OpenTTD Suggestions • Re: Problems with new authorization system to join multiplayer companies

There is now a proposed feature that allows a player to allow anyone to join their company: https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/pull/15204

It does not include a way to authorise a player who is not currently online, but it also does not prevent such a feature from being added in the future.

This only "solves" one of the issues, all other, bigger, issues remain.

The group of friends I usually play with have resorted to sharing their private and public keys from the secrets.cfg, which solves many of the problems, but seems like a crazy solution to a problem that doesnt need to exist...

In case anyone is wondering:

• Go to docs/openttd and find secrets.cfg
• Share the keys saved as client_secret_key and client_public_key (edit secrets.cfg while ottd is not running) Anyone with these same keys, or the same person playing on a different machine, will now be able to join companies created by anyone using the same keys.

Statistics: Posted by Mark0291 — 13 Feb 2026 18:26