JP+ Showcase

[plucky inlet]

As this game enters a state of more "done-ness" in certain areas I figured this would be a good spot to showcase some of my favorite areas. The title photo showing my main area of activity "Shinjo."

State of the whole map. I will mostly be focusing on areas on the north side of the main island, my main zone of activity.

Shittymap.jpg of my Keikyu (red) and Keisei (yellow) themed lines around Shinjo. Keikyu terminates at our version of Shinagawa and spreads out to the eastern suburbs. Keisei lines run from Asabetsu and points west through Shinagawa to the ferry terminal in the east.

Here we see the eastern terminus of the Keisei lines as well as where the Keikyu mainline branches off to the south. The Keisei lines are a feeder service for the heavily used ferries to the north island.

Here's Tobetsu, the eastern Terminus of the Keikyu mainline, you can see it also runs closely to the JNR mainline that continues south.

There's also the Yurikama group which operates Tokyo subway rolling stock from Itahozumi to another ferry port in the far north.

You can see here the busy junction of Itahozumi where many passengers transfer to the metro. Some metro trains run through all the way to Asabetsu in the west as well.

Here's the eastern most terminus of the Yurikama metro lines, feeding another busy ferry to the north island. Also a transfer to the main JNR line that heads west.

Speaking of JNR, here's our Shinjo based Northern District lines, including our scaled down Yamanote line.

Here's a close up of Shinjo Shinagawa where you can transfer to any Yamanote line trains (green 101 series) as well as Keikyu/Keisei and all longer distance intercity trains to the east side of the island.

On the other side of town you can see a) Shimbashi Station (these titles are not cannonical) where you can get a 0 Series Shinkansen headed south to Asabetsu and beyond. b) a dizzying number of JNR services to the north and southwest c) Yamanote line trains as well as some trains that run through from Shinagawa (that use the Yamanote line tracks).

It also includes Shinjuku, where many southbound express trains terminate, as well as being the main terminal for the Chuo line directly south.

Now moving west towards Asabetsu we can see just how busy this part of the map is. Narita airport has been recently built, as well as extensive freight and industrial facilities.

I should add that a lot of this was not made by me but this is a bit of a cooperative effort between @wise pagoda (airport), @civic relic and @cold blaze (industry/freight)

Continuing just westward you reach the city of Asabetsu, where you can see the terminal for our Keisei Asajo line as well as a Shinkansen station and a busy junction for multiple JNR lines.

Continuing south down the mountainous coast you can see some nature and beaches. Here's Mihokata, a popular stop for beachgoers and tourists to the mountains alike.

This continues onward until you reach the major junction city of Nagawa in the south.

Gonna take a break from writing for now but up next is Tinny's Chuo line over Yokai pass as well as some of his mountain/rural railways, as well as continuing down the eastern coast.

[wise pagoda]

I better brush them up ready!

gets the makeup out~

[plucky inlet]

lol, time to setup the Openttd vanity

[austere axle]

that has gotta be some hyper long range boeing 737 for ryanair to fly to narita

[outer herald]

i think there are some 737s that do Reykjavik to Anchorage, but that's really pushing it, you'd have to do two changes in order to make it from anywhere in europe that people lived in

although back in the day this was an acceptable route to Japan so maybe we shouldn't complain so much

looks like an excellent map so far though

do these cities have any other kind of metro or underground or tram networks?

or perhaps is there anywhere where we can see those suspended monorails in use? I haven't ever touched them myself so I'm interested

[austere axle]

there are 737s that go from reykjavik to vancouver/seattle which is about 300km more than anchorage

but anything from europe/north america to asia is a long stretch and would require at least 1 refuel, but at that point you might aswell operate a widebody

[plucky inlet]

its just a plane bros

unfortunately we don't have accurately modeled 1970s Japanese plane objects in game

[broken sun]

beats walking

[broken sun]

Greetings! I was wondering how container freight is managed in the game, I was diving into order lists the other day and it seems like many trains just refit to anything and jump between terminals. I was wondering how this system worked exactly

[broken sun]

This train for example

[cold blaze]

Basically we play with cargodist asymmetric equal distribution enabled for all cargo types, and let the cargo find its own way between freight terminals. Usually you also need "load by cargo type" orders to prevent cargo from going in the wrong directions. But generally this results in nice mixed freight trains that can respond to changing demands.

[broken sun]

Very cool, thanks!

[civic relic]

The only thing you need to be careful of in this playstyle is to ensure a consistent flow of all cargo between hubs.
It often happens that trains keep loading surplus cargo while ignoring cargo with lower amounts. If this continues for a while, Cargodist may terminate these weaker connections, breaking your supply chain.

[cold blaze]

Or sometimes a train gets clogged up with cargo going via any station, and with nowhere to unload it, it just keeps carrying the same cargo back and forth

But as long as you set your filters correctly, and the trains have enough capacity to move everything, it works really well

[civic relic]

This one is actually the most frustrating one for me.

[broken sun]

What do the filters generally look like?

[cold blaze]

Either a blacklist or a whitelist of a few cargos, depending on what makes more sense at the time

[broken sun]

makes sense, thank you

[vagrant pasture]

Do you have an example of how you do that? As you know from S3 I like a complicated order list… but I know there are easier ways!

[cold blaze]

Here's a good example that blacklists a few cargos

And here's one of a whitelist

[vagrant pasture]

Gotcha! This is a powerful tool for wrangling cargodist. For some reason I thought there was some conditional order trickery going on haha.

[cold blaze]

The conditional order trickery is mostly timetabling stuff done by zero

[stiff dragon]

What is this map?

[wanton crescent]

@plucky inlet do we have a save of this?

[plucky inlet]

Yeah we should someplace

[wanton crescent]

ye thx

[warm berry]

???

[icy terrace]

it was removed from bananas as it was uploaded without permission (see here https://github.com/OpenTTD/BaNaNaS/pull/157) but here is the version I have which works