--David Cook
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> Arne Martin
And since Papy (hopefully that is) is patching the patch, I would like
to see this fixed.
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:45:50 +0200, Arne Martin
>> > That is the case. In '67 they had to put the numbers on the board
>> and hold
>> > them up when the driver came around the next time. You get used to
>> it.
>> > I am having a little difficulty though, with some of the new lap
>> board
>> > placements in GPL 1.1. It seems as though some of them are in the
>> toughest
>> > places to look :/
>> The only one that changed in 1.1 was at the Nurburgring, which was
>> moved to the straight that is parallel to the front straight. This
>> gives your pit board guy time to stuff all the letters/numbers on the
>> board for the current lap.
>> Randy
>I was in some of Alison's races last night (and so were you in fact :-),
>anyway in many of the races my pitboard guy would find the strangest
>places to line himself up, i think he were playing practical jokes on
>me! :-)
>First race (monza) was ok.
>Second race at Mosport he decided to position himself just out of the
>last turn instead of at the end of the s/f straight. No big deal as I
>still got to read my pitboard on the s/f straight.
>Third race however (silverstone) he started really having fun with me!
>This time he figured an appropriate place to show the pitboard was in
>the middle of Abbey! As you might image it was quite hard to both figure
>out what he was trying to tell me and make the corner! At least I could
>blame him when I caused a huge pileup there on lap 1 :-) (of course he
>didn't show the board on lap 1, but he was there so I blame him :-)
>Fourth race (Spa) and he went totally mental when he picked the second
>most ridiculous place on the track to position himself (on the entry to
>Malmedy). Needless to say I never both made the corner and figured out
>what the board said!
>Figuring I had had enough of the guy and it was about time to fire him I
>exited gpl and re-entered in hope of getting a more sensible
>pitboardguy, and for the next race at Zandvoort he was back to where he
>should be (although this time I was discoed).
>Now thinking this had been a one time problem, a little later in the
>evening I tried to join a Monza race (again at Alison's). But now my
>very funny board guy was back this time positioning himself in the
>middle of Ascari! And I wo had thought I had fired the guy!
>Ok so obviously there's some problem here... Did experience this problem
>once some months ago in 1.0 (board at Ascari at Monza that time), but it
>was only for that one race and never happened again until tonight when
>it happened 4 times!
>BTW I'm still using the original track.ini for all the tracks in
>question.
>--
>Arne Martin
The 1.1. readme states that the green button problem has been fixed now.
Maybe the setup/pitboard effect is still there in some form.
Bart Westra
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:45:50 +0200, Arne Martin
> >> > That is the case. In '67 they had to put the numbers on the board
> >> and hold
> >> > them up when the driver came around the next time. You get used to
> >> it.
> >> > I am having a little difficulty though, with some of the new lap
> >> board
> >> > placements in GPL 1.1. It seems as though some of them are in the
> >> toughest
> >> > places to look :/
> >> The only one that changed in 1.1 was at the Nurburgring, which was
> >> moved to the straight that is parallel to the front straight. This
> >> gives your pit board guy time to stuff all the letters/numbers on the
> >> board for the current lap.
> >> Randy
> >I was in some of Alison's races last night (and so were you in fact :-),
> >anyway in many of the races my pitboard guy would find the strangest
> >places to line himself up, i think he were playing practical jokes on
> >me! :-)
> >First race (monza) was ok.
> >Second race at Mosport he decided to position himself just out of the
> >last turn instead of at the end of the s/f straight. No big deal as I
> >still got to read my pitboard on the s/f straight.
> >Third race however (silverstone) he started really having fun with me!
> >This time he figured an appropriate place to show the pitboard was in
> >the middle of Abbey! As you might image it was quite hard to both figure
> >out what he was trying to tell me and make the corner! At least I could
> >blame him when I caused a huge pileup there on lap 1 :-) (of course he
> >didn't show the board on lap 1, but he was there so I blame him :-)
> >Fourth race (Spa) and he went totally mental when he picked the second
> >most ridiculous place on the track to position himself (on the entry to
> >Malmedy). Needless to say I never both made the corner and figured out
> >what the board said!
> >Figuring I had had enough of the guy and it was about time to fire him I
> >exited gpl and re-entered in hope of getting a more sensible
> >pitboardguy, and for the next race at Zandvoort he was back to where he
> >should be (although this time I was discoed).
> >Now thinking this had been a one time problem, a little later in the
> >evening I tried to join a Monza race (again at Alison's). But now my
> >very funny board guy was back this time positioning himself in the
> >middle of Ascari! And I wo had thought I had fired the guy!
> >Ok so obviously there's some problem here... Did experience this problem
> >once some months ago in 1.0 (board at Ascari at Monza that time), but it
> >was only for that one race and never happened again until tonight when
> >it happened 4 times!
> >BTW I'm still using the original track.ini for all the tracks in
> >question.
> >--
> >Arne Martin
> To email me remove the "u"s
Once online my boardguy positioned himself at the entrance to Curva
Grande...IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRACK!!!!!!! So I basically ran through him
every lap...though the first time I saw him I mistook him for a stalled car,
and, well... Considering the speeds you get at the end of the front
straight at Monza I hardly had time to read the sign before (if you could
really hit the people in GPL) he would become a large red spot on the
pavement (carmageddon anyone?).
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"I read dead Russian authors volumes at a time
I write everything down except what's on my mind
'Cause my greatest fear is the sucking sound
And then I know I'll never get back out"
-'Narcolepsy', Third Eye Blind
Your comedian pit board guy (and his sidekick the pit stall guy) have
been fired for their shenanigans. You're likely to find them in a
comedy club near you.
In other words, it's a bug that started showing up with comforting
regularity when people started running dedicated race servers. I
believe I've found it and killed it.
Randy
> Randy
SteveG
> Your comedian pit board guy (and his sidekick the pit stall guy) have
> been fired for their shenanigans. You're likely to find them in a
> comedy club near you.
> In other words, it's a bug that started showing up with comforting
> regularity when people started running dedicated race servers. I
> believe I've found it and killed it.
> Randy
