Jowood TRANSPORT GIANT User Manual

© 2004 by JoWooD Productions Software AG, Technologiepark 4a, A-8786 Rottenmann, Austria.

Developed by JoWooD Ebensee. All rights reserved.

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INDEX

Installation ……………………………………………………………………………… 5
Game Start ……………………………………………………………………………… 5
Technical Information…………………………………………………………………… 5
Technical Support and Customer Service ………………………………………… 6

Hotline ………………………………………………………………………………… 6
Helpful Suggestions, Recommendations and Requests ………………………… 6
Game Updates ……………………………………………………………………… 6

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………… 7

Transport ……………………………………………………………………………… 7
Endless Play…………………………………………………………………………… 7
Campaigns …………………………………………………………………………… 7
Industries ……………………………………………………………………………… 8
Cities …………………………………………………………………………………… 9

Main Menu ……………………………………………………………………………… 9

Continue Game ……………………………………………………………………… 10
Load Game …………………………………………………………………………… 10
Campaign ……………………………………………………………………………… 10
Endless Play…………………………………………………………………………… 11
Players ………………………………………………………………………………… 13
Settings ………………………………………………………………………………… 14
Best‘s List……………………………………………………………………………… 15
Credits ………………………………………………………………………………… 15
Quit Game …………………………………………………………………………… 15

Game Menu ……………………………………………………………………………… 15

Player Logo …………………………………………………………………………… 15
Account Balance ……………………………………………………………………… 15
Date …………………………………………………………………………………… 15
Info-Line ……………………………………………………………………………… 16
Game Speed ………………………………………………………………………… 16
Zoom In/Out…………………………………………………………………………… 16
Toggle Trees…………………………………………………………………………… 16
Toggle Buildings ……………………………………………………………………… 16
Toggle Signs…………………………………………………………………………… 17
Toggle Loading Symbols …………………………………………………………… 17
Toggle Player Symbols ……………………………………………………………… 17
Toggle Player Colors ………………………………………………………………… 17
Toggle Overview Map………………………………………………………………… 17
Vehicle Depot ………………………………………………………………………… 18
Schedule ……………………………………………………………………………… 18
Build …………………………………………………………………………………… 18
Expand ………………………………………………………………………………… 18
Route List ……………………………………………………………………………… 18
Building List …………………………………………………………………………… 18
Statistics ……………………………………………………………………………… 18
Info……………………………………………………………………………………… 19
Demolish ……………………………………………………………………………… 19
Extras ………………………………………………………………………………… 19

A Transport Route ……………………………………………………………………… 19

Moving in the Game Environment ………………………………………………… 19
Find Buildings ………………………………………………………………………… 20
Means of Transportation …………………………………………………………… 20
Build a Train Station ………………………………………………………………… 21
Building a Train Station Correctly ………………………………………………… 22
Rotate Train Station ………………………………………………………………… 22
Undo …………………………………………………………………………………… 22
Lay Tracks …………………………………………………………………………… 23
Lay Curves …………………………………………………………………………… 23
Water Towers ………………………………………………………………………… 23
Bridges ………………………………………………………………………………… 23
Tunnels ………………………………………………………………………………… 24
Finish Construction Section ………………………………………………………… 24

Tracks Must Be Connected ………………………………………………………… 24
Additional Track Platforms ………………………………………………………… 25
Expand Length of Train Station …………………………………………………… 26
Repair ………………………………………………………………………………… 26
Water Towers ………………………………………………………………………… 26
Loading Crane ………………………………………………………………………… 27
Storehouse …………………………………………………………………………… 27
Cold Storage ………………………………………………………………………… 27
Kiosk, Restaurant and Hotel ………………………………………………………… 27
Modernize a Train Station …………………………………………………………… 27
Income and Expenses for Train Stations ………………………………………… 27
Vehicle Depot ………………………………………………………………………… 28
Purchase Vehicles …………………………………………………………………… 29
Your Vehicles in the Depot ………………………………………………………… 29
Sell a Vehicle ………………………………………………………………………… 29
Schedule ……………………………………………………………………………… 30
Create a Schedule …………………………………………………………………… 30
Multiple Traction ……………………………………………………………………… 30
Destinations in the Schedule ……………………………………………………… 31
Change Vehicle Route ……………………………………………………………… 31
Load and Unload Goods …………………………………………………………… 32
Passenger and Postal Transport …………………………………………………… 33
Vehicle Load…………………………………………………………………………… 34
Delete a Station in the Schedule …………………………………………………… 34
Insert Station ………………………………………………………………………… 34
Wait for Full Load …………………………………………………………………… 34
Wait Till Fully Unloaded ……………………………………………………………… 35
Wait in Station ………………………………………………………………………… 35
Confirm Schedule …………………………………………………………………… 35
Cancel Schedule Changes ………………………………………………………… 35
Change Schedule …………………………………………………………………… 35
Rename Route ………………………………………………………………………… 35
Clone Route …………………………………………………………………………… 36

Am I Earning Anything?………………………………………………………………… 36

Route List ……………………………………………………………………………… 36
Building List …………………………………………………………………………… 37
Account Balance ……………………………………………………………………… 37
Income-Outgo-Diagram ……………………………………………………………… 38
Company Info ………………………………………………………………………… 38
Purchase Competitors ……………………………………………………………… 38
Read Old Messages ………………………………………………………………… 39
Vehicle Info …………………………………………………………………………… 39
Building Info …………………………………………………………………………… 39
City Info………………………………………………………………………………… 40

Passenger Transport …………………………………………………………………… 40

Postal Transport ……………………………………………………………………… 40

Freight Rates …………………………………………………………………………… 41
Additional Information ………………………………………………………………… 41

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JoWooD Productions Software AG

Technologiepark 4a,

A-8786 Rottenmann, Austria

Homepage JoWooD: www.jowood.com

Homepage „Transport Gigant”: www.transportgiant.com

© 2004 by JoWooD Productions Software AG,

Technologiepark 4a, A-8786 Rottenmann, Austria.

Developed by JoWooD Ebensee. All rights reserved.

Installation

Turn your computer on and start Windows.

Close all running applications.

Place the TransportGiant CD 1 in your CD-ROM drive.

The installation program will start automatically within a few seconds if the
autoplay feature on your computer is activated.

If the installation program does not start automatically, the autoplay feature
is disabled. In this case, simply double-click on the CD-ROM icon on your
Desktop, and then on the setup.exe icon.

Now follow the instructions on the screen to install the game.

Safety information

About Photosensitive Seizures

A very small percentage of people may experience a seizure when exposed
to certain visual images, including flashing lights or patterns that may
appear in video games. Even people who have no history of seizures or
epilepsy may have an undiagnosed condition that can cause these photo­sensitive epileptic seizures while watching video games.

These seizures may have a variety of symptoms including: lightheadedness,
altered vision, eye or face twitching, jerking or shaking of arms or legs,
disorientation, confusion, or momentary loss of awareness. Seizures may
also cause loss of consciousness or convulsions that can lead to injury
from falling down or striking nearby objects. Immediately stop playing and
consult a doctor if you experience any of these symptoms. Parents should
watch for or ask their children about the above symptoms. Children and
teenagers are more likely than adults to experience these seizures. The
risk of photosensitive epileptic seizures may be reduced by sitting farther
from the television screen, using a smaller television screen, playing in a
well-lit room and not playing when you are drowsy or fatigued. If you or
any of your relatives have a history of seizures or epilepsy, consult a doctor
before playing.

Game Start

To start the game, double-click on the TransportGiant icon on your
Desktop.

Of course you can also start the game from the Windows Start Menu.

Please make sure the TransportGiant CD 1 is always inserted in your CD­ROM drive when you start the game.

Technical Information

We suggest you close all other running applications and background
programs prior to starting the game.

Some screensavers may cause problems with the graphics and images in
the game. If this happens, we suggest you deactivate your screensaver
prior to starting the game.

You have the possibility to switch to other applications during the game.
Certain graphic cards do not support this function and may not display the
game graphics correctly. We advise you to quit the game if you would like
to run other applications.

In case you experience problems with the display of the game, make sure
your graphic card driver is up-to-date. Usually, you can obtain the latest
version of your driver through the graphic card manufacturer‘s homepage.

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Technical Support and Customer Service

You are experiencing technical problems while you are installing the soft­ware? Or are you stuck in the middle of the game and you can‘t continue?
Our hotline-service employees will be glad to help!

Hotline

INSERT HOTLINE NUMBERS

Helpful Suggestions, Recommendations and Requests

What do you think of this game? We want to know! You can reach us via
eMail at: [e-mail]

Introduction

Transport

Transport is literally the name of this game. It‘s all about transport of goods
and passengers.
The transport industry is really the only possibility for you to earn money, so
you will be dealing with the establishment of a transportation infrastructure.
Different than in games like IndustryGiant 2, you will not be dealing with the
production or sales of goods.
Actually, all you really have to do is load goods or passengers at one loca­tion and unload them at another location where they are required. You‘ll
obtain a certain freight rate in accordance with the distances you travel,
which can vary just as much as the products you transport.
It sounds very easy, and it is easy. Nonetheless, if you truly want to estab­lish a spanning and efficient transportation system, you might actually find
yourself dealing with a pretty cool brain-twister.

Game Updates

Visit the TransportGiant homepage for hot, up-to-date information and
more. The homepage also offers access to the discussion forums, where
you can exchange opinions and info with other players.

http://www.transportgiant.com

Endless Play

In TransportGiant you have different game modes to choose from. One of
these modes is the so-called Endless Play mode. We call it Endless Play
because you can play all the way into the year 9000 in this game mode.
However, the technical improvements end in the year 2050. From this day
on, you will not receive any new vehicles or goods to transport, but the
economy continues to suffer or benefit from the economic fluctuation.

In Endless Play you can determine the year you start your career as a trans­port mogul. However, we would like to point out that starting the game in
later years does not necessarily make things easier.

You do not have a true game mission or goal in this mode. You can retreat
from active business at any time, when you think you have established ever­ything you desire. A rating in the form of points will give you the possibility
to compare your abilities with your former achievements or with others‘.
Sure thing is, the more money you make, and the faster you make it - the
better your rating will be.

Campaigns

In campaign mode, things are different. If you have decided to play this
game mode, then you have the possibility to play two different campaigns
with seven missions each.
The goals you have to fulfill are clearly determined in the missions. You
also always start in one preset year and you have a certain time limit to
fulfill the goal.

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The goals you have to fulfill in the missions are not always the same. Accor­dingly, you may have to gain a certain amount of money, or in another
mission you‘ll have to deliver raw materials to a construction site so a
certain building can be established, and many more.
You can only start a successive mission when you have successfully
accomplished the previous one. However, you can play the missions as
often as you want.

Less common are the industries you can bring products to, which do
not produce anything though. At least nothing that could be transported
anywhere. Any kind of power plant belongs to this category, for example.
That means you could deliver coal to a coal power plant, but obviously you
cannot transport the produced energy with a vehicle.

And not to forget: the...

Industries

As we have mentioned earlier, all types of industries in the game are only
means to an end. They are nothing but providers of goods or recipients of
other products.
One of your main activities will be locating these industries, in order to
connect and supply them by establishing a transport net.

A simple example should make this clear. In the middle of the forest there
is a woodcutter store that produces tree trunks. You could transport these
tree trunks to a sawmill. You obtain a certain freight rate for delivering
the tree trunks. The sawmill has received raw materials, so now it can
produce boards from the tree trunks you delivered. If there happens to be
a carpentry near-by you could seize the chance and deliver the boards to
the carpentry. However, you do not necessarily have to do that. You can
determine for yourself how complicated and widespread your transport net
is supposed to be.

There are different types of industries in TransportGiant. In our example
above we introduced two of them. The woodcutter store belongs to the
category of raw material providers. This type of industry produces their
raw materials on their own - the player does not have to interact. Additional
examples are all types of mines or pits. You cannot deliver any goods to
these industries, simply because they do not require anything.

The agricultural companies are providers of raw materials as well. They also
produce without any assistance from the player. However, they do accept
certain delivered products. Consequently, you can have a positive influence
on the yield of a fruit plantation by delivering fertilizer to the plantation. And
the chicken at the poultry farm would also lay a much larger amount of eggs
if you provided a respective supply of corn.

The sawmill we mentioned above belongs to the most common category.
These industries require certain products to be able to produce their goods.
Consequently, they do not start producing their goods until the player has
delivered the necessary products. For matters of management, you can
always make one wagonload of processed products out of one wagon­load of raw materials. In our example above that would mean the sawmill
produces one wagonload of boards out of one wagonload of tree trunks.

Cities

Strictly speaking, the cities are really nothing more than additional indus­tries. But we don‘t want to start this topic in such a prosaic manner, now
do we...

Cities accept various types of goods. And they also produce goods, if that‘s
what you want to call it. In cities you can pick up passengers, mail and
garbage. The first two have determined destinations, where you can bring
them. Naturally, garbage is brought to the dump or later on to the garbage
incineration center.

The larger the city, the larger the variety and the higher the amounts of
products you can deliver. For example, a small village may only require
one wagonload of eggs per month, which isn‘t very difficult to achieve,
but it could be nearly impossible to provide a full supply of eggs for really
large cities.

Although why are cities really nothing more than an additional industry?
What is that supposed to mean? It‘s easy: in games like IndustryGiant 2,
the cities were still the final and absolutely essential link in a production
chain, whereas in TransportGiant, you can play without ever delivering a
single product to a city, or picking up a single passenger. Of course, the
missions are the exception. In the missions, cities usually play the main
role. For example, a mission goal could be to make sure one train arrives
in every city.

Main Menu

When you start the game, the first thing you
will always see is the main menu. This is where
you can continue a game you previously quit.
You can load saved games, adjust different
settings according to your needs and quit the
game again.

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Continue Game

When you switch to the main menu during a running game, the game will
automatically be saved. The option „Continue Game“ allows you to re-enter
the game without having to load a savegame.

This also works when you close the program.

Therefore, you basically never have to save a game. Of course, we discou­rage you from doing this. You should always save your game on a regular
basis, especially when you are working on large construction projects. That
way, you can undo potential mistakes you made. And why not take advan­tage of the things that will never be possible in reality?

Click on the desired continent and
confirm your selection by clicking on
the „OK“ button. Click on „Cancel“ to
return to the main menu.

Now the window appears where you can
select which mission you would like to
play. If you are playing this campaign for
the first time, you will see that only one
mission is available. You can play all the
other missions by successfully comple­ting the previous ones.

Load Game

Load a previously saved game.

Simply click on the desired
savegame in the list and then
confirm your selection by
clicking on the „OK“ button.
That brings you right back
into the game.

To delete older savegames,
simply select the desired

savegame from the list. Now
click on the „Delete“ button.
As a precaution, you will now be asked to confirm your selection once
again. Once you have confirmed your selection, the savegame is deleted.
This action cannot be undone.

Campaign

Once you have decided to play a campaign, you will have to make another
decision. Select which campaign you would like to play.
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You can play missions you
have previously completed at
any time. Therefore, you still
have the chance to play a
mission again at any point in
time, once it has been won or
lost. You will see the mission
description and the goals you
have to fulfill. Please read this
description carefully. But don‘t

memorize it. Of course you can
read through the description at any time later on in the game. Now, all you
have to do is determine how difficult you want this mission to be - and off
you go!.

Endless Play

Select a map for Endless
Play. As you already know,
there is practically no time
limit in Endless Play and no
determined game goal. Oh,
you haven‘t heard? Then you
probably belong to the type
of players who never read the

Introduction in these manuals.
We understand that, so we‘ll just explain this game mode again in short. In
Endless Play you can play and build into the year 9000.

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Well yes, that is a long time and assu­mingly only a few players will really take
advantage of this function. By the way,
technical advancements stop in the year

2050. That means, additional vehicles or
products no longer appear in the game.
However, the economy does continue
to suffer or benefit from the economic
fluctuation over all the years.

You can quit an Endless Play game at any point in time by simply retreating
from active business. A rating in the form of points shows how you played.
Of course, you should never take ratings like this too seriously. And never
forget, the advantage of games like this is the fact that you determine your
goal yourself.

Now select on which part of the earth you would like to play, just like in
campaign mode. Click on the desired continent and then confirm your
selection.

However, there is one major
difference: please take a look at
the selection button in the lower
left corner of the window. Click
on this button to open an addi­tional menu. In this menu, you
can create endless amounts
of random maps. Using your
own imagination and the editor!
You‘ll never have to worry
about not having enough game
environments to play in. We‘ll

explain how to create these maps in another chapter („Random Maps“).

Once you have selected a continent, you then have the possibility to select
a map template.

Usually, you will start in the
year 1850. However, you might
want to start with trucks, which
is why you may also determine
the starting year. Select the
desired starting year and
confirm this selection. Good
things take time. You can‘t
start quite yet. First you should
decide how difficult you want
the game to be. We‘ll explain

the differences between the
various levels of difficulty later on. For now you should know that the
Sandbox mode allows absolute free play. In this mode you will have no
financial worries whatsoever. You won‘t spend a penny, and you won‘t earn
a penny. Therefore, you can build various dream-routes to the top of your
bent and you can afford any vehicle, no matter how expensive it may be.
Conversely, you won‘t receive an end-rating in this mode.

Select the desired level of

difficulty and confirm your

selection. Slowly but surely,

things are now getting serious.

There‘s only one more selection

window between you and the

game. Do you want competi-

tion in the game? Then this is

the time to decide.

How strong your competitors

will be depends on the level

of difficulty you previously

selected. Select the number

of competitors and confirm

your selection. And now, let

the games begin!

Click on the desired name of the map in the list and confirm your selec­tion.

Players

You‘ve decided to change your name during the game? A dulcet name for
a company would be nice, wouldn‘t it?
No problem, you can have it all.

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Click on the respective name field and enter
the name you desire. In addition, you may
also select a company logo. Click on the
arrow-buttons to the left and to the right of
the preview window for an overview of all
available company logos.

You want your vehicle fleet to look really
cool? Or perhaps something like the original
varnishing? It‘s your job to determine how
your vehicles should be displayed. To the
right of the logo you can see a small preview
of how the vehicles could look. Use the
arrow buttons to take a look at all the other
available possibilities.

By the way, one of the possibilities leans towards the original varnishing of
the respective vehicle. If you select this option, you‘ll obviously receive a
colorful, yet not uniform look for your vehicle fleet.
By confirming your selection, all settings are saved and you return to the
main menu.

By clicking on „Cancel“, the settings are not saved.

Best‘s List

You can make it into the best‘s list when you quit an Endless Play game
by retreating.

Credits

Take a look at the team behind TransportGiant. Of course we can only
present actors/persons directly involved with TransportGiant.

Quit Game

Quit the game and return to your Desktop.

Game Menu

Let‘s take a first look at the navigation and controls of the game. To
prevent the game buttons from interfering with the game map, all buttons
are located at the edge of the screen.

By the way, you can open each menu with two clicks, at the most.

Now let‘s take a quick look at all the buttons and their meanings. We‘ll go
into detail and work with the buttons in the next chapter..

Player Logo

Settings

Adjust the screen resolution, brightness and
volume.

Select the desired screen resolution from
the list.

Use the throttles to adjust the brightness of
the screen as well as the volume for back­ground music and sound effects.

Only select the option „V-Sync“ if the
images and graphics in the game are not
displayed correctly.

By confirming your selection, all settings are saved and you return to the
main menu.

with this. It only shows your company logo. And after you have assumingly

Start in the left corner with the player logo. You can‘t do anything

selected it yourself, it can‘t do anything, but it sure does look cool!

Account Balance

From the most unimportant button to probably most
important and interesting part of the menu. You see a field right next to
the logo, which shows your account balance. We assume we don‘t need
to explain much more. The higher the number, the more money you have
on your account. Except for when you see a big, fat minus in front of the
number. By the way, if your account does show you are in debt, then you
cannot build anything and you cannot buy any vehicles.

Date

To the right of your account balance you see the
current date.