OpenTTD Problems • Re: Annoying changes in 15.0's new UI

There's something really interesting with changes intended for new users. What is the actual Return On Investments for making these changes? Are there really users who used to hold their interest in this game hostage until their demands were met, and when they were met they started to commit to this game for years?

For the record I've learned how to play TTDX at age of 5 when this was a new game, and back then I didn't even know how to read, yet I was able to navigate Norton Commander on MS-DOS and play the game, because my dad showed me how to do all this. Reading really isn't necessary for either of those things, because you learn to recognize words by their shapes and associate actions takes upon these shapes with function. I got my first billion dollars 2 years after being shown the game by which time I already knew how to read in part due to screwing around with SynTalk on Windows 95. Even back then I could tell TTDX had a few screws loose and they were addressed in TTDPatch. Some still aren't, but these are actually fun to watch and abuse sometimes.

What am I trying to say by citing this personal experience? That this game has a very low skill requirement and there are other games you can play if OpenTTD is too difficult for you.

Statistics: Posted by grep — 24 Feb 2026 12:12