meh #87

meh #5, #99
HoR #31

The signups for the fifth Open Endurance Cup are open. You can sign up via Live for Speed Racing Leagues. You'll be asked the following information:

Team Name
Starting Number (11-99, 01-10 for reserved)
Car (UFR, XFR, LX6, RAC or FZ5)

Entry 1
LFS User Name
In-Game Name
Entry 2
LFS User Name
In-Game Name
Entry 3
LFS User Name
In-Game Name

Entry 1-3 are the possible driver nominations. You only have to enter the information for Entry 1 to file a valid entry application. I sort out eventual starting number clashes et cetera and will approve the entry once the clashes are resolved.

You can always edit your entry to add or remove drivers. Please note: It is not possible in the system to remove the driver who signed-up. Therefore it is not directly possible to switch to a different entry later in the season if you were the one signing the team up. In these cases, please notify me, so we can sort this out, like in previous seasons.

Entries: 44 ( 28 / 15 / 1 )

01 - Akagi Red Suns (Last Lap Motorsports & Team S1DUS) [UFR]
02 - reserved (Heroes of Racing/Guglhupf Racing Team)
03 - reserved (Green Flame Racing)
04 - War Faction [RAC]
05 - reserved (Last Lap Motorsport)
06 - reserved (EKR)
07 - Gugelhupf Racing Team [UFR]
08 - reserved (eXtrem Racing)
09 - reserved (World Class Lions)
10 - reserved (Launch Racing)
11 - Regan Motorsports [LX6]
12 - draskytojai tm [RAC]
14 - GlobalGamingRacing [XFR]
16 - Hormiga Loca Racing [XFR]
17 - Launch Racing [XFR]
18 - Energy Virtual Racing [UFR]
20 - GUM Garage[XFR]
22 - Fragmaster [RAC]
23 - Belgium National Team [XFR]
24 - Launch Racing [XFR]
25 - Born To Race [UFR]
28 - Underage Sailor [FZ5]
29 - Born To Race [XFR]
30 - Born To Race [RAC]
32 - Master Race car [XFR]
33 - Pocket Lugon Team [XFR]
34 - Last Lap Motorsports [UFR]
39 - ATR [XFR]
41 - Hormiga Loca Racing [XFR]
42 - Concept Racing [RAC]
43 - a ufo whit rac [RAC]
44 - Hyena Racing [UFR]
46 - Tracing point [FZ5]
47 - Free Candy Racing [XFR]
55 - Launch Racing [XFR]
56 - Non [LX6]
63 - Isaac Esports [XFR]
66 - Vision [LX6]
67 - Gil Team [XFR]
69 - Born To Race [TBA]
72 - TRR Park The Bus Racing Team [FZ5]
75 - Cruise God [UFR]
77 - XinoXano [UFR]
80 - Team America [UFR]
86 - Born To Race [XFR]
87 - E-Z Rollers [RAC]
88 - Launch Racing [XFR]
89 - Team America [UFR]
96 - Race Green Autosports [LX6]
97 - Michal Málek Motorsport [UFR]
99 - LFS.HU [LX6]

Last edited by TFalke55, Sun 30 Aug 2020, 14:47.

As hinted via various sources, Open Endurance Cup returns for edition five!

Racing Calendar

1. 21 Jun 2020 - Aston Grand Prix reversed (AS5r) 57 laps
   
2. 19 Jul 2020 - Westhill International (WE2) 87 laps
   
3. 02 Aug 2020 - Kyoto Ring National reversed (KY2r) 99 laps
   
4. 30 Aug 2020 - Blackwood Historic reversed (BL2r) 160 laps
   

16:30 UTC - start of the 20 min qualifying session
17:00 UTC - start of the race
Please check your local times.

As other competitions currently provide a wide spectrum of GTR racing in Live for Speed (Buggyra Zero Mileage GT Cup, New Dimension Racing GT2 Challenge or Team Rock Racing Endurance Pros), a different class structure was chosen:

Class 1 (NGTR)

UF GTR (UFR) FF race car FWD 1.4 L inline-4 134 kW (180 hp) 600 kg (1322 lb)
XF GTR (XFR) FF race car FWD 2.0 L inline-4 172 kW (230 hp) 840 kg (1851 lb)

Class 2 (LRF)

LX6 FR roadster RWD 1.8 L inline-6 142 kW (190 hp) 539 kg (1188 lb)
Raceabout 06 (RAC) MR convertible RWD 2.0 L turbo inline-4 183 kW (245 hp) 800 kg (1763 lb)
FZ50 (FZ5) RR coupe RWD 3.6 L boxer-6 269 kW (360 hp) 1380 kg (3042 lb)

To balance the performance of all cars within the classes over the course of the race, car-specific minimum pit stop times will be announced per event.

For the first time, all events will be streamed live, thanks to Sim Broadcasts!
The server is again sponsored by New Dimension Racing.

Last edited by TFalke55, Tue 28 Apr 2020, 13:32.

I don't understand, what you mean by automatic registration. These are just All Time Standings and don't have an influence on the upcoming OEC5, which will be announced soon.

thanks, corrected

Thanks for your quick answer!

Yeah, after all it was a typical user error.

Too bad it is not in the MPR header. If you get arround and test your mpr-body paser and maybe thereby come around to implement features you want to add and maybe even the one I suggested, that would be awesome!
Yes your assumption is correct. I come from the perspective of running Open Endurance Cup, where we're giving all co-drivers the same points as the finishing driver would get for the classified posission.

Hey expr!

Thank you for the program. It works really great and I am a big fan of it. I also might have done a bit of advertisment across various discords in different contexts.
I love the support of rational numbers in addition to natural numbers for the point scoring. I played around with it as rational numbers are inherent to the Open Endurance Cup (Nürburgring Endurance Series) point system.


There are two features that might be handy:

• Custom bonus/penalty points: In OEC I award bonus points to teams and drivers that use a skin with all official elements. I could do a work-around by using the modify-points options, but if I understand the option correctly, it overrides any points scored in the event, so I still have to calculate the points scored for the position plus the bonus or minus the malus by hand.
  
• One feature that I'd like to see is support for endurance races with driver changes as currently it only lists the driver finishing the race, but not the driver(s) that drove the car in earlier stints. Again for now I help me with modify-points but team standings become inflated.
  

Keep up the great work!


EDIT: Never mind what I said as first point was wrong, it obiously works

Last edited by TFalke55, Fri 17 Apr 2020, 14:41.

The following list is the sum of all points from OEC2, OEC3, OEC4 and OEC5.

All-Time driver standings

1. R.Takahashi (Excellent15) 106.57
   
2. Jueweb 96.45
   
3. Ascona b 89.67
   
4. K.Takahashi (FasTLT) 74.37
   
5. Lacko86 67.45
   
6. Rony (Eclipsed) 66.04
   
7. huntik 59.57
   
8. climbs 58.81
   
9. MG-NA3 58.80
   
10. Mathi24 56.64
    
11. D.Duffin (cougar8) 53.12
    
12. Michal (michal 1279) 52.35
    
13. Riddick 51.62
    
14. DataFi 50.71
    
15. P.Duffin (paul88) 46.99
    
16. Jkat 39.20
    
17. przemek21061995 37.46
    
18. ImudilaSkyline 37.00
    
19. A.Coupe (maz17) 36.54
    
20. Sobis 34.82
    
21. Mensafest 34.42
    
22. Coulti 33.46
    
23. Infern0 (tr0l) 33.25
    
24. altsu 33.23
    
25. Cossi (Schrauberherz) 33.12
    
26. M.Duffin (mat8863) 31.72
    
27. Tenishia 30.58
    
28. Ricsi0324 29.85
    
29. Székely 29.85
    
30. Joni Katila (jsrk) 29.69
    
31. M4ver1ck 28.38
    
32. pik_d 28.21
    
33. kamikas 26.22
    
34. brilwing 25.69
    
35. Timo1992 22.25
    
36. uNite (nikopdr) 22.04
    
37. Sean Lee (MicroSpecV) 21.35
    
38. Shikari_San 20.99
    
39. borislavb 20.39
    
40. Chyrion 20.00
    
41. the spek 18.69
    
42. Ayoub2016 18.46
    
43. Slovakia Ring 18.37
    
44. Elberto 18.27
    
45. i-M@n (i-man) 18.27
    
46. husseyin41 17.50
    
47. someb0dy (renato.picanco) 17.38
    
48. Pantiainen 16.81
    
49. N Gin 16.62
    
50. teppari 16.42
    
51. n0body (pathseeker) 16.38
    
52. Gustas1 (markantonio) 14.70
    
53. eRotika (airis03) 14.70
    
54. ziomek21 14.33
    
55. MrFetch (Features_Gaming) 14.06
    
56. Mailliw 13.93
    
57. VictorMateus123 13.93
    
58. SimGintas (Laoz) 13.42
    
59. troy 13.13
    
60. treborX 12.52
    
61. Eisbaer (Zapphord) 11.06
    
62. Jaroslav Dohnalík (Fast Jarda) 10.96
    
63. Leipnieks 10.40
    
64. Sn1p 10.40
    
65. Kid222 10.27
    
66. Flame CZE 10.01
    
67. Jmeade 10.01
    
68. falconbridge 10.00
    
69. Isaac Price (IsaacPrice) 9.71
    
70. Patrik Hlinka (spiiiky) 9.68
    
71. Fernandoigor 9.66
    
72. xtraction 9.65
    
73. Niggo 9.56
    
74. theeMitchi 9.56
    
75. PaulSVK 9.45
    
76. mancu (capo-007-chodita) 8.71
    
77. Nano (HL_Nano) 8.66
    
78. k_badam 8.60
    
79. Hatchi 8.50
    
80. toga 8.50
    
81. Ripe (narkoze) 8.19
    
82. Ljubik 8.14
    
83. Skattle (Thespeed10) 8.11
    
84. Zaabis 8.05
    
85. Jereloco (pianomen) 8.03
    
86. Daniel Lukastik (D4NO) 7.88
    
87. mbutcher 7.22
    
88. Bacabinha 7.16
    
89. Tiptoe 6.78
    
90. gu3st 6.72
    
91. B.Braun (bebraun) 6.53
    
92. vinsu 6.53
    
93. kimble79 6.47
    
94. tomislav531 6.36
    
95. F1 poika 6.05
    
96. Niko (nsaitcevsky) 6.00
    
97. CardsetCrazy 5.83
    
98. kokoss112 4.65
    
99. Number (NumberTwo) 4.50
    
100. thescorpio 4.44
     
101. Jonathon.provost 4.41
     
102. Driloniloni110 4.22
     
103. Mvelikov 4.17
     
104. MandulAA 4.13
     
105. GáboR (Viperakecske) 4.13
     
106. bmxtwins 3.89
     
107. joaopaulopt 3.83
     
108. Tammerterho 3.75
     
109. JosephStalin 3.57
     
110. PioneerLV 3.39
     
111. prOmo_LTU 3.25
     
112. Kajot211 3.20
     
113. Diogogalinho 2.83
     
114. alikaptan13 2.78
     
115. qwerty (killmeimgod) 2.78
     
116. nappelger 2.51
     
117. delis 2.50
     
118. MegA (Eldarone) 2.39
     
119. Daniel Gil 2.37
     
120. MTnRunnr 2.00
     
121. PavkaManCZ 1.71
     
122. Lukas94 1.67
     
123. Fabou (DJFABOU) 1.66
     
124. Fl4vio360 1.50
     
125. itzsean 1.00
     
126. Huskii 1.00
     
127. Alireza d1 1.00
     
128. l3vo 1.00
     
129. TwinCam (cathal50cc) 1.00
     
130. Firexter 0.36
     
131. Adnaneren1977 0.00
     
132. Attta 0.00
     
133. Bellko 0.00
     
134. pries 0.00
     
135. Ymeshulin 0.00
     
136. Znany Rafal 0.00
     
137. iltrida 0.00
     
138. K.Piropo (KaiqueBRA) 0.00
     
139. CABEZON (phm) 0.00
     
140. minve (Ka darai) 0.00
     

I hope to have spelled all usernames right . If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out.

Last edited by TFalke55, Wed 2 Sep 2020, 22:37. Reason : Adding team standings

Well, the tyres do indeed wear and the AI experiences damage. If you let the AI drive over a longer distance you will see them suffer from flat spots and punctures.

EDIT: looking at the picture you posted, the car you chose to monitor seems the be road car. The road tires in LFS last very long. E.g. in an endurance race at AS7 I took part in where XRGs were available, they could do stints of 2h30min to 2h45min with one set of tyres. I'm not sure if they had to pit for tyres or if it was because of the fuel. So it might take a long while until you really see the tyre wear.

Last edited by TFalke55, Tue 14 Apr 2020, 09:28. Reason : extra explenation

I understand it also that way. There might however be restrictions for demo users, e.g. what times can be chosen from the spectrum, but that's the devs' decision.

Hello everyone,

maybe you have spotted the one or the other change here and there about the Open Endurance Cup. In fact, preperations for a fifth edition are underway.

Stay tuned!

Quote from Ayoub2016 :

Servers nowadays getting full and full for some week events , so 47 online driver and 40 grid spot not enough in current situation , we need some addition grid slots + online spots , to have all the players in big events such this .

that's why there are multiple divisions for this very championship to make sure everyone gets a spot

Idea #1 is already practiced in league racing. See TRR's Endurance Pros races - https://www.lfs.net/forum/468-TRR--Endurance-Pros-
Idea #2 should be monitored by league admins.
Idea #3 a drive through penalty is still a rather usual penalty for jump starts in reallife racing. Cutting should be monitored by league staff as well.

The thing with those three ideas is that they need man power on the one hand and are difficult to implement just on the base of pure coding logic. Also different people have different opinions about for example what is a small cut and what is a big cut. That's why they are usually league racing/competition exclusives.


Idea #4 & #5 have been suggested multiple times already.

Yeah... It used to end at some point though even in time trail mode. When I was doing that NDR slalom competition some years ago, there was a need for airio to run, as only the top-32 (?!) times were saved back in the day. But yeah you couldl scroll through that list at least.

Hey!

One thing I just realised that might be usefull, are in-game result lists that support more then 40 entries. The moment that more then 40 accounts set a time during qualifying only the top 40 are displayed and whoever is slower does not get displayed in the list. One might be able to see it in the pubstat output on lfsworld but in-game that might not be a viable option.
The other thing, that comes to mind regarding the result lists is the size that they end up with that many entries. Depending on the monitor you are using they might become unreadable, so an option to limit the entries or to demand a certain size for the typeface might be helpfull.

EDIT: Just realised a driver in a position above 40 does not get an information about his position in the session. (the big position info in the top right is not shown)

best regards

Last edited by TFalke55, Mon 6 Apr 2020, 19:11.

It was a tun race! Thanks to everyone who was involved.

Quote from MandulAA :

I created a voice channel for RG Events on our Discord server. Make sure to join our server using this link: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

thanks

Anyone on discord or teamspeak later for this race? With the whole event taking about four hours I'd love to have some people around to talk to or to be talked to by.

Quote from Eclipsed :

Please add car selection to your signup! (My fault - forgot this to add)

roger, added it

Quote from TFalke55 :

Entry number : 02
Entry name : Heroes of Racing
Car : XRT
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) : HoR Falke / TFalke55 / Germany

Entry number : 02
Entry name : Heroes of Racing
Car : XRT
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) : HoR Falke / TFalke55 / Germany

Last edited by TFalke55, Sun 22 Mar 2020, 15:47.

Thanks for the racing. It was good to be back on track and turned out to be a fun evening.

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all well!
In the recent days I again thought a lot about LFS and returning to drive a couple of laps, to create the one or other skin and to start a new OEC season, including some abstract sketches of what I wanted to introduce, keep or drop, even some ideas how I would code some tools to assist the admin duties. However I took an honest look into my calendar for the upcoming six months and into the things I have to do in that time, while also private life does not stand still, so sadly, for now, I cannot announce a return of OEC yet.

Best regards and as always fast laps and see you on track.

I sadly will miss the first two rounds.

LFSW name: TFalke55
In-game name: HoR Falke
Full team name: Heroes of Racing
Nation: Germany