Congrats guys! Another quality team in for the long haul!

Quote from Knight_Atack :

Starting to get fancy there ey Lee? :P nice design. Tiny errors here and there, but good nonetheless. Good use of colors.

What errors do you see? The one that still bothers me is the yellow pinstripe that goes around the dark red "c" shape that's behind the main top pattern. In the viewer, that stripe somehow gets thicker for about 2cm length, but I supposed that is because of how the skin wraps. I've tried to iron that out, but I wasted more time than I wanted, so I gave up. The other thing I see is that the CoRe on the back is a little off center.

OMG...that's hawt! Thanks so much beefy!

My new helmet....



Skin attached (please do not use as your own, unless your name is Lee Baker AND you race with #56 AND you race for CoRe ).

Last edited by banshee56, Sat 6 Dec 2008, 17:55.

A PB time where wind and drafting can affect it as compared to a HVLC-valid hotlap is hardly proof of a speed-hack.

Quote from BigTime :

Thanks guys. Banshee has been helping me on the site, so he deserves some credit. Thanks for all the help Lee!

My pleasure, Nolan. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out so far.

Quote from MARSH2a :

I'm bumping this thread to make it visible again for the benefit of folks new to LFS that may not know of us.

I also want to take the opportunity to invite folks to our Tier 1 server this evening, to participate in some good clean racing in the MRT. Look for us beginning around 8:00pm EST.

This S3 Racing Tier 1 is further explained in this thread.

Are you going to be there? Because the last time I raced karts with you, I whooped your ass and can feel the need to do so again!


(Yes, I know the MRT is not a kart....I should know..I raced karts for 13 years.)

Yeah! Welcome Ariel and Freddy!

The effects are getting better and better, Nolan...very nice work. This is one of my fave BTP movies!

Nice website too!

I'm a right hander, but when I put a piece of steel rod through my right hand a couple years back, I had to do everything left handed. When you've been writing almost exclusively with one hand for 30 years, using the other to write is DAMN hard!

Incidentally, one of the first things I thought of after injuring my hand was that I wasn't going to be able to drive in LFS for a while. Does that mean I need to get out more?

Quote from Webbsta :

3) You must be able to speak fluent english, this includes the ability to type in FULL english, no text talk on the forums, please.

orly?

Seriously...well thought out and presented team introduction. It's nice to see this rather than the same old "yo join my new team...btw I'm the only teammate, but YOU can be an admin!" crap that we see here often.

Good luck with your team!

Man, that Kaw fella is a real bully, eh?

Nice vid!

Last edited by banshee56, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 21:11.

Based on the email I got regarding my two US based servers, I think you are talking bullshit there Stoney.

That was a fantastic race yesterday. Good battles going on all over the place!

US servers not available anymore....

Congrats and good luck to Pauli and Merc!

This is a host only patch.

That's consistent with what I'm seeing. So basically LFS World lists the server with the lowest available license that you need to connect. Ok, that makes sense!

Thanks Scawen for the info!

I've upgraded three servers (LOTA League Server 1, LOTA League Server 2, and www.CoRe-Racing.com), as well as started two new servers (LOTA Test Server 1 & LOTA Test Server 2) and I am getting mixed results with how they are listed in LFS World.

The LOTA League Server 1, and LOTA Test Server 1 & LOTA Test Server 2 are all showing as S1 in LFS World, while the rest are showing as S1. I've gone to the trouble of copying the entire config file from one of the servers that shows as S2 (and of course made the appropriate changes), yet those three still show as S1. All are connected to the relay and all act as if you can connect via S2.

That's because html code is not valid in the LFS News interface. Only the basic BBC codes are valid (size, bold, italics, url, & attachment), and I'm not even sure you can use those in the comments.

All working now, Victor...thanks!

OK, so now that we've cleared up the multiple results listing on a single post, is it possible to put a time stamp on each result entry to that the "New results description" and it's time stamp can be used to link the results update as a headline?

EDIT: Bah! I added results to the wrong post! I added results for the RallyCross Championship (news post http://www.lfsworld.net/?win=news&nid=23#), when it was meant for the XRT Stock Car Cup (news post http://www.lfsworld.net/?win=news&nid=10). Any way to move it? Any way to just delete the misplaced results?

Last edited by banshee56, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 16:59.

I think we might be on a different page here. Can you add multiple results entries in a single news post?

I.E. After race 1 on November 9th, I would go add results for the XRT Stock Car Cup to the news post. After race 2 on November 16th, can I go back to that same post (http://www.lfsworld.net/?win=news&nid=10) and make an additional entry for results, or do I have to make a new news post?

For the results updates headlines, I was referring to the possibility that each successive results entry on a single post would have it's own time stamp, so that a reader could see that I've added results information to that one post. That headlines area would only show those updates and not new news post listings.

EDIT: GAH! Stoney beat me to it!

***On a side note, I just tried to add results to the XRT Stock Car Cup news post, and got an error. To set up the explanation, you'll need to know the points structure I tried to enter: The series events has 3 races per event, plus bonus points. There is an individual plus a team championship. The way I configured the results columns was this: username, playername, team, car, points (from race 1), points (from race 2), points (from race 3), points (bonus), penalty, and total points. Each time I entered info, it gave me an error claiming incorrect car info in the field where I was entering total points. Was this operator error, or something else? (See attached pic)

OK, I see the changes you've made. With a multiple series league like that which I am involved, LFS News per the suggestions I made might have worked like this:

Registered League: League of the Americas

1. Series #1: Submit a news post for one season of series #1
   • Results added for round 1
     
   • Results added for round 2
     
   • etc etc
     
2. Series #2: Submit a news post for one season of series #2
   • Results added for round 1
     
   • Results added for round 2
     
   • etc etc
     

OK, now that the season information is in the league registration area, I'm likely going to be doing this:

Registered League: League of the Americas Series #1

1. Season #1: Submit a news post for season one of series #1
   • Results added for round 1
     
   • Results added for round 2
     
   • etc etc
     
2. Season #2: Submit a news post for season two of series #1
   • Results added for round 1
     
   • Results added for round 2
     
   • etc etc
     

Not really a lot of differences between the two in that each news post will be about a single season, with all of it's season's results added as they happen. I suppose each news post could be updated to include a small round report in the main body rather than just above the results listing.

The real difference that I see here (at least relative to a league like LOTA), is that to structure the news correctly and have all of a season's results/news in one post and cut down on post count, I will have to register each series that LOTA runs as it's own league. Compared to the majority of leagues in LFS, each LOTA series is basically a separate league in and of itself. Registering each series won't be a huge deal, at least until you consider the way you can currently filter the news. If I have to register each LOTA series as a separate league, then people looking for LOTA news will have several different things to choose from in the filter, versus getting all LOTA-related news with one filter.

EDIT: Hmms...I've looked at it a bit longer, and perhaps I was a bit incorrect. It looks like I can add multiple seasons to a league. For LOTA, I can simply add a season called Series #1 Season #1, add another called Series #2 Season #1, etc etc.. That would work pretty well.

EDIT2: Something else I was meaning to ask about your response was about my "headlines" suggestion. To make this work, you would have to apply a time stamp to the individual results entries of each post. Is that possible? I'm just curious how you are going to extract the headlines from updates made to news posts.

Last edited by banshee56, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 14:37.

Quote from Victor :

I'm afraid I don't really understand your post. Would it be possible to illustrate it somehow?

This example is based on a guideline regarding news post submittal:

1) News posts can be about LFS general news, league season announcements, league champion announcements, and single event announcements.

2) Any results updates must be posted in the league/series season announcement post. You already have the "New results description", which would be the part of the headline. For example, in the picture below, the first headline reads "League of the Americas: XRT Stock Car Cup Winter 2008 - Banshee56 wins Round 2!". There you have the league title, the series/season post title (in this case "XRT Stock Car Cup Winter 2008"), and the "New results description" ("Banshee56 wins Round 2!"). See Pic #1

3) If you want to take it one step further, in the results interface, you could add an area (length limited, of course) for a short race report listed just above the results. See pic #2.

The overall intent of this suggestion is to give leagues a single place to have all of the news about a league/season in one place, rather than 10 different round results posts about a 10-race league/season. Not only would it help the reader to see all the news about a single season in one place, but the overall news interface would appear more organized. Every league admins wants his/her news at the top as long as possible and with multiple leagues posting single round results, each post will get shuffled down very quickly.

EDIT: On the RSS feed, only the news post title gets submitted. Like Duke's suggestion, it would be good to add the league title/abbreviation to the RSS feed items.

Last edited by banshee56, Sat 8 Nov 2008, 18:24.

Quote from banshee56 :

Good point about the time stamp. Here's some thoughts on the news interface relative to leagues/series and single events:

The main interface could be split into two sections (each sorted by timestamp):

1) For General LFS and league news and single event results posts

2) A section under that main news section that lists "headlines" (which simply could be something like "LOTA XRT Stock Car Cup - Winter 2008 Season - Race 1 Results"), that would be linked to the results entry of the same name within the series post. (I use the term 'series' because we call LOTA a 'league' and each type of racing a 'series', which then have coded season names.)

When filtering by league, a similar interface would show up with non-series specific news on top and the same results headlines.

Victor...any thoughts on this?