Quote from TFalke55 :

Since the LLM guys showed it to me just during a practice run, I want to point out that you may not "run wide" in the final hairpin to have a longer acceleration way. Since you are out of bounds you may not gain an advantage from it. If you are found to have gained an advantage due to leaving the track, that lap will not count to your qualifying times!

The advantage from doing this is minimal anyway but just to confirm, presumably it's fine to miss the apex and run slightly wide as long as we stay within the confines of the track.

OK, I hadn't appreciated it was top driver only, thinking it was top 2 placed drivers as per the team list. In which case, it matters less I suppose.

I'm not saying either method is necessarily correct, just that they are incompatible with each other (in my opinion).

But it's your league, so you can do what you want. Perhaps, however, you'd allow me to transfer the points I have so far accrued for United Kingdom to England as that's what others seem to be using most, and use England as my nominated country going forward? Thank you.

Quote from TFalke55 :

Why can't we? Give us a reason why? Don't overestimate the sporting meaning of the Nations Cup.

Purely logical reasons - in that the 4 countries are a subset of the United Kingdom. Personally, I don't mind whether I'm classified as England or United Kingdom, but I'd like my points to go to the collective cause for whatever my nation is deemed to be, but at present they're being split 2 ways. Look it's really not a big deal and after this post I'll stop going on about it. One final piece by way of illustration:

In football (soccer), we compete internationally as England, Scotland, Wales, etc. - there is NO United Kingdom or Great Britain team.

In the Olympics, we'll compete internationally as Team GB - there is NO England, Scotland, Wales, etc.

It simply doesn't ever happen that you would have both in the same competition.

Quote from MrSam :

I have just say that AA has a bad server Rally, I have not insulted anyone

You obviously have otherwise they wouldn't feel insulted.
Me, I don't get offended easily and I think the only issue here is your use of the word "bad" which is a subjective term, and of course, the subsequent argumentative posts from everyone. I think we should apologise to whoever started this thread for going off topic :yel: Sorry!

OK, but it does dilute the points somewhat so puts home nations at a disadvantage in the Nations Cup :doh:

If you want people to be able to specify England, Scotland, etc., i.e. individual countries, then fine, but you can't then allow United Kingdom as a possible choice. It's either/or, not both.

That example isn't entirely correct either, as it has Scotland listed separately. Ireland is OK to be separate as it relates to the Republic of Ireland. "United Kingdom" quite literally means "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" which excludes the Republic of Ireland but includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I presume I've now confused everybody?

You can have the separate countries, e.g. "England", "Scotland", etc. OR you can have "United Kingdom". A table that can show both is wrong.

I would suggest (given we don't have any drivers from any other UK countries than England), simply combining England into a single "United Kingdom" entry.

Can this be done?

Air Attack,38,meddc,Charlie Medd,United Kingdom

Last edited by meddc, Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:47.

I think the opinion that it's full of crashers doesn't bear out my experience or that of others I have spoken to. For sure, we have some less experienced people there, but whenever I have raced there, it's been good racing, and others have said the same. So by all means promote your servers, but please don't do it by badmouthing other servers. I'm not aware of any of the history you refer to and not sure it's relevant to the current debate. It's good that people have a choice of servers with different restrictions and I would never say anything bad about MRc - I think we have to co-exist.

"bad" depends entirely on your viewpoint and what you see as important in a server. I would say, yes the AA Rallyx server does have more crashers than MRc, but the main reason is because it doesn't have a time limit imposed. This means there will be slower and less experienced drivers there than the MRc server, and yes, inevitably more crashes as a result. So, it kind of depends on what you want - busier and welcoming to newbies, or less racers and cleaner/faster racing. Unless you're under 1:12 times, you don't really have much option between the two anyway!

But lumping the AA server in with a crash server and simply labelling it as "bad" is a stretch too far I think. We are actively seeking more limads for RallyX too so hopefully it will improve, and I think we should also consider the tyre restriction.

I notice that in the Nations Cup leaderboard there is both England and United Kingdom listed. Surely, the England results should be merged into United Kingdom? Or United Kingdom split into the 4 separate countries. You can't have both!

Air Attack,38,meddc,Charlie Medd,United Kingdom

I guess you also need to consider how to wire up the horn (connect to a switch on the G27?) and also trigger the indicator cancellation (usually a pin on the underside of the wheel hub). Actually, you could connect all sorts of things to the buttons on the wheel, e.g. fog lights. Now that is cool

Ta I'll keep a low profile in case the guy's still on there

Hi guys - no replay to post I'm afraid but just been banned 5 mins ago (21:55) from Demo FBM server in my view unfairly. I was alongside some guy in final turn on lap 1 with loads of room to spare, he then swerved back onto the racing line taking me out. I voted to kick him only, then he immediately responded by voting to ban me. Then everyone joined in for no reason and I got my first ever ban! I did ask people for a reason why they were voting but obviously got banned before any reply! Anything you can do to overturn is appreciated

Cheers

meddc (Imagwai)