#openttdcoop

Another week is gone, another report for our yearbook is going to arise. This week, #openttdcoop was under the sign of development. You may have noticed tons of new articles on our wiki. Most articles were dedicated to the idea of Coopetition. You may have a look here to see the broad variety of proposals. To highlight one of the best proposals: in the head-to-head Coopetition a map is “mirrored” and each team plays on one side – so on exactly the same map as the other. Its basically the same game like the “classic” Coopetition but without interference by your opponent. Also, its nice to watch and to compare two different approaches on the same map.

Our ongoing brainstorm on the Coopetition concluded in a lot of PHP-code which has to be written. Osai and XeryusTC are the main developers to do this. We are glad about all your responses, comments, interests and blogviews 😉 . The ladder-system itself may take another two weeks but it will be an expandable system which means: a lot of ideas may be implemented not yet but in the future – if the idea itself is good enough. Therefore all of you are very welcome to write comments on the dedicated wiki-pages or even start a new page in this category. Great news from the official side of OTTD: Coopetition receive an own branch on svn.openttd.org! Furthermore, we were supported Coopetition with a quick server-side-patch to alter several settings. The patch itself can be found here. Thx again to Truelight for his ideas and tons of contributed work!

OTTD itself received a lot of development work this week. The probably greatest piece of work was the TGP merged to the trunk. Also, it is now possible to have a year higher than 2090 (great work, Rubidium). We therefore upgraded to newer nightly versions of OTTD. Unfortunately some smaller bugs caused us to revert our versions twice. We are lucky to have Truelight as a honorary member of #openttdcoop, look here and here for further details on some great moments of bugtracking and fixing. By now, we remain at revision 6176. You may have noticed the new box on the top-left side of this blog where you can read the current status and versions of our servers.

Our IRC received another upgrade by – guess who – right! Truelight! He donated a bot called “_42_” which is our calculator, statistic, translator and much more! You have an overview over its features on our wiki. This great needless stuff is what we searched for a long time 😉

And last but not least some great news on our memberbase itself: after a lot of gaming with a lot of great junctions and stations we decided that Ammler is more than ready to become our next member! Congratulations again to Switzerland! Some days after, Jinx was invited to become our next aspirant. It was a really tough decission since there is a lot of activity on our Sandbox recently and there are more than a lot of valuable players around!

So that’s it for this time. We look forward to see all of you again in the next week!