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You can install OpenTTD on external media so you can take it with you, i.e.
using a USB key, or a USB HDD, etc.
Create a directory where you shall store the game in (i.e. OpenTTD/).
Copy the binary (OpenTTD.exe, OpenTTD.app, openttd, etc), data/ and your
openttd.cfg to this directory.
You can copy binaries for any operating system into this directory, which will
allow you to play the game on nearly any computer you can attach the external
media to.
As always - additional grf files are stored in the data/ dir (for details,
again, see section 4.1).
5.0) OpenTTD features:
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OpenTTD has a lot of features going beyond the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe
emulation. Unfortunately, there is currently no comprehensive list of features,
but there is a basic features list on the web, and some optional features can be
controlled through the Advanced Settings dialog. We also implement some
features known from TTDPatch (http://www.ttdpatch.net/).
Several important non-standard controls:
* Ctrl makes many commands more powerful. For example Ctrl clicking on signals
with the build signal tool changes their behaviour.
* Ctrl modifies many commands and makes them more powerful. For example Ctrl
clicking on signals with the build signal tool changes their behaviour, holding
Ctrl while the track build tool is activated changes it to the track removal
tool, and so on. See http://wiki.openttd.org/Hidden_features for a non-
comprehensive list or look at the tooltips.
* Ingame console. More information at
http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/Console
* Right clicking shows tooltips
* Hovering over a GUI element shows tooltips. This can be changed to right click
via the advanced settings.
5.1) Logging of potentially dangerous actions:
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OpenTTD is a complex program, and together with NewGRF, it may show a buggy
behaviour. But not only bugs in code can cause problems. There are several
ways to affect game state possibly resulting in program crash or multiplayer
desyncs.
Easier way would be to forbid all these unsafe actions, but that would affect
game usability for many players. We certainly do not want that.
However, we receive bug reports because of this. To reduce time spent with
solving these problems, these potentially unsafe actions are logged in
the savegame (including crash.sav). Log is stored in crash logs, too.
Information logged:
* Adding / removing / changing order of NewGRFs
* Changing NewGRF parameters, loading compatible NewGRF
* Changing game mode (scenario editor <-> normal game)
* Loading game saved in a different OpenTTD / TTDPatch / Transport Tycoon Deluxe /
original Transport Tycoon version
* Running a modified OpenTTD build
* Changing settings affecting NewGRF behaviour (non-network-safe settings)
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