#openttdcoop

Hello community,

as every week I will summarize the main events of the past seven days. This week was dominated by the day off for many users here, tuesday the 15th aka as “Maria Himmelfahrt” in Austria. Already at the past sunday, #openttdcoop moved along with #openttd to our new home, the OFTC IRC Network! Only ~20 clients moved along with us right at the same day which showed us the active percantage of players in the community. By the end of the week, a peak number of 41 users was reached in our channel.

What we did not expect is that this whole system of Blog/Wiki/WebIRC is that successful in such a short time. The relaunch of the blog was almost some two weeks ago and this week we reached an average number of unique visitors of around 250 per day! Thank all of you for your interest in our way to bring OpenTTD to a new level.

No weekly review without a short overview on our players: our almost-founding-member StarLite seems to be back from the depths of idleness. Sietse, hylje, Progman and Nord joined our Sandbox to have some cooperative play. We are also happy to see our aspirants ChrisM87 and nlhans a bit more active these days. Our members Osai and Mucht returned from their short-trips.

Also, some news around our Coopetition: the suggested ladder-system is under heavy development. For a long-yet-not-full list of proposals see this page . You will notice that a fully-functional team-management-system could show up during the next weeks. Help us with the development and drop your suggestions at our IRC-channel!

During the week, some teams made tactics and even some training sessions for upcoming Coopetition-games. On Saturday, Osai and Mucht played a shortly announced Coopetition game versus guru3 and hylje, who had neither team-experience nor a headset/microphone to coordinate their efforts. Hence, the matchings were not fair but the game was interesting after all, since Osai and Mucht relayed on their old tactics while guru3 and hylje tried to seek a chance in a short-route-strategy which has shown not to be the best, in the end.

Today, sunday, the Sandbox was restarted after a very short but creative game. We switched to r5993 which will be applied to each of our three servers (Sandbox, Mainserver, Coopetition Server) within the next days. The new revision has the advantage to include the TGP, an advanced terrain-generator.

Lets see what the next week is going to be at #openttdcoop.