding.net/misc/openttd-trains-and-signals-for-beginners-a-tutorial/comment-page-1/#comment-17404 Phil Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:58:08 +0000 http://www.darkcoding.net/?p=464#comment-17404 Interesting points raised as I have only just twigged the concept of one-way signals - large layout mostly double track - but of course double-tracks and two way signals just means that trains run two way over both tracks - hold-ups and congestion are the norm! So bit of re-design for me! However can you tell me how to best set up signals for a proper terminus set-up? Sometimes there just isn't enough space to construct exit loops (and it seems to me that an exit loop can be quite wasteful space-wise if you have many platforms). Regards Interesting points raised as I have only just twigged the concept of one-way signals – large layout mostly double track – but of course double-tracks and two way signals just means that trains run two way over both tracks – hold-ups and congestion are the norm! So bit of re-design for me! However can you tell me how to best set up signals for a proper terminus set-up? Sometimes there just isn’t enough space to construct exit loops (and it seems to me that an exit loop can be quite wasteful space-wise if you have many platforms).

Regards

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