N4 - fools driving on-line...

Hi, I finally have been taking part to some on-line races. In N4 it works, GPL would be more interesting to me, but I cannot make VROC go thru my firewall... :-( But to my complaint: I took part to some Papy-"sponsored" race, and the number of fools was big! After they made some mistakes at the start, they tried to drive onto other drivers as much as they could! And after they had ruined their own cars, they retired. Why do some intentionally try to spoil other's race? I cannot get the idea of the enjoyment those fools get from that! Pehaps they are 7 years old guys? But I cannot even understand, why even those would like that... After the spoil-sports retired it was ok. Well, I was only 16th - a couple of pit stops, 2nd time towed, because someone drove on to me so fast that my car went upside down... Arto

I know what you mean...but here is the way to help that problem. Stick it out and run some races until you get your ratings up a few notches. Then you can join races without the idiot crashers. You can't get your rating up unless you finish well consistently. And from that point just stay away from the 0-10 races. "Arto Wikla" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:wikla.986502099@kanasaari...

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> Hi, > > I finally have been taking part to some on-line races. In N4 > it works, GPL would be more interesting to me, but I cannot > make VROC go thru my firewall... :-( > > But to my complaint: I took part to some Papy-"sponsored" race, > and the number of fools was big! After they made some mistakes > at the start, they tried to drive onto other drivers as much as > they could! And after they had ruined their own cars, they retired. > Why do some intentionally try to spoil other's race? I cannot get > the idea of the enjoyment those fools get from that! Pehaps they > are 7 years old guys? But I cannot even understand, why even those > would like that... > > After the spoil-sports retired it was ok. Well, I was only 16th - > a couple of pit stops, 2nd time towed, because someone drove on to > me so fast that my car went upside down... > > Arto

Hi Arto. Arto Wikla wrote: > Hi, > > I finally have been taking part to some on-line races. In N4 > it works, GPL would be more interesting to me, but I cannot > make VROC go thru my firewall... :-( > If your firewall allows you to set various ports and protecols, you could try these settings: You may be able to reduce a bit but they seem fairly safe. The settings are application specific, i.e. not generally available. Protocol, local port, direction, IP, port. WinVROC.exe: UDP 6969 In/Out Any Any UDP 32766-32786 In/Out Any Any TCP Any Out 216.7.136.5 Any TCP 113 In Any Any TCP Any Out Any 6667 GPL.exe: UDP 6969-6971 In/Out Any Any UDP 32766-32786 In/Out Any Any UDP Any Out Any 6969-6971 I hope you can make sense of this. It has been tested for hosting and driving. Cheers, Jens

"ThreeWide" < > I know what you mean...but here is the way to help that problem. > > Stick it out and run some races until you get your ratings up a fewnotches. > Then you can join races without the idiot crashers. You can't get your > rating up unless you finish well consistently. > > And from that point just stay away from the 0-10 races. Hi Three, I have a question about the ratings. Well these carry over if Papyrus ever patches the sim or will we alllll start over and fresh with zero rankings again? dave henrie

"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kg7z6.680125$[email hidden]...

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> > "ThreeWide" < > > I know what you mean...but here is the way to help that problem. > > > > Stick it out and run some races until you get your ratings up a few > notches. > > Then you can join races without the idiot crashers. You can't get your > > rating up unless you finish well consistently. > > > > And from that point just stay away from the 0-10 races. > Hi Three, I have a question about the ratings. Well these carry over > if Papyrus ever patches the sim or will we alllll start over and fresh

with > zero rankings again? > dave henrie My gut feeling is the rankings on Sierra will not be reset.

There are two thing to be considered; first of all, not everyone hits other cars on purpose when they crash, sometime they just slide down the track, for example, and directly into you. That can only be the case right after the crash, though. I do agree that there are plenty of childish racers there, though. Your best cure is to stay away from the most popular tracks (Daytona, Talladega; they're also boring as you never really drive on the limit), and try to find races in places like Watkins Glen, Bristol and so on. They're more exciting and more technical, and the number of wreckers and railriders is considerably less. -Gregor Arto Wikla wrote:

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> > Hi, > > I finally have been taking part to some on-line races. In N4 > it works, GPL would be more interesting to me, but I cannot > make VROC go thru my firewall... :-( > > But to my complaint: I took part to some Papy-"sponsored" race, > and the number of fools was big! After they made some mistakes > at the start, they tried to drive onto other drivers as much as > they could! And after they had ruined their own cars, they retired. > Why do some intentionally try to spoil other's race? I cannot get > the idea of the enjoyment those fools get from that! Pehaps they > are 7 years old guys? But I cannot even understand, why even those > would like that... > > After the spoil-sports retired it was ok. Well, I was only 16th - > a couple of pit stops, 2nd time towed, because someone drove on to > me so fast that my car went upside down... > > Arto

It happens in real life too. You ever see Jimmy Spencer or Jerry Nadeau drive!! "Arto Wikla" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:wikla.986502099@kanasaari...

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> Hi, > > I finally have been taking part to some on-line races. In N4 > it works, GPL would be more interesting to me, but I cannot > make VROC go thru my firewall... :-( > > But to my complaint: I took part to some Papy-"sponsored" race, > and the number of fools was big! After they made some mistakes > at the start, they tried to drive onto other drivers as much as > they could! And after they had ruined their own cars, they retired. > Why do some intentionally try to spoil other's race? I cannot get > the idea of the enjoyment those fools get from that! Pehaps they > are 7 years old guys? But I cannot even understand, why even those > would like that... > > After the spoil-sports retired it was ok. Well, I was only 16th - > a couple of pit stops, 2nd time towed, because someone drove on to > me so fast that my car went upside down... > > Arto