We have a new member
Due to the high activity of a certain player on both Sandbox and blog, we decided to announce a promotion today:
Phazorx is the name of our new member! Congratulations – keep it up!
Changes in the membership-procedure
Hello there,
we have reworked our procedures for awarding a membership to players:
- Aspirants are history
- Players become members directly after being pointed out on the public server
- Making a good play is one important point, another important point is contributing content to the community – on both blog and wiki
Needless to say, its not only the quantity but also the quality of contributed content 😉
GRF Pack version 4beta released
We have reached the release state of the first “legal” GRF pack, with version 4beta we ask you kindly to test our new pack. Please post problems here or on the discussion page on the wiki, if you are an author of a grf and have something to say, we also opened a post at the TT-Forum. The GRF is downwards compatible and can be used on servers with the old and new configuration. At the moment, there is no server running with new configuration, but that will change…
Use the link to the GRF pack on the right side.
The Inefficient Detour Grid
After playing some OpenTTDCoop games I thought about a local game with a grid all over the map. All you need is a crazy network plan, a lot of time and a jackass who build this plan, me.
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Non-blocking SL to ML mergers
With centralized aproach which is taken by #openttdcoop community it’s hard to overstress importance of prioritizing traffic streams. It is very essential to keep mainline traffic moving because under high volume conditions, when trains are closely following each other, slowing down one train means slowing down whole lane. That might (and often does) cause a chain of negative events leading substantionaly lower throughput of network and traffic jams at other part. Bear in mind – stoping traffic is nearly instant, however accelerating whole lane might take months of game time. This is something to be avoided at all costs, sideline traffic must wait untill there is a gap and only then merge into ML without any intereference to ML stream.
This is why i recommend designing SLHs with non-blockign idea in mind and having properly sized priority windows.
