On first start-up, the game will ask if you want to participate
in our automated survey. You have to opt-in, and can easily opt-out
(via the Options) at any time.
When opt-in, whenever you exit a game, a JSON blob will be send
to the survey server hosted by OpenTTD. This JSON blob contains
information that gives a global picture of the game just played:
- What settings were used
- How many humans vs AIs
- How long the game has been played
- Basic information about the OS / CPU
All this information is kept very generic, so there is no
chance we send private information to our survey server.
Nothing in the JSON blob could identify you as a person; it
mostly tells about the game played. At any time you can see
what the JSON blob includes, by pressing the "Preview Survey
Results" button in-game.
This means we have RTL support again with ICU 58+. It makes use of:
- ICU for bidi-itemization
- ICU for script-itemization
- OpenTTD for style-itemization
- harfbuzz for shaping
This requires the use of WinHTTP (for Windows) or libcurl (for all
others except Emscripten). Emscripten does not support http(s)
calls currently.
On Linux it requires ca-certificates to be installed, so the HTTPS
certificate can be validated. It is really likely this is installed
on any modern machine, as most connections these days are HTTPS.
(On MacOS and Windows the certificate store is filled by default)
Reminder: in case the http(s):// connection cannot be established,
OpenTTD falls back to a custom TCP-based connection to fetch the
content from the content-service. Emscripten will always do this.
Functions like localtime, gmtime and asctime are not thread safe as they (might) reuse the same buffer. So use the safer _s/_r variant for localtime and gmtime, and use strftime in favour of asctime.
_current_company is not currently logged anywhere in the crashlog.
_local_company is logged, despite being much less useful than
_current_company.
This change logs _current_company alongside _local_company.
By naming it in a different way, things get a bit confusing.
Especially if we are switching to CMake, which autodetects these
things, we need to use the name the authors of ICU gave it; not
our interpertation of that name.
By naming it in a different way, things get a bit confusing.
Especially if we are switching to CMake, which autodetects these
things, we need to use the name the authors of ICU gave it; not
our interpertation of that name.
It is the only library we use that calls itself with 'lib' in the
name. This might be confusing, but with the arrival of cmake a lot
of these things are automated. And detection will find 'liblzma',
not 'lzma', like with 'lzo', 'zlib', ..
Jonathan G Rennison