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Bug In GPL Scoring

2 posts by 2 people · 09 Jan 1999 - 09 Jan 1999

Tonight, IGPS ran it's 2nd race of the season, and I think I found a bug in scoring. If a person disconnects for ANY reason (manually or because connection went bad), they will be shown as finishing in a lower psotion that someone that retires from the race during the same lap, but does not manually disconnect. For instance, I blew the damn motor early on lap 1 and retired, and two other drivers wrecked out well beyond the point at which I retired (but still on the same lap) and manually disconnected right away. The two guys that manually disconnected were shown in the final race standings as finishing lower (8th and 9th)than I did (7th). -- ========================================================= John Simmons - Redneck Techno-Biker (Zerex12) http://www.members.home.net/jms1/index.html John Simmons - Barbarian Diecast Collector http://members.home.net/jsimm/diecast_index.html IGPS Director [link lost in import] If you want to send me email, go to either of the URL's shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================
KCDC 09 Jan 1999#444295
It takes your positions when you crossed the start/finish line last, just like in real racing. It has nothing to do to with where you expired on the track. You must have been ahead of them at the start, when you crossed the line the first time. Kevin Caldwell
Quoted text (13 lines)>Tonight, IGPS ran it's 2nd race of the season, and I think I found a bug >in scoring. >If a person disconnects for ANY reason (manually or because connection >went bad), they will be shown as finishing in a lower psotion that >someone that retires from the race during the same lap, but does not >manually disconnect. >For instance, I blew the damn motor early on lap 1 and retired, and two >other drivers wrecked out well beyond the point at which I retired (but >still on the same lap) and manually disconnected right away. The two >guys that manually disconnected were shown in the final race standings as >finishing lower (8th and 9th)than I did (7th).

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