[OTTD] #WWOTTDGD 1 / Oct 2007

[dihedral]

well - that was one whopping huge game... my cpu was unable to handle the load at 1.30am CEST
but here just a few pics for you guys....

more http://pub.dihedral.de/openttd/wwottdgd/2007Oct/screens


good playing guys

[LordAzamath]

Welcome!

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Three biggest cities are Helsinki, Tallinn and Manchester. Fourth is Pernau.

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All the airports are Global company's. Everyone may use them.

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[LordAzamath]

Minimap at central Europe

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Baltica Company starts growing cities (/me starts grownig cities)

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Profit Graph at 5th April 2034

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[LordAzamath]

There are lots of towns actually

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It seems that this is not the favourite time for playing...only 14 clients

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Actually, there's chance for Pernau for going past Manchester, as in old times

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[thebrightside]

Looks like you guys had allot of fun. Nice work guys!

[gkirilov]

Where can i get the starting map? And will it run on a nightly build?

[LordAzamath]

You probably have to poke dihedral for map... If you want only the map, but no other functions added, I guess it will run on nighlty, if you want a savegame just frim the beginning it surely won't

[FooBar]

I guess this scenario is used as a basis for the #wwottdgd scenario.

[Phazorx]

The map used is based on CARST Europe 2048x2048 scenario but it had to be changed and hacked in some ways to become fit for what we were trying to do (and I hope CARST isn't mad at me for that). All trees were shaved, all towns and industries were removed and replaced, some towns were added and some renamed, height of some parts and shape of coasts were modified as well. Hacks included: snowline adjustments, company border placement, negative town population fix, basecost grf adaptation, correcting NewIndustries cargo costs and some minor ones I can't recall.

For functional (as desired) result I strongly suggest using the official binary (or self compiled with wwottdgd patch) that can be found at http://wwottdgd.ammler.ch, since some features require code support as well. I can not guarantee it will (or even beging to think of stating that it might) work in any other combination of binary and grfs other than these used for that game.

Here is latest scenario made with almost vanilla r11333:

wwbeta7.scn

Final Scenario (not recommended to be used, but more compartible)

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And pre-final .sav (final adjustments were made on a fly and included money trasfer and vehicle limitations only as i recall):

wwbeta9.sav

Last pre-game save, this is what the game was started with. Most likely will not work/glitch with ANY other patch combination)

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[Bilbo]

I wonder whether the features in WWOTTDGD would become part of trunk OpenTTD, or at least some of them. As I look at http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/World ... Game_Day/1, the "Patch: move clients into any company in-game" or "Patch: 55 clients" or "Patch: force players to join as spectator, admins then move players to company" may be usable on ordinary servers too.

Now there are max. 11 clients, I think raising it to 55 (while keeping the default at 10) would be nice for similar large games...

[dihedral]

actually - most of the work done for wwottdgd will never see the light of '/trunk'!
* 55 clients is all nice, though we had to 'hack' some netowrk stuff as the server otherwise crashed
* move_clients would be great if included, and currently is listed in bugs.openttd.org (1363)
* clients join as spectator was also more of a dirty hack, and therefore not worthy of /trunk

[Bilbo]

actually - most of the work done for wwottdgd will never see the light of '/trunk'!
* 55 clients is all nice, though we had to 'hack' some netowrk stuff as the server otherwise crashed
* move_clients would be great if included, and currently is listed in bugs.openttd.org (1363)
* clients join as spectator was also more of a dirty hack, and therefore not worthy of /trunk

Well, those "patches" consisting just of some newGRF could be used anywhere else ...

Still, more clients would be nice for some games, so if the patch would be taken and the "hacked" stuff rewritten a bit more "unhackily", it would be nice to get into trunk. Some other features (global airport, global railroads) would also be fine for some games.

Some would have to be redone a bit ("Patch: no self growing trees" being an option and not "always on"), but it may be worth it.

The "Patch: attempts to change company name/password results in move to spectators" may be useful on servers like openttdcoop or such ... again, being an option and not hardcoded thing :)