Another new edition of SMSC is on the way. The subject of this month is Small cities.
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 April 15th. The voting begins on April 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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Winner of the March edition of the Simutrans Monthly Screenshot Contest is hdomos. This industrial area provide most of the goods for the two town, including cars (not seen in picture), ethanol, gasoline, furniture, concrete, planks, books, etc… Built with pak.britain, It gathered 14 votes.
Screenshots by sybill and Isaac_Clarke scored seconds and third respectively.
Find the poll and discussion at the International Simutrans Forum.
Mar 27
Qanibal has made two maps of the famous Palm island in Dubai. You can now redesign it in your own way! There are two versions of it, one with the palm only and one with a part of Dubai added. You can now download these maps from Simutrans Maps. Take note that in both cases the water level must be set to 0.
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Mar 25
v111.2.2
This version is mostly bugfixes and optimisations. Also contains several fixes on usability, including a new help window index.
You can find a full changelog and download links for windows, linux, haiku and mac binaries at the International Simutrans Forum.
Another new edition of SMSC is on the way. The subject of this month is Heavy Industries.
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 March 18th. The voting begins on March 19th.
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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Mar 3
v111.2.1
The list of changes is quite large. It includes front images for ways, more info on bare ground, server-side authentication of players, bonus base factor incorporated, goto-button to chat messages and the severe bug with zipped games has been already fixed.
You can find a full changelog and download links for windows, linux, haiku and mac binaries at the International Simutrans Forum.
Winner of the February edition of the Simutrans Monthly Screenshot Contest is sdog. I found a poster from 1973 and a photo from 1905, both of Shrewsbury Railway Station. The older photo, (taken by a daring young Major A. C. H. Melchett from a montgolfiere) shows the station under construction. A circular line and a tram line were built already, while the tracks for the line to Manchester and Sheffield were being laid.. Built with pak.britain, It gathered 14 votes.
Screenshots by Enkort and Sim, and finally Isaac_Clarke scored seconds and third respectively.
Find the poll and discussion at the International Simutrans Forum.
Feb 29
The pak128 development team has announced a new release of the pakset. There has been a ton of improvements since last release. Cities now look… well, see for yourself!
This new version brings these changes from previous stable version:
You can download it from Sourceforge. More details at International Simutrans Forum.
Another new edition of SMSC is on the way. The subject of this month is Central rail stations.
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 February 16th. The voting begins on February 17th.
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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The 10.8 version of Simutrans Experimental has been recently released. This is a bug fix release, with some small feature changes to assist in balancing games, especially online games.
You can download it from the International Simutrans Forum.
