You're the host, you decide. Force a restart if you feel it's necessary. Forcing a restart while others are still racing is generally not a good idea, but it's your decision. If you want your server to offer immediate restarts as soon as anyone wants one, fine. If you want to be a kind and understanding admin, be one. If you want to be the bastard operator from hell, go ahead. etc.

While hosting from in-game (starting a new game from the multiplayer menu), voting for a restart or end will immediately be treated as a completed vote, so you can't really vote normally. To be able to cast normal votes, you'll need to run the dedicated server.

Metal Gear

Morning news or evening news?

Cute event, great racing with FEL in the rallycross and some tight laps on Cadet. Sorry to Sp3c and Alt for outbraking myself in the second chicane of cadet on one of the first laps.

Made some stats and uploaded the replays to FLP's website, here.

Quote from Electrik Kar :

Not so good online though, or maybe my connection at the time was crap.

Online play in RDKF often resulted in about 5 minutes of lag free play, then off to a restart. Don't think it was just your connection.

A database dump would make some stuff simpler for sure, maybe a dump exluding detailed race results could work? I'm thinking about writing something to show statistics on overall team progress, with FLP's meager 6 members it'll still be hundreds of queries.

I could live with such a thing being tarpitted an entire week.

Getting a dump of all players in <team> would also be great if a complete one isn't happening.

Really impressive, great video / commentary / coverage.

Only thing i didn't like was the alternative (high res?) textures on the short bits from Aston, combined with low resolution and compression they sort of turn into a single-color featureless surface.

If you're designing it to be parsed for display on a website, why not go for an established format such as XML?

http://php.net/simplexml

• Turn one to chicane. You slow down too fast and turn in too soon. There's still some space to your left. Chicane should easily be taken flat out if tyres are up to temperature. You loose about .8 of a second to split 1.
  
• Turn four, right-hander after back straight. You've got loads of space to your left here, making the turn much narrower then necessary. You loose grip and slide thru the corner loosing time.
  
• Turn five, S into uphill and split 2. You lift off too soon, you can carry more speed into the turn-in. You loose about .6 of a second to split 2.
  
• Turn eight (last), you don't use the extra bit of road to your right, making the turn narrower and loosing speed. You loose about .5 of a second to s/f line.
  

Time loss compared to hotlap benchmark.

I've got a H-shifter which i basically never use, i've also got a second wheel / pedals for clutch which i basically never use. At first i thought i'd go for the g25 right away but i think i'll properly wear out the DFP first.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=12167

Quote from PLAYLIFE :

totaled -> totalled

Quote from Google :

Did you mean: totaled

I bringeth. me.

Online nick: FLP/m filur
Account name: filur
Team: FLP/m

Pretty strange race in pool 3, most of the grid seemed to disappear during the first 2 or 3 laps. I had a slight crash which sort of inverted my camber on right front, not really ideal for fe1r.

More writings and an amazing video @ http://flp.c0m.se/flp_reports.php?view=80

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Filur, could you please post some documentation?

There's not really that much to document, the source isn't meant to be a finished program and i wouldn't know what else to add besides the comments in the configuration files.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

I am confused on how to use your PHP scripts. The LFSTV mpr is always late. I have one LFS open with the server, and another LFS open playing the mpr. THe one playing the mpr is delayed by a fairly long time.

The streamed mpr is always late, you can fast forward until you're about 20-30 seconds behind but any closer then that the replay will probably stop. The mpr isn't constantly written to by LFS and thus it's not constantly streamed either, it depends on the amount of action in the race, amount of racers, etc.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Do I start the server, join a MP server in LFS, start the client app, open another LFS, play the LFSTV MPR in the client app. Like that?

For testing, yep.

Last edited by filur, Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:43.

-my amount of credits

Upload a replay and i'm sure you'll get some advice.

How to automatically deal with wrong way drivers is specified by the server option /autokick, which can be set to yes, no (kick), ban or spectate. The option is set in the configuration file for a dedicated server or thru chat/command /autokick in server console or in-game as admin.

ie. /autokick=yes in config, /autokick yes in chat/console.

There is a server option for disabling car resets but it doesn't seem to actually be implemented yet. Scripting to disable or penalize car resets would be extremely sketchy and prone to mistakes, which is probably why there are no such scripts or applications yet.

The splash screen text is to be grabbed from a .txt file, controlled by the server setting /welcome.

/welcome=file.txt

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=9572

Quote from wheel4hummer :

So, what causes this error?

Insufficient amount of cpu cycles available to the program, try bumping its priority.

Quote from yamakawa :

Add FZR & indicator sound.

FZR really sounds great.

Could you add something like a frequency offset, perhaps a configuration file like an .ini or something? I would really want to tweak the 'center' frequency for BF1 / XRT since the sounds are so out of tune when mixed with LFS' engine notes.

I also think your program deserves a thread of its own

Quote from traxxion :

.. I don't understand how to install/use it; I apologise.
PPS I will still try to get the files posted by filur to work

It should be enough to extract the archive wherever you'd like to put it and by method of choice run "path/to/php.exe path/to/script.php". You can also add "path/to/php" in your environment variable PATH to have php available from command line anywhere. You could also probably just drag 'n drop the script onto php.exe. Or use file association. etc.

Since the scripts are sort of sketchy you may need to use absolute paths in the script configs. (server.cfg/client.cfg).

Quote from traxxion :

I'm completely new to php

One good example for demonstrating that PHP doesn't rely on a webserver might be that it's relatively simple to write a decent webserver in PHP.

It's tricky to make a PHP webserver fully support PHP though.

Quote from AttaHorse :

But guys who have 20-50-100 hotlaps DO have this skill of contolling tyre temp. And I don't think they like it, because they wasted a lot of time on practicing this skill.

I have 81 hotlaps, i like it, my vote goes to starting from pits with ambient temps. The useless skill i've wasted so much time practicing has actually been very useful in super pole or other short forms of qualifying.

I tie ID and username to nickname and store ID and username under nickname. Sort of cross-referenced i guess, works really well. List simply gets updated whenever there's a packet holding relevant information.

I'm going nuts with insim relays/proxies/gateways.

My app couldn't connect to Companion, to connect it sends the ISI packet, a VER request and waits for the VER response, which never arrived. Companion works fine thru my relay though.

It's incredible how complicated this simple thing is, for example,

• dedilink -> my relay: ok.
  
• dedilink -> racemanager gateway: fails.
  
• dedilink -> my relay -> racemanager gateway: ok.
  
• lfsworld insim relay -> my relay: fails.
  

Since it doesn't work with lfsworld it's obviously broken, but it works so well in other situations. :tired:

Anyway, </offtopic>. The bits of Companion 0.5 i've tried so far have worked really well and your list of features is starting to look scary.

I tried connecting to companion's relay and got the message "relayed client desires MSS .. ", and i guess companion doesn't respond to my app any further since it sees this as a problem? If this is the case, i don't think you need to drop/not respond to the connection. For my app, missing MSS packets would still allow a whole lot of functionality, nothing breaks because of MSO, some stuff just won't get triggered.

NLP vs MCI might be a real problem, but i think you could allow apps wanting MSS.