#openttdcoop

Due to the many request I finally created a step-by-step tutorial to show you how to build a very easy variant of my Terminus Station (The Draft for this post exists since July). The bridges over tunnels seemed to be confusing for some readers. Anyway I have to say again: ‘bridges over anything’ only work with the r7573 and higher nightly buids, not with OpenTTD 0.5.x series (Roadmap).

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Hey Folks,

last night I completed the “tutorial savegame” guide. This guide is definitely ment for players totally new to #openttdcoop. It shows some very basic tricks of the trade – and the best thing: you can have it in full motion! Just download the savegame and see how things work out in the “real virtual world”. Along with that, you have some comments on the dedicated guide pages.

I appreciate some helping hands on both linguistic corrections and content-expanding commits on this section as well as on the whole #openttdcoop wiki 😉

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.

As you may have noticed, we have had some trouble with spambots on the wiki. To prevent further abuse, a reCAPTCHA will have to be filled out when registering or when adding an external link. The latter may change later (as it’s kinda double).

Yes, the reCAPTCHA in the register screen looks kinda fooked, but hey, it works 😉

reCAPTCHA example:

(yes, ugly white background. {{sofixit}})