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GPLrank/RTrank down?

Jim Seamu

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by Jim Seamu » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:03:05

I can't get through to http://www.racesimcentral.net/
just me or is there a problem with the site? Any news on when it might be
fixed?

Cheers
Jim

GMpartsgu

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by GMpartsgu » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:17:33

thats creepy, i was just gonna ask the same thing.. havent been there in a
month, so i wanted to see if they moved or something.
 Guess the site went outside for a cigarette :)
Ian Riche

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by Ian Riche » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:14:49

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:03:05 -0000, "Jim Seamus"


>I can't get through to http://gplrank.schuerkamp.de/rt_index.html - is it
>just me or is there a problem with the site? Any news on when it might be
>fixed?

>Cheers
>Jim

I can't get in either. A tracert is  timing out at 206.171.134.138 for
me and going no further.......

Ian
--
Ian Riches
GPL Rank +2.36 Monsters of GPL +296.53

Maxx

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by Maxx » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:07:53

This was posted by Brian Wong on the GPL Forum :

Well, I can't get to it either. Unfortunately, this is going to be a
long outage, because I am 5900 miles from the server... Unless
something magical happens (I cannot tell what the problem is from
here), we'll be down until at least Friday afternoon Pacific time.

I would guess that it's a PacBell problem, because I cannot get to any
of my servers (there are three, but only one is GPLrank) so the link
is probably the problem, not the server itself.

Maxx

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:03:05 -0000, "Jim Seamus"


>I can't get through to http://gplrank.schuerkamp.de/rt_index.html - is it
>just me or is there a problem with the site? Any news on when it might be
>fixed?

>Cheers
>Jim

Ian Riche

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by Ian Riche » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:34:33



Oh well.  Typical.  I improve my GPL rank for the first time in months
and I can't update it :-)

BTW, thanks Maxx, I've been silently reading your comments and they
are the main reason for my (admittedly small) improvement.  I've
shaved a bit off my Mosport time, and also as near as dammit matched
my Lotus time at Zandvoort with the Ferrari.

Ian
(now at an "unofficial" GPLRank of +2.17)
--
Ian Riches
GPL Rank +2.36 Monsters of GPL +296.53

James Precot

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by James Precot » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:07:34

If you are looking for an alternative for Rally Trophy you should really
check out http://rt.relaygames.com I ran across a mention of it in the
official RT bulletin boards. It kicks ass over RT Rank in every way although
no disrespect to the RT Rank guys is intended. Cheat checking, graphical
comparisons, filters everywhere, downloadable replays, and so much more.
Probably the coolest rally sim site I have ever seen and it appears they
have been around a while since I see a lot of the F1 crowd over at their
sites for f1rc and f12001. And its up atm.

Regards
James

Uwe Schuerkam

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by Uwe Schuerkam » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:30:59


> If you are looking for an alternative for Rally Trophy you should really
> check out http://rt.relaygames.com I ran across a mention of it in the
> official RT bulletin boards. It kicks ass over RT Rank in every way although
> no disrespect to the RT Rank guys is intended. Cheat checking, graphical

<Ouch> We like healthy competition, don't we now? ;-)

Downloadable replays? Now how does that work, I wonder? Don't
forget RTrank has only been up for a couple of weeks, and I
don't earn a living from it, so it's basically just an
evening's worth of hacks. This might and probably will improve
in the future.

Yeah, sorry about another major outage in what, two months?
Let's hope Brian gets home safe and sound, and maybe the
problem will take care of its own if it really is a pacbell
problem. They have bitten us before. 8-(

Cheers,

Uwe

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James Precot

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by James Precot » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:43:50

Sorry Uwe. I should have stressed the "no disrespect" part. I truly mean
that. I applaud your efforts and your dedication to sim racing.

I don't have the game yet so I can't be sure how they do it. Although I
ordered the game as soon as I saw that site. I was sitting on the fence
waiting for reviews and feedback in here to determine if I would buy it. As
soon as I saw what those guys did I was sold. Apparently from reading the
guides and such you download their software and launch the game through
that. Then somehow it monitors for cheating and captures your replays and
stage times. After that you can upload the files to the site through that
software and your replay is posted with your stage records and you are
placed in the rankings. Very hands free and super slick. Your stage times
are viewable in graphs and comparisons with filters and such. I am still
finding hidden features after 4 days of fiddling around.

I tried to download some replays of russia stage 1 hoping that I might be
able to run it in the demo. They have a system that you select the replays
you want and it makes a single download file that extracts to their replay
manager. Took me a while to figure out where they went as they don't tell
you and stumbled upon their replay software by accident. I opened that up
and the replays were there waiting for me to insert them into the game. For
some reason though you can only have 1 replay inserted. It keeps overwriting
the one I just inserted. Maybe a bug or something.

Sorry to hear about your outage my friend. I hope you didn't take my
comments as any disrespect. These guys just took the ranking thing to
another level and I can't wait to embarrass myself in their.

Regards
James

Maxx

GPLrank/RTrank down?

by Maxx » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:28:21



Ian,

Very glad to be of help, you are getting VERY close now,
I look forward to reading your YANGA post :-)

Maxx


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