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Changing Combo on a server
birder
S2 licensed
Hi

I have searched for an answer on this forum and in the wiki but just cannot find it.

I am finding changing Combo rather strange.

Say a server is setup as follows in its setup.cfg

AS3, GTR, qualify 25, Laps 10, Mustpit Yes,

It has 20 racers on it and i want to change the combo to

FE6, RB4, laps 3, Mustpit NO

using admin commands. (Via Insim)

Can anyone please give me the exact set of /admin commands to seemlessly go from one combo to another and where there must be gaps

Eg.

/end
wait 5 seconds
/track FE6
Wait 3 seconds

Etc

It sounds simple but whenever i try it, i either seem to have to wait for ages while people click join now (Sometimes several times)

I think most people are not 100% sure what should be happening but just get there in the end

but when they finally get on track its starts as qualify and some still have GTRs or something else is not quite right.

Thanks
Validate Username
birder
S2 licensed
Hi

Just been sorting out our 6 server ban files and found a number of username that are not on LFSWorld

a) I think it would be a good idea to validate usernames on a ban

Also one problem that need sorting is when you get a wrecker on a server and he disconnects before you get his name.

So its off to watch the replay and then back on the server to ban him

b) If the connection list "Greyed out" anyone who leaves for x seconds that would be a great feature for admins so we can still use the ban button
birder
S2 licensed
after 28 days

CD1 AS3/GTR League has had 416 racers score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =27

CD2 LFS GTR League. has had 138 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =23

CD3 FWD GTR League, has had 12 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =26

CD4 Hotlap Challange has had 353 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =22

CD6 MRT Skil League still just 6 have scored points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =28

The CD3 FWD GTR League and CD6 MRT League are both not supported and will be finished early.

There will be a new league on these servers soon
birder
S2 licensed
Quote from Indiana Jim :I have raced on CD4 twice to test out the system and in each instance the server didn't credit me the last 2 points until days after. Right now, it's 4 Feb 08 and I last raced on Saturday 2. The server shows 49 points when in reality I have 51 accumulated points.

How come the server can show a portion of the score but miss the last 2 points?

Hi

One or 2 things i cannot understand from your post

1) "I have raced on CD4 twice" - the server is set to practise so you cant race

2) "didn't credit me the last 2 points until days after" - As soon as you get a RCM warning the score goes up by 1. The website is updated once a day in the early morning.

I am on 185 points and its added my points every time.

3) As far as i can tell you have beaten you the target time and your PB 49 times and are on 49 points.

As lotes says if you have the time, date and a replay it would help but without them i cannot see anything wrong

Regards
birder
S2 licensed
For Information Only:

To sort out recent licensing issues, Janez Cufer (AKA MonkOnHotTinRoof) has kindly released the LFSLapper 3.8 source code into public domain.

http://monkster.hopto.org/~janez/Downloads/LFSLapper38.zip

This means that the source code can be used in any way you want and MonkOnHotTinRoof is not responsible for anything you use it for.

I would like to offer my thanks to "Monkster" for this contribution to the LFS community.

NB. Version 3.8 will not work with current versions of LFS and is no longer supported in any way
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birder
S2 licensed
Quote from AlienT. :I take it the license system has been reset, again? went to have a race and I'm no longer licensed. meh I've only done over 2500 laps on CD1, never mind I'll go on the practise server yet again.

CD1 license time is 1:44.00 and the license system is sometimes switched on when the league is active (6.00pm UK to 3.00am UK) However its only used when the slower cars get in the way of the faster drivers or stop obeying the rules.

We find that switching the license sstem on for a race sort it out so we can get some clean races.

There are 15 hours a day when you can earn a license and doing a single lap of 1:44 in that amount of time should not be a problem, however if it is, its clear you will get in the way and spoil the racing for the others
birder
S2 licensed
Quote from robps :28/1/2008 SO4 South City Long: 11 lap races for 7 days
04/2/2008 AS7 Aston North: 9 lap races for 7 days
11/2/2008 KY2 Kyoto National: 11 lap races for 7 days
18/2/2008 WE1 Westhill: 11 lap races for 7 days
25/2/2008 AS3 Aston National: 10 lap races for 7 days
03/3/2008 KY3: Kyoto GP Long: 8 lap races for 7 days
10/3/2008 FE4 Fern Bay Black: 7 lap races for 7 days

Is the current schedule for CD2, it is subject to change so it's easier not having to updated all the posters The original posters did have the dates on.

Hi Robps

Lotesdelere decided to change the CD6 MRT League so its was select on entry to try to get more people to join that league.

I removed the dates just in case he did it on the others.
birder
S2 licensed
after 16 days

CD1 AS3/GTR League has had 317 racers score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =27

CD2 LFS GTR League. has had 103 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =23

CD3 FWD GTR League, has had 11 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =26

CD4 Hotlap Challange has had 314 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =22

CD6 MRT Skil League still just 5 have scored points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =28

Thanks for all you who have taken part and to those who have not, please give it a try.
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birder
S2 licensed
after 8 days

CD1 AS3/GTR League has had 215 racers score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =27

CD2 LFS GTR League. Week 1, BL1 / GTR has had 74 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =23

CD3 FWD GTR League, Week 1, BL1 has had 10 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =26

CD4 Hotlap Challange has had 248 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =22

CD6 MRT Skil League still just 5 have scored points, now BL1
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid =28

Thanks for all you who have taken part and to those who have not, please give it a try.
birder
S2 licensed
Quote from mcgas001 :

Sure it might not be Lotesdelere's connection or pc?

I doubt that very much or it would do it without relay, dont you thnk....
birder
S2 licensed
Quote from Victor :


not really. The only difference between being connected to the relay or not is that your host must send some more packets outwards. But the relay barely sends anything back to you. So there's not much extra strain on your host.
How many insim connections do you use, if you include the relay? And can your server handle it? (dunno what type of computer it is - doubt that'll be the problem though)

Hi Victor

Sorry i missed your answer.....

I have been doing test over the last few days and i cannot see the problem but Lotesdelere insists it makes the server jecky when he races and i trust what he says.

We run one other insim connection (LFSBuddy)

The server is one from 500Servers and this only happens when it has about 20 or more connections and on CD1 this is most of the time.
birder
S2 licensed
Hi Victor

I am being told that our CD1 server becomes jerky when connected to relay

Any ideas?
birder
S2 licensed
Well we are 4 days in from the start of the new leagues, just thought you might be interested in some updated stats

These do not include the 100's who have not scored any points

CD1 AS3/GTR League has had 158 racers score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid=27

CD2 LFS GTR League. Week 1, AS5 / GTR has had 56 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid=23

CD3 FWD GTR League, Week 1, AS1 has had 8 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid=26

CD4 Hotlap Challange has had 194 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid=22

CD6 MRT Skil League just 5 have scored points
http://conedodgers.com/conedodgers/i...pper&Itemid=28

Not a bad start, so i say thanks for all you who have taken part and to those who have not, why not?
birder
S2 licensed
All now running
birder
S2 licensed
Quote from Victor :hmm, yeah maybe i'll have to make a password entry box there.

I didn't think a password url parameter would be sensible, because you'd never link to the remote with a password from a public website I'd assume But maybe you wanted to link from an admin page of your own?

I was going to use a hide the url script such as http://www.fastwebcreation.com/hide-links.php

Also wanted a shortcut

Thanks
birder
S2 licensed
Quote from Victor :use the host parameter in the url. Like http://www.lfsworld.net/remote/?host=CTRA%20Race%201


http://www.lfsworld.net/remote/?host=[CD]%20ConeDodgers%201

Needs a spec password, what do we add to view in this case, and as a admin

Or can there be a password entry box

Great work by the way
birder
S2 licensed
Well we are 2 days in from the start of the new leagues, just thought you might be interested in some stats

These do not include the 100's who have not scored any points

CD1 AS3/GTR League has had 73 racers score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedod ... com_wrapper&Itemid=27

CD2 LFS GTR League. Week 1, AS5 / GTR has had 34 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedod ... com_wrapper&Itemid=23

CD3 FWD GTR League, Week 1, AS1 has had 8 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedod ... com_wrapper&Itemid=26

CD4 Hotlap Challange has had 180 score points
http://conedodgers.com/conedod ... com_wrapper&Itemid=22

CD6 MRT Skil League just 5 have scored points
http://conedodgers.com/conedod ... com_wrapper&Itemid=28

Not a bad start, so i say thanks for all you who have taken part and to those who have not, why not?
birder
S2 licensed
Quote from mkinnov8 : I agree (for the first time) with birder here..

Happy days..................
birder
S2 licensed
I just clicked the link to your website, then clicked server status

It takes ages to get a server half full, in our case thats 23 racers out of 47. Our average is about 25% so 10

Your server is only 13 slots so your average will be about 3 which is not enough to attrack others.

Your server is also set to PRIVATE so people cant open it up anyway

So to be fair you are stuffed before you start
birder
S2 licensed
Quote from hughesie89 :well i bought a server because i thought people would like to race during the australian day instead of late at night, oviously i was wrong. i have hosted 3 events with only people coming from the server list turning up.

what am i doing, i plan these events, put them in the race calender inform the forum about them, for example today a fox event on aston national, no one turned up

so i ask the community
if im hosting an event tommrow at 1pm aus time (02:00:00 a.m. Tuesday January 15, 2008 GMT) what do you want to see

Dont get annoyed, its not easy to get people to come to an event.

Firstly ask yourself why they should use your server rather than any other. There are over 600 servers on offer so you must try to make yours stand out so they pick it from the huge list.

When i started ConeDodgers my servers were empty so i asked people who i raced against on a regular basis on other servers to try my server. They said, we need this, that Etc, so i gave it to them.

Make sure your server stays the same combo so it appears in the same place in the list, if it changes from FBM to GTR to BF1 there will be no regulars as they will not find your server first.

Make the server name something simple to remember AND NEVER CHANGE IT.

Another thing to do is to get several people racing on the server all the time so it appears in the FULL list and soon people will join.

If one of my servers is empty, i search out a couple of mates and go and race on it. After a few minutes we will be joined by others.

Finally if the ping is 200+ from Europe and there are 10 servers with a 40 ping in the list why should they join?

Best of Luck
birder
S2 licensed
Why not try them out
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birder
S2 licensed
Posters are by [CD] Dimo and i agree he did his normal great job, even thought he will not obey ConeDodgers #Rule 1 - "Let Birder win"

I should also say thanks to EKinoxNH for all his help on the system and to [CD] Hex and [CD] Bullitx on the website
birder
S2 licensed
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=670636#post670636 give you details

I hope there is something for you all
Whats on at ConeDodgers (An Invite)
birder
S2 licensed
ConeDodgers would like to invite S2 drivers to take part in thier new Skill leagues. All are automatic, just turn up on the server during the practice times to earn your license (Beat the target time).

http://www.lfsforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=75 will give you details or visit our website

















CD Hotlap Challenge
birder
S2 licensed
Hi

This is a simple challenge

Goto [CD] ConeDodgers 4, select a track and car

!hotlap will give you some details
!hotlaptime will give you the time you need to beat
!hotlapstats will give you your details

Each time you beat a hotlap time you score a point

Points are at the top of the screen

To get another point either beat your current PB or choose another car or combo

Results updated daily at

http://conedodgers.com/conedod ... com_wrapper&Itemid=22

Best of luck
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