World Wide OpenTTD Game Day

[dihedral]

Ammler and I are working towards a world wide day of OpenTTD gaming - on a single game...
He has written a patch that that adds the possibility of having way more clients connect to one game than you are used to.
We have the hardware and bandwidth to support a decent connection for quite a few clients. We shall patch and package a windows binary and provide the source for everybody who wants to compile their own. If people feel like building some binaries for other systems for us, we would greatly appreciate that

more clients

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The main question we have is who would be interested and what date is is possible for you guys to take part in such a game. The Aim is to run a full 24 hours giving out us/ca/jp etc. fellow gamers the chance to participate as well - which would mean we would have to focus on a weekend.
We also wish to load some grfs, to especially calibrate NewIndustries, which Belugas has made some amazing work on.

please let us know either by posting a reply to this thread, or by sending us an email: wwottdgd@ammler.ch

We shall keep this thread and my website posted with updates: http://openttd.dihedral.de so keep checking for updates

[EDIT] All binaries will be provided, they can be downloaded from http://nightly.openttd.org/wwottdgd/files/
you MUST have the latest #openttdcoop grf pack and update pack

[athanasios]

. Nice idea and nice patch!
I may not have time to join, but please, since this patch is useful, can you open a thread in development section too?

[AntBUK]

Count me in!

[Ailure]

I'm intrested. I have a few weeks of free time I can burn, I probably might even try to pull off playing from 1920 to 2050... or as long the game lasts.

[Ammler]

I have just setup a server for a beta test, I would like you trying to join:
http://openttdcoop.ppcis.org/blog/2007/ ... me-server/

or with IRC: wwottdgd @ oftc.net irc://irc.oftc.net/wwottdgd

Greets
Ammler

[name101]

Yeah it would not be bad to have a try at this.
I might be in depending on what year 12 has to do with this.

[Vik]

Very nice ! But can you please copy entries line for [new grf] in these thread, please.
I have downloaded the needed grf package and copied the folder to the data folder of a clean nightly build.
I needed to make everything manually and I compared the 31 active files and I still can't join because grf conflict. I am sure they are the same. But I can't find the decativated. I Don't know if I need them or parameters settings.
Really if you want players to join, make it easy and place exact links to the files you need or just make
a ready to go package at least for the windows users.

[zooks]

im in and if its gonna be in the weekend i can probably pull up a 24hr one as long as my parents arent home

[dihedral]

we are currently running a betatest of the patched game, patching the max_clients value to 55 and had a successfull 32 clients in the game (as you can see in the screenshot)
feel free to visit our irc channel (irc://irc.oftc.net#wwottdgd)

we are still looking for a date most people will be able to have time to join, so if you guys with interest could specify a few weekends where you would be able to take part in this game, that would be great.

as for the grf conflicts, make sure you have the latest #openttdcoop grf pack and the latest update pack

[Ammler]

Very nice ! But can you please copy entries line for [new grf] in these thread, please.

You don't need to do that manually anymore. (since 0.5, I guess)

The needed GRFs (with the parameters) will be loaded automatically when you join. Isn't that easy?

You get also further help at our IRC channel...

Greets
Ammler

[AntBUK]

Anytime excluding weekends and Wednesdays for me!

[Vaosk]

For some reasons i cant play this, i have no big programming knowledge if you can understand me. Its like being served raw meat

[dihedral]

For some reasons i cant play this, i have no big programming knowledge if you can understand me. Its like being served raw meat

you do not need programming knowledge. i am assuming you have gotten other openttd games to run... well - it's exactly the same. all you need is to download our binary (http://nightly.openttd.org/wwottdgd/files/) and install as usual.
then you download the grfpack and extract it to your /data folder of the openttd game you just downloaded.

bam - done

[Vaosk]

I click the .exe and these error popups:

Your Sample.cat file is corrupted or missing! i press ok

ini:ignoring invalid NewGRF 'pb_ukrs.grf':not found. ok..

ini:ignoring invalid NewGRF 'pikkingw.grf':not found. ok..

ini:ignoring invalid NewGRF 'pikbrikw.grf':not found. ok..

error! Cannot open file 'sample.cat' ok..

Microsoft visual c++ runtime library, assertion failed!
Program: C:\Games\openTTDwoot\openttd.exe
File: /compile_farm/openttd/wwottdgd/compil.../openttd.cpp line 110 etc.. -ignore-

Send crash report to windows? -no thx-

[Roujin]

sample.cat is a file you need from your original copy of Transport Tycoon.

to make it quick&easy, make a copy of your normal working OTTD folder and unzip this build into it, overwriting everything.


the other stuff, something.grf - are newgrfs, the WWOTTDGD server uses the newgrf package from #openttdcoop, see here: http://openttdcoop.ppcis.org/wiki/index.php/GRF

download the GRF pack beta 6 and the "updates since beta 6"-zip, and unzip them into your /data folder.

[Vik]

Very nice ! But can you please copy entries line for [new grf] in these thread, please.

You don't need to do that manually anymore. (since 0.5, I guess)

The needed GRFs (with the parameters) will be loaded automatically when you join. Isn't that easy?

You get also further help at our IRC channel...

Greets
Ammler

I had the latest nightly from the nightly site and there you can't join when there is grf missmatch. The join Button is disabled for me.
Looks like your site opentttd.dihedral.de is a little hard to understand what build to use ti join the fun. Well you have now posted the correct link to the nightly- wwottd build and the grf packs. I think this will will work.
But now the server is not there Thanks for helping.

Edit... found the problem... I had an old openttd.cfg in that folder and deleted it, it does not get updated when you run a new build of openttd.exe Doh!

[rabbit67890]

Can i join please

[Vaosk]

Thanks for the support.
Copied it on another install and it worked!

[dihedral]

End of out BETATEST

A pretty successful day, i would say. thanks to all who were there and had the patience.
The game is still up and running in paused mode, so all with interest can get their copy of our patched OpentTTD game to connect and snoop around the map (just to make sure it all works before the big day comes)

To point it out as clear as i can: you MUST have our binary(!) which you can download from http://nightly.openttd.org/wwottdgd/files/

further more, you MUST have the #openttdcoop grfpack 6beta AND "updates since 6beta": http://openttdcoop.ppcis.org/wiki/index.php/GRF

We assume you are fully able to get a stable game of OpenTTD to run (i.e. 0.5.3)

[Ammler]

. Nice idea and nice patch!
I may not have time to join, but please, since this patch is useful, can you open a thread in development section too?

This Patch changes only an constant, so its not really worth for its own thread.

Greets
Ammler