Longer Years?

Kerbal · Post by **Kerbal** » 13 Jul 2016 12:21

Hi first post, just a small question;

Is it possible to make years longer while keeping real time the same? I often find that time passes way too fast for me and I'd like to spend more time in the golden age of steam rather than it passing by really quickly.

YouTube · Post by **kamnet** » 13 Jul 2016 12:29

You can use the cheat menu (ctrl-alt-c) to roll back the time as often as you wish until you want to move forward. This will only work in a single player game.

There are also non-standard versions of OpenTTD called patch packs, and many of these patch packs include a function known as the Daylength patch, which allows you to slow down how many ticks-per-second pass, which then lengthens each day. save games with Daylength patches may not be playable on other versions of OpenTTD, and you will only b able to play multiplayer games against other players using that same exact patched version of OpenTTD.

Sylf · Post by **Sylf** » 13 Jul 2016 12:31

Kerbal · Post by **Kerbal** » 13 Jul 2016 13:47

Thank you, how do patches work with multiplayer? Does everyone need the patch or just the host?

Alberth · Post by **Alberth** » 13 Jul 2016 13:58

For multi-player, everybody always needs the exact same version, that is, everybody must play the patched version or everybody must play the vanilla version.

Eddi · Post by **Eddi** » 13 Jul 2016 14:32

also, patches have (usually) not gone through the same level of rigorous testing that the base game has, so desync errors may occur, and if they do, they will be rather frequent.

Kerbal · Post by **Kerbal** » 13 Jul 2016 16:54

that's a shame, was going to use this for a server. as it was annoying to go to sleep and come back to the next century and have to replace your aging steam engines with diesels. So thought extending the time so the server could go from say 1880 to 1950 rather than ending up in 2025 by the next day and needing a restart.

Is this feature going to be added to the trunk at any point? Seems an odd thing to lack given the amount of customization available in openttd.

YouTube · Post by **kamnet** » 13 Jul 2016 17:08

I believe you can pause the server when nobody is logged in to play.

No, this patch is not being considered for inclusion in the core source code at this time, and one of the main reasons is because it is not stable under multiplayer and may cause desyncs. There are also other issues, much of which is covered in the topics you were previously linked to. OpenTTD developers are very careful about the quality of the code that is added to the game.

Transportman · Post by **Transportman** » 18 Jul 2016 08:23

Why not have vehicles never expire? Then new vehicles do become available, but you do not need to use them.

Hattyfatner · Post by **Hattyfatner** » 19 Jul 2016 00:37

I would love this patch. It feels like time passes far too quickly for me too!

PropH · Post by **PropH** » 19 Jul 2016 08:17

You can set variable "min_active_clients" in openttd.cfg to 1, so if nobody is playing on the server(spectators are ignored), it will pause.

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