I have very fond memories of UF1s at FE1. I'll give this a look for sure.

Ok, a few points of interest. Tonight's warm up races will be 9 laps in length to give people a better idea of tire wear.

Also, I should mention that in order to score points (in a real event, tonight is just practice), you have to finish. Don't go for broke in race 1 counting on the pole in race 2 if you crash.

Howdy,

Just a quick reminder that there will be an open practice this Wednesday night 1/6/10 on the server "S3 Racing Thinkin RBs". We'll be running 6 lap races at Blackwood RX with reverse grids to get everyone used to running in traffic.

There are no points at stake, but it's a good chance to practice for the first real event the following week.

edit: duh... forgot to mention the time. I'll be on starting around 9:00pm, but you're welcome to join whenever. I'll be turning Lapper off to kill the track rotation soon.

Last edited by Danke, Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:18.

Quote from banshee56 :

Just a thought here....the closer you get to the first race(i.e. 1 week out), it might be a good idea to change it from a rotation to only on the upcoming combo, that way the people that are preparing for the races can not only get used to the combo, but the other drivers as well in that combo.

That's the plan

Quote from KTasker :

Is this open to all racers?

If so sign me up!
lfs username: KTasker
display name: [JDS] K.Tasker

Anyone at all. You're in!

Quote from ZeroR :

lfs username:ZeroR
display name:S3R ZeroR

Added

Quote from Gai-Luron :

you seem to have a 5.8 version of LFSLapper. What is your previous LFSLapper install? more change in configs files between 5.8 and 5.9. Start with a freshen release 5.9.1.3 and change the exe to 5.9.1.4

Gai-Luron

You're right, I was using 5.846. When I get a chance in a few weeks I'll try with a 5.9x version.

Thanks

Quote from JO53PHS :

We managed near to that earlier this year on the NDR Public Racing Server... At least one admin was present for most of the day, and any wreckers would be dealt with a 999 ban, with warnings/kicks to people driving like prats.

This combined with shouting at people to be careful, brake in time, and give room at Turn 1 worked actually quite well. Several times we got through T1 completely incident free.

But then we all decided to go and get a life

... and we appreciate your efforts! That was a great place to race. Certainly nobody can begrudge you getting a life and going outside once in a while.

You can't expect people to admin live forever for free. So we're left with automated idiot filters, i.e. insim apps. In my experience, LFS is the only sim where there's any kind of pickup racing happening. Iracing is apparently all pickup racing, and that's because their entire system is an automated idiot filter.

Maybe the need for these systems now is a statement on the player community, but there's not much anyone can do to change that.

There are hundreds of servers running with no insim apps at all. The vast majority of them are empty. The reason I race at places like Race Center are because the insim apps they run tend to filter out people who can't or won't race cleanly.

You could have an admin or team of admins online 24/7 kicking people for driving like idiots, but that's a huge time commitment.

Updated the first post with a the latest entry list. Also, the server "S3 Racing Thinkin RBs" is up now and is set to rotate between the 8 tracks in the series.

Quote from Gai-Luron :

Exact at boot, LFSLapper change track, but LFS don't send the new state at this moment.
In this case the track is not set, I make a modification in LFSLapper

Download this 914 exe and replace your LFSLapper.exe. This exe enable a delay between start of LFSLapper and change track


i tested your script and now it work!

Gai-Luron

Wow that's fast work! I did get it to start and it set the laps correctly with that version.

Unfortunately that exe didn't show the initial display message, and it doesn't respond to reload commands. Plus when I issued a !stop, the lapper process on the server stopped as well. I also tried putting the lap change as a delayed command after the rotation, but that had similar effects. It could be that the exe is fine and I've messed something else up in the config in the process.

What I've done for now is to put the lap change in the race start event. That works great. I'm fine with using that method. I'll be offline for a week or so, so please don't spend any more of your valuable time on this.

Thanks again

Quote from Tim NL :

Maybe the track is still changing and then you cant set the number of laps yet

I thought that could be a possibility, but in this case, lapper goes straight to standby mode when I reload the config with those lines.

Although if I was able to load the config, you're probably right, I might have to set a delay before setting laps.

Quote from Gai-Luron :

Take a look in logs err file

I hadn't though of that, thanks. The ERR log shows an error in mscorlib. That probably points to an issue with mono. I'll check on my mono install. Thanks to both of you.

Quote from Tim NL :

HI,

Your script looks fine but there is a / to many


Event OnRotateTrack() # Lapper Event
globalMsg(langEngine( "%{main_track_changed1}%") );
globalMsg(langEngine( "%{main_track_changed2}%", getLapperVar( "CurrLongRotateTrack" )));
cmdLFS( "/wind=2" );
cmdLFS( "/qual=0" );

IF( getLapperVar("ShortTrackName") == "KY2" )
THEN
cmdLFS( "/laps=50" );
ENDIF

[COLOR=red]/ #remove this one[/COLOR]
EndEvent

Thanks for the quick response.

I'm not sure where that extra "/" came from, but even after I took it out, lapper still goes into standby mode with that IF statement. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but it's probably something silly.

First, thanks for your hard work and dedication on lapper.

I'm using track rotation, which works great, but I want to set different race lengths (in laps) for different tracks. Just for testing I tried this:


The wind and qual statements work fine, but lapper doesn't like that IF statement where I set the laps. The program goes into standby mode when I use that. I also tried a SWITCH statement with no luck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Quote from Etem :

I can only join if it is friday or saturday

Sorry the time isn't good for Europeans. We'd love to have you, but unfortunately I can only race mid-week.

BTW I updated the first post with server information and the sign up list so far.

Quote from banshee56 :

lfs username: banshee56
display name: CoRe L.Baker

Oh crap, the fast guys are signing up now.

Welcome

Quote from z-ro 8 :

can i join at 10:19 and skip to the consuming part?

If you bring enough to share with everyone you can start consuming at 9:30.

Quote from Elderado :

lfs username: Elderado
display name:Elderchop29

Might miss a few races because of work schedule but it's been a while since i've been protested by a S3R member

*Elderchop has been docked 29 points for violation with extreme prejudice of rule 5.1.5.0 section b.

S3R will be starting The Winter Beater Cup on January 13th, featuring rusty, crappy RB4s.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=64204

At the end of the season there will be a driver vote on the "best" beat up skin. The winner gets the admiration of his peers and a gimp'd up trophy made by yours truly. In other words, jack squat

We're not looking for just any ugly hack job skin, we want authentic rusty winter beaters. I looked for rusty RB4s here and I didn't find many. If you want a chance to show off your good work on bad skins, please feel free to sign up.

Quote from mrodgers :

The girls named my acoustic "Sally Sue" and I think they want to name this one "Lucy Lu".

So your wife bought you Lucy Lu for Christmas and she's currently stuffed under your bed? That lady is a keeper.

The once was a man from Japan
Whose poetry no one could scan
When told this was so
He said yes I know
but I always try to fit as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can

I convinced two other people by buying it for them.

S3R Presents: The Winter Beater Cup

The series features the RB4 in eight events on both rallycross tracks and road courses. Each event consists of two equal length races, with the second race grid set by inverting the finishing order of the first race. The first race uses a random starting grid. Rusty, crappy themed skins are appreciated.

There will be a practice event January 6th to get used to the format. The first race will be January 13th. The server name is "S3 Racing Thinkin RBs". Passwords will be posted in this thread. If we need to lock it down I'll send out the password via PMs.

The server is up now and is set to rotate between the tracks in the series. Feel free to stop by for some practice.

event night schedule (all times Eastern US):
----------------------------------------------------------
8:30pm server available for practice
9:25pm drivers meeting
9:28pm lag lap
9:30pm race 1 start - random starting grid
~9:55pm race 1 end/5 minute break
~10:00pm race 2 start - reverse starting grid
~10:20pm race 2 end/consumption of adult beverages commences

More information information here: http://s3racingzone.com/wbc

Drivers signed up so far:
-------------------------------------------------
1 S3R Danke
2 Elderchop29
3 rsr.havoc
4 S3R Cabby
5 S3R Bdshan
6 CoRe L.Baker
7 T-Sho (fo shizzle)
8 woox
9 S3R BEERcobra
10 [SR] Turbofreak
11 [JDS] K.Tasker
12 S3R ZeroR
13 [dsr] gil
14 JayBee
15 glenh
16 CoRe K.O'Keefe
17 shayne Sheppard
18 [SR] Boothy
19 Sanchez
20 RSR.Celcius
21 A.Jonaitis
22 CSF
23 thorium

Please post in this thread to sign up. Team tags are ok, no need to reserve a number, real names not required, no offensive display names please.

lfs username:
display name:

Last edited by Danke, Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:47. Reason : updated entry list

Dio was the first rock concert I ever went to. He does have a great voice.

Quote from aroX123 :

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I feed that through Google translate thinking it was Norwegian.

Quote from The Moose :

Simple answer.... No. That Hillclimb that's doing the rounds is a really early version (based on 1.02 or very early 1.03 code) Theres no way for it to work in v1.1

Whilst it was nice to see the car and track after all this time i don't bother driving it. I'm happy to wait for the proper updated version in v1.2, It'll be loads better.

Thanks for the info. I'll be waiting for the official version with baited breath.

Quote from legoflamb :

are the addon tracks locked if you don't have a license?

WOW R2P is like the iRacing service except for all sims. Why didn''t I look into this sooner!:doh:

<ot> There's also an LFS league there </ot>

On nkp... I read on virtualr that the Osella/hillclimb stuff is available now as a standalone demo. Is there a way to put the Osella in the full version of nkp and run the regular tracks? Between that car and the Abarth, I might be tempted to buy it.