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Administration => Suggestions => Topic started by: imus on May 25, 2013, 09:03:16 am
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Something that I always wondered why you didn't use this but forgot to suggest.
It would probably be a good idea to automatically pause the games after a server restart until someone starts a company.
This would prevent some unfair advantage (for highscores) when someone can start in a later year without any competition. (For example #7 with monorail). Currently this is partially solved using an auto restart after an hour. That works good enough for the long goal games, but I think it's lacking on the short / micro games (especially #7).
Shouldn't be that hard to implement either, would it?
Some suggestions about when to pause exactly:
- On server restart => unpause when someone starts a company.
- same as previous but also when company reset and no other companies in game
- game paused whenever there are no clients online and no company in game
- same as previous but count AFK cients as being offline as well
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I like the idea, but what if we slightly simplify it to this:
Pause if there are no companies.
This way you do not need to worry about when companies get reset or about a player being afk or not. Also the game will still run if there is a company but no client (useful for long goals)
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when i want to make 30 bil i wont be playing for 20 hours in a row. I will be afk/sleeping etc
i like my company to make money :)
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Very interesting idea, of course it's only useful when the server restarts (as mentioned), so time doesn't pass by while there are no companies.
I however disagree that AFK players would count as offline, I can only see this being useful when the server is empty, and only right after a restart, because if there's like a few years left till an automatic restart happens, it's no good if it's paused.. what if people are waiting to start a company after the server restarted.
Afaik, OpenTTD doesn't have a setting for this, but if should be fairly easy to do with a script, which is already included in xShunter.
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Ah right, didn't think of that situation :) I did give more options hoping to get some more feedback like this.
I fully agree with you guys to only pause when there are no companies. :)
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I don`t know if the game can paused when there are no companies...I`ll take a look into this...or perhaps someone knows this..
If it can`t, then we would have to ask xOR for this...since a feature has to be coded in xShunter.
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Autopause exists on btpro servers, so it should be able to be applied here, xOR would be best to figure that out.
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I'm almost sure it's possible. On openttdcoop they can pause the game whenever there are 0 or 1 clients in the game. And I expect that checking the amount of companies shouldn't give the biggest problems either.
Then again, I didn't look at the code and don't really have the time to really try and learn the used language(s) and figure out how to do it myself right now :)
So for me, this is just a suggestion that might be liked by a lot of players and that should be possible to implement if the programmers can find the time to do this :) I do know that you guys are already working hard on other things, so I'm not expecting this to be done any time soon either.
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It is quite possible, and fairly easy to do with a gamescript.