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Transport Tycoon Forums :: View topic – working on c# port of openttd

Best thing to happen to TTD, or folly of the century? exe is doing this, and has actually produced a screenshot of what he’s coded so far. Question is, does it have a future? Originally, openttd was seen as a rather far-fetched and unnecessary project, when compared to the Patch. Is the C# port unnecessary or far-fetched, or is it the future?

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Great news for our small-but-growing community – Osai managed to setup this blog this afternoon. Since Brianetta bribed some officials, our Sandbox-server-bot was released from its jail during the evening-hours. Now we have two readjusted features:

IRC < -> Sandbox Communication

A blog with the capability to display images

So we need some content – and its up to you to keep this blog alive! Register – report in at #openttdcoop and blog those stories around OpenTTD!

After having a look on the ongoing Sandbox-game I just noticed several bottlenecks in the network. Probably many players even don’t know one of OTTD’s most powerful tools – the trainview:

As you can see there are several queuings on the network – these are the points a coop’er has to work on 😉

Autopilot was supposed to be a labour saving excercise. Just like a real robot. Trouble is, when a robot goes beserk it trashes your furniture and scares your cat, then goes on a rampage through town until it gets stopped by tanks.

That’s what happened to the sandbox today. The autopilot was run in a loop to restart it in the event of failure. Then the game crashed. The same crash happened when it was reloaded with that saved game, and autopilot didn’t know better than to try again. It was joining and leaving the IRC channel several times a second when it was stopped by tanks – an IRC Op k-lined it.

Now I’m thinking that running it in a loop is not such a good idea. In future, when it fails it’ll fail safe – and wait for human intervention.