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>I thought that getting deep into the game's guts like that was a no-no.
>but you need to download a third-party NewGRF to actually do that, because trams weren't in the original TTD
Not at all. The vanilla vehicles aren't included in openttd either. In the old days you had to provide the (copyrighted) original graphics files from the commercial game, but soon enough there were free replacements that match the original vehicles 1:1, except with completely redrawn graphics. Trams aren't included in those default free graphics because that would make them incompatible with the original graphics, which can still be dropped in as a replacement for the open source graphics. It would break compatibility with decades old savegames that some people actually still play (you can probably believe that for an autistic game like this). It would break compatibility for tons of community newGRFs too, which often use pointers to sprites in the base graphics set.

Everything in openttd is interconnected and tangled up with itself and the community like that. There is nothing in the code that can't be changed. It's not true that there's like machine language that no one can read or anything like that. But there are obscure binary data structures and things like that which forever to change because they practically require refactoring the entire codebase. But they have been working on the game for 20 years now. Check out the changelog and a bunch of blog posts they've made recently on opentt.org about the new version. They have a bunch of changes for ships and auto-spacing for vehicles as well.

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