Quote from FL!P :

There's already a way, I think: admins cannot be kicked, or banned. So these buttons aren't available for them in the connections list.

Agreed you cannot vote to kick or ban but you can still use /ban /kick against admins if you are an admin.

This means that a password hacker could /ban a real server admin which seems a bit stupid. The real server admin (owner) would have to get someone to /unban him (Or use ban editor) to get on his own server and then change the password. To me its all backwards.

Another way would be that the cfg has a list of admins

/admin username, username, username

rather than a password, this would mean more work but it would certainly sort the problem

Also the buttons in the connection list are available they just dont work, which means you start a vote each time you try one to find out whos admin and whos not

I asked in the main forum

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=22431

Quote from Eleanor SpeedGT :

Well you can ask in server too.

Am i missing something, how do i ask the server?

If you mean ask a server admin, i am the main server admin so that would not help.

Quote from spiderbait90 :

i dont think making admins more obvious would help. Sometimes we just go in "under-cover" with a different name to see how things are going, and then people often dont realise that you are and admin, and continue wrecking and ramming. So about the different colour or the buttons not being there -1 from me. If you reallly really need an admin, just ask and usually the admin will change into their normal name and deal with it. At least from the servers i am in thats what we do anyway.

I am the main admin on my servers, so dont see much point of asking for one.

I have 8 admins on the CD servers but when the race in question was restarted there were 3 on the server so i did ask them all if they restarted the race and they all said they did not.

There was no vote so the means that someone else did it, but who?.

There has to be a way for a main admin to tell who else is logged on as an admin so he can see whats going on or people who give out passwords to their mates will always be about.

By having the connection list change to another colour would work but i agree it may need to be available on admins screens only.

But on the other hand if an admin is to police a server should players not be aware, a bit like the real police as most of us "dont speed when we are aware the police speed trap is about" but may well do if they are in an un-marker car

I am not trying to catch people, i just want to be able to find out who is logged on as admin.

Last edited by birder, Mon 9 Apr 2007, 15:21.

Quote from axus :

You can't try it in the first place - the button's just not on the list.

I agree that you cant vote to kick or ban admin but the buttons are there

The problem is that you have to test each person by pressing kick or ban and if it works you have a vote in action against them if they are not admin.

I just tried it and it caused havoc.

It would be good if the button was not there or a different colour if the person is logged on as admin.

Does anyone else have any other ideas to tell who is logged on as admin please.

Thanks

Last edited by birder, Mon 9 Apr 2007, 15:25.

Hi Smith

Tested version test2 and the results look fine, the pit information now works

Possible improvements

1) The Start Order table could do with a column giving details where the player started from (Grid or Pit) or even the time they started after the start of the race. (Grid would be 0.00)

In the test i did 4 drivers joined from the pit but there is no way of telling.

2) Have a html template with a special [lfsstats] tag so it uses up to the [lfsstats] tag as the page header, and after the tag as a footer when building the page.

The [lfsstats] tag would be simply be replaced by the xml templated output

This would make it more simple to put the lfsstats output into a webpage and the html template could be editied using a normal (dreamweaver) application.

Keep up the great work

Does anyone have a method of finding out who is logged on a server as admin?

Thanks

We had someone restart a race on lap 8 last night but could not find out who.

We think someone may have the admin password but would like to catch them to ask why and give them a ban.

If we change the password then we will never find out.

We need something that shows who is logged on as an admin

Perhaps an A in the connection list or change the colours of the text in the connection list on admins.

I just tried it and it does not work in W for me either

Any ideas?

Quote from Macfox :

#1 and #2 can be acheived already with inSIM.

I've added #1.

#2 Has already been discussed before, if my memory serves me right. It was heavily debated, particularily on the point it would cause more problems with idle players, just sitting on the grid and not racing. Not an easy problem to solve. But definely something an inSim mod could do, by adding the necessary logic to spectate everyone after each race and then have an auto restart of some sort.

IMO, I would like as many items as possible in the standard server rather than insim but i understand what you mean.

As to 2) We get grid sleepers now so maybe a restart after x mins but with a rcm warning or even a countdown before it happens.

Thanks for adding 1)

Hi Smith

Just did a 10 lap race full race using the test version

At the start i got some sort of ACK packet message but missed it, but run it again and it did not appear

The stats look fine except 12 out of the 20 players pitted (1 twice) yet in the pit stops section only 11 were recorded and 6 have no details including the one who pitted twice

Cannot see any reason why

I will do another test race later when CD2 is full

We have already added a tyre barrier to stop this on our servers

1) Autokick after x minutes

We need an option that automatically kicks spectators who are just saving their place

As our server is often full we now get players who logon and have a couple of races then spectate for several hours as if they are reserving thier place. Even when you ask them in chat why they do it they dont answer as they are AFK.

On one day we had 6 people doing this so only 17 could ever enter the race. I kick them anyway and the places a filled up with players who want to race but its a pain having to do it.

I was thinking of a setting that kicked players with no action for X minutes so say this was set to 60, at 60 minutes if they had not been in a race they are kicked automatically, after all they can rejoin.

2) Restart after x seconds

On a full server when a race ends you get this constant "Shift+R" restart messages until their are enough votes, we need a setting that restarts automatically after X seconds once a race finished

Quote from nesrulz :

During the replay:



190, 191, etc...

End of replay:



btw, replay is made with V5...

Already been posted earlier and i have posted in on the LFSStats thread.

Getting

InSim : discarding unacknowledged packet (100)
InSim : discarding unacknowledged packet (101)
InSim : discarding unacknowledged packet (102)

When using LFSStats since V5

Scawen says i should contact you

Quote from flinty72 :

Does this actually stop stats from working or is it just dropping the packets it doesn't recognize (ie the new ones)?

LFSStats still works fine you just get the messages, i will contact the developer

Getting

InSim : discarding unacknowledged packet (100)
InSim : discarding unacknowledged packet (101)
InSim : discarding unacknowledged packet (102)

When using LFSStats since V5

Have noticed that when someone joins our servers the last latency bar shoots up. Normally it recovers but several times it has timed the new joiner out. This seems more than V2

Quote from Fischfix :

you mean some kind of fixed camera that catches the whole field passing by instead of sticking to a fight or a specific car.

Yes, such as a camera set in the kerb

Quote from Soeren Scharf :

Of course you may use it... no, you must use it! If nobody is using this tool, then its not worth the work.



what do you mean with fixed positions? no change in heading and pitch?


regards
Soeren

Yes, no movement at all, the same as you can do with Shift+U.

Thats a huge list Hyperactive but just imagine if it was being developed by a bigger team.

A few weeks ago i had chance to hire my Frex motion simulator setup to a company for a corporate do, with my fee going to Charity.

On it i have LFS, GTR, GTL, GTR2, Race, Rfactor GPL with loads of mods Etc Etc Etc

First remember that its run in single player mode to people who dont use a simulator. (Noobs)

GTL and GTR2 came out as favorites, The looks, sounds, real named cars and tracks were the reason.

The amount of people who wanted to race a GT40 round Doninton was amazing.

At the same "do" there were 2 ARD's licenced trainer drivers who both liked LFS best.

My point is that once LFS gets better sounds, better interiors and the bugs fixed there will be nothing close but lets face facts with such a small team of devs progress is very slow compared to the huge teams in the other sims.

I also think that it will never be the number 1 in sales without real cars and real tracks but then do we want it to be the number 1 in sales as long as its just the best.

Online LFS is still the king.

Finally i am still amazed how many more Demo users are online than licenced, i think trying to be backward compatible may well be holding things up and i always think that a new non-compatible patch with new features gives everyone a buzz, the hotlappers have fresh start, the races all try for new laptimes, and the insim programmers have new toys to play with.

Roll on the next non-compatible version with some real progress like the last one when the BF1 was added.

For some time i have been trying to make a decent video file of the LFS: GTR League.

At last i can do that with your excellent tool and with a little work it could well be the "Standard" tv tool for LFS.

Its simple to use and the results, (as is), are great but i have one problem.

In last nights D2 race we had a grid of 17 GTR's on AS3 so as you can imagine it was rather manic. Director follows the action but as the action was down the field the program never showed the leader or 8 of the cars.

Suggestions (If you want them):

1) Allow a Fixed Camera position

I put a camera in front of the tyres at the bottom of the AS3 chicane but can never get it quite right, it would work if its fixed

2) Follow a certain car (Such as the leader) rather than the action.

Maybe an action / select car setting somehow.

The D2 race was 17:20 long so using fraps i have recorded (Using Director) the whole race at half speed, i now have to do the same in standard view, incar view and the edit them together from the 100+ minutes, and then export it at race speed.

Once LFS Replays can be rewound things will get easier but if you ever get to the point where we could have a replay timeline, selecting which camera we want to use at what time in the timeline making action videos from LFS would take a huge jump forward.

Once again thanks for the latest version and keep up the great work.

Quote from goode400 :

Come on guys lets have a whip round to get this kid his S2.

Funnybone - Post your e mail address and I'll start you off with £2 via paypal.

I'll give him £2 via paypal

Quote from Venus :

Could someone point me to the program that allows hosts to display live timings and race control messages. ie things like "Great split by whoever xxx etc

LFS Lapper http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=3241

1) Currently the connection list changes order, and often people send messages to the wrong people as just at the moment the list changes. This also happens when players vote to kick or ban.

So please fix the list so latest joiners are at the bottom. Needed for 2)

I also think that the latency should be part of the connections list so its simpler to see who is lagging

2) cfg setting /adminkickban

This setting would only work for those logged on as admin by clicking the kick or ban in the connections list it would automatically add the command and username to the chat box

3) Vote should have several settings in the cfg /vote kick, restart, ban, qualify so there is control on what can be voted on.

4) I think that several of the setting, message options and actions from LFSLapper should become standard Dedi server settings

Just sent you a PM to order [CD] ConeDodgersRacing 4, normal setup please

Have a busy day and thanks for all your help