#openttdcoop

We are proud to finally announce the final release of our NewGrf Package Version 7.0. More than 40 changes were applied since the release of the beta. For example the new version of the Canadian Set (v0.3c) is included.
Check out our logfile or the cia.vc profile. The next release will be a maintenance release (7.1) showing up after a certain amount or some important fixes are done.


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Hello Community 🙂

What can the community need to increase team play, cooperative building, and more important – what can build a community?

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Today we started a new Member Zone game. That’s great and I hope that all the stressed members will have a bit time to play the game. MemberZone games are a bit different and the last game was finished almost 4 months ago. Some of our members didn’t play a MZ game yet and I was asked what is the difference between MZ and PS.
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Today I deleted the complete wiki/images/thumb folder leading in complete removal of all thumbnails generated by the wiki.
The Reason
The thumbnail folder had an impressive size of 472 Megabyte! Most of the thumbnails were bigger than the original files. That’s not good for the visitors with low bandwidths, because they have to wait ages to load an image and not good for us because it uses a lot of our traffic and disk capacity.
The Solution
I changed the method of converting images, instead of converting them to 48bit or higher or whatever images, we now convert them to png 8bit images with:
$wgCustomConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert -resize %wx%h %s PNG8:%d";
The Disadvantages

• This may cause trouble with cached pages, if you don’t see an image, please append ?action=purge to the URL.
• Converting images takes more time due to higher compression
• Pages with a lot of images could time out on the first request. Do a second one in this case.

If there occur any problems, please contact me.

After two month without any progress and some weeks with a lot of discussions, decisions and of course work, we finally release the first beta version of the #openttdcoop NewGrf Package Version 7. This is another big step, because we decided to change the way we administrate NewGrf files. To cut a long story short, we control the files now with Subversion, a versioning system. A lot of you might know this system, because it is used buy our all beloved OpenTTD game as well and those revision numbers are generated by svn.
It is definitely worth too look into svn and add the package to your OpenTTD data/ folder with this method, it saves you a lot of time and traffic. Methods, how to do this, are shown below.
Of course we will provide the normal packages (*.zip, *.rar, *.7z, etc.) as well, to reach all users.

A major and great update is the inclusion of Read the rest of this entry »