Crashing sandbox
Some weary players will know that the Sandbox server has been quitting, apparently at random. It’s frustrating. We don’t know what the problem is at the moment. If you find that the server has crashed, feel free to inform one of the members (including me) so that we can get the game back on its feet.
Note that you can only poke Brianetta, Mucht, Osai or me to restart the sandbox. Other members don’t have SSH access AFAIK.
valhallasw and xahodo also have SSH access.
It appears to have been stabilised – Mucht’s method of reducing load by reducing resolution was the case of the problem. The minimum safe resolution in openttd.cfg appears to be:
resolution = 410,199
it was me :p
kinda odd :/
but this is a part of the coopetition branch, we dont want any graphic calculation anymore on server side.
peter1138 has written a patch which stops this happening. It needs formal testing, though; he doens’t know for sure it doesn’t break anything.
I would say we could do the testing? If it doesn’t work, we’ll know fast enough 😉
-val