Continuing an observed online game offline?

[.CHaSE.]

Is it possible to continue an online game offline? I'm aware there's a save option when playing online, but it doesn't seem to do what I want.

Specifically, I'm observing a game right now, where one of the companies has some errors in its railroad network. And I'd like to save that game, load it offline and see if I'm able to fix them. However, when I do load the game, and select that company through the "Playing as Player X" cheat, I cannot build anything.

[Brianetta]

CHaSE: What I do is start a dedicated server on my machine with the saved game and then connect to it locally:

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./openttd -D -g <savegame.sav>

then run openttd (again), search for the game on the LAN, and then choose the company I want to control.

It takes twice the CPU because the game's running twice, but it does the trick.

[.CHaSE.]

Thanks! Good thing OTTD doesn't use much CPU, except when on fast forward :)

[Moriarty]

But running it as a server will mean that if the company is passworded you won't be able to get into it.
It should work simply loading a multi-player save as a regular save. Then using the cheat choose you company. It has for me in the past.

[peter1138]

Company passwords aren't saved, so that's not an issue...

[Darkvater]

He, there was a "-p" switch to force the game to play as another player but that was removed not so far ago

Why doesn't the cheat work? It should be.

[.CHaSE.]

Darkvater
Here's exactly, step-by-step what I do: I join a game as a spectator, save the game, abandon the game, load that saved game, select one of the companies in the cheat menu. At that moment building tools are available, but don't actually build anything.

Perhaps I missed some important step or nuance?

[.CHaSE.]

Oh my, silly me! I was trying to build in pause mode! *blushes*

[Darkvater]

nice going chase

[TrueBrain]

He, there was a "-p" switch to force the game to play as another player but that was removed not so far ago

Why doesn't the cheat work? It should be.

Euh.... DV....
The -p switch was only for joining network clients, and it is merged with -n, to force this behavoir and not let people think that it has any effect in single player. With -n you can do: -n 127.0.0.1#4, which will join company 5 (0 .. 7).

[Brianetta]

With -n you can do: -n 127.0.0.1#4, which will join company 5 (0 .. 7).

They're indexed from 1, TrueLight. I use this one extensively when visiting my servers. (:

[TrueBrain]

With -n you can do: -n 127.0.0.1#4, which will join company 5 (0 .. 7).

They're indexed from 1, TrueLight. I use this one extensively when visiting my servers. (:

Then someone finally corrected that So, from 1 .. 8

[Moriarty]

LMAO.
The joys of (poor) documentation. We've got two devs who don't know what different commands do.

Anyone else find that ironic?

[Brianetta]

Not really. It's a big project, and people often don't have a complete picture with every detail. Given that the devs also have less time to actually play (as opposed to testing), it doesn't surprise me that some details, especially ones of little consequence, escape them.

[Moriarty]

I don't play the game I dev (PHP), but I know the ins and outs intimately. Many of the OTTD devs have been doing this for years now. I'd figured they had also gotton to know their code that well.

[Brianetta]

I don't play the game I dev (PHP), but I know the ins and outs intimately. Many of the OTTD devs have been doing this for years now. I'd figured they had also gotton to know their code that well.

I know intimately how PPCIS works (see my web site). That said, when people ask me how to do something, I usually have to check, because I don't use the UI all that often myself - and I'm the only dev.