Software Update: OpenTTD 0.4.8

On their own forum, the developers of ‘Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe’ – also called OpenTTD – have just released a new version of the game in the form of 0.4. announced† This release follows up on the 0.4.7 version released in March and brings a lot of improvements. You can read exactly what those are at the bottom of this junk post. OpenTTD builds on the idea of ​​Transport Tycoon Deluxe, which the open source version of the game is based on and also includes new and improved features, including larger levels and multiplayer. Version 0.4.8 the latest of the 0.4 release cycle and available via http and BitTorrent can be downloaded for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, among others. The release notes of the new OpenTTD look like this:

I’m glad to announce the final release of our 0.4 cycle. For those of you who have been following the release candidates virtually nothing has changed. For all others the long list of fixes can be read in the changelog. You are highly encouraged to update from 0.4.7 as that version has some network vulnerabilities which can spoil multiplayer fun.

We hope you enjoy this version as much as the previous ones and continue our support. Stats show the frontpage has more than 2 million! hits every month and over 100,000 unique visitors. The previous release, 0.4.7, has been downloaded over 106,000 times just for windows. Who would’ve thought TTD/OpenTTD is this popular!

Changelog:

• Fix: A ship in a depot must be stopped before it can be cloned.
• Fix: After changing directory in ‘Play Scenario’, the default scenarios didn’t show up in ‘New Game’
• Feature: Add Italian town names as we have an official Italian translation
• Codechange: Verify the presence of music files in the gm/ folder. This should also solve some 100% CPU buildup for some users.
• Fix: Certain combinations of trains crash when moved around inside the depot.
• Fix: Reversed arrow-sign in the multiplayer list column headers on sort by name
• Fix: Industry production change button doesn’t work for oilrig passangers.
• Fix: Helicopters stopping in depot after autorenew/autoreplace
• Fix: MorphOS crashes when you go a level up in the root level
• Fix: UDP sockets were used even if network-availability was set to false
• Fix: Crash when trying to build a vehicle type that is set to a max of zero
• Feature: Add Turkish town names as we have an official Turkish translation
• Feature: Add a fully optional configure script that is a wrapper around the cumbersome makefile.config
• Code change: [NPF] Disable NPF totally for ships as it wholly kills performance (blathijs). Only for 0.4/ branch and 0.4.8.
• Fix: Redraw the screen when switching the signal side in the patches window
• Fix: It was possible to dig into a tunnel if certain rail combinations were ontop of it
• Fix: A HQ could only be flooded at its northern tile, the other 3 were immune to water
• Fix: Fix several glitches concerning foundations. Houses, property (rail/road/bridge/etc.) and cursor are now aligned properly
• Fix: Prohibit altering a road tile while road works are in progress. This fixes some glitches like “turning” the excavation by adding/removing road bits or removing the road piece
• Fix: Only advertise the server to your external IP/network (eg not to 127.0.0.1) and use proper broadcast addresses
• Fix: ‘-f’ switch is not valid on windows, so don’t show it in help
• Fix: [autoreplace] Autoreplaced trains can leave all wagons in depot under certain circumstances
• Fix: The wrong IP could get unbanned, eg ‘unban 1.2.3.42’ could result in unbanning 1.2.3.4
• Fix: It was possible to convert the railtype of a bridge while a train was on it
• Fix: It was possible to rename signs or waypoints with the chat box
• Fix: Be more strict what it means for an aircraft to be in a hangar: It’s not just being stopped on a hangar tile
• Fix: If a road vehicle is on a road depot tile and stopped doesn’t mean it’s in the depot. Use the proper test for this
• Fix: [AI] The AI ​​should send a plane into a hangar if it’s not in a hangar _or_ not stopped, not when it’s not in a hangar _and_ not stopped
• Fix: [AI] The trolly AI used information from the wrong industry when calculating the amount of to be transported goods
• Fix: [NTP] Fix NTP over bridges: don’t check the rail type when on a bridge
• Fix: Truncate text in dropdown lists to stop text overflowing.
• Fix: “Erroneous train reversal on waypoints”. When processing the next train order, do not even consider reversing the train if the last order was to a waypoint.
• Fix: Starting a new scenario did not adhere to local difficulty settings but took it from the scenario itself. That mode is for ‘play scenario’
• Fix: Vehicles on a sloped tile under a bridge were affected by the bridge speed limit
• Fix: Issue with train pathfinding over level crossings.
• Fix: [AI] The AI ​​no longer attempts to build signals under bridges.
• Fix: Refresh build vehicle window (if opened) when converting rail depot
• Fix: Crash when sorting an empty server list.
• Fix: The build-tree window button defaulted to a place-push-button on opening where no treetype is selected.
• Fix: Game crashes when cloning/autoreplace reaches train-limit
• Fix: [NTP] properly check for railtypes on non-plain-rail-tiles
• Fix: Trains could enter certain sloped rail tiles under bridges with incompatible rail type
• Fix: Ensure the map memory is cleared after it is allocated. This fixes random deserts that sometimes occurred.
• Fix: Some weird behavior with tile selection near bridges
• Fix: Don’t allow PF to enter train depot from the back (signal updates)
• Fix: Game no longer crashes when the last vehicle servicing a station has been deleted
• Fix: Reset the last built railtype when starting a new game
• Fix: Cloned vehicles get the same service interval as the original vehicle
• Fix: Game no longer errors out when “Many random towns” is selected in the scenario editor.
• Fix: Obscure road dragging bug. The road build command did not return the approved error message of invalid-slope when building road.
• Fix: Temperate bank will no longer appear (during game) in tropic landscape. This bug is from the original game.
• Fix: Specify the ‘stopall’ console command as a debug command.
• Fix: Fixed a problem that caused DeliverGoodsToIndustry to not work as intended
• Fix: Ships and aircraft can now be used as feeders as well
• Fix: When a multiheaded train is sold the pointers were not updated correctly causing sporadious crashes/disconnects.
• Fix: New plantations now cause the correct “.. being planted ..” news item
• Fix: Danish town names were saved/loaded as Swiss
• Fix: Removing roads on crossings was done without a check for ownership
• Fix: [autoreplace] Fix drawing of train list for outdated engines
• Fix: Malicious clients/servers could crash the game
• Fix: [autoreplace] allow replacement of wagons even when the engine fails to be replaced
• Fix: Certain operations involving trains inside a depot could cause a crash
• Fix: [autoreplace] cost for refitting a new vehicle is added to the cost animation (player always paid for it, it just wasn’t shown)
• Fix: [OSX] Save/Load issues solved for OSX 10.3.9 universal binaries
• Fix: Illegal servers in the master-server list could kick the client back to the main menu, effectively making Multiplayer impossible
• Fix: [NPF] Don’t mark tiles when debugging in multiplayer, this will cause desyncs
• Fix: Several fixes to chatbox code, mainly plug a buffer overflow