Personal Information

Alias: planetmaker

Home: Braunschweig, Germany

Email: ottd[at]planetmaker[dot].de

Started playing TTD: don't know exactly, but it it was still in the nineties TTO

Joined #openttdcoop: autumn 2007, member since 25 April 2008 ("...change that patch setting yourself..." ;) )

Prefers: low to moderate terraform; fluent, well-designed networks and nice eye-candy

Dislikes: congestions. Permanent quick hacks and bypasses

Best at: don't know - probably ML mergers, SLHs and small fixes

Patches & other coding work

• worked on the integration of the patch(es) for wwottdgd/2
• Restrict terraform to one tile only (patch option): one-tile-tf for r13397
• Restrict changes of company and manager name as well as company colour on a per-company basis (patch option)
• patch collection:client_patches.diff - modifies client-side only things. Playable with any server
• Coder of OpenGFX (download)
• Coder of 2cc Train Set
• Contributor to FIRS and HEQS (mainly their build systems)

Patches in trunk

• Ctrl-click-delete-sign: original idea & patch by Osai, re-written to make it fit for trunk. [trunk as of r13501 - thanks to SmatZ]
• most voluminous patch ever probably (13 characters overall length: 8 'normal' chars, 3 tabs, 1 space, 1 line feed): 'b' now works for building aqueducts, too. SmatZ' commit message probably took five times as long to write. [trunk as of r13481 - thx SmatZ].
• build previously used bridge type using Ctrl + drag [trunk since r14805 - thx to Rubidium]
• Persistant building tools (together with Sulai)[trunk r14902, thx to frosch]
• Access to freeform map edges via buttons instead of dropdown list [trunk as of r15212 - thx to Yexo]

Personal wishlist & collection of ideas

• GUI for rcon
• diagonal terraform
• infrastructure sharing
  • Wiki page on development
  • HG repository for development
  • switch: train control by owner (esp. depots)
  • switch: waypoints block yes/no
• programmable waypoints or signals
• airbrush like tree placement in the scenario editor
• percentage of tree coverage for maps
• variable station size for placement
• disable stockpiling / placement restrictions
• patchsetting for terraform-size on a per-company basis
• rivers generated upon map creation (WIP)
• more than one dock per station
• give money per company and not per player
• nested train groups:
  • coal trains
    • coal trains to A
      • coal trains from B
        • coal trains length 3
        • coal trains length 5
      • coal trains from C
        • coal trains length 3
        • coal trains length 5
  • PAX trains
    • ICE trains
      • ICE ABC
        • ICE A->B->C->A
          • length 4
          • length 8
        • ICE A->C->B->A
    • S-bahn trains

OpenTTD wishes listed here which came true

• grf info for station tiles (trunk. Thx SmatZ)
• improved quick goto (faster giving orders) [trunk since r14827 - thx Rubidium]
• more clients [trunk since r14730 - thx Rubidium]

Random OpenTTD stories and poems

SmatZ works on a pool.
That is so very cool
having clients more and more,
features we adore.
It's just so very sweet -
let's hope he will succeed.
--planetmaker 12:01, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Random Photos

Moon and Mercury at sunset, August 2008