Promoting tneo to member

Today is a happy day for the #openttdcoop community. The current members have decided to promote tneo to a member, because of his great devotion for the game, building skills and his patience with helping other people.

Congratz !

Working hard on OSQC

It was quite silent here the last couple of days and I have a lot of stuff in the pipeline. For now I just want to give you a little update on the osqc interface.
I decided to store all the submitted in a database and after the osqc all of them can be downloaded. While the osqc is running, only the creator and the judges can download the solution. Another thing I bear in mind is a little support system to answer all the upcoming questions very elegant.

judge area mock-up
Preview of the judging area



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!password

some of the publicserver responses to !password are really funny – so here are my fav picks, be ammused :-):

2008-01-10 23:24:23 <NamedNubcake> !password
2008-01-10 23:24:23 <publicserver> ambush
2007-12-21 11:32:43 <Skol> !password
2007-12-21 11:32:43 <publicserver> busted
2008-01-01 12:25:06 <Mehdorn> !password
2008-01-01 12:25:06 <publicserver> creepy

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OpenTTD on iPhone & iPod Touch

I didn’t believe it myself. But OpenTTD has been ported to iPhone and iPod. You might check ZodTTD’s Page for further information about the what’s and how’s. I am really curious how this works. If one could try it out, please tell us how fast it is and when it starts becoming a slideshow.

Anyway those ports must be really popular, their is a port for the Nintendo DS, too.

Have fun playing OpenTTD in trains, busses, planes or ships 🙂
I really wonder when the first player will join a coop server via iPhone ^^

Information about OSQC

The first osqc is, besides some minor issues, a great success. I am really impressed. A lot of the problems were answered directly by me and others were discussed in the according tt-forums thread.
Already 23 players signed up for the first scenario. If you have finished your scenario and created the final solution you probably want to submit it. I didn’t create the submit form yet *shame on me*. Instead I started coding a complete interface for #osqc. Which is quite complex and includes all the features we need. I.e. a judging area, trouble tickets for your questions about the scenario, the ratings and much more.

Please be patient, it is quite a lot to do. If you feel able to help us and speed up the development, contact us.
In the meantime you have to send your scenario via e-mail to ottdcoop@ppcis.org. Please use the e-mail address you signed up with and add your username + code to the subject of the e-mail. It makes it easier to analyse the mails.

I am also thinking about the judging procedure. My last idea was:
5 Judges: , <2 Coop Members> & <2 coop suspects or volunteers>. Read more about that at the osqc:Talk page