rec.autos.simulators

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>Tim "Calm Down" Wheatley
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>                                  Tim Wheatley
>                "Yellow menacing helmet in the mirror"
>                           http://start.at/igps_stats
>     IGPS - Ferrari Challenge - UKGPL - Summer Cup Driver
>                      http://drive.to/grandprixlegends

>                  http://website.lineone.net/~nascar
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>> Being a fan of longer races, I wonder if there should have been a way to
>> re-join a race if you disconnected for some reason. After all, is it
>> possible to avoid this happening 100%?
>> Now, I'm no programming wiz, so I don't know how GPL is built (how
>> uncommon), but what if;
>> If you got disco'd, GPL would just pop back to the race screen, write a
>log
>> file of sorts describing the vital stats; where you were on the track,
how
>> many laps, sort of taking a status "screenshot". Then you would have an
>> option to try and rejoin. If you did, GPL would take this as a shift-R,
>and
>> place you back where you left off, minus the progress at the server's
>race,
>> by sending the "log" to the server. This could of course be maxed at say
>2-3
>> rejoins

>> A silly idea? Perhaps...but I hate the idea of running a GP, and
>everything
>> goes bad when there's 5 laps to go!

>> Well, seemed a reasonable idea at time of writing:)

>> Matt

> >1.1, wherever it may be, will fix this matt.

> >________________________________________________


> >> Being a fan of longer races, I wonder if there should have been a way to
> >> re-join a race if you disconnected for some reason. After all, is it
> >> possible to avoid this happening 100%?
> >> Now, I'm no programming wiz, so I don't know how GPL is built (how
> >> uncommon), but what if;
> >> If you got disco'd, GPL would just pop back to the race screen, write a
> >log
> >> file of sorts describing the vital stats; where you were on the track,
> how
> >> many laps, sort of taking a status "screenshot". Then you would have an
> >> option to try and rejoin. If you did, GPL would take this as a shift-R,
> >and
> >> place you back where you left off, minus the progress at the server's
> >race,
> >> by sending the "log" to the server. This could of course be maxed at say
> >2-3
> >> rejoins

> >> A silly idea? Perhaps...but I hate the idea of running a GP, and
> >everything
> >> goes bad when there's 5 laps to go!

> >> Well, seemed a reasonable idea at time of writing:)

> >> Matt

> >1.1, wherever it may be, will fix this matt.

> >--
> >Tim "Calm Down" Wheatley
> >________________________________________________

> >                                  Tim Wheatley
> >                "Yellow menacing helmet in the mirror"
> >                           http://start.at/igps_stats
> >     IGPS - Ferrari Challenge - UKGPL - Summer Cup Driver
> >                      http://drive.to/grandprixlegends

> >                  http://website.lineone.net/~nascar
> >________________________________________________


> >> Being a fan of longer races, I wonder if there should have been a way
to
> >> re-join a race if you disconnected for some reason. After all, is it
> >> possible to avoid this happening 100%?
> >> Now, I'm no programming wiz, so I don't know how GPL is built (how
> >> uncommon), but what if;
> >> If you got disco'd, GPL would just pop back to the race screen, write a
> >log
> >> file of sorts describing the vital stats; where you were on the track,
> how
> >> many laps, sort of taking a status "screenshot". Then you would have an
> >> option to try and rejoin. If you did, GPL would take this as a shift-R,
> >and
> >> place you back where you left off, minus the progress at the server's
> >race,
> >> by sending the "log" to the server. This could of course be maxed at
say
> >2-3
> >> rejoins

> >> A silly idea? Perhaps...but I hate the idea of running a GP, and
> >everything
> >> goes bad when there's 5 laps to go!

> >> Well, seemed a reasonable idea at time of writing:)

> >> Matt