Quote from iFastLT :

somebody broke my sarcasmometer then

My fault =/

Quote from Fire_optikz001 :

any one else notice the guy with the pizza?

No.. where is he?

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Om nom nom magical levitating pizza.

That's what happens when you use your magical skills for everything. You get fat.

Quote from Dygear :

1. • Teams (Where @ Client Connect or Round Start (Race Restart / Track Load) Client's Select a Team. +1
     
   • Deathmatch (Where all clients a vs the one client with the flag.) - good idea
     
2. Why have a team area?We can't force a car to spawn anywhere. - Yes, we can't, that's why they spawn in pits and some of them will have to go and defend the base while others go to attack the base of the enemy team(it's gonna be like a big derby race at the start ;d), if that's the kind of free CTF. If it's the more classic way - we put a timer, randomly pick a team to start first(say Team1 is 1st for example) and spawn only the flag of Team2; when the timer has elapsed and noone has the flag, Team2's flag is no longer available and spawn the flag of Team1. While the timer is counting it could be good on a small window somewhere up on the screen to say either "Attack" or "Defense" - They spawn in the pit stool, or the start grid. These are your options, and you don't even have true control over that. If you mean by certain places that the teams car must get to, why not make it simple like the start / finish line? - Because I like the idea of getting the flag to your base :P
   
3. How about spawning it on the node half way around the track?- Would not suit my evil plan
   
4. A cone should mark the spot, and the first client to produce a AXO packet is the client who has the flag. +1
   • Being within 20 nodes of the spawn site results in a instant send to pit after X amount of time has elapsed. - dont like the idea :P ..but that's just me
     
5. A button will indicate the client who as the flag's PName on each client's screen. That's all of the information you get however. It's up to you to find them, and kill them! +1
   
6. Things that make you lose the flag:
   • Having a speed of 0 M/s. +1
     
   • Piting your car, or going to spectate. +1
     
   • Resetting your car. +1
     
   • Losing control when there is at least 1 enemy car near u. Like in lapper when it says "XYZ has lost control" or whatever it was.
     
     
7. Once the client get's to the start finish straight, they score a point for them selfs or their team and the flag is respawned. - Again, it would not suit my evil plan >:)
   

Fixed

Quote from Vain :

I propose a different set of rules:
1. CTF mode is played in two teams
2. Each team has a home-area, likely to be placed on opposing sides of a track or carpark.
3. The flag can spawn anywhere on the track in a given distance from both home areas.
The flag is not visible, but it's location is indicated to all drivers using arrows on screen.
(Thou shall not camp the flag's spawn site!)
The arrow indicators indicate wether you should turn right, turn left, go ahead or turn around to find the flag.
4. The car to first come close (~5m?) to the new flag picks it up.
The arrow indicators for all drivers will now indicate the position of the flag-bearer as well as his username.
(In CTF you should have the usernames over the cars visible.)
The arrow indicator the the flag-bearer will now point him in the direction of his home area.
5. The flag can only be lost by leaving the track or by coming to a standstill.
6. Once the flag reaches a team's home area the team scores a point and the flag respawns.

Note that in this rule-set the "home area" would likely be occupied by opposing cars that try to stop you from reaching "home".

Vain

P.S.: This is potentially as awesome as Batman competing in a surf-off against the Joker in yellow swimming trunks!
I'm really tempted to have a go at this.

1 - Obvious
2 - Can't happen really
3.1 - Most fps games have maps, where the flag's position is static. I would suggest layouts for this. Also on racing tracks, flags should be in the 2 sides of the map, in equally long distance to reach from both sides once you leave the pits.
3.2 - Indicator arrows would be a little painfull to code, and also kind of useless if you have pre-defined maps.
(3.3) - To that I suggest a cop-like system. If you have stopped and someone from the enemy team is near you, then you get pitlaned.
3.4 - See 3.1.
4 - 5m is too much imo, minding that you could have a cone and/or a chalk-marked spot, where the flag will actually be.
5 - Could be easier than making it on-collision, indeed.
6 - Again, obvious

7 - Home areas would be both flag spawn sites.
8 - To avoid re-coding the insim app every time a layout is added, I'd suggest a database with layout names and spawn coordinates, in case anyone gets to code this.
8.1(note) - If you do it like specified in 8, then note that layouts have to be loaded with /axload in order for the insim to work properly, or else it wouldn't detect the name.
8.2 - I felt like posting something obvious too: Best way to save coordinates would be with commands. Like !spawnRed (optional) [X], [Y] and obviously !spawnBlue with the same parameters. If X and Y aren't set, then obviously, you're supposed to use the car's current position. Then if you need to alter those I suggest !alterRed and !alterBlue with the same (again, optional) parameters.

Hope you didn't mind me changing(and dare I say improving? :shy your version.

Quote from Bass-Driver :

damn this is a good idea
i have played Project Torque before and it was fun
but i have read somewhere that theres no function yet in the insim when 2 cars touch eachother

You can always code your own.
The MCI packet contains X, Y and Z coordinates, what more do you need? Ok, you do need the dimensions of the cars and that's what the biggest problem really is, but I guess they can be found somewhere .. or .. not.

Last edited by broken, Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:52.

Quote from morpha :

Project Torque / LevelR CTF is a little bit different; there's only one flag and the point is not to bring it to your own base (like traditional CTF) but to hold on to it for as long as possible.

Would be easy as hell to make both versions once you know how to detect a car collision.
But why am I even bothering... You know that even better than me

Quote from Sir Hunter :

[Idea]

That's possible, but kind of hard (at least for me) to detect when 2 cars hit each other. Other thing - to have 2 flags in certain spots and bla bla - easy as pie.
(If only I had the time to develop this ..Maybe I will next month... or the month after that... blah, I don't know I'm full of tasks, and all I'm doing is wondering how I'm gonna complete them, instead of actually trying -.- Why am I such a lazy ass $#%! argh)

Quote from DevilDare :

That so annoying!

Its so weird but all these FFFUUU pics have situations that happen to me way too often.

Don't worry, it's not only you.

But now every time that happens to me I'll remember that pic and start laughing.
Oh wait... I can't brush my teeth while I'm laughing! Damn you!

while we're on that wave









And I'm really sorry if this is against the forum rules in any way, but I just couldn't resist


The effect from browsing lfs forum from ur phone and seeing this pic (Conclusion: Never use your phone while driving):

Last edited by broken, Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:47.

She's the one from the pic of the sexy ass.

Quote from Hyperactive :

IN SHORT: If you got banned just recently and want to make a comment about it, do NOT make it in this thread or on this forum. Please. Don't start a new thread because we have seen them all. Many many times. Try to contact the server owners or go to their website if they have one to resolve the issue or post a complaint. Or just go to another server.
We here on the LFS forum cannot help you getting unbanned from any host so there is no use complaining here.

Nothing more to add.
E: And to want to start a flame war on this forum is pretty much like requesting yourself "Not anymore welcome" 'd..

I agree on the stuff I understood, but this is not the right place for your thread anyway. =/

Quote from The Very End :

Ohh? You canot say A without telling B

Yeah, but I will probably regret once I post it

Quote from The Very End :

What parrents let their kid go with a shirt like that, seriously?

You don't wanna know what shirt my mother got me as a gift when she was in Greece. It would definitely fit this thread..
It usually stays under all my other shirts, but sometimes when I feel weirdly funny I wear it(but never when I go out with friends).

Quote from speed1230 :

[...]
Should I just stay there AFK so someone could come on?
[...]

No, you don't have to stay there unless you really want it. No one will ever make you stay in the server if you don't want to. And staying there AFK is a bit pointless, but it is a fact that indeed a lot more people will see the server, since it won't be filtered as empty anymore.

It was not "always empty". A lot of racing action happened, but you were hardly ever on. However, I can explain why nobody was connecting the last time I was in with you:
1: The cruise setting was set to "yes". => Hosting list would look like: -OsR- Old skool Racing [cruise]
2: A cruise insim app. was running. => Even if some racer connects(would hardly happen with cruise set to yes) they will instantly leave.
3: -OsR-'s own insim app. was off.
4: Track was set to AS5. And iirc there was a cruise layout on.

Currently I am planning to learn some C++ and try to recode the OsR insim app so that it can run on 42D's dedi, since I believe that they will be more serious about -OsR-.

As for contacting you:
1: You are not very often online on msn
and 2: You should have contacted me, before turning it off, to let me know what your intentions are. Would have been more polite, imo.
And correct me if I'm wrong but SC servers aren't any much busier than -OsR-, and they already have a cruise server.

Quote from lfsworld (Jan 25, 2010 15:30) :

[SC] Cruise Demo | 0/15
[SC] Cruise Server | 0/47
[SC] Cruise Server 1 | 0/32

No, I am not wrong actually.

And another thing: It is not entirely up to me if the server will be busy or not. True - I was busy this month with a lot of stuff, but why was it always needed me, rep or a 42D member to be online for people to start connecting?

Quote from (The Stig) :

What makes you think that if I host it i'll make trouble hmmm???

You have caused far too many trouble for -OsT- already. Say it this way: You an admin in -OsR-? Or even: You having direct access to the InSim app. with a possibility to download it? No thank you, I will pass.
The very short answer to your question would be: Personal experience.

Quote from master_lfs.5101 :

I could host Broken. May be a bit laggy for you guys over in Europe. Also will have to wait till the end of this month, apparently a wire snapped down somewhere in my city cutting off all Verizon Fiber Optics customers. They got it back up but for some reason we are all capped.

Thanks. I will think about it. I have 2 other options tho(42D Fortitude offered support, and so did Lightning Servers), so if it will be somewhat hard for you to manage this then you don't have to put more worries on your mind.

Last edited by broken, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:41.

Sorry, but there is something that is stopping me from doing this. It is called the red list: http://thcforums.co.cc/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=325

Yes, it is. Mick decided that he wants to host SC's cruise server I guess(not sure tho, cause he never mentioned anything). Anyway, it will stay down for a while(not sure how much "a while" is tho.. might be a lot) as I'm too busy to manage it anyway.

Sorry to everyone and just to let you know: The stats of everyone are safe and ready to be transferred wherever needed.

Also there are better servers than -OsR- you can go and have fun on: IHR, FOX Junkies, LR, etc...

I have had the same issue as the OP. The problem in my case was that the application was sending too much button packets at once(morpha helped me figure that out too so he should know :razz. That's why I had to code a function that helps me have a delay between each button or sequence of buttons that are being sent. And that's what you need... Unless the connection is so bad that it is impossible for the server to keep an insim connected along with users in it.

Hope that helps.

Quote from Silverracer :

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Now that just made me smile too.

1st of all: My morning was so very unlucky.. But it was actually so funny. You know how they say that there are days that everything just starts going wrong... well only the morning was like that. 1st off: I burnt my finger when I wanted to move an element I was welding with my bare hands. After a few mins of drowning it in water i got some gloves on and returned back to welding... enlightened(if that's the right word) myself a few times (including once when I turned around right after I did that... and the electrode touched the metal wall just when I uncovered my eyes cause they didn't hurt as much anymore)... Then I said to myself that I'm not gonna be welding today. After that I had to move the elements that I never welded anyway back in the pile. My class mate was welding right next to the spot tho... So I was turned to the side and picked the elements with the big clip... If you can imagine that - Holding a few elements(welded together by other people), with a clip, moving without actually having much of a perfect idea of where I'm going, cause the space was too narrow there; Then, all of a sudden I stepped on sth(it was the stool that was blocking my way), pushed my class mate so he almost fell too, and just the moment i thought "there's no way I'm getting out of this without any damage", I felt my foot stepping on the ground. But then another problem came: my back foot was still behind the stool and I was still falling, but I managed to get it over it and finally stepped with my 2 feet on the ground. Well after that when we had to cross the street a taxi driver turned without signalizing(but that wasn't so funny back then). When the bus finally came I almost fell on the floor cause I didn't see that there was a huge step. And all on all: That was it. With a few jokes from class mates and nothing more serious (nothing physical... i was mentally crushed ..ok i lied ).

The 2nd thing that made me smile was when I saw this thread and imagined how I would write all that.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

My cats, still playing around while they're both almost 5 years old

Your signature was the 3rd.

So I had a very unlucky and happy day..

He says he got fed up. Never said he realized it was wrong.

But on the other hand, yes, I did misread the sentence "So my excuse was always: Its not me its the crasher" as "So my excuse is always: Its not me its the crasher". Anyway, I still like my point enough to not give it up.