We have a ~1 hour race every monday, and we use to be about 100 racers, so we have to make several divisions for everyone to race at the same hour and with people who makes similar times
So the automatic inscription system for the league works like this:
- You must have both a HL and an online time for the combination. If the HL it's not present, then your time for the inscription (not the qualy, just the inscription for sorting the divisions) is your onlime time * 2. If the online time it's not present then you will have a total time of 40 hours and then you'll apply for the last division. Anyway, your online time cannot be less than 99.6% of the HL for avoiding people taking cuts on chicanes or another "facilities"
- While people apply for the race during the week (at any time you can refresh your inscription time) the automatic system is balancing the divisions to assure that all divisions will have about the same amount of racers. Must say that if you race one week in first division, the next week you can race in another division, it just depends on your inscription time (HL + online as explained above)
- Monday at 20:15 pm the inscription is closed and the conditions (weather and ilumination) and the pass is setted for the race. At 22:15 the qualy is on. Every racer must enter the server assigned for his division an make a 15 minutes qualy. 22:30 qualy is off, 5 minutes to visit the bath and cigar time and at 22:35 the race starts
- At the end of the race both qualy and race replays must be uploaded to our FTP and via LFS-Stats the results are obtained and published at the web (usually on tuesday morning).
I hope I've explained it clear, sorry for my english
It's just another way of getting sounds out of a guitar
I'm not very interested in learning that way, but dude... it sounds really fantastic (if you don't like the technique just open another tab and listen to the music :nod
Don't worry... many people know the trick. In my team we discuss it and some of my teammates try it, but we're really far away from the top times and use to drive for joy (we're not breaking any WR :tilt.
Anyway... Aitorr doesn't race in our league anymore and Zanini and arrechee are in another level (with permission from Elgar and a few more guys) so no one will complain if they get two tenths that way
In our forums we use to discuss a lot about exploiting times vs simulating reality... you know... cockpit view vs wheels view, cluth axis and H shifter vs paddles... and in the end we don't blame no one because we have fun every monday and we have one of the best leagues (organization, automatic system and community) and we're really proud of it
Sorry if this is already answered, I haven't read all the topic
Are Y version HotLaps valid for uploading? I mean, some HL's have been deleted (the ones related to modified cars) but others don't. A friend is having problems to upload a LX4 HL made last monday with version Y... is he supposed to redo the HL again in patch Z?
That's a "press effect". While a few years ago the press focus at Alonso now they are focusing at Luis
Alonso is making the same interviews and saying the same type of things he always did (at last at Spain press which obviously continues centering at him )
I used to like Petrucci a lot... I studied him a lot and eventually I realized that he is extremely overrated. He (no doubt) has a good technique and he is fast, but with the time it seems like he ran out of ideas and started to repeat again and again the same "tricks" in his solos and riffs
One of the best guitar players no doubt...
Just listen to "The Sleep" solo... or "Planet Caravan", so much blues hided in that solo... I really love the feeling he had playing, the way he used the scales, his artificial harmonics...
When we was invited to play with DiMeola and McLaughlin they started improvising a couple of times just to warm up and take some ideas out... when they asked Paco about what scale he was using and what mode he used to play at, he didn't know how to say... he was all his life playing guitar, just that... nothing about studying theory... he simply take a guitar and play what his head wants to play