/vr/ - Retro Games

Realized the pic didn't post before so here it is again.

>Aircraft
Even though you'll never git gud if you rely on aircraft, there are still some awesome newgrfs focusing on them that people put a lot of work into. There's av8, which is sort of the original and has some spinoffs, extensions, and new versions like av9. There's also the WAS, the World Airliners Set which is pretty similar. Both of them give you a nice big selection of real world aircraft starting way back in the era of dirigibles. The fun part is that they also give you a vast selection of liveries so that your planes can all look different. It's really amazing how many individual art assets went into these sets.

>Ships
If you're overhauling everything else, might as well improve your ships too. The OG ship overhaul set was called FISH, and there are various modern spinoffs like Squid Ate FISH and redFISH. Any of them are fine and will give you ships that handle new cargos, more variety, and nice detailed graphics.

>Infrastructure
I already mentioned track replacement sets, which are often necessary to take advantage of the bigger variety of vehicle types provided by trainset newgrfs. There are also sets to replace pretty much any other piece of infrastructure in the game. Roads, buildings, trees, docks, airports, stations, etc. Road and building sets are often combined into town overhauls like the Japanese building set I'm using here. Some road/building sets off the top of my head:
>TTRS - Total Town Replacement Set
>AARS - American Road Renewal Set
>Swedish Houses - good for any vaguely "European" setting
Also look out for bridge replacement sets that match whatever road/town theme you are using. Here I'm using "Total Bridge Renewal Set for Japan Set 3," and you will see versions of that for the generic roads and AARS as well. The default bridges in the game are really quite bad gameplay-wise and are also pretty ugly, so I definitely recommend trying out replacements.