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In the summer I did not have the opportunity to be either an organizer or a participant - but now autumn has come and I am gladly seeing the announcement of a new set. I wanted to join the Steemit Challenge for a long time, I even passed the Achievement as for beginners because that was a necessary condition, since then the requirements have softened a lot and it is much easier to join the Steemit Challenge now. I joined the Steemit Challenge, as it is called now, in season 20. I also took part in seasons 21 and 23 - I love odd numbers. Thanks to the Steemit Challenge I also joined curating a year ago, that I already lost count how many times our teams were chosen - it seems about five. Now it is season 27 - an odd number - so I hope I will be lucky 😁. I would like to continue with teaching mathematics or programming, I was already thinking about topics - but at the last moment a wonderful idea struck me to teach how to play one beautiful game, a computer game. Since the times when I discovered Steemit Challenge where there were strict conditions for selection I wanted to join, I even passed the Achievement as for beginners because that was a necessary condition. But these conditions softened each time and covered an ever larger audience of participants. And already for a year I from time to time take part in them. What kind of educational courses have not been here - making a fire, and electrical wiring, and pots from cement, baking and knitting, medicinal herbs... - but there were no games. I discovered this game back in 1999, although the original version by Chris Sawyer was released at the end of 1994. In 2004 the fan community started an open project for developing the game as free software, and since then it has been improving every day. In 2008 I made a translation of the game into Ukrainian. At that time the developers switched to the use of Unicode, thanks to which the game received support not only for Latin, but also for other languages with their specific symbols.

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OpenTTD is a free strategy game, also known as "Transport Tycoon". It can also be classified as a business simulator or an economic simulator. On the map, cities grow by themselves, resources and industrial enterprises appear. The task is only to establish transportations: by buses, trucks, ships, airplanes, and of course, trains. The game belongs to free software, so there is no need to buy it — just download and install. We will not dive professionally into this game, that is why the story about trains I moved from the second week to the fifth. But I hope that after our six lessons this will not leave you indifferent to it. I even looked at Steemit as an economic game, (I as a mathematician love numbers). On Steemit as in the game you perform certain actions from which your economic indicator Steem Power grows. My nearest goal of 50K recently changed to a new one - Orca 61K (100 MV).

|||| |--|--|--| |**User name:**@sergeyk
**Country:**Ukraine
**STEEM Power:** 42883 STEEM
**CSI:** 13.2
**Club status:** constantly #club100
**Powered up:** 2265 STEEM
**Cashed Out:** 0 STEEM
**Reputation :**75.8|![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZ15KsSE84BTRCXkXNtvfVTLgyHk1ume69ddNC4s9e1dP/image.png)| |If it weren’t for one Steem Power withdrawal 6 years ago, I would have said that I have never withdrawn STEEM, only bought it from time to time.|![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmesGeEFaggbEMQSxrNqcJxKkrbx5soTZ6xcmvqQyJUJCq/image.png)| |About six months ago I wrote about [+450 powerup](https://steemit.com/steem-fashionstyle/@sergeyk/powerup-and-win-450-steem), my SP was 37,000, now it is about 43,000, so the real growth in Steem Power is 6,000 over 6 months.|![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYHRo7ALMHLP8wsgHBhXarsZ8xzegd6vErh77YXTtDBAY/image.png)| # 📅 Program and tasks for 6 weeks (draft)

## Week 1. Introduction to the Game ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRrAY68tF5Fi48JyhwpSYPx8AojnQDoZ24qcG5KyCaiw8/image.png) Downloading and installing OpenTTD. Basic settings. Creating a world map. Overview of the interface and the main goal of the game. Immersion into the game world. First superficial introduction to transportation. **Task:** Download and install OpenTTD. Create and save a world map. Close and restart the game, then load the map. Make a short overview of the interface and a more detailed overview of any 2 elements. Choose two towns between which you will transport cargo. Rename them. Choose the type of cargo you will transport, from where to where – rename these as well. ### Week 2. Road Transport🚚🚌 ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdrSapL5UrKVDTFtoim4JTgFiBhhXUUemnf9zvkE7kdfM/image.png) Building roads, bridges, and tunnels. Depots and bus/truck stations. What resources can be transported by road vehicles. Setting up schedules/routes for transport. Task: Build a depot, several bus stops, and truck stations in the selected towns. Connect towns and industries with roads. Launch a bus between stops in one town and between towns. Launch a truck to transport resources. ### Week 3. Shipping🚢⚓ ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQ5Pt4KatvGMWQYSfiT4jU8vEVsC3YCSySuXzp7Keq8Mj/image.png) Ports, docks, and ships. Possibilities of water transportation and its advantages and limitations. Task: Build a port or dock in a town. If the port does not cover the town, build a road connection and launch trucks on it. Organize a ship route: either passenger or cargo. Demonstrate how the vessel operates on the route. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of shipping in your game. ### Week 4. Aviation🛬🚁 ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYYVyjY5hT9U3pPxYBQw3rR5UkTNW8oszwt5QEJ5a13Qn/image.png) Airports and airfields of different sizes. Passenger and cargo planes. Helicopters and landing pads for them. Features of air transportation. Task: Build an airport in a town (small or large) and a helicopter pad. Buy a plane and set up a flight between two towns. Add a helicopter and build a pad for it. Describe the differences between means of transport: planes, road vehicles, and ships. ### Week 5. Railways🚂🚆 ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRT1i5TnUdrHBL5J8BMZWpywkNVLbDnAXqsnb68WkNVDU/image.png) Steam, electrified, monorail, and maglev trains. Depots and stations. Signals and the first steps in creating a railway network. Task: Build two stations and connect them with a railway. Place a depot and purchase a train with wagons. Assign an order to the train. Evaluate the profitability. ### Week 6. Multiplayer🌐👥 ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaECBRwAMFsCgMG6oNA4HPH3ieUDFvm4r6C2ufskgwKLv/image.png) How to play online with friends or other participants. Creating and joining a multiplayer game, network etiquette. Task: Join the specified server with your login, create a company, and compete with other players. Share your success or defeat on the server. Analyze your gameplay.

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![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdeVcshJ6bYk66W4hNY4heUbreSpLaB2W3UhpfSNpippc/image.png) Why not make a Steemit.com server for this game, since Reddit exists?))

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Completing the tasks involves performing certain actions in the game, achieving goals, and demonstrating the process and final result of the task with screenshots (possibly supplemented by a video). This makes the use of AI impossible, since the test explanations are tied to the screenshots. The evaluation of the tasks is based on the completion of all points of the task and a good description and presentation of one’s work.

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I believe this idea is new and unusual, offering a creative twist that has not been tried before. Thank you for considering my application. Regard: @sergeyk