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

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?

Quote from mkinnov8 :

I agree (for the first time) with birder here..

Happy days..................

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

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

Why not try them out

Last edited by birder, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 10:23.

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

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=670636#post670636 give you details

I hope there is something for you all

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

Updated times and dates

Quote from Victor :

good luck

Hi Victor, Happy new year

4 Points

1) The Section called LFS: GTR League has recently been activated as live again but our new Skill League System allows us to run multiple leagues at one time

We have 3 running at the moment so the LFS GTR League title is no longer correct

Can you either change the title of the section to

ConeDodgers Leagues

So i can add all our leagues

or open a new league section for us and transfer the old posts into it

2) can you please change the website address from conedodgers.co.uk to conedodgers.com

3) I would like to add some banners to the top of the forum, what format, size and details do you need

4) Can we have more than one moderator in our section and in the LFSWorld Teams section

Many thanks

We have now made 3 new leagues using the Skill League System, i hope you will try them out

FWD GTR League details at http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=36463

MRT Skill League details at http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=36461

LFS: GTR League details at http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=36271

Or find more details on our website or in our forum

Happy new year to you all

Last edited by birder, Mon 31 Dec 2007, 15:10.

Quote from N I K I :

I would like to see track change every week.

Races 15-20 minutes long with one pit stop.

GTR cars.

Combos:
AS grand prix - 7 laps
BL gp - 15 laps
S0 long - 11 laps
AS north - 9 laps
KY national - 11 laps
WE internatl - 11 laps
AS national - 10 laps
KY gp long - 8 laps

I hope you like the idea

Looks good to me but i think we could also add

FE4 Fern Bay Black 7 laps,

that way we visit every circuit over a 10 week period.

After 10 weeks we can start again or even change the tracks

"Thinks - AS3R, chicane becomes T1, 32 cars on lap 1, ...................Call the air ambalance"

I am not sure if i made myself clear but its can be any combo so what cars?

Hi

Over the last few months we have been working on a new license and Skill Based League System and at last we have it running.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=36271 gives you the basic details of the LFS GTR League (Season 3) and how the points system works.

Over the next few weeks we would like to setup a few more leagues using the system and would like your ideas.

The points system is not just the normal winner gets the most points downwards but it takes into consideration who you are racing against and their skill level.

The system will run a league setting the server to practise races where racers can earn their license and then League races for skill points when your must have your license.

These times or combos can be set how we want so we need you input for 4 32/47 servers

1) What combo's (These can be one a day, week, month)
2) What length race, pit yes or no Etc

The system also allows us to run team races, not CD againts cP etc but small 2, 3, or 4 car teams racing in the same race

[CD] ConeDodgers 2 is setup for the LFS GTR League with a license target time of 1.44.00

And for the hotlappers [CD] ConeDodgers 4 is setup with our hot lap challange where you beat the target time to score and then beat you own time to score again.

Type !help on any CD server for details

So come on folks give us the ideas of just what you want to race.

Last edited by birder, Sat 29 Dec 2007, 14:20.

There is always a reason and i am glad you are OK.

However a simple call to someone to say post on this forum that your internet is down and we would have all understood.

I have PMed you my phone number so if its happens again i will do it for you

Quote from mcgas001 :

This thread has nothing to do with me but i know birder may be a bit annoyed but as you say its rare for franky to disappear so just be calm and wait. How do you know he didnt have a accident of some kind or something happend to his family? You dont. Please wait and give him half a chance to explain before flaming...

Its obvious that i hope nothing has happened to him or anyone in his family and i have not at all flamed him, If i do everyone will be well aware, I just said what has happened, in fact i have been quite the opposite, i have supported him through thick and thin, paid him a year up front and supported him on the forum, however it would still be nice to be aware if there is a problem, dont you think

As i said earlier, if customers are aware there is a problem, or someone is taking a break, everyone will forgive them, But if they are not what do you suggest we do

I have kept all my team, all the CD forum users informed about the problem and had no problems from them, and no questions as they are aware.

"Better to be for warned" and all that.

All i asked in my first post was does anyone have any idea where Franky500 is?

And that is still my question

Last edited by birder, Sun 23 Dec 2007, 16:30.

Quote from dadge :

as part of frankys team (ATC) i have not heard from him all day yesterday. this usually means that he wants no distractions because he is working on servers (lfs). as soon as i get hold of him, i will point him in your direction m8.
maybe try restarting your server? i know franky has updated 150 servers since the release of the patch.

Thanks, but restarting does not help and i think the updates is not the reason he has vanished or that he is working on his servers, as if he was he would have answered me. Once the upgrades were added to the control panel update system, each client did his own as far as i am aware.

He must have gone away for a few days and has not arranged any backup support cover, to be fair he has done that serveral times in the last year but he had promised me before i paid him up front for my 6 servers for this year he would never do it again without keeping me informed.

Its always best in business to keep your customers informed as they will forgive you for almost anything, but keeping them in the dark or vanishing is just out of order and a bad practise as the customer will never forgive you for that.

So much for 500Servers promising to keep me informed, however i must say when he is about he is very helpful but when he does his vanishing act its a nightmare, maybe i should have known better in paying for all my servers up front but then i trusted what he said and trusted him not to let us down again.

Still maybe its how the world is these days in that you just cannot trust anyone.

This may seem a bit strange but has anyone have any idea what has happened to Franky500.

Since Patch Y came out we have been trying to fix a problem on my 6 servers (all from 500Servers).

At 1.27am 22/12/07 i had an email saying it was fixed but its still the same, in fact nothing has changed at all.

Normally 500Servers support is available but since that email 36 hours ago i have sent a number of email and support tickets and i am getting nothing back whatsoever.

If anyone has any ideas of what is happening or how i can contact them could they please PM me.

I am always amazed at the threads where demo users moan about what they get for free.

There is always more demo racers than S2 on the LFSWorld stats so its about time the Devs did some sort of time online limit or at least something to make the demo have a time limit.

I fully understand that some people cannot afford to buy the game but why should demo drivers have the same say as S2 drivers or even any say at all

Is it not time that this forum had a Demo section and all the other sections were locked so they cannot post.

The more things you get for buying S2 the more will buy it.

Not sure where to put this but x35 the new Digital speedo numbers and the kph/mph are fuzzy as if out of focus yet the gear indicator is perfect.

FZR/AS3 on Conedodgers 5 incar view

Quote from CrazyICE :

why don't u use X31 instead of X30?

They tell me its the same

Quote from _rzal_mi_cie_ :

In lastest patch (in X30 also) tires temperature is going up too fast, You should do something with it.

Sorry for my poor English

I agree, you can have red tyres at T1, thats just cant be right

After 12 months, 5 developers the conedodgers license and skill based league system is ready for its first real league test.

We have set this test at 16:00 to 20:00 GMT today on CD5 using Patch X30

I have tried Ladbrooks and my local betting office and they will not give odds on Patch Y coming out in the middle of my test

So any update between these times will be a disaster (hint hint)

Quote from Dygear :

I use the MIT license because I want the LFSWorldSDK to be used by anyone, for anything as long as it helps make Live For Speed stronger then that's fine by me. That's the beauty of the license conditions. You don't even have to release your code if you use my code, making the best choice for website SDKs.

In this case you are doing exactly what will happen in a small community, and accepting it.

I read that as you saying "here is my code, i hope it helps the community, please use it anyway you want" ," if you want my help just ask"

No threats, no bad feelings, no upset developers, no one stopping development, no court cases

Plain and simple.

Thats the way i see all LFS libraries should be and well done to you for doing it that way after all you all do it for fun anyway

Hats off to you mate