Re: Transport Tycoon Game.

["Peter Cook" <glt0145@ozemail.com.au>]

I have a current game of tycoon and i am at $4,500,000,000 with the settings
on hard at 2030. I find it easy to make money what are you all doing.
Michael Walker wrote in message <926119344.632780@woody.hotkey.net.au>...
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>The Morphetts wrote in message <3730C09F.2A0C374F@onthenet.com.au>...
>>I use Deluxe & believe that you have to be at $100m by the time the
>monorails
>>click in to have a hope of topping $1000 by 2070. I too usually only use
>the
>>railways with a few busses and a boat or two. However its a tad wimpy (if
>>you'll pardon me for saying so!!) to not have a few competitors about -
>even if
>>you do nobble them a bit! Its interesting to start with 8 & cut them back
>to 2
>>or three as you get on in the game. They act as additional funding and
>building
>>agents for you if you let them. Just wait for them to build a couple of
>good
>>lines then buy them out! The non deluxe version is a bit limiting v's the
>>deluxe one - unfortunately I think deluxe is no longer for sale.
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>Woosy! Having only 2 or 3 competitors set to as high a difficulty as
>possible and playing toy town mode is the only decent competition you get
>after a while. If you nobble them, they have usually been bought out within
>20 or so years. What will you do for the other 80? Even playing the hardest
>level, I have usually bought most of them out by about 2010.
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>Agreed you can't get the Deluxe version, my Diamond Creek friend tried all
>over the place because he loved playing the game, especially networked!
Some
>compilation packs have the original but compared to Deluxe, it's not worth
>the bother.
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>To answer Robin in another post in this thread, you can rename the towns so
>you could run Sydney to Darwin via (guess where). You could even rename the
>engines to AN, BL, DL, EL etc if you wanted although you can't change the
>graphics.
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