GPLrank/RTrank down?

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

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 :)

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:03:05 -0000, "Jim Seamus" <[email hidden]> wrote: >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

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" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>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 > >

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:07:53 GMT, Maxx <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >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

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

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

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:07:34 GMT, James Precott <[email hidden]> wrote: > 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? ;-) > comparisons, filters everywhere, downloadable replays, and so much more. 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. > 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. 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 -- Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) Ever wondered what's wrong with the world? http://bnetwork.com/ PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

> <Ouch> We like healthy competition, don't we now? ;-) Sorry Uwe. I should have stressed the "no disrespect" part. I truly mean that. I applaud your efforts and your dedication to sim racing. > Downloadable replays? Now how does that work, I wonder? 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. > 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-( 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

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:34:33 +0000, Ian Riches <[email hidden]> wrote: 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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>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)