#openttdcoop

As of today, January 1st 2007, #openttdcoop welcomes two more full members: hylje and piratejerkk !

hylje was appointed due to his wiki-related activities as well as his high presence at our IRC channel and ingame at the Sandbox Server. piratejerkk has been active for ages in our community and has proven to be both a solid constructor ingame and a rock-solid nick on IRC.

Along with these member-appointments, MooUK has been invited to join our Mainserver as our new Aspirant!

I wish all of our Members, Aspirants, Sandboxers and Blog-Visitors a happy and prosperous new year 2007!

Tonight, we updated both Mainserver and Sandbox Server to OpenTTD r7603. This gives us the latest features of “bridges over a lot of stuff” and traction of locos.

As you may have noticed, the status bar to the right seems not to work with this revisions anymore. We will try to fix this the next days!

All alone in the game. Poor Kolo.

[21:45] [Kolo] !players
[21:46] [sandbox]  Player 140 (Orange) is Kolo, in company 1 (#openttdcoop)
[21:46] [Kolo] 🙁

Remember, sandbox is free to play for members of the public. Read the wiki to make sure you understand the rules, then get stuck in!

Some weary players will know that the Sandbox server has been quitting, apparently at random. It’s frustrating. We don’t know what the problem is at the moment. If you find that the server has crashed, feel free to inform one of the members (including me) so that we can get the game back on its feet.

We decided to update the newgrf set as there was a problem with the alpine grf and the DBSetXL, we had these problems before but we only had big problems with it now. The server could be crashed when building trains, which isn’t a very good game. So I decided to propose to switch to UKRSv3 (I was thinking about this since UKRSv3 has been released). The others recognized that we would need to change to keep the server stable.

I also want to ask you guys a question: should we dump the UK brick bridge and switch to Purno’s bridge set? I would personally like to switch because I like those bridges more than OpenTTD’s default bridges. Please use the comments to cast your vote, and don’t vote on IRC as they will be forgotten (or we could change the poll 😉 ).

Have fun playing with the newgrf set!