New Member: V453000
A new person has been found to be added to our group of people.
He goes by the name of V453000.
With his help and skills we hope to improve our games even more
Five years of #openttdcoop!
My dear fellow ‘coopers,
as most of you would probably not recognize: #openttdcoop started more than five years ago – in early/mid January 2005. This is clearly something to blog about: a review of our community – a personal, subjective remembrance that is. Read the rest of this entry »
Webcam on PublicServer
After a bit playing around with screenshot maker and Autopilot, this is what came out:
(If the server is active, you get a new image at least every 15 mins.)
I guess, there are some other possibilities with this feature, I am looking forward. 🙂
Bon Voyage, Mark
So last night, Mark bid #openttdcoop a fond au-revoir as he sets of on his planned 2 year excursion globe-trotting.
<Mark> riiiiiiiiight that’s it :)
<Mark> i’m off, for a couple of years
<Mark> so, thanks for the great time folks
<Mark> hope to see you all again when i get back in a few years
<Mark> if everything goes according to plan i’ll be gone for two years
[..]
<Mark> first in australia for a year, then 6 months new zealand, then to indonesia or china
<Mark> at least that’s the plan
We all wish Mark the best of luck around the world, with any luck, he’ll be back from time to time to report in.
Fail-Safe Joiners, Priorities and the Cyclotron example
Some days ago I stumbled upon openttd wikis page about Railyway Designs and I saw the Cyclotron created by Pitt2. Those high speed injectors are not too new and we experimented with them a lot. Though we don’t use them in most cases, because they are difficult to build, depending on the properties of trains and such. Its just too much work for too less effect and pre-accelerated joiners are the better choice. Though I had a look at the construction and checked how it worked. A little footnote about a fixed bug made me curious, but then I understood that it fixes the issue which occurs if a train wants to join another track but in the same moment the signal turns red and the train stops blocking a complete line. Therefor we have the overtaking lanes in most SML constructions. We all like cool words for cool constructions, here they are. Fail-safe Joiners:
