Personal Information

Alias: planetmaker

Home: Braunschweig, Germany

Email: newsgroups[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

Contributions & Patches

• 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)
• 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 (trunk as of r13481). SmatZ' commit message probably took five times as long to write.
• Ctrl-click-delete-sign: original idea & patch by Osai, re-written to make it fit for trunk. In trunk as of r13501 thanks to SmatZ.
• some small functional modifications to the infrastructure sharing patch
• build previously used bridge type using Ctrl + drag (FS 2238)

Personal wishlist & collection of ideas

• grf info for station tiles (trunk. Thx SmatZ)
• GUI for rcon
• improved quick goto (faster giving orders)
• more clients
• 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

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