**Season 3 Round 10** - *The results are in!*

https://piranmoto.co.uk/events/37

A very low turnout this week (as is often the way after an incompatible update) and unfortunately in the second half the numbers dropped too low to continue - the event was called after round 4.

Up until that point there were still thrills and spills though - three drivers were in the running early on, but only one could keep the consistency.

Congratulations for the win go MRc's **TimDC** with 111 points of a possible 120, and 7 wins along the way.

2nd this week was PiranMOTO's **Jam 616**, 16 points short and with 2 wins.

3rd this week is PiranMOTO's **Jon 606** - his first podium this season.

*Join us next week, Friday 20:00UTC, for more!*

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Season 3 Round 9 - The results are in!

https://piranmoto.co.uk/events/36

More records broken this week!

Congratulations for the win go again to RD2, this time taking a record-equalling 12 race wins (shared with Sam) on his way to a record-breaking 194 points out of a possible 210.

This is his 8th DD Event win, yet another new record! We are going to have to call in reinforcements...

2nd this week is OK's Rauno and 3rd is MRc's TimDC - the pair separated only by Rauno's 3 extra points and Tim's 1 extra win.

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In the meantime, drop this little beauty into your LFS/data/dds folder for a thicker smoke that's not too thick. Or there's a few more versions out there too, now you know which filename to search for

**Season 3 Round 8** - *The results are in!*

https://piranmoto.co.uk/events/35

A little low on numbers this week, but that didn't stop the action! Another close-fought battle that lasted until the end and ended with a margin of just 3 points!

Congratulations for the win go to **RD2**, taking 9 race wins on his way to an amazing 181 points of a possible 210. More congratulations are in order: this is also his 7th DD Event win, equalling Sam and sharing the PiranMOTO record for most event wins!

2nd this week is MRc's **TimDC**, missing out by only 3 points and taking 8 race wins on the way there.

3rd place goes to PiranMOTO's own **Jam 616**, taking one of just four wins that TimDC and RD2 left for the rest of us.

*Join us next week, Friday 20:00UTC, for more!*

Quote from Scawen :

I half expect that now that I've expressed a limit, the most important thing in the world will become 245mm width tyres.

On that general theme, I saw a suggestion today in discord that a minimum clutch time be set that matches the auto-clutch time. I don't know about that kind of thing so I can't tell if it's a good idea or not, but if it is a reasonable suggestion and do-able, I may never have to listen to the button clutch argument ever again. On that basis I thought it was worth a mention

Here's all the progress reports we've had: https://www.lfs.net/news/type/-2

There's a fair old amount of detail in there

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**Season 3 Round 7** - *The results are in!*

https://piranmoto.co.uk/events/34

Another fight to the death this week, as our two recent win-streak champions took the battle right to the last race.

Coming out on top this week is MRc's **TimDC**, returning to the top step for the fourth time and taking 8 wins on the way. Is this the first step in a new streak?

2nd this week is OK's **Rauno**, finishing just 8 points behind Tim with 4 wins along the way.

3rd place this week goes to **Sardjon** - his first time on the podium - drawing on points with Jam but taking 3rd place due to his 2 race wins as a tiebreaker.

Special mention for RD2 and MRc's Michal - both were in the running for a podium until having to leave early.

*Join us next week, Friday 20:00UTC, for more!*

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There's also a spare byte in MCI->CompCar (although it is the last one), might it be better in there also/instead for situations where laps aren't being completed?

**Season 3 Round 6** - *The results are in!*

https://piranmoto.co.uk/events/33

Another fantastic meet this week, with just 6 points across the top 5 drivers at the interval!

Two of those drivers managed to pull away in the second half, with the final margin being less than a single win...

This week it's a change at the top as **RD2** collects 7 wins on the way to first place!

2nd this week is OK's **Rauno**, fighting hard until the end and leaving a hefty record of 4 wins in a row for us all to beat.

3rd place this week goes to **Jam 616**, this week by just 3 points, just edging out TimDC and JAH.

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Edit: Apologies, it wasn't an identical insim, I had typo'd an older, bugged version into a config file. I will stand quietly in the corner

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Could well be, that was only around 40mph/65kph in that replay and the gap gets to be about a car length. I hadn't even thought of area detection...

I'm currently playing around with a little insim toy for drifters using MCI data from the host - it draws a trail of chalk lines, each aligned with the car - and it's sometimes falling victim to the optimisations of packet rate. When there's little/no control input change, the time between updates drops to what looks like about 1.5 seconds.

If I'm understanding it correctly, because I'm connecting the insim to DCON (ie, no physics), all the data reported in the MCI packet is a position/heading/speed/time type prediction. Clients can cope with this gap because their predictions come from running the physics with no input change.

I've attached a very quick replay and screenshot of driving in a circle, half the time with no control input change and half with a constant, gentle jiggling of the throttle. (The 'jaggies' are 6 to 8 elements long, at 200ms MCI interval)

I don't know if it's worth having a shorter maximum time between packets than the clients need, for the sake of host MCI data? Or if the DCON prediction could be improved by adding a value for rate of change of heading? Or if it's even worth refining, given that you do have to hold pretty still to trigger it

**Season 3 Round 5** - *The results are in!*

https://piranmoto.co.uk/events/32

An amazing meet this week, with frantic races that were both raced and fought hard in good spirits - *the essence of DD* - ending with a close battle between the top two positions across the last 3 races.

Still on top this week is OK's **Rauno**, taking the PiranMOTO DD win-streak record to *four* - congratulations!

2nd place goes to MRc's **TimDC**, returning to push Rauno hard all the way to the end, claiming 5 wins on the way and missing out by just 6 points.

3rd place this week goes to **Jam 616**, snatching the final step of the podium in the final race by just 2 points.

edit: Special mention for Flying ET and Uber: both being part of the epic 6-way battle for the lead throughout the early part of the event (along with RedBot), and eventually missing out on the podium by less points than a single race win.

*Join us next week, Friday 20:00UTC, for more!*

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If it can be enabled for the rotation that would be great, but I can live without it and I dare say my most common use case (making randomly scattered objects as in the picture) is pretty rare. I should probably insim up something to do that automatically anyway.

There's the slider control for quick rotation too, I just don't like to move my mouse away from placement position if I can help it (I have fast mouse setting, so lining up carefully takes a while).

Thanks for the CTRL-arrow tip, I didn't know that one.

Quote from Scawen :

That was changed at some point in the development version, I think to protect against mistaken key spamming in editors. For example a 'new object' key could create multiple objects in the same location. I see that (at least on my computer) auto-repeat still works in the text entry dialog which is important. Is that the same on your computer? If so, then in what situations do you want auto-repeat but it doesn't work?

Ahh, makes sense. I think the only place I normally use it is in the layout editor, for rotating objects with the dot/comma keys, and raising/lowering them with pgup/pgdown.

I was also trying to hold down the left arrow key in a dialog to move to the start of a word yesterday, but that's not a thing I do often. (I wanted to load a few layouts from my local directory into the server with the editor, then use /axsave to get it into the server's directory. I was copying the name from the load dialog to avoid typos, but needed to delete the environment prefix). I went back to test the dialogs and they do indeed repeat for keys other than the arrows - sorry, I had assumed it was all the keys.

I've tested the live MPR with flushing times and that works as described.

One trivial thing to note is that the replay-viewing instance is reporting 'MPR_BLANK' with each flush when all the cars have left the track and you have clicked the >| button.

More substantially, I've also found that the key-repeat effect for held-down keys is no longer working.

**Season 3 Round 4** - *The results are in!*

https://piranmoto.co.uk/events/30

A festival of the crossover this week produced spectacular carnage in amongst some amazing, hard-fought races.

Still on top for a *third* week in a row is OK's **Rauno**, equalling the current PiranMOTO DD record - congratulations! Can he break the record? He won with a margin of 40 points this week, so it'll take some doing to stop him!

2nd place goes to PM's own **Jam 616**.

3rd place is claimed this week by **RD2**.

*Join us next week, Friday 20:00UTC, for more!*

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