#openttdcoop

Gratulations to Adm.Spock for his promotion to a full member!

Yes, it’s-a-me, Mucht. Again.

After having noticed being way to idle here on the blog, I decided to share some thoughts about Osai’s blogpost about the 20.000th pagehit on our Wiki.

After half a year of existance on IRC, we decided to port our early webpage to a wiki. I wrote almost every part of our early webpage by myself and it was pretty clear that a dynamic community needs a wiki-system in order to motivate every member to post their ideas and thoughts. Still, the wiki is our most precious part of #openttdcoop right behind our game servers and IRC. Again, we have to thank our host Brianetta for all his support and confidence he brought into our community the past two years. His “autopilot”, the bridge between IRC and the OpenTTD-ingame-chat (and vice versa) increases the communication and became a key-feature in our community.

Nowadays its a great deal for ambitious OpenTTD players to join #openttdcoop: everyone is encouraged to post his ideas on a dedicated wiki-page. Important features or constructions as well as personal thoughts have their auditors here on the blog. The IRC channel is a place to meet skilled players and finally the servers are attractive due to the usage of bleeding-edge nightlies and well-chosen newGRF-sets.

I’ll start to prepare myself for the 5th anniversary now.

The MainPage of our Wiki has over 20.000 view now. That’s great. The page was created on 29th of October in 2005 and looked like this. Since the start of our wiki we had over 282.000 page views and more than 3.000 edits [details].
The most famous editor is Mr. Mucht with more than 1.000 edits. Over the years our Wiki became a quite solid repository for information, tips and guides all around the OpenTTD Universe and in my opinion it was and will be a help for a lot of players. No matter, beginners, advanced players and professionals will find interesting things. Yes, our Wiki raises the bar. 🙂

I hope we will see a lot more edits and page views in the future as well. Happy Wiki’ing.

With revision r10437 peter1138 added a new feature to the trunk of OpenTTD: Automatic signal completion. What does that mean in detail? I did a few tests and created a wiki page to show you how the newest feature of OpenTTD works and how you can use it. One thing is for sure, it makes the life of OpenTTD-Players (and Co-Ops) a lot of easier. I needed one second to signal this weird construction in the screenshot. Imagine massive Mainlines you can signal them in seconds now. Just wonderful.

Signalling & Automatic Signalling
Enjoy this great new feature of OpenTTD

We had a lot of trouble with the latest revisions of OpenTTD and our games suffered from de-syncs. In the last three days we did a lot of debugging and gave information to the developers, they finally found the problems which tend to those symptoms. Today they will be gone. It was a hard journey to locate the problem, sometimes it occurred and sometimes it didn’t, depending on OS, CPU architecture and compiler version. In first place it was a compiler issue, but we also thought some memory bits of the Servers RAM might be broken, also 32bit vs. 64bit was a question. I don’t want to do it so detailed. But here is the final rev.
-Fix [YAPF, r10301]: INVALID_TRACKDIR causing buffer overrun leading to desync in MP game (many thanks Rubidium)

A lot of thanks to KUDr and Rubidium for locating and fixing this issue. Lets continue our games now 🙂