If you have played or play Simutrans, we would like to invite you to participate in the Simutrans players survey.
We would like to know how much experience do you have dealing with Simutrans, which OS do you use, the amount of time you dedicate to the game, the version you use, etc… To sum up, we try to get the whole picture of several aspects about the way you play Simutrans so we can improve them.
Today a big new map (3040×1600) of Russia created by AEO was added to the Simutrans maps website. If you use this map be sure to set the water level to -2. The recommended number of rivers is 1024, the maximum length of rivers is also 1024.
Further, a map created by Sindor was added in two sizes (256×256 and 1025×1025). 
Use water level -6 to get the intended map. As nobody seems to know if this map actually represents a real part of the world, it can be found in the fantasy maps section. Please make a comment if you know which interesting part of the world this might be.
Sometime ago we mentioned a project to reboot the old pakHD, creating a new version from scratch with the same style, called pak96.HD2, but Frank has surprised us with an unofficial version of the old pakHD release, modified to be playable with the latest Simutrans stable version.
After many requests, finally somebody from the community has encouraged to create a detailed tutorial about the process of creating addons, from botton to top. The document, created by Gauthier, covers all stages of the addons development process, from graphics to pak file creation, but it only uses pixel art techniques, not 3D.
This tutorial is basically written for pak128, but the process is the same for any pakset, the only thing that changes is the size of the images. It’s available at SNFOS site and we’ll try to include some parts in the official wiki.
Now you don’t have excuses to start creating new objects for Simutrans…. ;)
The summer begins and the July’s edition of SMSC too. The subject of this month is Highway infrastructures.
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 July 15th. The voting begins on July 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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With the help of a dark, dusty and forgotten place in the maps lair, seven new North American maps have been uploaded to maps.simutrans.com by Combuijs, including Tennessee, Bay Area, Dallas, Lynchburg, Salt Lake City, Sunriver Mountain and a map of whole North America. All of them have different sizes and levels of detail.
You can dowload the new stuff at maps.simutrans.com
Jun 25
The June edition of the Simutrans Monthly Screenshot Contest has finished. Congratulations to all people who took part in it.
A new version of Simutrans-Experimental is available today: Simutrans 102.3 Experimental 8.1. This version is a bugfix release dealing with a number of issues reported in previous Simutrans-Experimental releases.
It doesn’t incorporate many of the GUI changes from the latest versions of Simutrans standard, but does incorporate a few of the more critical fixes from Simutrans-Standard.
Frank, one of the project managers, has compiled a CD with almost all Simutrans stuff available for the latest version released (102.2.2)
It includes the binary and several paksets like pak64, pakgerman, pakHAJO, pak128, pak128.Britain, pak32.comic, pak192.comic, pak.ttd and pak128.german.
Now you can burn a CD or load it into a USB stick and take it wherever you want. Dowload it here.
Here we are again with the June’s edition of SMSC. The subject of this month is City Airports.
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 June 15th. The voting begins on June 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.
Links: