Required Internet in order for OTTD for android to start

[Ben1338]

You know those long hour drives in the back-seat of a car, with no internet connection or anything?

Do you know if OTTD for the android can start without an internet connection (It tries to start up but then retrieves the message "Failed connecting to http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsdl- ... p/downlaod) and idles away.

Also there's another problem, when I change to different windows within my android phone, OTTD seems to freeze.

Are there ways to fix this?

I am running OTTD with the Google Nexus 4 16GB version.

[kamnet]

Wrong forum. Dev will hopefully come along and move it (feel free to delete this post).

[YNM]

It needs internet connection for the first run - you're not installing the OpenTTD program, you're installing that app for SDL and OpenTTD installer !

Other than that it's good w/o internet connection unless the OpenTTD version needs to be upgraded (by upgrading the app).

[Ben1338]

for some reason, it always needs the internet to check for OTTD / GRF updates.

[planetmaker]

for some reason, it always needs the internet to check for OTTD / GRF updates.

That's not a strange reason - how else does one check for updates? But neither is done necessarily at startup but triggered by you (or does this version differ such that it does that always @ pelya?)

[Ben1338]

But why can't I play it without it checking for updates?

If I try to play OTTD without internet, it simply wont start, not everywhere has internet, so basically, if I don't have direct internet connection, I can't play a game that originally ran on a windows 98 computer without internet?

Edit: I tried disabling all internet on my computer, and tried to launch OTTD, and it started up fine.

From this test, I think it's a bad port to the android, that or sourceforge.

[FooBar]

I tried it here. It downloads some stuff on first start but on subsequent start not even an internet attempt is made and it just starts without it. I don't kow if there will be an automatic update check later in time that could spoil the fun.

[YNM]

My experiences with it is that it'll download a new version of OpenTTD program after the "app" is updated. Not sure whether this has changed, it's probably better to PM / E-mail pelya about this. Or, give feedbacks on the playstore.

[Ben1338]

I downloaded an update to OTTD, and it now starts fine without the internet.

Only problem now is the switching between home screen and back to OTTD tends to create a black screen.

[YNM]

As long as it's not the OpenTTD reloads again, that's quiite fine, right ?

[Ben1338]

It does load, it's just that the screen goes black when I go to the app from the home screen and I don't really know how to revive it.

[YNM]

Report that as a bug... not to the official devs. To pelya himself.