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I was host to a race GPL league race yesterday. One of our rules is that if a driver uses the Shift-R option, he must pull in to the pits and make a complete stop. Then exit the pits and continue the race. (a stop-n-go penalty). One of our drivers did have to Shift-R and did pull in to the pits to take his penilty. However, just as he was about to "go", he either disconneded manuely, or was booted from the server. As it stands now with GPL, the only way to tell if someone manuelly disconnected or if he lost the connection is to ask the individuel. My suggestion would be.. once the driver presses the excape key-enter key sequence, this sequence would send a charector to the server. If the driver lost connection another way such as an internet spike or such, the excape/enter sequence charector would not be sent. At the end of the race when the official race resaults were being tallied by the server, If the driver sent that charector then the results would reflect that he manuely disconnected (Car#, DNF, Lap#). If the driver didn't send that charector, then the resaults would reflect that he was disconnected because of an internet anomily (Car#, Boot, Lap#). It would be a big help to some of us to know if people are booting them selves or getting booted by the internet without having to ask the drivers or looking at the replay. -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

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> I was host to a race GPL league race yesterday. One of our rules is > that if a driver uses the Shift-R option, he must pull in to the pits > and make a complete stop. Then exit the pits and continue the race. (a > stop-n-go penalty). One of our drivers did have to Shift-R and did pull > in to the pits to take his penilty. However, just as he was about to > "go", he either disconneded manuely, or was booted from the server. As > it stands now with GPL, the only way to tell if someone manuelly > disconnected or if he lost the connection is to ask the individuel. > My suggestion would be.. once the driver presses the excape key-enter > key sequence, this sequence would send a charector to the server. If > the driver lost connection another way such as an internet spike or > such, the excape/enter sequence charector would not be sent. > At the end of the race when the official race resaults were being > tallied by the server, If the driver sent that charector then the > results would reflect that he manuely disconnected (Car#, DNF, Lap#). > If the driver didn't send that charector, then the resaults would > reflect that he was disconnected because of an internet anomily (Car#, > Boot, Lap#). > It would be a big help to some of us to know if people are booting them > selves or getting booted by the internet without having to ask the > drivers or looking at the replay. > --

On last nights league race results... ================================== 11 19 Drivers name FER Susp ================================== I asked this driver what he did.. He had an accident and manually left the race but stayed and watched the remaining cars race. he didn't leave the server till after the official results were tallied by the server. so we now know that if there is a mechanical problem with the car and the driver leaves the race because of it, it will be listed as such. now we need something that tells us that a driver didn't finish the race because of a boot. And something that says that he left manually with out there being a problem with the car. and we need these things to be listed no matter if he stays to watch the rest of the race or not. -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

[snip] While we're on the subject of suggesting features to GPL v1.x, I'd like to make a contribution. I would very much like to see a possibility to save a server replay on a remote, dedicated server. FGPLC might get a dedicated server with an ATM connection to serve as a host. This server would be started and managed remotely via GSB/boss password. The downside is that there seems to be no way to save the server replay which would include all the cars. Maybe this could be done with a flag in *.ini, the same way the automatic results export works? Instead of exporting the results, the server would dump the replay_buffer to disk ... My .02 euros Hena

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> [snip] > While we're on the subject of suggesting features to GPL v1.x, I'd like to > make a contribution. > I would very much like to see a possibility to save a server replay on a > remote, dedicated server. > FGPLC might get a dedicated server with an ATM connection to serve as a > host. This server would be started and managed remotely via GSB/boss > password. The downside is that there seems to be no way to save the server > replay which would include all the cars. > Maybe this could be done with a flag in *.ini, the same way the automatic > results export works? Instead of exporting the results, the server would > dump the replay_buffer to disk ... > My .02 euros > Hena

I like the idea. I have been recording GPL races on to VCR tapes where there are some good battles for many laps. With GPL 1.0, I have had many many races with zero warp and full fields of cars. Once GPL 1.1 came out, It's been hard to race very close because of the small odd warp here and there. I'd like to have more of those GPL 1.0 warp free races to record on to a VCR tape. I hear from someone that this is going to be fixed in the next patch. The server is the one that will have all the competitors in it and will have the least warping anomalies. Then add in the dedicated server where the computer resources are used much less and there should be again a zero (or very close to it) warp race. So, the ability to save the dedicated servers replay would be the perfect replay to save for VCR taping. The only problem is the size of each replay multiplied by how many replays.... The HDD will fill up so fast that it wouldn't be worth it. One way to by pass this is to have dedicated server setup with a core.ini option like you suggest. something to the effect of, Record_replay 1 Record_replay 0 With "0" selected, the server would run like they do now. With "1" selected, the server will only run one race and record that race in a replay file. Currently you can select X number of track and X number of races to run in sequence... The new core.ini option would only run the first track in that list and run it only once, over righting the list. When the race is done, the server would save the replay as "server.rpy" and shuts down as a server. I like the idea and hope Papyrus is listening and considering. -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

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> I asked this driver what he did.. He had an accident and manually left >the race but stayed and watched the remaining cars race. he didn't >leave the server till after the official results were tallied by the >server. so we now know that if there is a mechanical problem with the >car and the driver leaves the race because of it, it will be listed as >such. > now we need something that tells us that a driver didn't finish the >race because of a boot. And something that says that he left manually >with out there being a problem with the car. and we need these things to >be listed no matter if he stays to watch the rest of the race or not.

So if he quits the race, but hangs around it will either say retired, or list the damaged part. That part's ok. The part aboutsending a disconnect character is cool, though. I wish *I'd* thought of it...<g> Eldred __ Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc If all the world's a stage, where is the audience sitting? remove SPAM-OFF to reply.