#openttdcoop

Ladies and madmen, I am happy to announce that the project I have been working on for the last few months, has grown to it’s first release! First of all I would like to give a huge thanks to frosch who helped me greatly to get the production mechanism working, but also Alberth for trying to help me as much as possible. I would also like to thank all the people like planetmaker for answering my endless and often stupid questions about NML in general. I greatly appreciate everyone who have supported me with any feedback!

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Hello!

Just like about 3 years ago when I announced first concepts of NUTS, this time I am glad to announce that I started to sketch schemes and industries for YETI.
This article is for one like my notepad so I remember the core idea, and to let you know and/or give feedback what you think about the concepts.
To demonstrate my ideas I have created some scheme images below.

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HELLO!

It is happening again, 1st April is here!

Just like last year and the year before that, we can celebrate the existence of NUTS with a new version again.

In the past year NUTS made a lot of progress even though it seemed quite “complete” even last year. Most notably were added some trains (who knew) which improves the choice a player can make – and also the awesome factor of the set. Namely, PURR tracks got eaten by NUTS as they are now integrated in one newGRF – which happened because MEOW trains are completely dependent on them. Also WetRail vehicles (the wet tracks which were the main surprise in last year birthday) got completely redone and have now 10 vehicles! Plus many other details, but RAINBOW SLUGS are a thing to never forget!

At the same time, NUTS got so huge that became very confusing to new(er) players. Especially lately, I have been trying to make this barrier easier to breach – first of all by adding the wiki which is trying to explain how each vehicle works. Not just that though, another one of steps in that direction making vehicles expire – so only the useful ones remain. And with this version I made all vehicles 1 tile long so you can autoreplace any to any without losing wagons or getting into problems. My intention also was to introduce an Ultimate wagon which could attach to any train and adapt sprites/parameters accordingly, but the obstacles in coding such a thing were way too large. So, I at least added a parameter to NUTS (gets its first parameter after 2 years =D) which makes only universal wagons purchaseable for more simplicity. For full choice you can simply switch it back at any point.

It might be noteworthy that NUTS reached above 100 000 total downloads not long ago, currently counting 100992 times for versions 0-67.

Enjoy! (:

Hello!

The Union Of Brainmelt is growing by one more person to the pack!

Jam35 has made considerable appearance on all of Public Server, Welcome Server and ProZone. His building style is not just learning (even though he already managed to know everything necessary), but also improvisation and improving with his own taste.

Apart from being a building machine, Jam35 is exceptionally friendly person with very good sense of humour (when he is not teaming up with others to accuse Slugs of being fat), and does not hesitate to contribute with things outside the game, be it providing savegames, editing sprites or other things.

If you need to track Jam35 down, just go by the smell of madness, and if you see overflow depots with PBS signalled priority around the depot, you know you have found him!

Congratulations and a lot of beer!

V453000

Hello, this time I am not going to write an article which would attempt to describe some part of building, or any other kind of documentation helpful for learning directly.

Through the time of me being around, it happened quite a few times that I was asked questions about things from the past, about history of openttdcoop, about what I myself did, what happened here and there.

To be entirely honest, I just got a new keyboard and I am just in the typing mood, which means I will not be paying too much attention to proper well thought out structure of the article or similar things, I will just put it as it comes and one more thing … and do not expect images! 😀

Alright, now we lost 99% readers by not including images, we can continue… It might be short, it might be long, it might be useful, it might not. Either way I hope you enjoy reading as much as possible and perhaps the article will help you understand how the things around here work.

I wish you a good read of the random nonsense which follows :>

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