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Exactly 42 commits were necessary to merge the ‘Yet Another Path Based Signaling Patch’ a.k.a. [YAPP] to the trunk (information from developer). We reported about this interesting patch in february ’08 first and played a PBS game on our Public Server.
I am really looking forward how popular YAPP will get and how it’ll be used in the upcoming games. PBS makes a lot of things much easier, but we should also check how it affects system resources: i.e. cpu usage.
All in all its great to see a patch (of this size) after almost half a year in trunk.

Well done 🙂

Today planetmaker and I did a nice test game to prepare for another competition against NoAI opponents. Of course we are interested in a real comparable competition and want, therefore, only build road vehicles. A wise preparation is necessary, otherwise we might get a nasty surprise.
We tested the behavior of road vehicles, intersections and bus stops.

A Bus Terminal
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Yesterday evening we had mostly spontaneous hit at testing some of the new AIs which are around for the NoAI branch which is currently very actively developed for OpenTTD. Using r13726-noai loaded with 2x convoy (written by GeekToo) and 1x AdmiralAI (written by Yexo), the team of Ammler, Mucht, Osai, dihedral and myself set out to have a measure on the playing strength of the current AIs. Later Tim joined in on us. Yexo, the creator AdmiralAI, of one of the best AI around (see tournament chart), supervised the AIs and took care of the general setup.


Terminal2 and the adjacent town – one end of our initial rail line. We haven’t been alone there since the very beginning.

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I finally updated all the movies and changed the format from flv to mpeg4. The new flash video player supports this format too and its easier to handle for me (encoding etc.) and more popular than flv. Besides I implemented the Simple Flash Video Plugin 1.5 which combines shadowbox and JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER 4.0.

The current setup will allow a much easier and more functional implementation of videos. I hope, I can publish more interesting videos soon. If you experience any issues with the new video plugin report it at the IRC channel or send an email.

You can find all our video posts in the Video Category

Hello out there,

Some days ago, Osai and myself remembered those great moments of Coopetition gameplay and played a short training session.
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