Team Name: TDRT
Car Number: 11
Drivers:
A.Lang [LRB_Aly] LUX
P.Mante [Spannemann] GER

Good Luck.

Congratulations & Good Luck.

Quote from pik_d :

So if people are using the race to practice (and pitting before 30 minutes) someone has to do the full 30 minutes in order to get a restart?.

Yes.

Quote from pik_d :

And if people are still practicing and one person does happen to go 19 straight laps, they're forced to restart?.

Yes. It´s a server for races, not practising.

Quote from pik_d :

No wonder the server is empty every time I check..

It has probably to do with your timezone as well. 15-22 GMT is a good time to join.

Quote from pik_d :

If someone is lapping by themselves and gets 10 or 15 minutes through, then a few other people join and they all want to actually race (you know, from a standing start, not exiting the pit lane and just going) they have to wait 15-20 minutes?.

Yes.

Quote from pik_d :

You may have solved whatever disadvantage qualifying has ( ) but you've created a needlessly frustrating server setup in the process that pretty much discourages people to stay on it.

Maybe for some people, not all of them. Fortunately, there are more servers arround for these people.

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Just see your quote 1 & 4, where you, it looks to me, ask for the restart vote being enabled but in quote 2 you then don´t want to have it.
Disabled restart and quali vote makes sure that ongoing and possible good races will see its end. End of Story.
If a group of racers joins and none of them is willing to "sacrify" themselves doing a little 14-18 laps in order to get Airio in it´s normal circle of race restarts, then it might be the wrong server for them anyways. Remember it´s a server for ppl. wanting longer races, not a sprint race server.
You see, the best solution would be to have admins 24/7 on it and make all the various changes a joined racer on this server could ever wish for. This can´t be done and we need to have compromises at certain points.
We automate the server with the help of Airio as good as we think it can be done, of course it won´t fit all of the LFS racers and we didn´t believe it to be the case. On my evenings I have on this very server good races. All I need is a fast guy in front and another one behind me to make this interesting. I don´t need 28 racers on the server all the time.

Finally:
Here two postings of today, not related to our server:
"This server is in serious need of admins who are not afraid to use the kick button regularly to get rid of the idiots runing everyone's races. Get some or start doing this!"
Starting next week, the better 105% WR feature will become enabled once more.
"**** is one heck of an idiot.
I was doing **** practice stint when he comes on 47 mins into my stint, and then restarts the race."
Additionally, the kick/ban vote will become disabled again.

I hope this made things more clear.

Quote from void :

its me again...

- "race length now laps based" gives a great advantage to gtr´s ... Tbo´s need about 10 minutes more to complete the race. Thats fine and a real "challenge" but a bit unfair when tbo´s driving alone on track..should be 30 minutes for all cars!

Not sure what you mean here.
A fx. 19 KY2 laps are 19 KY2 laps for both the GTR´s and the TBO´s. True, it takes you longer to finish the race in a TBO and you prob. won´t win against a GTR car. Points wise you´ll get max. points for a TBO class win, regardless your server finishing position, I got told.

Quote from void :

- vote-restart didn´t work. After 20-30 minutes of serious practicing (quali is disbabled, only god knows why) five racers tried to restart a race... "all restart votes canceled" -> so all reacers left the server.. Just great!

A quali session had disadvantages and there is only races now on the server.
Just one of you racers should have finished a race yesterday (work with pitstops if you´re on a quali set) and the next new race would have started automatically.
Quali and restart votes will stay disabled in order to make sure races will be finished and not destroyed by any votes.

Quote from ANAMENOONEHAD :

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Try AS4r, AS6, AS6r, FE4r, KY3 and some more tracks you never have seen so far. That´s a bummer as well.

Here you go, Tur8o.

Changed track rotation:

Saturday: South City Long
Sunday: Aston National

Top 20 Drivers week 34 published.

Sounds good. Thanks for letting us know.

We had the same feeling like you. Your described way is the way the TDRT Public Endurance Server is managed.
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=59979
Check it out some day.

IMO this thread is also a good example of that we´re these days are in need of some more "Quality" GTR Endu-Leagues. I hope we´ll see some more soon.

It´s a good thread and I´m convinced that the new GTAL admins will find the best way of treating semi-pro´s in their league.

Last edited by R.Kolz, Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:48. Reason : convident

Quote from pacesetter :

I don't think NDRs broadcast are that good as of yet.

Well, it depends on their terms: 2 bucks per race but 50 cents back on every of Wilko´s disconnects and I go for it..

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

Donations can contribute to loads of things. An expensive thing is the option of a high quality MultiBC broadcast...

Or how about "Pay-per-view" per race, per month, per season and have the viewers pay for watching it live or as an on-demand afterwards rather then wait for the actors to donate. Just an idea..

Last edited by R.Kolz, Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:07. Reason : :-)

Team Name: TDRT The Danish Racing Team
Car Number: 11

Drivers:
A.Lang [LRB_Aly] LUX
S.Fischer [Turbo3000] GER
M.Svensson [Mikael92] SWE
A.Kongshavn [heagles] DNK

Reserve:
T.Jessen [dktoben] DNK

He won´t bother anybody on this server for the next three month. Thanks for the replay.
Like my teammate states here, we "total"-opened the server for 14 days only,for all racers regardless their PB and allowed a bit more up to the 29th of this month in order to introduce it to all interested ppl..

In other words: Starting 29th, still no restart votes possible, in addition no kick/ban votes possible but only 105% WR racers will be able to join the races. The required laptime you do on another server before.

14 laps KY3 is on the menu today. Pls. join for some ~30 mins. races.

Quote from Tur8o :

you do as when im not here

so unfair kolz bet you got les to tell you

Tur8o

Yes, in deed "as" Aston National is planned for Saturdays but you might want to ask Trekker to change the track rotation. Maybe you get lucky, he´s in charge of this server.

Find a way to make it a Masters of Endurance series rather then a Masters of Hotlapping contest.
Hire the IGTC Safety Car. Success ballast - Yes, why not.

Plus: Maybe leave the team car choice open from race to race. With at least one month in between the races there should be enough race preparation time for any team and no balancing at all would be needed. In case of a possible midseason patch it might save you admins some work as well.

All I wanted to say: Give the XRR/FZR 50 kg´s both and close the case.

Unlucky for us the SC period on r4´s at the very end of this race.
Additionally, the final podium positions got all mixed up by it. But that´s racing. We liked to race this race. Thanks to the league admins and gratz to the GT1 CoRe racer. Well done EER as well.

The Danish TDRT Race League 2009 can be moved to the inactive league section of the forum. Thanks.

Sharing a car:


DEU
Turbo3000
S.Fischer
TDRT
FXR GT1

DNK
R.Kolz
R.Kolz
TDRT
FXR GT1

Quote from pasibrzuch :

Hey, I'm on your server right now. It is set to 35 hours, maybe that's why I'm alone here

It only looks like it (F12). It´s always 35mins & 1 lap, set by Airio.

Quote from jackdamaster :

(i'm not protesting, i'm just saying that you should stick to the rules that you made)

+1

When you join as first racer on the server in between race time xx:15 to xx:55 and you have your 105% PB, a 10 mins. Q will start for you.
The server is LFS PB locked at this mentioned time and can´t see if it´s a Q or a race.

Thanks. I´ll take this to the TDRT camps and we´ll get back to you. Today´s track is AS7r, the 16 Hours Track 2009.