Hello racers!
First of all I would like to take this opportunity to thank a few people for their support. (AW)Killfix and (AW)Smokey for being such awesome co-owners and helping to make and keep this team so tightly-knit and well managed. There is no way this team would be where it is at right now without these two guys, so give them a big thumbs up when you see them around.
Also, thanks to EQWorry for all of his hard work and support with the Airio Tracker system. It is without a doubt the best and most comprehensive tracker out there and has been a god-send for our team! w00t!

Now to introduce everyone to (AW)AsphaltWarriors. We currently have been around for over a year, and have over 50 members. We have 3 servers, 2 of which are mostly for backup, and one of which that is up full time (Thanks, www.500servers.com).

The primary reason for this post is to inform the LFS community of our new schedule. In the past we have randomly switched our primary server between Demo and S2 based on team demand as well as a few other factors. But now we are going to move to a set schedule.

DEMO USERS: Our server will be running BlackwoodGP with the FBM Monday-Thursday all day. Generally this will be 10 minute qualifications, 5 lap races, no pit required. But us admins will switch things up from time to time, so feel free to ask if you want a specific type of race.

S2 USERS: Get ready for some super close 3-wide finishes! Friday-Sunday will be specifically dedicated to Kyoto Ring racing with the F08. Bump-drafting is encouraged as most races will be at least 10 laps with pit required! So pick a team mate or 2 to form a pit strategy and bump draft with! Each night there will be at least 1 race which will be at least 45 laps, possibly 50 so show up ready for some serious strategy!

This schedule will remain in place most of the time, with the only exceptions being for team-events and challenges, which brings me to my next point. We are wide open and willing to take challenges from any team out there! Just post here, let us know you want to get Pwnd by us, and we'll begin working out the details of your demise . Thanks all, and keep racing!

Quote from Vinnylegends :

Meh ok, There are also Right and Right ovals

You make it sound as if its not a competitive series, and/or it does not take true talent to race Oval. Which is simply just untrue. Ever noticed that almost every single driver that has come from some road racing series over to NASCAR has failed miserably, rarely managing a top 10 finish? (Castroneves, Montoya, Franchitti, and many others). These guys were just as confused and disillusioned about oval racing as you are. They thought they could come over to ovals and dominate because they have the idea that its just "sooooo easy". Well, every last single one of them was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be wrong, and werent worth the fuel it took to let them turn a single lap. Truth of the matter is, you cannot compare oval racing to any other type of racing. It is a completely different type of race, with its own set of very extreme challenges. As far as choosing what kind of racing you enjoy watching the most, well that is personal opinion. Me, I like watching most road racing events for, oh about the first 15 minutes. But usually after that the racing is so strung out I cant stay awake. I like NASCAR because many, many races end with the top 20 cars all finishing less than 3 seconds from each other from 1st to 20th. L-ASCAR, Keep it up and plan on seeing me in your server! w00t!

Hello all.
Ive been using the Airio tracker on my team's servers for months now. I gotta say it IS the best tracker available. Tons of options, relatively easy to configure, VERY stable, and extremely customizable per connected user. It will no doubt become the best tracker system in LFS. Thanks EQ! Then only thing I can think of that it is missing as of yet is a drift scoring system like Lapper has. But other than that, its great. You also need to be careful if you are running FO8s at Kyoto Ring. Airio has a system to kick people who make "impossible times" to help keep cheaters out. Well, in the F08 at kyoto ring bump drafting can knock seconds off of your time and Airio doesnt like it. But this is configurable per track/car. So you can set what is seen as "an impossible time/speed". Thanks again, EQ! w00t!
Check out (AW)BumpDraftRacing and (AW)AsphaltWarriorsDEMO to see Airio in full action!

Quote from SamH :

You haven't. That's normal. You can only join games that are on your LAN by using the join LAN game option. If your router is correctly configured to allow traffic, others may be able to see it via the master server list but you won't see it there because as far as your computer is concerned it's a LAN game.

Eh, hate to tell ya but thats not correct. I host a server and I can connect to it fine any way I want to. Server browser, join specific, Internet, and/or LAN.

Quote from BlueFlame :

How can you be on lap 6/5 if thats the picture before the finnish line?

I think it calculates the finish before where you see the Checkers. Thats my only guess. The replay is attached, make the decision for yourself......All I know is that it was freikin awesome!

I am 88Amped. Host for the Asphalt Warrior's demo server. This just happened yesterday. a 0:00:00 difference finish at the line! Funny enough, if youll notice, He and I had also turned the same exact lap time earlier in the race. This was simply the best finish I have ever had in any online racing sim, period! Enjoy...

Where is the #8 skin? Can you provide the link? My we dream for a skin would be the new 88Amped car but 8 will do....all be it a little sach-religious to be carrying around a DEI skin. LMAO

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Something has changed. Most likely the "server pc" is still using a dynamically assigned IP address and this has changed, and you're now port forwarding to the wrong local IP. Double check the actual rules with the actual IP assigned to the "server pc".

Hello. Thanks for responding to this. I am the host of (AW)AsphaltWarriors' main server. I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I am also a Network/PC technician of 12 years who solves complex networking issues every day of my life and yet this one has me stumped. I spent 2 hours or so with him last night trying to resolve this issue. So as you can imagine, having a static address was one of the first things that I had him check, and it IS static as shown in the Config. Also, I had him check all port forwardings/security settings on the router, as well as any/all security and/or firewall scenarios on the PC. Now, to get more detailed about the issue. The server was working perfectly last week. No problems at all. Now, the problem is that noone can see the server in the online server list, and neither can he. HOWEVER, he CAN connect to it via clicking on "Local Network" in LFS. Furthermore, when I try to "Join Specific" from my house to his server, I dont get the typical "Host not found on Master Server" message that you would get if DEDI was simply not working at all. What I get is the obvious signs that LFS sees the server, and is trying to connect to it, then up comes something like "ClientConnect: Connect Failed".

At some point, just to eliminate the minute possibility of a router issue, I had him DMZ the host PC. So the issue is NOT on the router at all. In pure desperation and as a last resort, I had him power cycle everything. We even deleted his entire DEDI folder and started over 100%. No luck.

Now, there is 1 thing and 1 thing only that has changed about the server since last week, when it was working. And it is that he added a case fan. Thats it. How that could possible affect DEDI is way the hell beyond me. However, just to be sure I made sure that he hadnt also installed any 3rd party Fan Speed/temp monitoring software as well, and he hadnt. No other software/hardware has been added either. Just a fan.

So, anyways, I just thought I would add some clarity to this issue so that you guys could have more specific info to go on. Thanks much for any/all help.

Thanks much man. That did the trick. I never would have figured that since it was never a problem before. YOU ARE THE SHIT MAN! And my team can officially kiss my ass while gently removing themselves from it........peace man!

Quote from Scawen :

Can you post here the actual host name text used in the setup.cfg file?

Just the text from the /host=xxxxx command.

Then I can have a look in the morning and see if it I can figure anything out.

// host name
/host= ^4(^7F^1A^4)^7FastAmericans

If it makes any difference, we also run the latest LFSLapper. On that note, all of our PBs seem to have disappeared. Thanks.

Ok, here is an update on my situation. It seems as though I, and others, can get into my server SOMETIMES by using "JoinSPecific" if we type in the server name PRECISELY, (With colors and everything perfect). But even then its not 100% of the time that it lets us in. None of us have yet been able to connect by going through the normal way (By way of the master list of servers). It still tells us "Host not found on MasterServer"

Alrighty. So, now I have the new DEDI running. My server shows up in the Master List of servers. However, when anyone, including me, clicks on the Go button, it sais "Host not found on Master Server." Whats up with that? If ya wanna try diagnosing this personally, my server is (FA)FastAmericans (FastAmericans in white text). Thanks

Um, ok. Now that the new patch is out, noone can join my Dedicated Host,and neither can I because I updated as well. I clicked on the link to download the new Dedi. But the link is invalid. Please, someone tell me where I can get the Dedi. that runs with this patch. Thanks.

AH! Thanks much. Will give it a try. One more question, when entering in a scheduled action, what time format is being used? (Military or standard).

Hi, I must start by saying LFSLapper is REALLY cool. Im really enjoying it and so is my team! However, we do a 25 lap race every night at 9pm so I am trying to make an autoaction happen so that I can just, as admin, type !start25, and all the paramaters I want will be done instantly, and qualifying will begin. So, here is what I have in the autoaction portion of my .cfg.......

AutoAction = True
hoho|/msg ^3What's so funny, {Nickname}?|
no name no game|/kick unnamed|
!admin|/rcm {Nickname} ^3can do it!:/rcm_all|
!test|/rcm {Nickname} is testing...:/rcm_ply {Nickname}|
!start25|/qual=15:/laps=25:/midrace=no:/mustpit=yes:/qualify

So, it looks right to me, but when I type !start25, nothing happens. All other autoactions work fine. Only the one ive created doesnt work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!