September 28, 2010 8 Comments

Advanced Building Revue 07: Stations

written by V453000

Building stations is one of the most essential things in OpenTTD. To build a station doesn’t require any experience (besides knowing which button to press), although construction of a station that works perfectly requires some deeper and in under-rated amount of knowledge. The point of this article isn’t in showing all possibilities how to make a station, but it should note as many things as possible in terms of what to consider when building a station and also, talking about signalling styles which are sadly almost ignored. Here I present to you, ABR07: Stations.
Stations
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September 23, 2010 2 Comments

Testing FS 3637 – A Game Inviting Competition [Update]

written by dihedral

In an attempt to get FS 3637 fixed, a patch has been published which needs testing.

To be precise, the distribution of goods between competing stations at an industry needs testing to make sure this is treated more fair with this patch than without.
For this test to be successful it needs a bunch of players competing and creating certain situations:
1) first station at industry higher rating than second station at industry
2) first station at industry lower rating than second station at industry
3) not competing stations

And this is where YOU come in: In order for any test to be successful it needs to be played with.
Please feel free to download the Binaries and play on the server you find. The server will only be available for a few days.

Add you impressions and notes to the respective forums thread.

Thank you very much for the help in trying to fix this issue.

~dih

Update: new binaries are available at the same url as mentioned above.