gpl/online disco/long races/fix?

Being a fan of longer races, I wonder if there should have been a way to re-join a race if you disconnected for some reason. After all, is it possible to avoid this happening 100%? Now, I'm no programming wiz, so I don't know how GPL is built (how uncommon), but what if; If you got disco'd, GPL would just pop back to the race screen, write a log file of sorts describing the vital stats; where you were on the track, how many laps, sort of taking a status "screenshot". Then you would have an option to try and rejoin. If you did, GPL would take this as a shift-R, and place you back where you left off, minus the progress at the server's race, by sending the "log" to the server. This could of course be maxed at say 2-3 rejoins A silly idea? Perhaps...but I hate the idea of running a GP, and everything goes bad when there's 5 laps to go! Well, seemed a reasonable idea at time of writing:) Matt

1.1, wherever it may be, will fix this matt. -- Tim "Calm Down" Wheatley ________________________________________________ Tim Wheatley "Yellow menacing helmet in the mirror" http://start.at/igps_stats IGPS - Ferrari Challenge - UKGPL - Summer Cup Driver http://drive.to/grandprixlegends http://website.lineone.net/~nascar ________________________________________________

actually you might not want cars poping up in the middle of the track, so restarting from the pits may be better, and it could be simulated that you had a mechanical breakdown, better yet if you do discopnnect the AI could limp it back to the pits for you.

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>1.1, wherever it may be, will fix this matt. >-- >Tim "Calm Down" Wheatley >________________________________________________ > Tim Wheatley > "Yellow menacing helmet in the mirror" > http://start.at/igps_stats > IGPS - Ferrari Challenge - UKGPL - Summer Cup Driver > http://drive.to/grandprixlegends > http://website.lineone.net/~nascar >________________________________________________ >> Being a fan of longer races, I wonder if there should have been a way to >> re-join a race if you disconnected for some reason. After all, is it >> possible to avoid this happening 100%? >> Now, I'm no programming wiz, so I don't know how GPL is built (how >> uncommon), but what if; >> If you got disco'd, GPL would just pop back to the race screen, write a >log >> file of sorts describing the vital stats; where you were on the track,

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>> many laps, sort of taking a status "screenshot". Then you would have an >> option to try and rejoin. If you did, GPL would take this as a shift-R, >and >> place you back where you left off, minus the progress at the server's >race, >> by sending the "log" to the server. This could of course be maxed at say >2-3 >> rejoins >> A silly idea? Perhaps...but I hate the idea of running a GP, and >everything >> goes bad when there's 5 laps to go! >> Well, seemed a reasonable idea at time of writing:) >> Matt

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> actually you might not want cars poping up in the middle of the track, so > restarting from the pits may be better, and it could be simulated that you > had a mechanical breakdown, better yet if you do discopnnect the AI could > limp it back to the pits for you. > >1.1, wherever it may be, will fix this matt.

Hope so:) Anyway, I think the "track is not clear" gizmo would allow for this? M

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> >________________________________________________ > >> Being a fan of longer races, I wonder if there should have been a way to > >> re-join a race if you disconnected for some reason. After all, is it > >> possible to avoid this happening 100%? > >> Now, I'm no programming wiz, so I don't know how GPL is built (how > >> uncommon), but what if; > >> If you got disco'd, GPL would just pop back to the race screen, write a > >log > >> file of sorts describing the vital stats; where you were on the track, > how > >> many laps, sort of taking a status "screenshot". Then you would have an > >> option to try and rejoin. If you did, GPL would take this as a shift-R, > >and > >> place you back where you left off, minus the progress at the server's > >race, > >> by sending the "log" to the server. This could of course be maxed at say > >2-3 > >> rejoins > >> A silly idea? Perhaps...but I hate the idea of running a GP, and > >everything > >> goes bad when there's 5 laps to go! > >> Well, seemed a reasonable idea at time of writing:) > >> Matt

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We get that online now... so i don't think it'll matter -- Tim "Calm Down" Wheatley ________________________________________________ Tim Wheatley "Yellow menacing helmet in the mirror" http://start.at/igps_stats IGPS - Ferrari Challenge - UKGPL - Summer Cup Driver http://drive.to/grandprixlegends http://website.lineone.net/~nascar ________________________________________________ > actually you might not want cars poping up in the middle of the track, so > restarting from the pits may be better, and it could be simulated that you > had a mechanical breakdown, better yet if you do discopnnect the AI could > limp it back to the pits for you. > >1.1, wherever it may be, will fix this matt. > >-- > >Tim "Calm Down" Wheatley > >________________________________________________ > > Tim Wheatley > > "Yellow menacing helmet in the mirror" > > http://start.at/igps_stats > > IGPS - Ferrari Challenge - UKGPL - Summer Cup Driver > > http://drive.to/grandprixlegends > > http://website.lineone.net/~nascar > >________________________________________________ > >> Being a fan of longer races, I wonder if there should have been a way to > >> re-join a race if you disconnected for some reason. After all, is it > >> possible to avoid this happening 100%? > >> Now, I'm no programming wiz, so I don't know how GPL is built (how > >> uncommon), but what if; > >> If you got disco'd, GPL would just pop back to the race screen, write a > >log > >> file of sorts describing the vital stats; where you were on the track, > how > >> many laps, sort of taking a status "screenshot". Then you would have an > >> option to try and rejoin. If you did, GPL would take this as a shift-R, > >and > >> place you back where you left off, minus the progress at the server's > >race, > >> by sending the "log" to the server. This could of course be maxed at say > >2-3 > >> rejoins > >> A silly idea? Perhaps...but I hate the idea of running a GP, and > >everything > >> goes bad when there's 5 laps to go! > >> Well, seemed a reasonable idea at time of writing:) > >> Matt