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Title: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 09, 2015, 11:51:43 AM
I haven't been on there myself yet, but it I will be tonight... got caught up with Vipergod on Americas Army, ("AA" abbreviation looked bad :) )...

Laps and races not set yet, so if you have a preference, post!
Title: Re: Thursday S5Rd5 June 18, Sachsenring Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bird on June 09, 2015, 12:59:52 PM
Have they fixed America's Army?  No pun intended :)  It had great promise, but was rather rubbish early on - full of game-stopper bugs.
Title: Re: Thursday S5Rd5 June 18, Sachsenring Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 09, 2015, 01:05:02 PM
Have they fixed America's Army?  No pun intended :)  It had great promise, but was rather rubbish early on - full of game-stopper bugs.

The current release is a Beta for the upgrade, no game-stoppers now... and new maps coming on as modders are creating them.
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: rob on June 10, 2015, 11:35:34 AM
Hey Bruce, my PC has died so it looks like I'll be out for a while.

Have fun guys.

rob
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bird on June 10, 2015, 01:02:20 PM
bugger, get it well soon !


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Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 10, 2015, 01:12:08 PM
Hey Bruce, my PC has died so it looks like I'll be out for a while.

Have fun guys.

rob

yes, 'dear dear' or is it 'deer deer'.
Always bad timing/luck when the PC fails. lets hope it doesn't cost you too much trouble or money... see you soon.
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: marty on June 10, 2015, 06:43:09 PM
Ran a couple laps in the practice server, should be a good fun combo. Quite tricky and technical track in these and you must resist the urge to drift this low powered beast. Also I dont think going over the kerbs is the quick way as I saw others try this and generally end up failing hard into a wall or just losing time.

For the race nite make sure you adjust the race wait time to at about 50 seconds I think is good. The practice server lights go straight up so it gives people no time to adjust fuel etc before the race and probably many wont even make the grid.

Also I got disconnected from the server, I thought maybe it got taken down but now I see it in the lobby with very high ping around 1000 so maybe something is up with your server.
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Phil.8 on June 10, 2015, 07:29:41 PM


Also I got disconnected from the server, I thought maybe it got taken down but now I see it in the lobby with very high ping around 1000 so maybe something is up with your server.

Same here
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 10, 2015, 07:40:11 PM
thanks marty and phil. will bounce the instance... DONE


Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 11, 2015, 09:53:19 AM
Time for an change and seeing there is a large disparity in times for the few laps cut already at Adelaide, I thought I would attemtp a "handicap race"

Race 1: 5 Lap Sprint,

Race 2: 10 Laps,


ie Last driver will head off on "Start"
Next (2nd) driver will be off on "Start" + ( 2nd place driver's 'Gap to 1st' * 2)
Next (3rd) driver will be off on "Start" + ( 3rd place driver's 'Gap to 1st' * 2)
and so on...

I will be using the times from the Race 1 session Stracker results and read out the handicap for each driver during the qual/warmup, most will have 'drive around the grid cars'.. so be careful.

This is the only week I don't want 22 on the grid... na, that would be a hoot!
See you there.


Track download (http://www.xgn.com.au/index.php?topic=853.0)
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Joe on June 11, 2015, 10:35:34 AM
I usually try and learn the track the day before, but with the long weekend I forgot what day it was and played Witcher last night, oops. Oh well, will make it more fun tonight learning the track right before the race  :o
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 11, 2015, 11:58:04 AM
I usually try and learn the track the day before, but with the long weekend I forgot what day it was and played Witcher last night, oops. Oh well, will make it more fun tonight learning the track right before the race  :o

the good thing is Joe, if your lack of knowledge in the sprint will give you a good advantage in the longer race :)
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Joe on June 11, 2015, 12:12:26 PM
I usually try and learn the track the day before, but with the long weekend I forgot what day it was and played Witcher last night, oops. Oh well, will make it more fun tonight learning the track right before the race  :o

the good thing is Joe, if your lack of knowledge in the sprint will give you a good advantage in the longer race :)

Very true! That's if I can get through a Thursday race night without having to retire due to screaming children...
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 11, 2015, 12:41:09 PM
I usually try and learn the track the day before, but with the long weekend I forgot what day it was and played Witcher last night, oops. Oh well, will make it more fun tonight learning the track right before the race  :o

the good thing is Joe, if your lack of knowledge in the sprint will give you a good advantage in the longer race :)

Very true! That's if I can get through a Thursday race night without having to retire due to screaming children...
you need  to use 'noise cancelling' head phones! and/or phenergan :)
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Gratulin on June 11, 2015, 01:04:41 PM
Flattop, I'm in serious doubt for tonight. PC in for repairs
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 11, 2015, 01:15:08 PM
Flattop, I'm in serious doubt for tonight. PC in for repairs

sorry to hear that, shaping up for a good race session with the handicapping, see you next week we hope.
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: marty on June 11, 2015, 01:51:50 PM
Handicap idea is interesting, would it be easier to just have an extra lap for the race and all drive around then line up in race start order aka warmup lap. As long as everyone knows who they should be ahead of and behind it shouldnt be too hard to sort the grid. Not sure how people will get the start time though to set exact time gap for all cars.

One thing with the track is t1 is very prone to abuse and large time gains but I wasnt using it on my laps. All should try and keep 2 wheels on track through the first chicance even though a big 4 wheel jump can cause you to land awkward and hit a wall there is .5 or more to be gained by never intending to take the proper line.

With the handicap I also figure race 1 the guy leading will want to win by the smallest margin possi le and the one in last will want to loose by the largest margin probably.  ;D Maybe have time gaps just for all but the first and last cars to have a fixed 2 second gap to the next car. Maybe even run a reverse grid with 2 seconds to all cars so if there would be 20 people on the winner from the last race would start 40 seconds behind. Using the lap timer would still work even if we had a warmup lap and maybe start the race on the next minute once all are lined up.
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 11, 2015, 04:47:30 PM
Some good points Marty
I think
race 1 everyone will try win as it is championship points and the leader will stay out in front, thinking about the ending to "The Wages of Fear"... and stay out in front as far as poss. :)
cutting turn 1 may happen on the odd occasion, but I don't think 'we' will do it purposefully...
and good idea, lap one all warm up to the grid in their order and start on 3 minute mark + handicap

Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Guybrush Threepwood on June 11, 2015, 05:59:49 PM
The last race at Brand Hatch I waited on the line after the lights went out for the amount of time I won by in the first race.  It was fun chasing the leaders and only managed to get Wally right near the end.

I think we should give it a shot if it's not too much to organise.  Probably would have to be an honours type thing unless it is monitored.  If everyone just looks at the time in front to the last placed person in R1 that will tell them when to take off once the clock starts ticking in R2.

Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bacchulum on June 11, 2015, 06:02:05 PM
There's a clock? :o
I'll have to look for this....
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 11, 2015, 06:11:09 PM
There's a clock? :o
I'll have to look for this....
Of you use the mini hdu :o
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Wally on June 11, 2015, 06:48:27 PM
The last race at Brand Hatch I waited on the line after the lights went out for the amount of time I won by in the first race.  It was fun chasing the leaders and only managed to get Wally right near the end.

I think we should give it a shot if it's not too much to organise.  Probably would have to be an honours type thing unless it is monitored.  If everyone just looks at the time in front to the last placed person in R1 that will tell them when to take off once the clock starts ticking in R2.
This kind of thing is fun to try, but in my experience, it easily goes wrong. If you're chasing, and you have one spin or off, it's a lost cause. But it's still a good idea, and I wouldn't mind doing it.
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: marty on June 11, 2015, 06:49:48 PM
The last race at Brand Hatch I waited on the line after the lights went out for the amount of time I won by in the first race.  It was fun chasing the leaders and only managed to get Wally right near the end.

I think we should give it a shot if it's not too much to organise.  Probably would have to be an honours type thing unless it is monitored.  If everyone just looks at the time in front to the last placed person in R1 that will tell them when to take off once the clock starts ticking in R2.

We just need some way of getting the stracker data then reversing the field and showing time gaps to last rather then first. If everyone knows how far ahead of last place they were then they can wait this long after he starts race 2. We will have a few minutes between races so as long as everyone is on TS if this list could be posted here it would be easy to do or Bruce can just tell everyone their penalty.

Running around for one laps and then starting at the 3min mark or 4 if people get lost on the warmup lap which I think will happen  ;)

Could make for some interesting racing, if GB is racing and leading we can all let him lap us to make race 2 more fun for him.
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: marty on June 11, 2015, 06:52:05 PM
The last race at Brand Hatch I waited on the line after the lights went out for the amount of time I won by in the first race.  It was fun chasing the leaders and only managed to get Wally right near the end.

I think we should give it a shot if it's not too much to organise.  Probably would have to be an honours type thing unless it is monitored.  If everyone just looks at the time in front to the last placed person in R1 that will tell them when to take off once the clock starts ticking in R2.
This kind of thing is fun to try, but in my experience, it easily goes wrong. If you're chasing, and you have one spin or off, it's a lost cause. But it's still a good idea, and I wouldn't mind doing it.

I think its best for race 2 to be a bit longer then race one was to give a little more time to work through the traffic, the thing is if the guy that finished last is the one your chasing down its quite likely they will have a spin or 2, that hairpin in Adelaide is very easy to mess up and also the Wall getting onto the back straight may cause some carnage.
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 11, 2015, 06:57:36 PM
i have put race 2 at 10 laps
Title: Re: Thursday S5RD4 June 11, Adelaide 1988 (Street) Practice Server is Up.
Post by: Bruce on June 11, 2015, 09:20:48 PM
Race Results are in... Season 5 Round 4 (http://52.64.45.49:8080/championship?cs_id=2)
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