OpenTTD Problems • Re: Annoying changes in 15.0's new UI

Passwordless multiplayer? Genuine wtf from me. If this happened 15 years ago when I was playing OpenTTD on university servers a lot, it'd be completely unfair. I could just join everyone's companies, blow their money on terraforming and win the game. And likewise someone could do that to me. That's unfair for everyone. What is the state of OpenTTD multiplayer right now with this? It just begs for griefing.

I mean there is still protection but it's just different. So instead of locking company with a password every company is now automatically locked using token system. Owner of that company can allow others players to join, but both owner and other player has to be present on the server at the same time. It works fine for people who don't play coop and one map lasts one evening. Before you could lock company using before briefed password so your friends could join anytime. Anyone also could create company so anyone from that group could join too. Sadly if someone had friends and played one company in their free time online that rarely could play at the same time, they simply can't do that anymore. Not to mention opening up company after you "done playing". But anyway, it's for another topic.

Statistics: Posted by robert357 — 15 Feb 2026 21:03