@Phylum - OpenTTD is another of my favourites I went back to last month. It's amazing that people are still working on it 20 years after the original DOS TTD came out. Watching trains travel back and fourth over your network that you've built is like watching fish in a tank or so.
A couple of weeks ago I got bored and experimented with rail junctions and station entrances which handle heavy traffic and don't clog up. Check out the attached save file if you want (it's tiny and uses no NewGRFs).
These mods/NewGRFs (can be found on the inbuilt "NewGRF finder") go together well and are worth a look:
FIRS Replacement Industries (has
5 different economies of varying complexity, set with parameters -
You'll need this cargo source/destination chart)
NUTS Unrealistic Train Set (Made for fun gameplay rather than to copy real world trains)
Av8 Aviators Aircraft Set
FISH ship set
eGRVTS vehicle set
Total Town Replacement Set
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@MM: FTL isn't as luck based as people think, IMO - Knowing what you're doing helps. That being said, it's still very unforgiving with little margin for error and I can understand why people find that frustrating.
Guess the easier to unlock ships are a compromise for how unfair FTL is, and if that makes the game more fun for the majority of people then that's fair enough. Just I found it rewarding to somehow beat the odds after being persistent and trying different tactics.
But then I like FTL a lot more than I probably should do and perhaps I have more patience for it than a lot of people.
Also, the
Better Planets and Backgrounds mod still works. I really missed it. Show the author some love on the Steam thread.
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OpenTTD Savegame: