Quote from tongey :

Good to know that yourself and HOT are still going

Welcome Back and see you soon

Hope so my friend!

We try to be little more active going into 2008. Concerning Leagues we'll focus on the TPS City League and our own German Gamers Club Team Challenge which starts at the end of February.

Furthermore, I'm trying hard to get some points on the CTRA servers at the moment ... but unfortunately I always end up in midfield, being the first racer without points ...

Currently I'm dealing with some health issues, but I hope that will be fine soon. So I'm looking forward to talk to you in the near future (and to have some good races with you, too, of course).

Hi folks,

it has been quite silent around Hell on Tyres in the last year. Much of it had to do with the private lifes of our members, another reason was that some of us simply became bored playing LFS with the intensity we have been playing it the year before.

Now, with the new patch and the new physics out, our motivation for the game has also increased.

Going into our 3rd year of existence (2nd birthday was in November), we also have a new member since today: °HoT harthahn (LFSW "harthahn").

He has been a long time member of the German Gamers Club, which is the clan-like organisation that provides us (and other teams) with infrastructure like servers and TeamSpeak. Harthahn is active in some leagues, mainly the OLFSL and the TPS City League, so some of you might know him already.

We're looking forward to another active and successful year 2008 for our team. So see you on track!

Best regards,

°HoT HorsePower

Wow, I like it and now I'm really keen on LFS again!

Well, unfortunately I will spend christmas and the week after it with my family and without my PC (I'm living a few hundreds of kilometers away from my parents) ...

Thank you for your ideas.

I know this announcement came a bit short before the date, but since we have also teams from other racing games in our club, we needed to get it done yesterday (since they had a racing event right then).

However, I didn't really expect to get our 3 servers full, since there are so few licensed racers out there on a normal evening and the server capacity is quite big after that last patch.

All-in-all, we indeed got one server filled properly and the machine performed well. From our admins I know that they love the fact, that the LFS game servers are so well programmed.

So thank you all who joined!

Regards,

HorsePower.

PS: I guess currently we could have one LFS server for each licensed racer every evening. It's amazing how the number of game server increased ...

PPS: Sure we are interested in running interesting combos. Suggestions are always welcome. Normally, we run the OLFSL combo and another combo which we have as internal event in our club. The default for our servers is FOX @ Blackwood.

I think, the main problem is, that racers (understandably) join servers that are already populated. So if you want your own server to get used, you would have to join it and wait for someone to come over. I think we have to focus more on that in our club in the near future.

As I feared, no resonance.

Well, if anyone reads this post, join our servers for a moment if you like.

The combos are:

GGC...Event: FOX @ BL1 (7 laps, no pit)
GGC...Sprint: FZR @ AS7R (Aston north rev, 4 laps, no pit)
GGC...Race: XFR @ Westhill (5 laps, no pit)

Kind regards,

HorsePower

Hi community,

I post this here because I need the attention of as much people as I can get. It also is no hosting problem, so I think it's ok to not post it in the subforum for hosts. If not, moderators can move this thread ...

As some of you out there might know, my team (Hell on Tyres, °HoT) and a few others are part of the "German Gamers Club" (GGC), where we have currently 3 LFS-Servers running.

However, these servers recently moved to a new machine (along with game servers of other racing games which I don't play) and we would like to know about the performance of the new machine/provider.

Therefore we plan a server stress test tomorrow, 23rd of October 2007 at 18 UTC (20 Uhr / 8 p.m. german time).

I and the whole German Gamers Club would really appreciate any help from you people out there. Just come along, join our servers and drive a few laps (or as long as you like!). If enough people join within a short time frame, the test won't take long.

The names of the servers are:

GGC...Event
GGC...Sprint
GGC...Race

You can post combo's you would like to drive in this thread and I will set the servers up as best as I can (depends on how many combos will be mentioned how often ...).

I thank all of you that will support this test in advance!

Kind regards,

°HoT HorsePower

There are a few servers with X, but no official download or news as far as i can see ...

I took a look at LFSWorld recently and saw the following:

300 S2 Racers Online and >600 S2 Hosts .

600 Demo Racers online, but approx. 300 Demo Hosts.

That's basically it, I guess. Running an own Server is pretty easy and affordable nowadays. We have to make the Demo Racers BUY the S2 License, maybe then S2 servers will be not so empty anymore.

Well, I can only speak for myself, but for me the OLFSL website most of the time takes a few seconds to appear at all. Before that, I see only a blank screen. I guess it's the DNS querying that takes such a long time.

At home I have a 6MBit DSL and at my working place an even faster connection to the internet. Doesn't change anything.

Why is it that the OLFSL website is always so awfully slow to be loaded?

And every now and then it's even offline ...

A totally different question:

Is there any hint anywhere at the moment on the development progress?
Usually there has been an April update the last two yearsm right? Any chance to get one this year, too?

I just found nothing in this forum at first glance, and I'm quite inactive nowadays. A patch (or the hope for a new patch) could get me back maybe ...

I miss this test patch subforum ...

I only watched very little of the stream yesterday, but it all works fine. LFS-Sound was ok, also the music I guess. But - without wanting to hurt the commentator - commentary was a bit off.

Maybe not from the content (I didn't view/hear long enough), but more the style. A little more enthusiasm would be great. (Well, but I can understand that after 3 races one isn't that much enthusiastic about commenting. And I clearly couldn't have done it better.)

But apart from that minor issue, russraine, great job!

Nice idea! I think my little daughter (2 years old) will give it a shot, even if I have to press the pedals for her. She loves my DFP, but maybe isn't interested in driving in a straight line ...

I still (again?) notice the usual starting lag which I thought was fixed/improved with some of the Uxx patches. Now, in V, they look the same as in U (at least for me).

Also I have the impression that there are more laggy servers around (higher connection bars). Don't know if this is due to some connected players with bad connection or not.

Im quite satisfied with the sound of the FOX and the street cars (don't know how else to call them). I especially like the damping of sounds from outside the car (in cars with a roof).

The GTRs, FO8 and BF1 still need lots of improvement IMO. I was especially shocked by the BF1 sound. From stinging bee to toothless tiger.

But clearly the sounds have been developed in the right direction!

Thanks! You don't need to be a freakin expert in PHP to use this. But knowing a little bit, clearly helps.

Just take a look at the examples, maybe you can learn from them.

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A little side remark in general:

From the german LFS Forum I just learned that it is in this version of the tracker VERY IMPORTANT to have the LFSW Nickname in the Variable $TrackList in lowercase letters.

So in the file includes/tracker.php it should be something like

Ok. In fact, your SDK came out before I started to work on my project.

My initial intention was only to create an online status of servers and team mates. And because I always like to learn something I decided to figure that LFS World stuff out for my own instead of using your SDK.

Looking back this maybe was a mistake, but I at least understood some things concerning PHP and the LFS World pubstat access.

Anyway, it should be an easy task to implement your SDK and I will include that on top of my TODO list. So I will keep an eye on your progress and maybe I will find some time after X-mas to do something on the code.

Together, we'll rock.

I know this should be posted in the improvement suggestions thread, but I think it is so easy to implement, that it could be done in 3 minutes. And I really would like to have this in the next test patch.

Whenever I /unban someone (or /ban while the racer is absent), could there be a system message like "racerxyz successfully (un)banned" or "no racerxyz in ban list" if the racer is already unbanned?

Thx.

We usually run at least 1 FOX server for OWRL practice. This week we have FOX @ SO Long on "GGC...Team Server 1".

You frighten me!

Quote from Dygear :

HorsePower
See what you started HorsePower? I just have to one up ya man, and this is the best way I know how, to out program ya. BTW, I still think your program is slick, I would love to run it, but I can't bring myself to. I might find something in your code that makes me want to use it. And I'd really like this project to be from my brain (and filur's brain) to your computer.

Hehe. I really would like if you bring your work to the next level.

And if you have a really weak moment, and decide to implement my tracker into your SDK, I would love it.

Hi there,

I wrote a little package of PHP scripts allowing you to

• show the online status of mates and friends
  
• show the online status of servers
  
• show a list of HLs and PBs of your mates for whatever track/cars combo you like (I call it a "tracker").

Take a look at our web site to see what I mean. On the right hand side you can see a list of online mates and on which server they race. Just play around with the tracker and if you like it, you can download the 150kB package right here.

My main motivation was an independent server status script and the team tracker.

Although my scripts are able to query LFS World for host lists, WRs, PBs and HLs, they are not supposed to be in competition with dygears and filurs LFSWorldSDK, which I think is much more professional. In fact, I have to thank them for some helpful discussions!

To be honest, I didn't really care about nice code, effective programming or compatibility. I'm not the ultimate PHP expert and I mainly made this for my team.

However, it took a lot of work to get this done and so I thought maybe some others want to take a look at my stuff. It should run fine with PHP4, I guess.

I really spent some time writing 20 pages of documentation, explaining the installation process in some detail and also how I realised certain things. With this you should also be able to write your own stuff based on my work.

If you encounter any bugs, please post them here or PM me and I will try to fix them as soon as I can. Unfortunately I haven't the time to do big changes in the near future, even if there are already some things which I wish to have implemented ...

So have fun this.

Regards,

°HoT HorsePower

Thanks very much!

What about the skins of my team?
(Well, I have to like them, since I made them )

You can see them over here.