The Annual Empires OpenTTD Marathon - Sunday 15th July 15:00 BST/10 am EDT/7am PDT

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  1. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    By popular demand, it's back. I casually suggested it and people went batshit insane and started spamming me every day, so I guess I have no choice.

    We'll start at the time mentioned in the title. Probably go for a pretty large map and a nice early start time. Some additional content GCFs will be tried out and people are encouraged to suggest some ahead of the game, so we can mess about playtesting them a bit.

    You can get the current version here:

    http://www.openttd.org/en/download-stable

    But be aware that they update pretty frequently so there could easily be an update between now and gametime. I'll try to update the post if that happens.

    If anyone would like to use the original TTD files, or a combination of the newer ones and older ones (I personally use the newer graphics and sound effects, but keep the old music), just post up in the thread and I'll help you set that up.

    Server details will be put up closer to the time, but it'll be easy to get the details. If I can be bothered to set mine up again, I'll finally rejoin IRC so people can chat there, given a lot of those guys do play it, and the EPIC TS3 will have a lot of players in. The game typically last between 2 and 4 days.

    Games of the past have been incredibly intense, as seen below.

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  2. Deiform

    Deiform Member

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    8PM BST WOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR EVERYONE, RIGHT GUYS? RIGHT GUYS???

    smallcaps
     
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  3. ukgamer

    ukgamer more like noob gamer

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    :3

    tooshort
     
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  4. dizzyone

    dizzyone I've been drinking, heavily

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    This is your brain, on trains.
     
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  5. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    i'm not playing if ukgamer is playing
     
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  6. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Can start later if you want but I feel that getting into it early Sunday sets up nicely, especially if some people can only play into Monday.

    Graffiti on Slade's Mogul.

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  7. blizzerd

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    limit the amount of vehicles extensively, then make the map relatively small compared to last time

    shits nice and cosy then
     
    blizzerd, Jul 13, 2012
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  8. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    im 12 and wat is ths?
     
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  9. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    I have a couple really good mods from when I played with a bunch of other guys:
    Long vehicles v4
    eGRVTS

    there were more but i forgot them and cant find them in my list
     
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  10. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    We usually use eGRVTS vehicle pack, Stock aircraft, and this custom boat pack I forget the name of.
     
    Trickster, Jul 13, 2012
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  11. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    alright sounds good, long vehicles was a nice one though which added actual tractor trailers
     
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  12. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    There are some industry ones but those haven't worked out too well in the past. It usually just degrades to, if in doubt, use passengers.
     
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  13. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    I assume we're gonna be playing on Temperate landscape with a decent amount of water, hills, and trees. A 1024x1024 map sounds good to me if we have more than a few players. Max station size should be a bit more than 7 to accommodate larger trains, maybe 10 or 12. 3x3 city generation is pretty good too, with prospecting and funding new industries and towns enabled.
     
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  14. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Usually we try 2048 x 1024 so that we get the extra room for 16 people.
     
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    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    If the map download gets too big, people with slower connections will start timing out before they can fully sync with the server. A 2048x1024 map with loads of trees and things on it will start at like 2 mb and probably get up to 40mb or something when people are building lots of trains and routes.
     
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  16. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    So, what is exatly so riveting in a transport tycoon? I remember playing it in some form or another, but that was like 10 years ago, when even a rainbow colored spring gave me lots of fun.
     
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  17. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    TRAINS FUCKING EVERYWHERE. Seriously.
     
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    Also people getting angry because you build stuff in 'their' city.
     
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  19. -Mayama-

    -Mayama- MANLY MAN BITCH

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    best jazz soundtrack in a game ever
     
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  20. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Yeah, make sure you get the original files.
     
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