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What is Transport Tycoon?
Transport Tycoon offers a highly detailed isometric view in three dimensions with magnificent high resolution (SVGA) graphics. By clicking on a vehicle, a window opens up allowing you to watch the vehicle move about, even when you are busy on another location of the map. You can also change its orders, inquire about the transportion rating, survey the type of cargo, etc... If you decide to start with roads, you will have to establish a connection between two cities for passenger and mail transport, or between a production site of base materials to the factory where they will be treated. To accomplish this, you will have to level the terrain, or construct bridges and tunnels. Of course, all this costs money and you will have to plan your route while trying to minimize costs (A piece of advice: do not try to fill the shores or the lakes as this really costs a fortune!) With this done, you will still have to build one or more road depots, and in each city, loading bays for the merchandise, and bus stations for the passengers. Afterwards, you will have to buy one or more buses and some trucks specialised for the merchandise they will transport. Finally, you will have to attribute a precise itinerary for each vehicle. For example, a truck transporting wood, will need a loading bay in proximity of a forest, and a loading bay destination near a sawmill. Different places of raw material production exist: there are the Coal and Iron Ore Mines, Forests, Farms and the land based oil wells. These materials can be brought to factories capable of producing goods with them. For example, the Iron Ore first transformed into Steel in the Steel Mill, will finally be utilised in the factory for fabrication of goods. Notice that this transformation requires two different stages, first from the Iron Ore Mine towards the Steel Mill, and second from the Steel Mill to the Factory. Then in turn to Turning all that into the Factory we are left with goods inwhich must be transported to a Town large enough to use them. I could still talk about the transportation of Coal towards the Power Station or even that of Livestock and Grain towards the Factory, but I will let you discover the other possibilities of "Transport Tycoon".