Online OpenTTD ?

Doctor ZXXI · Post by **Doctor ZXXI** » 01 Jun 2007 12:40

Hi everybody !

Why do not exist an online OpenTTD ?

Post by **PikkaBird** » 01 Jun 2007 12:47

What is an online OTTD?

If you mean multiplayer OTTD played over the internet, that does certainly exist.

Doctor ZXXI · Post by **Doctor ZXXI** » 01 Jun 2007 13:06

PikkaBird wrote:What is an online OTTD?

If you mean multiplayer OTTD played over the internet, that does certainly exist.

For me, when I say online, I want to say an OpenTTD version who is not
installed in the PC player, but it is available in a server like the Java game
what we find in Internet ...

But I think for this, it is mandatory transform OpenTTD C code into Java code ...

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 01 Jun 2007 13:29

You mean like OpenTTD in a applet?!

*shrugs*

EDIT: Applets are probably to slow, and the rewrite from C to Java isn't worth the hassle IMHO.

EirikhO · Post by **EirikhO** » 01 Jun 2007 13:35

I like it. I want to play OTTD on school

Doctor ZXXI · Post by **Doctor ZXXI** » 01 Jun 2007 13:47

Yes !

With an online OpenTTD, you can play OpenTTD anywhere ... And, with an
user, you save your game and play it at home, in school, in work (hum ...),
in a home of our friend ...

XeryusTC · Post by **XeryusTC** » 01 Jun 2007 13:51

You can play it anywhere, just pack the OTTD dir and upload it somewhere, next time you want to play it download it and run OTTD.

Doctor ZXXI · Post by **Doctor ZXXI** » 01 Jun 2007 13:54

XeryusTC wrote:You can play it anywhere, just pack the OTTD dir and upload it somewhere, next time you want to play it download it and run OTTD.

Of course, but I must have an USB key with my OpenTTD files ...

XeryusTC · Post by **XeryusTC** » 01 Jun 2007 14:00

Doctor ZXXI wrote:
XeryusTC wrote:You can play it anywhere, just pack the OTTD dir and upload it somewhere, next time you want to play it download it and run OTTD.
Of course, but I must have an USB key with my OpenTTD files ...

Or a web server you can download them from.
Or you need to log in every time when you want to play.
Or you have some other inconvenience.

If you want to play everywhere with trains etc. then you should get a cellphone and start a real life transport company...

Doctor ZXXI · Post by **Doctor ZXXI** » 01 Jun 2007 14:06

XeryusTC wrote:
Doctor ZXXI wrote:
XeryusTC wrote:You can play it anywhere, just pack the OTTD dir and upload it somewhere, next time you want to play it download it and run OTTD.
Of course, but I must have an USB key with my OpenTTD files ...
Or a web server you can download them from.
Or you need to log in every time when you want to play.
Or you have some other inconvenience.

If you want to play everywhere with trains etc. then you should get a cellphone and start a real life transport company...

Online OpenTTD, it's only a proposal ...

kaan · Post by **kaan** » 01 Jun 2007 15:24

making it an web server application leaves the question of having a web server to run it on ...
I sure would hate looking at pr0n adds and pop-up windows while playing OpenTTD.

FooBar · Post by **FooBar** » 01 Jun 2007 15:29

I always play OTTD from a portable device (that is, USB Flash Drive) and take it along everywhere I go.
This lets me finish a game at let's say school, which i started at home.

I think it requires way too much hardware to make it possible to play this game webbased. You probably want to store your savegames and newgrf's somewhere, don't you? And it still has to be free...

Doctor ZXXI · Post by **Doctor ZXXI** » 01 Jun 2007 15:33

It's only a suggestion, that's all !

kaan · Post by **kaan** » 01 Jun 2007 15:37

Doctor ZXXI wrote:It's only a suggestion, that's all !

Don't take it personally, its only a suggestion and there is many valid concerns to any suggestion. If the good things in a suggestion outweighs the bad, then someone might just include that suggestion in OpenTTD and that is why it is important for everyone to give their opinion.

belugas · Post by **belugas** » 01 Jun 2007 16:42

Although the suggestion have some good points, it is not something faisable (and not worth the conversion effort).
The code (and of course the binary) is way too big and complex to be downscaled to an applet (or whatever the style of Online Coding Platform required).

As others suggest, transporting your OpenTTD environment on a USB key would be the best way to go. And you do not need a big key for that

512 meg will be quite enough, provided you do not save thousand of 2048*2048 games

maartena · Post by **maartena** » 01 Jun 2007 19:52

Doctor ZXXI wrote:
XeryusTC wrote:You can play it anywhere, just pack the OTTD dir and upload it somewhere, next time you want to play it download it and run OTTD.
Of course, but I must have an USB key with my OpenTTD files ...

No, you can just zip/rar your openttd.cfg folder, and upload it somewhere (e.g. your provider's homepage space) so you can pull it down from any computer and play it right from the zipped folder. You can even make it self-extracting if the computer you are playing on has no zip capability.

If you want, you can even setup a small ftp server on your own PC at home so you can always grab the latest .SAV you are playing with.

Doctor ZXXI · Post by **Doctor ZXXI** » 02 Jun 2007 10:36

maartena wrote:
Doctor ZXXI wrote:
XeryusTC wrote:You can play it anywhere, just pack the OTTD dir and upload it somewhere, next time you want to play it download it and run OTTD.
Of course, but I must have an USB key with my OpenTTD files ...
No, you can just zip/rar your openttd.cfg folder, and upload it somewhere (e.g. your provider's homepage space) so you can pull it down from any computer and play it right from the zipped folder. You can even make it self-extracting if the computer you are playing on has no zip capability.

If you want, you can even setup a small ftp server on your own PC at home so you can always grab the latest .SAV you are playing with.

Hi,

I know this, but I think that an online OpenTTD could be cool ...

belugas · Post by **belugas** » 02 Jun 2007 19:04

Doctor ZXXI wrote: I know this, but I think that an online OpenTTD could be cool ...

Could be, yes.
Should be? REALLY doubtfull...
Will be? Not in my book...
DOn't take it bad, it's just that energies can be put elsewhere for greater achievement

Post by **Rubidium** » 02 Jun 2007 20:25

Biggest reasons not to do it:
- TTDs GRFs cannot be distributed to the client to perform all the drawing (legal issue)
- most newGRFs aren't allowed to be distributed to the client (legal issue)
- there would be much different versions, one for windows, one for OSX, one for linux as it isn't going to be rewritten in (for example) Java

maartena · Post by **maartena** » 03 Jun 2007 09:02

I think a java version is just going to take way too much CPU time

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