Quote from danowat :

Hmmm.........not sure I like this idea that much, and TBH Kev, I am suprised you think it's a good feature.

All sounds a bit elitist to me.........

At the moment we have 5000 GTR racers who have recorded a faster time than 1:44 in a GTR on AS3, Over 1000 have done below 1:40.99's (Patch W)

Its not elitist as i will add them all into the system so they can race on CD2, CD1 will stay open to all and those who race fair will go in the list, however they can spectate on CD2 if they want.

That way at least on CD2 we will get a few good races without all the "Blue flag" stuff and arguments with people who have done less than 100 laps. You can only understand by having ago. Just go onto CD1 and race and you will see what i mean, its manic, or even better try CD3 today

Got to do something, its driving me mad,

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

2) The use of the words 'noob',

3) 'noobs', should go play offline.

7) I was on the Conedodgers UFR/XFR server at AS Cadet, and got 'what the f--k were you doing you f---g wrecker, learn to f-----g drive you w------r'

Agree with most but

2) google -search "define: noob"

Definitions of noob on the Web:

• A newbie (also spelled noob, newb, or n00b in the leetspeak of internet culture) is a to a particular field, the term being commonly used on the internet, where it might refer to new users of a game, a newsgroup, the World Wide Web itself, or an operating system.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noob[/SIZE]

Noob is just a word, but its a real word that we all are well aware what it refers to.

3) Yes and No.

25 fast racers and 7 noobs can be a disaster. Condodgers seems to get all the new licence S2 drivers as they all want to race the FZR straight away. However we have many drivers who help and have helped new drivers and we are proud of that.

Lotesdelere spends hours helping people who are new

7) Patch X lapper can out this morning and is now fitted on all our servers and should they start typing the f word and many others, users are kicked.

Many of our drivers and visitors are young and we should not swear.

However I find it rather funny to see a top driver in the lead say "f*** i that was close" and be kicked, only to come back and say "who F***ing kicked me"

Quote from the_angry_angel :

birder, as discussed attached is the latest version of luaLFS 0.7

Fantastic, i will try it as soon as i can get franky500

thank you so much

Quote from Gai-Luron :

Hello,

Great work, thank you, being installed as i type

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

If you want only selected people to access your server, put a password on it and give it to those people who you're willing to allow on your server :S

We tried it with a password when we first ran the LFS GTR League and with 500 members, people passed it on. A password works well with a limited few, but is no good for large quantitys.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Birder, check your pms

Have done and sent an answer

Thanks again

Quote from russraine :

Well if you're only going to allow a select few on your server why did you bother to set it up for the maximum slot usage?

Basically we will allow anyone race on CD1, once we feel a racer can race fair and safe he will be added to the "Pro-server" list

Prior to Patch X we had been working on a new system and we expect about 3000 racers in the list, but patch X has put that back for some time.

Since Patch X 2 of our 4 servers have been full with 47 racers. Controlling this is a nightmare. So much so that we are now getting arguments all the time and some of our regulars racers are fed up. The swearing and chat is allarming.

I am sure over the next few months there will be several control system and other mods that will help.

We are currently have one written but Patch X has put that back several months.

I am not a programmer but have a request which i was wondering if any of you could help with.

The only server entry control we have is by password, but if you use one it gets passed around.

I simply want to make a txt list of usernames that allowed entry, eg.

Birder
Lotesdelere
franky500
scawen
Blah
Blah
Blah

And if your name is not in the list you cannot get on or even better you can only spectate.

It sounds simple so can anyone help - PLEASE

Thanks

The number of votes needed to ban and kick should be a server setting which should be a percentage of those on the server

/voteban 50
/votekick 30

or at least make the number needed a setting

/vote 10

that way its up to the server owner how its set

either way i hope someone comes up with an admin tool that allows us to view and edit the bans online or it could be a nightmare on a busy server like ours

Last edited by birder, Sat 9 Jun 2007, 08:28.

Quote from Punchy :

Thats strange birder we don't have (TAB) and ours works just fine.

The instructions says

# comments
# Lines beginning with TAB are considered as part of last key line.

i have always had tabs in but not tried it without and as mine works fine i will leave, however you could be right

This is the cfg from ConeDodgers 1 which works on the server

Remember you must have a tab (TAB) at the start of a newline (NL)

UseUsernameForAuthentication = false(NL)

AutoAction = (NL)
(TAB)Swearword:swear|/msg {Nickname} Kicked for Swearing:/kick {Username}|(NL)
(TAB) dick|/msg {Nickname} Penalty for saying dick:/p_dt {Username}|(NL)
(TAB) next action.......

There MUST be a | at the end of each line except the last one in the AutoAction section

I have never used UseUsernameForAuthentication = True

Your cfg has

AutoMsgPrivate =
(NO TAB)shite:hell:****:shit|^3Do NOT swear (Nickname)!|/kick {Username}|
(NO TAB)!help|
(NO TAB)^3!top ^8[table offset] [3-letter car name] ["filter" pattern]:
(NO TAB)^3!drf ^8[table offset] [3-letter car name] ["filter" pattern]:
(NO TAB)^3!stats ^8[playername pattern]:
(NO TAB)^3!dstats ^8[playername pattern]:
(NO TAB)^3!ver:
(NO TAB)^3!help

So in the first line you have used ( and ) instead of { and } and replace the | with : - Marked in bold
Also this should be is AutoAction = not AutoMsgPrivate = section of the cfg

As per the instructions
AutoMsgPrivate sends a private text message only, it does not do an action
AutoAction does an action and to send a public message you add the /msg command

Hope that helps

Last edited by birder, Thu 10 May 2007, 06:42.

Quote from Shoe Maker :

It's exactly the kind of attitude that causes all the good servers to be closed down, the people spending their own time and money to run them feel they are wasting their time and it's not being appreciated, I totally understand why Becky did what she did with the STCC and it's because of comments like yours.
Redline EVO

We run busy servers on GTR's and i totally agree with you. The problem is that when someone gets S2 they automatically want to try the full servers and find ours or yours.

Over the past few weeks the level of noob driving has gone down, the amount of noobs with 15km on their stats that are demanding sets, have no idea of racing rules and then tell us how to run our servers is just amazing.

It often happens that you have to give out a few 12 hour bans to get a race that gets past T1.

As to those people who keep demanding we change the combo's "why" we supply what people want.

If i have a server set on a "uncommon combo" and its always empty so if you want to use one fined some others in the same mind.

Well said Shoe Maker

As to official ladders -1 from me as this should be a server operated thing and not part of the game.

If there was a official ladder it would have to cover every combo not just the ones you like and that would have to include AS3 on GTR's, AS2 on FOX and the oval on BF1

And as that would also have to count the MRT round KYgp and the BF1 round AS1 as someone will want them, count me out

Last edited by birder, Wed 9 May 2007, 08:00.

Quote from gwendoline :

@ Krane
I love devs'work since long time and all others changes and new inside last patch but i'm sorry but i'm human and each big change on insim system boring me a bit more each time and discourage me to attempt to made attractives events to gathered community around this game.
i think it possible to keep some compatibility.

I agree with you, We have had to put on hold the next season of the LFS: GTR League and development of our new system until the imsim changes are done.

Also we will now get a forum full of "this mod no longer works" post, but i also agree that the changes will be best in the long term.

On ConeDodgers we get the stolen skin problem all the time.

If its one of our team skins, We ask, We warn, We warn again, We kick and if all else fails we give a 12 hour ban.

If we get "f-you" or "dic" we simply type /ban xxxxx 999 and the problem goes away for ages.

We did start to autokick swear words and i added "fu" to the list but found it was no good.

I remember one noob saying

"Wow i am having "fu"n on this server"

he logged back on,

"Kicking people who have done nothing wrong is not "fu"nny"

he logged back on,

I explained to him,

"Hey thanks, for telling me, its a "fu"nky server"

he logged back on

"You should take that aw"fu"l setting off"

he logged back on.

"Dont kick me i want to send you some cash for your server "fu"nd"

he logged back on

"Who the hell do you think you are "fu"-man-chu"

He logged back on

"You are as bad as the local "fu"zz" (slang for Police)

he logged back on

"f**k you, i will keep the money"

That was the last we saw of him

Quote from franky500 :

If realism is the problem then shift + S needs to be removed as you say. in real life. your race will be over and not rejoining in such a manner.

Can you imagine what would happen if someone rolled on the first lap of a 24 hour race or a banger race where cars are auto-repaired. Someone would not be very happy. For ease it would be best to have all 3.

/reset Arcade (Full repair), Track(As patch W) or No (Get out yourself), that way we can decide and everyone will (may) be happy

Quote from smith :

birder, I 'm not able to find replays anywhere on conedodgers, can you please share the one with D1 stage?

Replay: http://www.conedodgers.co.uk/downloads/s2d1r7.rar

Quote from Macfox :

Added/Updated :

Multi Level Admin's with configurable access.

* Marshalls password would be alternative admin password. /Marshallspassword=<password>
* /Marshalls=<playername1>,<playername2>,<playername3 >...
* Command bitfield in cfg to dictate available commands
/Marshallcommands=00110101 ;allow restart,kick,change track+cars)
/Marshallscommands=CanEndRace,CanSetCars,CanSetTrac k,CanBanPlayer,CanGivePenalty,CanSpectate,CanKick. ..

Connection List to indicate Admin (level) status.

Great idea +1

Hi

Ran the latest version an last nights LFS: GTR League

http://www.conedodgers.co.uk/results/s2d1r7.html is the first D1 race

I am told by the racers that the pit stop information is wrong

1) 3 racers stop in 0 time
2) some of the reported items are wrong, the stats say minor yet the racers say their stop said minor, and major

I will try to go through the replay myself and check but that can be a long job

Edit:

Also just been told that their is another slight problem with the produced starts

In the settings section (First table) it produced "No obligatory pit-stop" when in fact the server is set to pitstop required

Last edited by birder, Thu 12 Apr 2007, 12:16.

http://www.frex.com/gp/

SimConMeter

That is great, thanks

Quote from Scawen :

Anyway, about displaying the admin status to other guests - there are two ways to do this.

1) Allow only admins to see who else is an admin.

2) Allow all guests to see who is an admin.

If there is only 1 one possible option i would go with 1)

But a cfg setting /showadmin yes or no with a default no, where no does 1) and yes does 2) would be better.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=386549#post386549 is also a great idea

Many thanks

Last edited by birder, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 13:54.

Franky: Already put it in the improvement section

Becky Rose: Sort of "i've got one but you cant have it" dont you think (lol)

Franky: yes, but then i just got up.....

Quote from Rooble :

Had it ever occurred to you that perhaps someone might have actually lied? Dear god no!

That or your password is ultra weak, or better yet perhaps one of your trusted admins went and handed it out.

Lie, no not an admin. However if i could see who was admin i could tell if they are telling the truth.

As to the password, as long as you are aware of my last house name, my wifes middle name in reverse and the day my dad was born you can work it out.

Quote from smith :

birder, regarding pit and grid starts, I'll try to think about it, but I'd like to point out there is no way to determine a player time for any given moment.
About the template request, I don't really understand what prevents you from basing your web site page on the template file itself. You might want to change the template file extension to make dreamweaver recognise it as a hypertext, if that is a problem.
Anyways, introducing an additional template nesting level would create nothing but a mess in the program and its config file, I think.

I also use a template in Dreamweaver to make site wide changes and although my template looks fine and yours looks fine in DW if they are put together it causes mayhem.

Not to worry, its just that a header, [content], footer is how i do it with perl scripts

thanks for the answer

Quote from Lotesdelere :

Actually anyone logged in as Admin is very powerfull in LFS because he can use all of the commands, even the server settings ones. It would be usefull to have (at least) two levels of in-game server administration:

Admin: can use all commands
Marshall: can only use commands such as kick, ban, spectate, pitlane, p_xx, rcm, rcc

The restart, qualify and end commands might be given on purpose to some marshalls by the admin(s).

I also agree with Birder that there should be a way for admins only to see who is logged in as admin/marshall.

+1