Tsimserver.com: A gathering place to discuss OR MP and to schedule OR MP sessions

[mnjrr]

Hello,

My fellow colleague, and OR programmer JTang mentioned about www.tsimserver.com in the 0.8.0 release thread. I believe that Tsimserver.com deserves its own thread because of the importance of OR in providing a working environment for users to operate locomotives and rollingstock over routes originally created for the MSTS platform while interacting with other users operating trains. JTang, who developed the multiplayer feature in OR, created the tsimserver forums to discuss in particular the multiplayer aspects of OR and for people to post announcements about OR MP sessions.

[eric]

Hi Walter and JJ. This seems to be contradictory to the stated approach in the documentation, which was not to try and create a specific forum but to stay on the Big Three sites. Not questioning the value, but it is at opposition with the project docs.

[jjtang]

The reason to set up that forum is to have one dedicated to MP discussion. Also people can post their calendar their so you will know when to connect. As not everyone is interested in MP, keeping it separate may not be a bad idea.

[mnjrr]

Dear Eolesen,

The members of the Open Rails team will continue to actively monitor the train simulator forums as the main means of communication for interacting with the train simulator community wherewith to help OR users, and to garner feedback about Open Rails. JTang has provided what I hope will be a helpful way for users interested in OR multiplayer to schedule operating sessions with other users.

[kox]

i don't know it's a bug of OR or the server, but after running a route for some time (hours) everyone gets disconnected.

[Nels_Anderson]

So why is yet another forum needed to spread out activity? If you guys need additional forums here for scheduled sessions, just say so, I'll be happy to add them.

[jjtang]

Nels, please open a subforum under OR to have announcements. Thanks. We will experiment it and see how it goes.

[MP36PH3S]

I propose a subforum here instead of a separate website. VORA has their own site and subforum, but OR's multiplayer function is much more disorganized and widespread (that is, more sessions going on at once), which means that less forms of communication are needed, since there is a potential to have a lot of servers up at once.

[Nels_Anderson]

We now have a subforum here for OR multiplayer, as part of the series of available OR forums. Enjoy!

[seagoon]

Thanks, Nels !

That will keep this ORTS forum free from posts related to Multi-Player, which is of no interest to me and no doubt of no interest to others !

O t t o

Does it really matter if they do post here, Otto?
Whether one's interest is in MP or not, who cares if someone pops a question into the general area?
Jeez....it's hardly reason for "keeping this ORTS forum free" of MP posts. They aren't infected with the plague!

Bruce

[eric]

Agree Bruce. I have no interest in DB-Tracks, post-2000 equipment, or European routes, but certainly don't mind people talking about those topics...