Site News for 2008

29 December 2008

Fixed change production bug for steel mill and glass works.

27 December 2008

Fixed recolour bug in ECS house City square by Red*Star.

Decreased transportation level, required for production level change, from 75% to 62.5% for fishing grounds.

Fishing grounds now has reduced production of fish when fish is not transported.

Provided passengers support for fishing grounds and oil rig. Production is halved when less than 48 pasengerss waiting and goes +50% when more than 96 pasengerss waiting.

21 December 2008

Reduced CPU usage in all the ECS vectors.

Decreased raw materials industries grow speed.

19 December 2008

Reduced CPU usage in ECS Agricultural vector.

15 December 2008

People animation test. A castle with soldiers.

Castle with animation

07 December 2008

Fixed a bug with forest in toyland.

06 December 2008

Updated some translations.

04 December 2008

Fixed a bug with bricks works.

30 November 2008

Fixed a bug with unexpected default factory.

25 November 2008

Power plant now supports new sound (since era 2).

23 November 2008

Heavy industries (steel mill, power plant and others), farms and fruit plantations now closedown in towns with advanced closure mechanism in 24 months.

22 November 2008

Fixed missing industry name in error messages.

19 November 2008

ECS Brick works is a mine and processing industry now.

Fixed some small bugs for mines and ECS construction vector industries.

11 November 2008

Improved ECS construction vector. Production level for construction industries now depends on town ssize.

08 November 2008

ECS vectors beta 5 require OpenTTD r14569 and TTD patch r2069 now.

07 November 2008

Code changed. ECS Oil Refinery now produces at least 1000 litres of petrol if at least 1000 litres of oil waiting. ECS Chemical Plant now produces at least 1 ton of fertilizer if at least 1000 litres of refined products waiting.

05 November 2008

ECS construction vector is beta 5 now. Some changes would happen with bricks works soon.

ECS vectors beta 5 and LV4 are CC-BY-NC-ND now.

ECS Town vector is now split into ECS Town vector and ECS Houses.

01 November 2008

Fixed animation bug for ECS Fruit plantation.

25 October 2008

All ECS beta 5 vectors were uploaded for download. They require OpenTTD r14531 now.

19 October 2008

All ECS beta 5 vectors now work in TTD patch r2060. Test version is here

All ECS beta 5 vectors Italian translations were updated.

12 October 2008

Added new hotel - MVD hotel.

MVD Hotel

06 October 2008

All ECS beta 5 vectors Italian and French translations were updated.

05 October 2008

All ECS beta 5 vectors are available for beta testing here.

All ECS mines now display amount of resources exhausted in comparison to amount of resources total and amount of resources total in comparison to maximum. Possible values are Low, Normal, High.

When all the known resources are exhausted, ECS mines find new bed with probability depending on % of resources exhausted from total. 100% if less than 50% exhausted, 75% if less than 75% exhausted, 50% if less than 87.5% exhausted, 25% in the other case.

02 October 2008

ECS Machinery vector beta 5 is available for beta testing here.

ECS Iron ore mine now displays amount of ore exhausted in comparison to amount of ore total and amount of ore total in comparison to maximum. Possible values are Low, Normal, High.

When all the known ore is exhausted, ECS Iron ore mine finds new bed with probability depending on % of ore exhausted from total. 100% if less than 50% exhausted, 75% if les than 75% exhausted, 50% if less than 87.5% exhausted, 25% in the other case.

30 September 2008

Vehicle Factory now can produce cars, buses, trucks and tractors.

Vehicles factory producing tractors, trucks and buses

21 September 2008

Vehicle Factory now has amount of smoke according to production level.

Steel mill now may have red and brown buildings, selected randomly.

20 September 2008

Coded new Steel mill graphics by Oz with 3 constriction stages and amount of smoke according to production level.

Steel mill

Steel mill and Vehicles factory will close themselves in 2 years if they are in town zone 4.

03 August 2008

All mines now have 50% (instead of 25%) probability to find new bed on closure. Transportation level required to find new bed is reduced from 75% to 60%.

Glass and dyes are currently not a must cargo for vehicles factory.

27 July 2008

Updated wiki for ECS basic vector.

19 July 2008

Reworked, made snowed version and coded City square by Red*Star.

City Square by Red*Star

Updated wiki for ECS town vector.

13 July 2008

Updated wiki for ECS town vector.

Fixed some minor bugs in ECS Town vector code.

05 July 2008

Graphics for hotel «Zvon» was improved and coded as 2CC.

Hotel «Zvon» in 2 CC

04 July 2008

Fixed 1x2 petrol station graphics.

1x2 petrol station

03 July 2008

ECS beta 5 industries are now protected from closure when built by the player or when any service is provided with parameter.

Petrol stations change road graphics according to town zone.

02 July 2008

Always force new bed found event if no mine closure parameter is set, never change mine capacity if unlimited mines parameter is set.

01 July 2008

All ECS beta 4 vectors are now moved to beta 5. In beta 5 they use long date format. Because of that they do not work under TTD patch any more unless support for required variables is provided.

25 June 2008

Fixed the bug with overflow in ECS Fruit plantation.

24 June 2008

ECS Town vector houses code was improved to use some new features.

14 June 2008

Graphics for petrol stations was improved.

1x1 petrol station

2x1 petrol station

Coded ECS petrol stations in ECS Town vector.

08 June 2008

Graphics for hotel «Praha» was improved.

Hotel «Praha» with landscape trees

02 June 2008

Coded ECS hotels and statues in ECS Town vector.

Graphics for hotel «Regent» and hotel «Pribaltiyskaya» was improved and coded as 2CC.

Hotel «Regent» in 2 CC

Hotel «Pribaltiyskaya» in 2 CC

27 May 2008

Coded Church and the Stalinka building in ECS Town vector.

Church

17 May 2008

Drew the MVD Hotel alpha version.

03 May 2008

Me and Andrey Krashinin drew the base for MAZ-503 truck. The first step for MAZ 500 series.

MAZ 500 series for xUSSR set

01 May 2008

Drew the Stalinka building.

«Stalinka» building

21 April 2008

Fixed a bug with oil wells and oil rigs in ECS Chemical vector II.

13 April 2008

ECS Chemical vector is outdated. ECS Chemical vector II should be used instead. ECS Chemical vector II is beta 4.

12 April 2008

Sawmill change production level bug fixed.

11 April 2008

Sand pit display bug fixed.

29 March 2008

Updated translations both in files and wiki.

24 March 2008

Copied wiki pages to translations.

22 March 2008

Working hard on ECS translation. Appropriate wiki pages were updated.

20 March 2008

Fixed bug in ECS beta 4 mines code.

19 March 2008

ECS beta 4 vectors code improved.

18 March 2008

ECS beta 4 vectors now support parameter to control difficulty settings. Bit 0 - Unlimited store place, bit 1 - Endless mines, bit 2 - No mine closure.

17 March 2008

ECS Wood vector now supports parameter to control difficulty settings.

16 March 2008

Improved code for ECS Wood and ECS Agricultural vectors. A must secondary cargoes do not affect production level now, but decrease the production instead.

14 March 2008

ECS Textile mill now supports new closure mechanism. ECS Agricultural vector is beta 4 now.

10 March 2008

ECS Brewery now supports new closure mechanism.

03 March 2008

ECS Food plant and ECS Tinning factory now support new closure mechanism.

02 March 2008

ECS Animal farm supports new closure mechanism.

01 March 2008

ECS Fishing grounds, ECS Farm, ECS Fruit plantation now support new closure mechanism. Their code was also improved.

27 February 2008

Started to convert ECS Agricultural vector to beta 4.

26 February 2008

ECS Furniture Factory, ECS Paper Mill, ECS Printing Works now support new closure mechanism. ECS Wood vector is beta 4 now.

25 February 2008

ECS Sawmill now has several layouts, supports passengers and company colours graphics. Wood and wood products now appear and disappear according to nearby station activity.

Sawmill

24 February 2008

The project is SIX years old. Congratulations!

14 February 2008

ECS Steel mill and ECS Vehicles factory now can accept passengers.

10 February 2008

Split ECS Sawmill graphics into parts, completed snow version. I'll code more layouts next.

09 February 2008

ECS Forest now use default trees graphics instead of it's own. It has different graphics in tropic and toyland.

Forest

ECS Sawmill now supports new closure mechanism.

08 February 2008

Started to convert ECS Wood vector to beta 4.

ECS Forest now supports new closure mechanism.

31 January 2008

Beta 4 industries now ignore locations conditions in scenario editor (Tile conditions, like flat land, are remaining).

27 January 2008

Fixed bank location bug.

25 January 2008

Fixed bus bug in beta 4.

22 January 2008

Fixed mines' closure bug.

20 January 2008

Created a wiki page for coal mine.

16 January 2008

Drew a tanker for xUSSR train set.

Tanker graphics for xUSSR set

15 January 2008

Improved gondola graphics for xUSSR set

Made gondola for xUSSR train set shorter, added more details, filled it with cargo (here).

13 January 2008

Fixed a bug with ECS Iron ore mine.

Inserted steel, wood, wood products, lime, rubber graphics into gondola for xUSSR train set.

11 January 2008

ECS Vehicles factory now supports new closure mechanism.

ECS Bank is improved.

ECS Town, Basic, Machinery vectors are beta 4 now. ECS Ship yard is currently disabled. It will work in existing saved games and scenarios, but it can not be built or appear while map generation.

09 January 2008

Added new closure code to ECS Tourists centre.

ECS Basic vector mines now give a message 12 and 24 months before being exhausted.

ECS Machinery vector updated. ECS Steel mill and ECS Iron ore mine now supports new closure mechanism, under construction text. ECS Iron ore mine now gives a message 12 and 24 months before being exhausted.

ECS Steel mill, ECS Glass works, ECS Power plant should be build near water.

08 January 2008

Added requirements for water for Power plant, Steel mill, Glass works.

Added new closure code to ECS Factory.

Added displaying of under construction state for production level when the industry is under construction for ECS Basic and ECS Town vectors.

Moved sulphur definition back from ECS Basic vector to ECS Chemicals vector.

07 January 2008

Coded new closure mechanism. Now the industry gives a warning before closure, so the player can prevent closure by providing excellent service for the industry.

Power plant

Coded ECS Gold mine as mine (with reduced capacity and production). Added parameter to control appearance of Gold mine and Gold.

Coded ECS Glass works as steel mill. Acceptance of potash would be provided later.

07 January 2008

Minor fixes in ECS Town vector and ECS Machinery vector

06 January 2008

Coded ECS Power plant for ECS Basic vector, drawn by Zimmlock.