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**When you are growing large towns, make sure most of the passengers are taken to inter-city transports. Otherwise the city is "just local" and only wastes cpu, without any use for your network. | **When you are growing large towns, make sure most of the passengers are taken to inter-city transports. Otherwise the city is "just local" and only wastes cpu, without any use for your network. | ||
| − | **When growing a town, make sure majority of the buildings are covered. Otherwise you are growing it for no use. An indicator of satisfactory transport is 50% transported passengers per month (or more). | + | **When growing a town, make sure majority of the buildings are covered. Otherwise you are growing it for no use. An indicator of satisfactory transport is around 50% transported passengers per month (or more). |
*Keep the terraform to a minimum | *Keep the terraform to a minimum | ||
**See [[Terraforming#Low-Terraforming|the Low TF page]] for examples | **See [[Terraforming#Low-Terraforming|the Low TF page]] for examples | ||
Revision as of 19:15, 16 June 2011
Welcome to the Quickstart for the Stable competition server.
Rules
- Keep it fair
- Do not block other players
- Do not intentionally sabotage
- Respect general Multiplayer rules
- Stealing & competition
- Servicing the same secondary requires agreement of both players, although is not recommended.
- Straight stealing of secondary products is prohibited. (if the "owner" of the industry agrees, it is no stealing and it is legal)
- Servicing the same primary is allowed but it is preferred to ask rich companies to prospect primaries.
- Ask others before entering the town they are already servicing.
- Towns
- When you are growing large towns, make sure most of the passengers are taken to inter-city transports. Otherwise the city is "just local" and only wastes cpu, without any use for your network.
- When growing a town, make sure majority of the buildings are covered. Otherwise you are growing it for no use. An indicator of satisfactory transport is around 50% transported passengers per month (or more).
- Keep the terraform to a minimum
- See the Low TF page for examples
- Do not abuse station spread
- It is prohibited to "teleport" cargo or walk stations in cities. Elsewhere a bit of walking does not hurt, until it is in large scale.
- Please, oh please, use the chat system! You can start a chat by pressing "Enter" and entering text
- Use decent nick, no vulgar/inappropriate nick names
- You can change your nick via the console (press the key to the left of '1' to open it). Type:
name <new-name> - You can also use the !name <newname> command
- You can change your nick via the console (press the key to the left of '1' to open it). Type:
- Ask for an admin to mediate, if you have issues with another player
- Stealing & competition
- Servicing the same secondary requires agreement of both players, although is not recommended.
- Straight stealing of secondary products is prohibited. (if the "owner" of the industry agrees, it is no stealing and it is legal)
- Servicing the same primary is allowed but it is preferred to ask rich companies to prospect primaries.
- Ask others before entering the town they are already servicing.
Version
We use a stable or testing version, download it from openttd.org
Recommended
- OpenTTD Manual
- IRC on #openttdcoop.stable
- In addition to just connecting to the IRC channel, it would be wise to pay attention to the 'topic', as it is often updated with FAQ info about the current game on the Stable Server.
The topic is usually shown in the main chat window upon channel joining, and at the top of the chat window in most GUI clients. (Webchat)
- In addition to just connecting to the IRC channel, it would be wise to pay attention to the 'topic', as it is often updated with FAQ info about the current game on the Stable Server.
