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Pak128.Britain-Ex 0.8.1 released!

SS Great Eastern A new official version of pak128.Britain adapted to work with Simutrans-Experimental has been released today!

This version includes some substantial updates from 0.8, including support for the liveries feature, snow graphics for most industries, a large number of new pre-grouping steam locomotives, and full support for the minimum/maximum loading times feature introduced in Simutrans-Experimental 10.0. The pakset is eminently playable in its current state, and has been refined by several years of playing and testing, including, more recently, online playing.

You can download the new version from here.
More details at Simutrans International Forum.

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A new space for Simutrans Experimental at ISF

After the proliferation of new experimental paksets and forum activity around this project, the administrators of the International Simutrans Forum have decided to set up a new Experimental section and discussion forum. It will be useful to be able to separate development and non-development related topics connected to Simutrans-Experimental.

There’s a discussion board for general issues, a development board for extension requests and patches, and also a paksets board. In addition to that, all the existing threads and posts from the Simutrans-Experimental development board have been moved there. Thus in the future, remember to take care and use the appropriate board, now that we have more from which to choose!

Visit the new Simutrans Experimental board at Simutrans International Forum.

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pak96.comic 0.4.10 has been released

A new version of pak96.comic has been released. It includes changes in goods and menus with new buttons, several new passenger vehicles like carriages or commuter trains and also some new industry chains.

You can download it from Sourceforge.
More details at Simutrans International Forum.

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New pakset released: Pak64.Experimental

As the result of the grow of the experimental version of Simutrans, some members of the community have created a experimental version of the Simutrans old pakset, pak64 called Pak64.Experimental, that aims to make it easy for players to take advantage of the above features by providing an Experimental-optimised pakset. At the basic level, pak64.experimental is just a branch of pak64 with several experimental-style features enabled. Let’s take a look about what it offers…

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September’s Edition of Simutrans Monthly Screenshot Contest

After the long summer break, here comes a new edition of SMSC. The subject of this month is City Tunnels.

Everybody can participate, with only one screenshot of 800 x 600 pixels, in jpg or png formats. You can use any pakset, and the deadline is September 15th. The voting begins on September 16th.

The prize will be a mention of your nickname in the Simutrans Hall of Fame, praises from the whole community and one post including your picture at blog and simutrans.com.

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Simutrans Graphics Contest: October

Ferry docked at Secombe

Mersey Ferry docked at Secombe (by jimmedia, cc)

The second Simutrans Graphics Contest has started. The topic this time are small ferryboats.

You can find all the details in the forum thread or by reading below.

Passenger Ferry

Subject of this contest is a small passenger ferry as seen in many metropolitan areas bordering streams or the sea. The type transporting a few dozen to a few hundred people over short distances.

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New drawing rules for pak96.comic

The pak96.comic manager, sojo, has updated the Graphics Style Guide with new rules, in order to keep the consistency of the pakset.

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Create your own Balkan

During the summer holidays carlbaker has made a beautiful and huge map of South East Europe. You can now download this map from Simutrans Maps and play with a whopping 5,745,600 tiles.

Mount Fuji

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Edit: The map is updated and slightly larger now. There is also a smaller 1293×1198 version available.

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pak96.comic 0.4.9 has been released

A new version of pak96.comic has been released. It includes new signals, commercial buildings, trees and buses as well as several bugfixes and adjustments.

You can download it from theGerman Forum.
More details at Simutrans International Forum.

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A couple of summer challenges at the Arena

We have a couple of challenges for the Simutrans players this summer:

The first one is Tramadness, where the local governments of the 4 cities in this map, have asked you to take care of the passenger transport, between the four cities and the three attractions. They promised they would build houses, and other buildings near the highest point of the map. So you decided to build a beautiful station there: Cambridge-Ripon TOP station. You finished your work now, but it seems the 4 local governments do not keep their promises, because they did not build anything near that station. Your goal is to get passengers from and to Cambridge-Ripon TOP station. Exactly at the moment the first passenger is waiting there, your job is finished.

You will need 102.2.1 (stable) and pak128 1.4.5 – 102.0. Join to tramadness.

The other challenge is Sylvan Oak, which takes places in 1880, at a largely rural landscape known as Sylvan Oak. In early winter, a wealthy investor from a far away land and his expert engineer come and lay rail tracks after finding oil and building a chemical plant. You realize that your fathers’ land near Hillcross will not be enough to sustain all of your family, so you decide to apply for a job with the new railroad that the investor built. You are ecstatic when you are told that you received the job, and quickly become the engineer of a giant industrial beast, a 0-6-0 switching oil cars into the chemical plant. You look at the map and see a land of opportunities. Your job? Prove him wrong; make the company a name known everywhere for size and service.

You will need the latest stable and pak 64 110.1. Join to Sylvan Oak.

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