Short notes for ALT Linux's build of OpenTTD
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General
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ALT Linux build of OpenTTD features ongoing work of Russian localization
of the OpenTTD. This work includes creation of several components:

    - Russian translation
    - Russian fonts
    - Russian town names

This localization work has yet to be submitted to the OpenTTD development
team. While being work in progress it is stable enough to play with.

Russian translation is being worked on by volunteers from http://open.ttdrussia.net
resource. If you'd like to help filling in untranslated parts please contact
us at http://ttdrussia.net/phpbb2/ forum. 

*BEWARE* At the forum, you have to be registered in order to see attachments.

Russian translation is made available through several layers:

    - Russian translation: provided by lang/russian.lng file
    
    - Russian fonts: provided through NEWGRF in data/russian.grf. Therefore,
      you have to add russian.grf into your [newgrf] section in openttd.cfg:
      
      [newgrf]
      russian.grf
      
    - Russian town names: we decided to use Russian Post's town dictionary
      instead of generating 'weird' names. So far, this list includes more
      than 21,000 town names all across Russian Federation. This should be
      enough even for big OpenTTD maps.
      
      Due to internal OpenTTD architecture, town names are hardcoded in
      OpenTTD executable.

Also, you might look at xUSSR set which features vehicles from USSR times:
http://ttd.cernun.net/temp/xUSSR/

Make sure that grf-file names are lowcase when placed in ~/.openttd/data/

Additional patches
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ALTLinux's build includes some additional nice features developed to OpenTTD by
participants of http://www.tt-forums.net/ forum.

List of currently included features:

    - Diagonal land clearing
	This feature allows you to clear land not only in rectangular way but
	also to select any diagonal-based block and clear it.
	
    - Height Map
	Height Map allows you to load 8-bit height map from PNG file named 'map.png'
	from current directory in Map Editor. This greatly simplifies creation of
	custom geographically-realistic scenarios. The map file has to have the same
	resolution as the map itself.
	
    - Freight Trains
	Allows to specify multiplication freight factor for long and big trains so that
	acceleration looks much more realistic.
	
    - Signal Autocompletion
	This is a port of similar feature from TTDPatch
	
    - Smooth industry
	This patch enables smoother economy for industries. When enabled, it allows
	industries to respond to load (or insufficiency of it) adequatly:
	    - production grows when transfer is steady and high
	    - production decreases when there is lack of transfer
	    - industry can close when there is no transfer of resources for certain amount
	      of months
	      
    - Subsidiaries
	This patch allows creation and handling of subsidiaries. Not only you can start
	a daughter company in other region and share funds and roads but you also can
	switch and play as any of subsidiaries you're owning.
	
	Any 100% bought company first converted to subsidiary and later could be merged
	with its mother company.
	
	Money transfers between subsidiaries are taxed with 2% for bank transfers.
	
    - TTDPatch-like signs
	This is port of similar feature from TTDPatch
      
Technical details
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Russian translation is done in CP1251 encoding. This selection is deliberate:
OpenTTD can handle only 8-bit encodings and by selecting CP1251 we are compatible
with Windows builds provided by http://open.ttdrussia.net/.

We suggest you to use simple shell wrapper to run OpenTTD under locales different
from ones with CP1251 charset:

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
#!/bin/sh
export LANG=ru_RU.CP1251
/usr/games/openttd $*
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Save game files and scenario names will be in CP1251 encoding. This is an interim
solution until OpenTTD 0.6.0 comes which has UTF-8 feature in its roadmap.

Additional NEWGRF files can be placed in ~/.openttd/data. They have to be in lowcase
in order to be recognizable by OpenTTD.