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Multiplayer manual for OpenTTD
-Last updated: 2010-11-30
+Last updated: 2011-01-20
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* 2.1) Connecting to a server over the console
3.0) Playing internet games
4.0) Tips for servers
+ * 4.1) Imposing landscaping limits
5.0) Some useful things
6.0) Troubleshooting
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maximum memory usage for packets is:
#max_clients * #max_clients * bytes_per_frame * 10 KiB.
+4.1) Imposing landscaping limits
+---- ---------------------------
+ - You can impose limits on companies by the following 4 settings:
+ - terraform_per_64k_frames
+ - terraform_frame_burst
+ - clear_per_64k_frames
+ - clear_frame_burst
+
+ - Explaining 'per_64K_frames' and 'burst'
+ - 'burst' defines 3 things, the maximum limit, the limit of a single action,
+ and the initial value for the limit assigned to a new company.
+ This setting is fairly simple and requires no math.
+
+ A value of 1 means a single tile can be affected by a single action.
+ This results in having to click 400 times when wanting to cover an area
+ of 20 x 20 tiles.
+
+ The default value 4096 covers an area of 64 x 64 tiles.
+
+ - 'per_64k_frames' defines the number of tiles added to each companies limit
+ per frame (however not past the possible maximum value,the 'burst').
+ 64k rather resembles the exact number of 65536 frames. So setting this
+ variable to 65536 means: 65536 / 65536 = 1 tile per frame.
+ As a day consists of 74 frames, a company's limit is increased by 74
+ tiles during the course of a single day (2.22 seconds).
+
+ To achieve a 1 tile per day increase the following calculation is needed:
+ 1 / 74 (frames per day) * 65536 (per_64k_frames) = 885.62...
+ after rounding: a value of 886 means adding a bit over 1 tile per day.
+
+ There is still enough space to scale this value downwards:
+ decreasing this value to 127 results in a bit over 1 tile added to the
+ allowance per week (7 days).
+
+ To create a setup in which a company gets an initial allowance only,
+ set the value to 0 - no increase of the allowance per frame.
+
+ - Even though construction actions include a clear tile action, they are not
+ affected by the above settings.
+
5.0) Some useful things
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