TOPIC: Hosting a server ala BTPro's goal servers, Frank?

I will perhaps have a few friends playing and I might be interested in hosting a server for some private games with them once in a while.

Is there any chance you could share some of your knowledge here, Frank? Copies of whatever server settings / scripts / whatnot that you use? In particular, how to set goals and the excellent landscapes you get on the Temperate server.

Hi Zalmar,

Well... I can share the settings which I use to get the temperate landscape you see on our temperate servers, but unfortunatly the goal function is now included in the standard OpenTTD program...
I'm using an external admin script to implement the GOAL functions on these servers which runs apart from the OpenTTD Dedicated Server. This admin interface is in early Alpha stage and is not Open Source (yet) unfortunatly... Currently it needs a key to run on a specific hardware setup, So i'm affraid I can't share the goal script code with you for now... There are plans to make it open source one day, but it's not known yet when!

You can join our channel on IRC (irc.x-base.org:6668, channel: #btpro-chat) to get the settings for the temperate landscape and stuff...

Hope I didn't disappoint you to much

Regards,

Frank
Server Admin

Hey, no worries, that's still great. I'll pop into IRC some time

You wrote the goal function is "now" part of OpenTTD itself, I imagine that was a typo and it was meant to be "not"?

I'm gonna have a looksie around and see if I can get Autopilot to do what I want.

Oops, my bad indeed It's indeed NOT a part of OpenTTD

Autopilot is cool to, the only problem with it is that you need to write your own scripts in TCL for it to...

I've used Autopilot before I started to use the current admin interface. It has no goal features or whatever, but it seems you can code it yourself if you know how (in TCL language)

Anyways, just drop into our channel on IRC sometimes, we can have a chat there!

Frank

Yeah, idling there now ;p