Quote from Dygear :

That is one query to LFSWorld tho via `?action=hosts`.

I know... mUtil in my opinion also does just one query (it did not wrote it but I am pretty convinced it only does that 1 request).


@Victor:
If we create a small application that does a ?action=hosts request every ten minutes and cache the result of this query on our own server and let mUtil talk to our cached page that would be ok I presume ? Or do you get banned from pubstat when sending 1 requests 24/7 every 10 minutes ?

Quote from Victor :

I don't wanna sound cranky, but what do you think?

I thought it was no problem to do this. Cause in the past I had the following conversation with you

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1) if someone wants to give his identkey to everybody - it's stupid, but hey if he really wants to, be my guest.

Why ? If it is a premium account you pay for others but with other accounts I don't see the problem?

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he just needs to code an input box where people can enter their own idk. Done.

What about all those league-websites that have a server-status thing on their mainpage showing who is online at their server at the moment ? Or which drivers of the league are online on which server ? That is also used by lot's of different people and I never have seen such a website ask me for my ident key.

I know it is the webserver doing those requests but infact it is just the same. Multiple users using the same ident key. But if you use a web application it is allowed, and otherwise it is not allowed ?

Quote from Viperius :

Quick question regarding the identification keys. I'm updating the LFS module for mUtil ( http://users.pandora.be/viperius/mUtil/ ) as it didn't work anymore with the 1.3 update. It now works again (not yet deployed); however i'm using my own ident key. Is this a problem seeing multiple people will use this program to retrieve the hosts info? The ident key should be coupled to an application instead of a user account in this case. I could off course require the users to enter their own ident key, however that option isn't very user friendly imo.

Since I am a big fan of mUtil and waiting for ages for this patch (I even created my own buddy thing for LFS for private use).
The main reason Viperius hasn't released an update is because his questions didn't get answered.

The questions are:
- Is it allowed to create an application using a fixed ident key (in this case Viperius personal key). If this application gets used by hundreds of people will the key get banned for 'excessive use' ?

- Is the non-premium delay based on the ident key or the IP ? If hundreds of people use the same key will they get extremely long waiting times because the key is being used by others. Or is it just the same as before with no key when the delay was based on IP ?

Today we released V1.0 of 'Live for Stats'.

The php website lfs-report also had lot's of bugfixes and you can also download the source of lfs-report now.


We had debug sessions every almost every night since the initial release and we tested a lot so it should be stable.

We are very pleased with the 'ease of use' of our solution. Now you can have stats of a race within seconds after the race finishes

Today we released V1.0 of 'Live for Stats'.

The php website lfs-report also had lot's of bugfixes and you can also download the source of lfs-report now.


We had debug sessions every almost every night since the initial release and we tested a lot so it should be stable.

We are very pleased with the 'ease of use' of our solution. Now you can have stats of a race within seconds after the race finishes

We are sorry but the first version was pretty buggy. So yesterday we did a major debugging session and fixed lot's of bugs.

Now everything is looking good. So please go grab the latest version at http://www.liveforstats.de.vu/



An example report: http://tinyurl.com/o9gjr

Hi all,

Today CLRS530 and I released a tool to generate stats about lfs-races.

CLRS530 created the 'Live for stats' part (the program that generates result files) while I created the 'LFS-report' part (a website that converts the result files into a webpage).

Live for stats can be found here : http://liveforstats.de.vu/
LFS-Report can be found here http://www.vrl-simracing.be/lfsreport/

The advantage of our solution is that the stats are produced while you race (no need to play the replay after the race)

If you find any problems please let us know so we can fix those.

greetings,
Knarf

Last edited by Knarf, Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:13.

Hi all,

Today CLRS530 and I released the tool.

CLRS530 created the 'Live for stats' part (the program that generates result files) while I created the 'LFS-report' part (a website that converts the result files into a webpage).

Live for stats can be found here : http://liveforstats.de.vu/
LFS-Report can be found here http://www.vrl-simracing.be/lfsreport/

If you find any problems please let us know so we can fix those.

greetings,
Knarf

Quote from ORION :

download patch U20 from the test patch section and the cheaters are gone

The cheat also works in U20 I have read on this forum ?

Are their any tools available to check a replay file if someone was cheating ?


Maybe the cheat-creator can create an anti-cheat tool ? At least he did a good job by making this known to the world. That's the best way to counter cheats.

I was a GPL player and when I switched to LFS I was instantly pretty fast at it...

Now I play rF and LFS and after 2 laps you are adjusted to the different feeling.

Good LFS players will be good at rF (after a little practice) and visa versa.

I have a question about the hightlight page.
Is there a possibility to add timestamps to it ?

The reason is that I created a java program that calls pubstat every x minutes to fetch pb's of my league members. It then generates a php file (with some extra stuff to show in realtime if someone is online, and where...) and uploads it.
I recently added some stuff fetched from the highlights page (under the header "Laatst gereden pb's"). But it would be nice to also have a date when those pb's where driven.

http://www.vrl-simracing.be/lfs_pb/results.php

Quote from MatthewStyles :

Yes LFS graphics better

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Maybe you should test rFactor on some decent hardware. rFactor graphics are a LOT better then LFS when crancked up to ultra or high detail (on lower detail rFactor graphics go down very fast and will idd look horrible, but on good hardware it is amazing).

But this doesn't stop me from favoring LFS for racing. Although I also think rFactor is pretty good.

http://users.pandora.be/viperius/mUtil

Even gives a popup whenever a buddie goes online to a server in LFS...