Quote from George Kuyumji :

... I know alot of current LFS users do not care whether a track is realistic or not, but for potenial customers it is very very important, its as important as realistic cars ...

From my experience I would actually say that a lot of experienced LFS'ers would very much like to see some real-world tracks in LFS, largely because of the somewhat narrow range of choices we have at the moment.

This isn't a dig at Eric, but with one person designing every track in the game we're always going to have fairly limited variability in the type of layout we see. For example, currently pretty much every track we have, with the exception of KY1, contains a chicane.

Quote from chunkyracer :

The question is that none of those tracks or any of the modding content of Rfactor is conected or supported in an oficial way by the creators of the game. No track owner or car company is willing to take the time to go after some anonymous modder, but that doesn´t mean they will not do it against a software company or game creators that are making money from selling their games. Which means that any kind of content that has a real life counterpart, couldn´t have official support by the devs, therefore it wouldn´t be possible to control what is released and by whom, ending with the same disavantages that RFactor has, and that, I think, is not what this community wants from LFS.

Very good point.

Seems to be fixed now.

Edit: Still broken.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:33.

Quote from amp88 :

This could be connected with the move to DST in some parts of the world on Saturday night into Sunday (Wiki link). I thought the LFS World server was hosted in the UK though.

It's hosted on a server in Lancashire, England according to locateip.co.uk.

Edit: Totally didn't notice your whois link!

For a few days the times on LFS World appear to be 1 hour behind where they should be.

My timezone on LFS World is set to UTC+0 but the times displayed are all UTC-1.

This is true on both my home PC and on the lab PCs at uni.

Congrats guys

Quote from Feuerdrache :

I've directly added the userbars in my siganture. How is it possible to use them in other forums?

Driver

[url=http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/driver/LFSUSERNAME][img]http://www.spdoracing.com/request/image/driver/LFSUSERNAME[/img][/url]

Team

[url=http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/team/TEAMID][img]http://www.spdoracing.com/request/image/team/TEAMID[/img][/url]

Replace the bits in caps .

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Btw, Josh, I was wondering if there's a way to have a search founction? It's actually very hard to find someone's stats, especially if this person belongs a country with many LFSers or if this person didn't achieve to have strong results in leagues.

A search function is one of the many things I'd add if I had more time and weren't so lazy :P.

However, as long as you know someone's LFS username it isn't hard to find their profile, just add the username to the end of 'spdoracing.com/eventdb/driver/'.

Quote from Victor :

shouldn't be long - I've gone through the oldest entries first, so there were the most to delete. I've still a couple hundred to go. But there are still 846 teams in the database atm, so they can't all have ceased to exist

EDIT - 831 teams - i think i'm done, though you should always expect teams to disappear coz I'll be doing this from time to time.

Well if they're gone from LFS World then that should sync up on my site, which is fine, but earlier on I wasn't getting any drivers for spdoRacing, SK, F1RST, #low or any of the teams I tried, even though they're still listed on LFS World.

I'll try again now and report my results...

Edit: Working fine now

National Royalty or National Reality? :P

Congrats though .

Could you let us know when you've finished? Our site keeps claiming that everyone's left the team :P. (And actually that almost every team has ceased to exist.)

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Strangely, this doesn't work with me. [spdor]GreyBull [CHA][/spdor]*

EDIT : Fixed !

Looks like there are a couple of quote [" "] marks missing from the html. I've let Victor know about it in the userbars thread so hopefully he'll be able to sort it soon.

Well done for finding a workaround though .

Edit: Victor's fixed it now!

Last edited by joshdifabio, Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:17.

Yo Vic,

The <img> tags seem to be missing quote marks around the src attribute for the spdor and spdot userbars. Other userbars seem to be okay.

Cheers.

Quote from AMB :

Thank you.

You should try and get marcione to hand over control of n! on LFS World to one of you guys. I know it's possible because I can see the option on there for spdo.

Quote from Victor :

works again.

about unexpected results, I'm doing a big teams cleanup, so there are atm around 200 less entries than before. Dunno if that's what you meant (getting less entries)

Oh yes! I just came to post to say that lots of teams have disappeared!

What's the reason for the clean-up just out of interest? Is it due to people deleting their teams from LFSWorld or what?

Edit: Members of the deleted teams still have the tag shown on their profile page, just fyi.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Sat, 7 Mar 2009 01:59.

Is the 'teams' function broken at the moment?

Try this: http://www.lfsworld.net/pubstat/get_stat2.php?version=1.4&idk={identKey}&ps=false&action=teams&c=0&s=0

Edit: I started getting unexpected output around 2 weeks ago (February 24th), but that could be at my end as I made some changes to my system around that time.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Sat, 7 Mar 2009 01:28.

I've created a couple of dynamic userbars which Victor has kindly added to the forum. The first one shows a few league stats for a given driver, and the second one does the same but for a team.

Driver userbar


[spdor]joshdifabio[/spdor]

The driver userbar simply requires that you enter your LFS license name.

Team userbar


[spdot]154[/spdot]

The team userbar requires that you enter a unique team id. These are assigned by LFS World and can be found on our website's team index by clicking the team in question and taking the number from the URL.

Thanks Victor!

How about now, Victor?

Last edited by joshdifabio, Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:00.

Quote from Victor :

ok then I'd just have one suggestion - could you somehow show in the userbar what the displayed data means, or rather what it stands for? I mean, show ppl that it's stats from the EventDB or something. Just to give the userbar some more meaning, so that ppl who see it actually know what it stands for (i didn't, hence i had to ask )

Okay, I'll try to work that into a background image.

Yes - we collect results from LFS league races on our site using a replay parser.

We've around 3700 replays at 28 gigabytes right now from over 300 competitions.

The userbars are available for any driver (80,000+) or team (all the ones on LFSWorld) in our database!

Okay, thanks .

Are the new tarpits implemented by ident-key or by user id?

Hi Victor,

Would it be possible to add a couple of userbars for our event database? We've one for drivers and one for teams.

Images are at:

http://www.spdoracing.com/request/image/driver/{driverLicense}
http://www.spdoracing.com/request/image/team/{teamId}

Also, is it possible for the userbars to be automatically wrapped in [url] tags? If so, could they point to:

http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/driver/{driverLicense}
http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/team/{teamId}

Example images

[url=http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/driver/joshdifabio][/url]

[url=http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/team/154][/url]

I'll probably pretty them up a little tomorrow, but other than that I should think they're just about done.

Edit: Another question. Would animated GIFs be allowed if transitions were gradual and non-intrusive?

Edit 2: [spdo] tags (containing driver/joshdifabio and team/154) would be preferable! Thanks!

Last edited by joshdifabio, Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:00.

Congrats to F1RST GT2.

It's pretty cool that the GT1 title will be taken by whoever finishes highest at Kyoto - may the best team win!

Quote from baSh0r :

remembering the accident of South City, where we accidently hit spdo as they turned in and we couldnt avoid and they lost some seconds.

We got a DT.

Not mentioning that our race got ruined by this. Thanks a lot

Well I don't think the South City incident is really relevant, and imo that was clearly a mistake by your driver.

However, I'd agree that considering the time you lost today the leniency our penalty does seem a little unfair, though I guess that's a fault in the rules and not with the admins.