512 Million+ in 1 hour.

[[SWE]-=ChRiZzE=-]

I used to play OpenTTD & TTD a lot when I was younger. And I recently saw TF2 be on sale and decided to give it a try. In old OpenTTD fashion I started a Free Game, large map with 2000 as the starting year.

I then proceeded to look for coal mines and power plants, and realized you can sell coal to steel mills everywhere. I then maxed out the loan to 100 million and started by building an airport next to the coal mine, with two runways. Then bought the biggest and fastest airplane... spent about 35-ish millions on the airport and 25 million on the aircraft.

Then I simply built a similar airport next to a steel mill and set up a line to it. The steel mill was however on the opposite side of the map to the coal mine, since time in transit matters in this game too (lol).

First plane loads upp 55 units of coal, flies over to the steel mill and dumps it there...and collects a whopping 18 million! I was like wtf!? This can't be right?
But I duplicated the aircraft 8 times and let it run for 1 hour on full speed. Ater having paid off the loan to the bank, I still have 512 Million and still earning from the coal line.

Now my plan is to shut down those coal aircrafts, and start building "real" transport lines instead...

I wonder if one can duplicate this somehow in 1850, but without airplanes.

[CashonWheels]

You were not the first to discover that....... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfc_mjbM7c
The subsequent thread about it was heated around here!

[Tsubame ⭐]

The difference is this OP knows this is a game and is cool about it.

At least airplanes are profitable here. It was a struggle on TpF 1.

[RainbowBier]

1850:use ships instead with the large volumen they transfer your rating stays up and one boatload gets you a new ship but its for sure slower. the coal plane from ottd and ttd works of course here too

[[SWE]-=ChRiZzE=-]

Originally posted by RainbowBier:

1850:use ships instead with the large volumen they transfer your rating stays up and one boatload gets you a new ship but its for sure slower. the coal plane from ottd and ttd works of course here too

Interesting, I must test this out. Of course it is going to be slower, it's the 1800's...nothing was fast and efficient by our standards.

@CashonWheels Very interesting that I used the very same approach, only I made bigger airports instead of making that long train.. :D

I still play OTTD though, gotta love that retro feeling. :)