SLC S27 Week3 - Let's Play OpenTTD:Ships

Assalamualaikum my fellows I hope you will be fine by the grace of Allah.

I am participating in the video game OpenTTD challenge by @sergeyk. I like to play games but I started playing this game for teh first time while participating in the challenge. I hope I will learn and showcase my work through this challenge.

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🚢Task 1🚤

Continue your previous game or start a new one. Show the balance at the start of the game.

This is my balance window in the game. At the tsrat of the game my balance is $207,612.

Find two cities near the coast.

I have found more than two cities near the coat and they are also close to each other. To select two from these I have opened there population windows to undersatand which towns are bigger to get mpe passengers.

Town	Population
Plenfingpool Bridge	217
Londston	433
Sutborough Bay	123

I am choosing Plenfigpool Bridge and Londston because these are bigger and near to each other.

Build docks in these two cities: Doc1 and Doc2.

I have built two docks near each city. From these points my ship will pick the passengers and then transport them.

Build a ship depot and buy a ship for transporting passengers.

Near the plenfingpool bridge docks I have built a ship depot. I have built it near the docks so that it can come out early and without travelling free on a long route to cause extra expenses.

Transport passengers between the chosen cities.

I have opened ship depot window in the game to buy ship. I have to transport passenger between two points so I opened a new ship window and I searched for the passenger ships. It showed me two passenger ferries. The MPS Passenger Ferry was less costly than FFP Passenger Ferry. But I compared both of them and I found out that FPS Passenger Ferry has less yearly expenses than MPS Passenger Ferry. I bought FFP Passenger Ferry to save the yearly expenses and and then I setup its root. My ship will go non-stop between two docks.

My FFP Passenger Ferry is working and the citizens are celebrating its arrival.

The ship is carrying passengers from one point to another determined point and it is generating money. I am successful in transfering the passengers from one dock to another dock.

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🚢Task 2🚤

Find a resource (Station1) and a factory (Station3) that cannot be connected directly, because one point is on water and the other on land.

I am playing in the dessert and it is very hard. I tried to investigate all the rrsources and their relevant units to accept those but according to the conditions I did not get something fruitful.

I found resource and accepting indutries very far from each other. I was worried if I could make a profit or loss while transporting cargo to far place. I decided to choose a corn production farm and a factory which accepts corn.

This is the complete map of transportation of corn to the factory tpo make products. You can see both the points are very far from each other. But to fulfill a condition to pass through the water or intermediate point I have to choose this. Now I am getting how hard it is to play in the dessert as mentioned by the teacher in the first lesson. But I will try my best and I hope the result will be profitablle.

I have extablished roads on both sides. Then on the corners of the roads on both sides I ahve built truck stations and depot. The first station near the corn farm supplies corn and the last station near the factory accepts corn because of factory requirement.

To transport cargo and help it to pass through water I have built two dock stations. One dock station is towards the corn farm and the other dock station is towards the factory. On the same time each dock station has an attached truck station which I placed near the tiles of each dock to make them connected to each other.

I placed a ship depot in the water and I bought a Cargo ship from the depot. I set its rout between dock stations to pick cargo from dock station 1 and unload it at dock station 2 which is towards factory.

I have bought grain truck from depot to pick corn from corn farm and transfer it to the dock station 1. Similarly on the other side I have bought grain trucks to pick corn from the dock station 2 to unload it at factory. At first I bought Hereford grain truck but later on it was not available so I bought Thomas Grain Truck.

Corn Loading	Corn Transfer & Loading	Unloading
Loading at dock 2	Unloading at factory	Profit from corn seeling to factory

Complete working of the transfer of corn from farm to factory with an intermediate station.

The picture clearly shows that the stations accepts nothing but still I am able to transfer the cargo from these stations.

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🚢Task 3🚤

Create a long route for a ship. Will the ship get lost? Place several buoys along the route that the ship must pass or turn at. (Or just make the ship zig-zag, for those who find it fun😁)

This funnt task will be unique and I will check whether my ship lost or not. But before starting something click me that ship will not lost because we will define its starting and ending points.

I selected these two cities where I will build a similar or resembling route for the ship. I have chosen these cities because I already have a depot here and I will just buy one ship from here. Then I will set route with the help of bouys.

Two dock have been built one is starting point and other is as ending point. Between these two docks I have placed bouys so that the ship can follow them to make a zig zag path.

going to 4	going to 5	going to 6

The ship is following bouys and moving in zig zag motion. It was not lost.

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🚢Task 4🚤

This is the final task but I am unable to belive in me that I have already completed this task while completing my previous tasks. My balance has crossed from 500k. And I have paused the game immediately seeing I have crossed the required threshold of balance in the game.

I want to quote here that when first I saw I have to reach 500k then I became worried because in the previous week it took me a lot of time pressing the tab to reach 200k and I was wondering now how much time it will take to complete 500k. But I am surprised that now my company is making good profit and speed of profit has increased a lot that in some moment I am making huge profit and today I did not even pressed tab to increase speed but it was already more than 500k.

I have found a space to increase my profit more from the coal mines by launching more coal trucks but today so far I am leaving it here.

According to my experience in the game I have found the trucks very profitable. They have played a great role in increasing my profit in the game. No doubt the ships are also very useful but I have noticed my ships were carrying only 15-25 passengers but the capacity is alot. Sometimes its running expenses are also not met by the earning from the passenger ships.

I have trasnported coal and corn in the game. I have noticed transporting corn is more profitable than coal. My full truck of coal just give me $466 but full truck of corn is giving around $3000. For me transfer of corn is very profitable and it has increased my profit speed.

I will say trucks are better than ship because of reasonable price and low expenses. They have made a good profit for me than ships.

I want to invite @akareen, @adese, @cruzamilcar63, @chant, @shahid76.

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