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OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

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302 points doener | 2 comments | 04 Dec 24 05:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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aquafox ◴[04 Dec 24 07:07 UTC] No.42315113[source]▶
In the original Transport Tycoon (but not OpenTTD), if you would build a tunnel from one end of the map to the other, the amout of money to pay gets so large that it triggers a (signed) integer overflow. So you can start your campaign with billions of dollars!
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1. icoder ◴[04 Dec 24 11:55 UTC] No.42316614[source]▶
I remember discovering something like this in the first (?) Sim City. I must have been like 10 years old at the time. For some reason I had built so many police stations that the upkeep (was it 100 per station) was so high my monthly losses overflowed to profits.

It is only in hindsight that I now understand what happened there.

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2. throwup238 ◴[04 Dec 24 13:30 UTC] No.42317245[source]▶
In my headcanon it’s not a bug but a feature. Once you have that many police officers most of them have nothing to do but terrorize the civilian population with civil forfeiture to the benefit of the budget.