I've mentioned this before and thought it's worth mentioning again..
10 drivers are in a 10 lap race. Driver X decides that he isn't going
anywhere so on lap 5 he presses the escape button and exits the race.
Diver Y has a bad ISP and gets disconnected on lap 5. In GPL we
currently have this..
Driver/finish position
a/100.0 mph
b/0:01
c/0:10
d/1:01
e/1:10
f/-1
g/-1
h/-2
X/-5
Y/-5
We also have this..
Driver/finish position
a/100.0 mph
b/0:01
c/0:10
d/1:01
e/1:10
f/-1
g/-1
h/-2
X/clutch
Y/-5
The "Clutch" and the "-5".. Neither one of these suggests that any one
of these drivers got booted or manually pressed escape. It would be
nice to know just who did get booted and who doesn't have the patients
to finish a race. so here's my suggestion to all Sim programmers..
Driver/finish position
a/100.0 mph
b/0:01
c/0:10
d/1:01
e/1:10
f/-1
g/-1
h/-2
X/clutch
Y/boot -5
This would help the online racing series tremendously to be able to
weed out the un patient drivers and to help solve the bad ISP drivers.
Not to mention that it would help with driver statistics too.
note.. I don't know specifically if The "Clutch" example does in fact
say that a driver manually pressed escape or not. So maybe I should ask
if it does(?)
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