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Multiplayer Manual for OpenTTD
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1. Starting a Server
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- Click "multiplayer" on the startup screen
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- Click "start server"
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- Type in a game name
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- Select the type of game ('LAN/Internet' or 'Internet (advertise)'. With the
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last one other people are able to see you online. Else they need your IP and
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port to join)
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- Click "start game", "load game" or "load scenario"
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- Start playing
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2. Connecting to a Server
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- Click "multiplayer" on the startup screen
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- If you want to connect to any network game in your LAN click on 'LAN', then
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on 'Find Server'
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- If you want to see which servers all online on the Internet, click on
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'Internet' and 'Find Server'
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- If there were more than one server
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- select one in the list below the buttons
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- click on 'join game'
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- If you want to play and you have the ip or hostname of the game server you
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want connect to.
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- click add server
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- type in the ip address or hostname
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- if you want to add a port use :<port>
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- Now you can select a company and press: "Join company", to help that company
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- Or you can press "Spectate game", to spectate the game
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- Or you can press "New company", and start your own company (if there are
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slots free)
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- You see a progressbar how far you are with joining the server.
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- Happy playing
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3. Connecting to a Server over the Console
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- Open the console and type in the following command:
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connect <ip/host>:<port>#<company-no>
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4. Playing Internet-Games
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- Servers with a red dot behind it have a different version then you have. You
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will not be able to join those servers.
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- Servers with a yellow dot behind it have NewGRFs that you do not have. You
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will not be able to join those servers. However, via "NewGRF Settings" and
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"Find missing content online" you might be able to download the needed
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NewGRFs after which you can join the server.
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- It can happen that a connection is that slow, or you have that many clients
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connected to your server, that your clients start to loose their connection.
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Some things you can do about it:
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- [network] frame_freq:
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change it in console with: 'set network.frame_freq <number>'
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the number should be between the 0 and 10, not much higher. It indicates
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the delay between clicking and showing up. The higher, the more you notice
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it, but the less bandwidth you use.
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A good value for Internet-games is 2 or 3.
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- [network] sync_freq:
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change it in console with: 'set network.sync_freq <number>'
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the number should be between the 50 and 1000, not much lower, not much
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higer. It indicates the time between sync-frames. A sync-frame is a frame
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which checks if all clients are still in sync. When the value it too high,
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clients can desync in 1960, but the server detects it in 1970. Not really
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handy. The lower the value, the more bandwidth it uses.
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NB: changing frame_freq has more effect on the bandwidth then sync_freq.
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5. Tips for servers
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- You can launch a dedicated server by adding -D as parameter.
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- In UNIX like systems, you can fork your dedicated server by adding -f as
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parameter.
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- You can automaticly clean companies that do not have a client connected to
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them, for, let's say, 3 years. You can do this via: 'set autoclean_companies'
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and 'set autoclean_protected' and 'set autoclean_unprotected'. Unprotected
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removes a password from a company when it is not used for more then the
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defined amount of months. 'set autoclean_novehicles' can be used to remove
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companies without any vehicles quickly.
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- You can also do this manually via the console: 'reset_company'.
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- You can let your server automaticly restart a map when, let's say, year 2030
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is reached. See 'set restart_game_date' for detail.
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- If you want to be on the server-list, enable Advertising. To do this, select
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'Internet (advertise)' in the Start Server menu, or type in console:
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'set server_advertise 1'.
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- You can protect your server with a password via the console: 'set server_pw',
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or via the Start Server menu.
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- When you have many clients connected to your server via Internet, watch your
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bandwidth (if you have any limit on it, set by your ISP). One client uses
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about 1.5 kilobytes per second up and down. To decrease this amount, setting
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'frame_freq' to 1 will reduce it to roughly 1 kilobyte per second per client.
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- OpenTTD's default settings for maximum number of clients, and amount of data
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from clients to process are chosen to not influence the normal playing of
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people, but to prevent or at least make it less likely that someone can
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perform a (distributed) denial-of-service attack on your server by causing
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an out-of-memory event by flooding the server with data to send to all
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clients. The major factor in this is the maximum number of clients; with
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32 clients "only" sending one chat message causes 1024 messages to be
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distributed in total, with 64 clients that already quadruples to 4096. Given
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that upstream bandwidth is usually the limiting factor, a queue of packets
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that need to be sent will be created.
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To prevent clients from exploiting this "explosion" of packets to send we
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limit the number of incoming data, resulting in effectively limiting the
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amount of data that OpenTTD will send to the clients. Even with the default
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limits it is possible to generate about 70.000 packets per second, or about
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7 megabit per second of traffic.
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Given that OpenTTD kicks clients after they have not reacted within about 9
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seconds from sending a frame update packet it would be possible that OpenTTD
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keeps about 600.000 packets in memory, using about 50 megabytes of memory.
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Given that OpenTTD allows short bursts of packets, you can have slightly
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more packets in memory in case of a distributed denial of service attack.
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When increasing the amount of incoming data, or the maximum number of
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clients the amount of memory OpenTTD needs in case of a distributed denial
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of service attack is linearly related to the amount of incoming data and
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quadratic to the amount of clients. In short, a rule of thumb for, the
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maximum memory usage for packets is:
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#max_clients * #max_clients * bytes_per_frame * 10 KiB.
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6. Some useful things
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- You can protect your company so nobody else can join uninvited. To do this,
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set a password in your Company Screen
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- You can give other players some money via the ClientList (under the 'head'
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in the mainbar).
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- You can chat with other players via ENTER or via SHIFT+T or via the ClientList
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- Servers can now kick players, so don't make them use it!
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7. Troubleshooting
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- My advertising server does not show up in list at servers.openttd.org
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Run openttd with the '-d net=2' parameter, as this will show whether it
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receives replies from the master server. If it does not receive replies it
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is most likely that you need to configure your router to forward ports
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3979 (both TCP and UDP) to the computer that is hosting the game.
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