#openttdcoop

Well, another week is over and I will summarize this very special blog-worthy days. A lot of things changed in the community. We have a new member and this is probably the most positive fact around our team. Along with promoting XeryusTC to a full member of #openttdcoop, OwenS and ammler followed his invitation to join our mainserver-team. This means, we have one more player coming close to membership. Also noteworthy: nlhans returned after some months of abscence. thgergo and Itchi also returned to our crew. piratejerkk and John-K are two new nicks around the Sandbox. Summarizing the week, one has to note that there were always some 30+ nicks in our channel during the evening hours!

Now some remarks to the technical aspects of our community. Brianetta steadily improved our Autopilot and the next version is under development/testing. Also, we started using Teamspeak for our efforts – and hey: its great fun! Since you are reading this blog, you may have noticed that we resurrected it and are filling it with user-made opinions and observings around #openttdcoop. The wiki was permanently improved during the past two weeks. The archives were redone and so were many other pages – the Guides need some more attention though. To summarize the technical improvements: check the blog for news around the community, for opinions, thoughts and reports. Check the wiki for gamestyles, for information about users, guides and research & development. Also, the wiki hosts our savegame archive and information about rules and our latest game-idea: the coopetition!

Coopetition – the highlight of the week. In the first gathering, XeryusTC and Ammler challenged Osai and Mucht. Six more clients watched this team vs. team battle for the highest income. In the end, the german-speaking team was the slightly better one. They won with an advantage: they shared the same mother-tongue. We noticed it is highly recommended to find together in native-speaking teams. Each team has its own subchannel on our Teamspeak-Server – you better buy a headset to take this challenge! I tell you: this coopetition is really challenging. It encourages fast building, smart calculating, teamplay and competitive thinking. We are looking forward to extend the idea, create a smart ruleset that allows each team to play their ideas on a fair level.

Stay tuned on this – stay tuned by reading the #openttdcoop-blog!