I've been away for a few weeks because of my Ski Intructor Training (which I passed
, but I'm back now. So I'm going to port the patch to the newest version. I plan to post 2 binaries on monday.
- A patched OTTD 0.3.5 which will have the patch disabled in network mode (So as to keep it compatible with the official OTTD version).
- A binary which incorporates all the changes of the nightly builds, and hopefully a network support for subsidiaries.
Here are some details for the planned network support, feel free to suggest anything
1. It will not be possible to create a new subsidiary in network mode (subs can exist only by buying out an opponent, which can be done as traskjd suggested). This is because OTTD allows only 8 players, and each sub counts as one player.
2. As in the single player game, subsidiaries can use another companies tracks and stations, however players cannot administrate other subsidiaries (I'm still wondering if this is a good idea, any insight on this particular point would be highly appreciated). This particular point means than the owner of a company which has been bought out keeps the ownsership of his company (which is IMO better to keep the game interesting for the bought out player).
3. Players can still transfer money, however any money request (as in A asks B some money) is subject to acceptation from the player playing the company which sends the money (so B is asked "Do you accept to send XXXX € to A" with a possible to increase or decrease the amout, and one to simply refuse the transfer). This makes sense only if point 2 is implemented.
4. To make this whole thing really usefull, have some kind of cooperative station and city ratings to virtually remove the competition between the subsidiaries, and make using subs financially attractive. (This one also needs some thinking, please just say anything that comes to your mind, even if it seems obvious: Any suggestion is usefull).
That's it, now the bug reports:
tgsc:It is normal not to see the new 0.3.5 menus/buttons in my patch, because it was made before those were added to the game. From what you said, I suppose the savegame you had a problem with was from OTTD 0.3.5, which might explain the problem. I'll investigate this problem anyway.
jake:Will it ever become part of OpenTTD? I was told by someone on IRC that one of the devs though this wasn't a good idea, but I was never told neither who nor why. But heck! This won't keep me from posting new versions on the forum...
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