Quote from boothy :

Surely it's more disrespectful to leave out some countries flags than for Niko to change his nationality?

Not for me, no. I don't believe it makes sense to have both the UK and its constituent countries (because clearly people living in Scotland, Wales or any of the other constituent countries also live in the UK), so I decided to just go with the UK. If that bothers you then I'm sorry, but it's not likely to change any time soon.

Edit: And I don't believe Niko was "just changing his nationality." I'm pretty sure he was taking the piss out of Somalia. So yes, I do think that's more disrespectful than me following international convention.

Quote from JPeace :

I like the "ranked 91st out of 236345376" thing, for both teams and drivers, but sometimes it is there and sometimes it isn't. I think it is a good little addition, but needs to be perminant.

The rank is always there for drivers & teams which have driven in at least 1 event. However, it's broken at the moment so the ranks are out of date.

Quote from nikopdr :

Would it be possible to change it manually? I would appreciate being finnish again, to be honest.

No, sorry. If I set your nationality back to Finnish it will just get set back to Somalian within 10 minutes. Read my other post for an explanation.

On the next version of the site I'll likely write a fix, but tbh you shouldn't have set your nationality to something you thought would be amusing in the first place. It's actually a very disrespectful thing to do imo.

League of The Americas › Micro-GTR Shootout › Summer 2010

Quote from Commander :

Overtaking yes, but if there is no green flag at all the race is not on. At least it was that way in the WTCC e.g. So what we thought was +1 formation lap and then a working green light

I think I would interpret it the same was as you: if there is no "green flag" then you're not racing - you're still under the safety car.

Quote from racer hero :

*snip*

Just fix the indentations and the race session names and I'll add it. Also, please remember to upload all the replays or otherwise delegate it to someone else.

Quote from ElonB13 :

Gumball 3000 LFS Edition
No Qualifying
14:00: Race starts

Timezone: Danish time

Read the OP and try again.

Quote from amb :

i'm not moaning, but how long has it been since the original release date? Was it dec 2009?

2008.

Quote from MoMo92i :

an improvement suggestion can be a search function because there are lot of leagues, and ofc more than 200,000 LFS username !

Keep it up

It's been suggested many times and I do plan to do it on the next site .

Quote from pik_d :

Also a quick question, has the user ranking stopped working? I've been ranked 384 for ages, even though I've done quite a few leagues recently.

It has stopped working, yes. I noticed it a couple of days ago. I'll try and look into it asap.

Quote from bunder9999 :

can you (at least partially) automate the registration process necessary to have events listed on the database?

No, I don't think so. I stated the reasons behind the current system earlier in the thread. There is a very high correlation between the group of people who can be bothered to read the instructions and post their schedule in the proper format and those who run a decent league and upload all of their replays in a timely manner.

Quote from Framaris :

...I thought you were using lfs functions which only counts the races if finished, does that means that your system analyse the replay and count the race if you start?

That's right. The parser goes right through the replay from start to finish picking up split times, DNF's, driver changes etc.

Btw guys, remember to enable MPR autosave!

GRIDLFS › FZR GT3 2010

Team Name: spdoRacing #2
Car Model: FZR
Team Manager: joshdifabio
Team Vice-Manager: Dmt
Drivers:
C.Hofbauer [K.Dingeling] DEU
R.Pearson [pearcy_2k7] GBR
D.Tsubenko [Dmt] EST
L.Vieten [GermanRacer] DEU
B.Mihaly [mihu86] HUN
L.Forcinetti [leonardo555] BRA
A.Wisniewski [Garfild12] POL
M.Jagiello [MARUS] POL

Last edited by joshdifabio, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:42.

Quote from Framaris :

I noticed a perverse effect of having a leagues in the database, some drivers who are really focussed on their stats tend to retire when not on the podium, so I would like to suggest to add a DNF count to the stats.
Of course I have not idea if it is possible, but I thought this had to be mentioned here...

BTW I have added your website in an Iframe to our Dailycious topic, I hope this is not a problem? http://www.ready2rollteam.com/ ... wtopic.php?f=44&t=675

I don't see why anyone would do that. If you DNF then the result still counts towards your stats and appears in your results as a low finishing position. DNF's aren't treated any differently to race finishes.

I don't have any problem with the iframe.

Quote from nikopdr :

Why am I listed as a somalian...
http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/driver/nikopdr

It's because the nationalities are grabbed from the country highlights files. Each of these files contains a fixed number of the most recent highlights. Evidently, your nationality was once set to Somalia and as there are no active drivers for that nation your name still appears in its highlights file. Therefore, whenever the highlights files are read your nationality is set to Somalian. The same issue effects a handful of other people too.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Tue 18 May 2010, 18:20.

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I keep seeing posts in here while I'm at work and therefore not responding for fear of reprisal :P. But it's my lunch break now so fk it.

Quote from Flame CZE :

Can we post general suggestions here?

Anyway, it would be good to fix the wrong display of some characters there, like here in his name. It seems like a kind of encoding problem, although you use UTF-8. It's a minor thing but details make the whole thing perfect

I've noticed that issue and I will try and have a proper look at it soon. I am very busy at the moment though and there are a couple of other things I have to take care of first.

Quote from J@tko :

One thing I thought of, not sure if it is actually possible or not, is to have a form to fill in for submitting leagues and events rather than a thread where people constantly do it wrong and josh ends up getting angry :P

Just like a box for round number, date, time, track, distance/time, then the ability to add boxes for more rounds.

That actually used to exist but there were a lot of mistakes & half-complete submissions etc. The good thing about the current system is that I can get a good idea of the competence of people (and therefore how likely they are to run a decent league, upload replays etc.) by their posts in the request thread.

With a data entry system there wouldn't be the same level of communication between myself and the applicants which isn't really something I'd like.

Quote from MoMo92i :

maybe add some new class which are use in some league like MoE. GT2 for example. I don't know if it is possible :s

I plan to do that in the future, but it's too much work to implement it for the current site I'm afraid.

teamName: spdoRacing
car: FZR
number: 01
driver:
- {Hawku, Heikki Jaakkola, Finland}
- {Egon-est, Egon Liibeon, Estonia}
- {Matias-, Matias Pikkarainen, Finland}
- {Ghost_CZ, Martin Silhanek, Czech Republic}
- {GermanRacer, Lukas Vieten, Germany}
- {Garfild12, Adam Wisniewski, Poland}

Edit: Are we allowed that many names? :P
Edit 2: Removed misan.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Thu 13 May 2010, 18:44.

Quote from pik_d :

Josh, something weird has happened. The event today (the 9th) is listed as being on the 8th, though I have it correct in my post.

My Post: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1396730#post1396730
The Event: http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/event/2275

Each MPR file contains a timestamp which gives the exact time the replay started being recorded. It seems that rsr.havoc (or whoever saved the replays) has the date set incorrectly on their system. I've corrected the replays, but he should correct the date on his machine to stop this happening in future.

Quote from boothy :

http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/replays/missing is also useful for those racers who want to check if they can upload a replay from their series.

Thanks, that's a good point.

Quote from JPeace :

I think it's a great Database, giving us an official leader charts for the best drivers in LFS. Keep up the good work Josh.

Thank you

Quote from joshdifabio :

Team Name: spdoRacing
Car Model: FZR
Team Manager: joshdifabio
Team Vice-Manager: Hawku
Drivers:
J.Di Fabio [joshdifabio] GBR
H.Jaakkola [Hawku] FIN
T.Hirvonen [Misan] FIN
R.Blauwhoff [ChristijaNL] NLD
M.Gassner [MarcG] DEU
M.Silhanek [Ghost_CZ] CZE
C.Hofbauer [K.Dingeling] DEU
R.Pearson [pearcy_2k7] GBR
D.Tsubenko [Dmt] EST
L.Vieten [GermanRacer] DEU
M.Pikkarainen [Matias-] FIN
B.Mihaly [mihu86] HUN
L.Forcinetti [leonardo555] BRA
A.Wisniewski [Garfild12] POL
M.Jagiello [MARUS] POL
E.Liibeon [Egon-est] EST

Added Egon Liibeon.

Quote from MoMo92i :

Well in fact it was a problem with airio. This week was the first week of dailycious part 3, with new server, new configuration for airio...Something came up several weeks ago and configuration which was planned needed to be redone from start ! Few errors were in and finally we needed to report Demo series and GEN racing to next week. Moreover another small mistake happened for GEN PRO and GTi/TBO but only about qualify. As many people know airio enables custom grid but it need to be set. Moreover everything is planned for dailycious and races are automatics. Finally airio didn't make what we planned and race started without any Quali...that was epic but already corrected for next week !

Don't worry auto save is on (anyway Framaris, me and other guys from Genuine racing have it turn on).

Thanks for the explanation - it seems perfectly reasonable so you can consider the matter closed .

Last edited by joshdifabio, Fri 7 May 2010, 23:50.

Hi guys,

Many of you use, or will be aware of spdoRacing's Event Database, which has been online for a couple of years with the primary purpose of hosting league replays and results.

This message is simply a request to all of you who take part in league racing - even if it's just the odd event - to enable LFS's MPR autosave setting and help us get all of the league replays online promptly in future.

I'm starting to be much harder on admins who fail to save and upload replays and this will have a knock-on effect to those of you who use our site. Any leagues which fail to upload any replays at all will be removed from our site in future (this affects active and future competitions, not past competitions), meaning that your results and stats from those competitions will not be available on our system.

However, it's very simple for us to avoid that situation. All you guys have to do is enable the autosave feature and there's no chance of you missing replays. Additionally, if you're tired of waiting a week or more for your admins to put the replays and results online, you can contact me directly and ask for instructions on how to upload replays yourself.

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Feel free to post your thoughts; positive or negative. It would help me to deliver this request to a decent proportion of the community if people could keep the thread on the first page of this sub-forum for a few days at least . You could also help a great deal by suggesting to your fellow league competitors that they enable the autosave feature in future.

Thanks for reading!

Quote from MoMo92i :

nop josh, a small problem with airio and server so nothing available for quali but the race were good

Thanks Josh !

I'm going to be very strict with replays from now on, as I've been saying for several months that all replays must be provided for leagues to be allowed to use our site. If I keep saying that and then not acting upon what I perceive to be laziness then we'll get back to the situation we had a year ago where 3 or 4 out of every 10 replays are not being uploaded.

Were there qualifying sessions in Round 1? If the qualifying sessions took place then the replays must be uploaded. Otherwise, there is no place on our site for the competitions in question. I always ask people to enable replay autosave; if that is done then there is no possibility that the replays won't be saved. Even if the server crashes the replays will be saved. It takes no more than 30 seconds to enable this setting in LFS.

If the qualifying session was void because of some server issues and the grid was set some other way then that is acceptable.

This post isn't directly targeted at you - I've recently noticed a lot of evidence of admins not enabling MPR autosave and missing replays as a result - despite my warnings that it should be enabled. I am going to start removing non-essential leagues from our site if they fail to meet this requirement. I consider a few competitions - such as MoE, IGTC, ESL RC, OWRL, iTCC - to be crucial to the credibility of the site and those are the only ones to which I will afford any degree of leniency.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Fri 7 May 2010, 22:12.

Quote from MoMo92i :

Hi josh !

*snip*

*snip*

Moreover wanna know something. Dailycious GEN races are going to start next week. But the problem is that a round is composed of 3 races in different combo. Do I need to make three races the same day like that :

20100510 Round 1 with GTR at KY2
20100510 Round 2 with GTR at AS7
20100510 Round 3 with GTR at BL1R

or can I do something to keep these races in the same round?

Thanks !

Yes, these can be in 1 round. Write it like this:


I changed the indentations in your code to be the same as the other entries. Sorry to be so anal but once again these schedules are inputted by a script, not a person, and they must be in the correct format.

Edit: No qualifying for Round 1..?

Baby UFR League › Season 2010

Genuine Racing Events › Dailycious › Part 3 › GEN PRO
Genuine Racing Events › Dailycious › Part 3 › R4R GTi/TBO

Last edited by joshdifabio, Thu 6 May 2010, 22:43.

Quote from michele0676 :

There are not qualification.
The event 2009 is this one:
http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/competition/354

Here the 2010 event, can u check ?

*snip*

You need to read the OP. The schedule should be formatted exactly like the other posts in this thread (but not like luder's one.)

Quote from michele0676 :

Only the date, 20100706 pool A and 20100707 pool B for example.

Okay. Provide the whole schedule with Pool A dates (don't put the pools into the schedule.) I will send you instructions on how to add the pools.

Quote from [BiA]Luder :

Ok sry josh

*snip*

hope Ok for you ?

thx a lot

No, it's wrong. It must be exactly correct as I use a script to input these schedules.

Quote from michele0676 :

Before send data for Baby UFR League, one info, i've 2 pool that run the same race in 2 different day, how i can send information in this case ?

What's the difference between the pools?