OSQC the follow up … at last

It has been way to long, but here it is the second OpenTTDCoop Scenario Quest Competition. In the scenario file you’ll find the goals for this map. Deadline to submit the game is August 31st 23:59 CEST. Submitting can be done by raising an issue at the OTTD Dev Zone under category OSQC. Judgement will be done by members of OTTD.
OSQC 2010 - 01
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Advanced Building Revue 06: Hubs

The fun, the creativity, the high league, the madness, the spaghetti, the mess, the weirdness, the braindisruptors. What else is so typical for our superior gaming style? Building hubs. In this article I am going to go into hub logics and techniques, examining some possibilities how a hub can be made. This article should help one realize what to think about and what to consider when building a hub. Note: This article expects you have proper building style as your blood group.

Hubs

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Coopetition – and the Winner is: Yexo

Hi there,

a long time since I blogged the last time, huh? Well, as I always pointed out, I’ll always stay in touch with ‘coop – and so I accidentally ran into a coopetition challenge at Sunday 4th!

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Advanced Building Revue 05: Sbahns and city networks

Sbahns. We don’t use them in every pax game and even pax games aren’t all that often. So creating a Sbahn doesn’t get that much attention, or that much experience from us. On the other hand, creating a good Sbahn is a very responsible task because mostly the rebuilds and corrections of a Sbahn require nuking a major part of the city. In this article I am going to focus on some basic criteria defining a proper Sbahn, talk about some aspects that affect Sbahn behaviours and last but not least, I would like to show some types in action, searching through our archives.

Sbahns

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Public server game 186 review

As some of you might have already noticed, the last psg was a bit different from the last ones. In this article/review I would like to look inside and examine, what has been done differently to make it special. Also, I am going to check how the refitting works and what it causes, how we solved it, and what flaws I noticed.

Hi!

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