New Online Racing Connection from Eagle Woman and The APEX!

Many people have asked where to find other people with whom they can race in Grand Prix Legends on the Internet. Until now, would-be online GPL racers have been connecting through email, ICQ, IRC, and Kali. While this has led to some great racing, it often can be hard to figure out where the action is. Also, would-be hosts must notify potential clients of their IP addresses, which then must be written down and typed into GPL's multiplayer screen. However, soon there will be a single central facility for finding other GPL online racers and joining them in Internet-based races. This facility will automate the exchange of IP addresses and launching GPL. This facility is called the Virtual Racers' Online Connection, or VROC (pronounced VEE-rock) for short. VROC is a Web site which will allow you to view a list of GPL races being hosted, and to join one of those races or to host a race yourself. VROC is somewhat similar in functionality to services like TEN and The Zone, but is Web-based and devoted entirely to GPL. VROC is a co-operative development effort between me (Eagle Woman) and John O'Keefe of The APEX, and is currently under development. We hope to begin testing within the next few days, and will go public with the site as soon as we feel it's ready. Keep an eye on Eagle Woman's Grand Prix Legends and The APEX for future announcements about this exciting project: http://www.simracing.com/~alison/gpl/ [address restored] http://gpl/gamestats.com/ Please watch these sites for news about VROC. We appreciate email, but keep in mind that answering requests for status of the development process will slow down the development of the site and delay its release. See you at the track - soon! Alison Remove the spam blocker NOSPAM to email me. [link lost in import: /,ultranet.com/~alison]

Fantastic!!! I have been on the IRC at #GPL every night for the last week looking for people. While there haven't been too many people showing up, but I have been able to do some extensive testing on the TCP/IP racing with some of people, and this is what I have found: 1. READ ALISON'S ONLINE FAQ, and actually DO WHAT IT SAYS. I have tried using the defaut internet connect setting ( wish compression and error correction) and tried the correct settings and it makes a BIG difference. There are many many more cases of warp and screen flash with wrong settings. 2. If you don't have the core.ini file in your GPL directory and the host does, I found that I was kicked out because of "Client / Server Incompatible Bandwith Setting". I raced with 8 other guys Friday night and it was AMAZING. The host had a Cable Modem and the connection was beautiful. ( I was even on a lowly 28.8 !) I also raced last night with a guy that had 56.6 and we were able to have 3 cars on the track for a while, but it was a bit more jumpy. I can't wait for a dedicated GPL meeting spot, it is going to be so wonderful. I have a feeling that the online GPL racing will be MUCH more popular that Papyrus expected. I hope this is finally a standard feature in all of their games. Tony Homeskillet on #GPL

Which IRC server is #GPL on? Fantastic!!! I have been on the IRC at #GPL every night for the last week looking for people. While there haven't been too many people showing up, but I have been able to do some extensive testing on the TCP/IP racing with some of people, and this is what I have found: Tony Homeskillet on #GPL

Great! Thanks for the info! <Snip> Err.. I think it's: [link lost in import] *** girl, forcing people using YOUR site. :-) Remco

Try IRCnet Thompa >Which IRC server is #GPL on? > Fantastic!!! > I have been on the IRC at #GPL every night for the last week looking for > people. While there haven't been too many people showing up, but I have > been able to do some extensive testing on the TCP/IP racing with some of > people, and this is what I have found: > Tony > Homeskillet on #GPL

> Which IRC server is #GPL on? > Fantastic!!! I am on the Undernet and sometimes Dalnet servers. Tony

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>> Which IRC server is #GPL on? >> Fantastic!!! >I am on the Undernet and sometimes Dalnet servers. >Tony

Me too :-)

Oops! Too bad I didn't post this before posting an update with the same error! Aaugh! Alison

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>Great! Thanks for the info! ><Snip> >> http://www.simracing.com/~alison/gpl/ [address restored] >> http://gpl/gamestats.com/ >Err.. I think it's: >[link lost in import] >*** girl, forcing people using YOUR site. :-) >Remco

Alison Remove the spam blocker NOSPAM to email me. [link lost in import: /,ultranet.com/~alison]

The Virtual Racers' Online Connection, a new facility designed to enable Grand Prix Legends racers to locate one another for hosting and joining Inernet-based Grand Prix Legends races, has entered alpha testing. Basic functionality has been confirmed, and additional functionality is under development. A short beta test period is planned, and if all goes well, VROC will be made available to the public very soon. Keep an eye on Eagle Woman's Grand Prix Legends and The APEX for future announcements about this exciting project: http://nh.ultranet.com/~alison/gpl/ http://gpl/gamestats.com/ Please watch these sites for news about VROC. We appreciate email, but keep in mind that answering requests for status of the development process will slow down the development of the site and delay its release. VROC has entered alpha testing! Basic functionality has been confirmed, and additional functionality is under development. A short beta test period is planned, and if all goes well, VROC will be made available to the public very soon. Keep an eye on Eagle Woman's Grand Prix Legends and The APEX for future announcements about this exciting project: http://nh.ultranet.com/~alison/gpl/ http://gpl/gamestats.com/ Please watch these sites for news about VROC. We appreciate email, but keep in mind that answering requests for status of the development process will slow down the development of the site and delay its release. Alison

Oops! I got the URL for The APEX wrong. It should be: http://gpl.gamestats.com/ Alison Remove the spam blocker NOSPAM to email me. http://www.nh,ultranet.com/~alison

Cheers Alison. See ya out there soon. Mark