Yes, well at least I couldn't do /clear when I tested.

My god, there's huge red letters about not posting random spam and still people manage to do it.

Question regarding one change that doesn't seem to be mentioned:

There is just one single lag bar now, is that on purpose? In the stable version we get one lagbar for every player connected.

You are an ungrateful idiot, happy?

Comon, everybody must've read what Scawen had to say (for the 5th consecutive time) about his reasons on not releasing the VWS. If you still feel like complaining, after he took the time on explaining it all over again, then you probably never get it. Yes nobody is happy it is taking so long, yes everybody wants content sooner rather then later but that doesn't mean one needs to put his brain in a comatose state when it comes to understanding about the reasons why it isn't happening, that doesn't mean you need to agree with them or even like them, it means it isn't happening right now and nothing you say will change that fact.

I don't want to talk over your rules and organizing but what about letting the lead car in the class be the SC at the start? That is just if we get more then 30 valid sign ups of course.

Quote from troy :

teamName: Concept Racing
class: TBO
car: XRT
number: 23
drivers:
- {zapphord, Lars Wylensek, Germany}
- {hotmail, Reintjan Hoiting, Netherlands}
- {Bean0, Stuart Baker, England}
- {adamlfs, Adam Pettigrew, England}
- {kart-36, Joe Holmes, England}
- {troy, Kevin Leu, Switzerland}

updated

Not very impressed with the PS3 demo, got the PC demo downloaded too will test that when I find some time.

You should be shocked about the dudes hand, or the bad photoshop whatever you feel fits best.

edit:

trying not to be completely useless:

Last edited by troy, Wed 12 Sep 2012, 07:36.

I seem to remember Scawen mentioning that all the demo content is not protected on purpose, he was talking about cars in that case but I guess it's the same for the only demo track then? He even allowed people to convert it over to rFactor.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

Maybe not right place to ask. But scawen can live scoring (lap times, finishes etc) be expanded another digit, because there have been quite a few ties in history of league racing on ovals and even on finishes not just qualifying.

Pretty sure that is an engine limitation, I remember a discussion about that topic but can't find the link to it anymore.

Apparently, there are some pics of the same rig on the assetto facebook page. No further info on the car though but it looks like it is the ferrari f10 from FVA.

Quote from Scawen :

On topic :
...

Off topic :
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Glad to hear an update on the whole situation, but I do think you should make these statements more visible to a broader public, even such a short post can help tremendously when it comes to the "lfs is dead" brigade, not many people go look for developer comments in a security themed thread.

Another few bits not translated:

- There will be no player limit on the multiplayer side, so in theory you could play with 100+ cars if your server can handle it.
- There will be no driver swap in the initial version but they plan to add it
- they got no night version as mentioned, but they can already simulate the rest of the day (sun coming up - to sundown)


He talks a lot about how the cars and stuff felt but I can't be bothered to translate all of that. All in all he seemed impressed (he is usually playing LFS and iRacing)

You read that wrong dejavu, the plan is to release a techdemo "soon", which will be one car plus one track, with the goal to run it on as many different systems as possible to check for any problems in their brand new engine, there will be an announcement about that at the end of August. Then there will be the full version plus a demo at some later point in 2012, we got no info what will be included in the full version demo.

And at the guy praising the iRacing system, personally that is putting me off iRacing rather then making me want to play it. I hate being forced to get online at a certain time on a certain day to play my favourite combo, just take the radical championship, if I don't have time on the weekend I will never be able to race it competitively (yes there are hosted sessions but that is not what you're talking about with the "iRacing system").

I just want to have a nice race or two in the evening without thinking too much about dropping a wheel and loosing 0.1 rating every time while the next guy probably wants the complete opposite and I think Kunos knows that there are a lot of different people to cater for so he doesn't want to limit the software to one group or the other. He mentioned already that there will be no such system built into assetto but Programmers are welcome to use the extensive modding features to build one of their own.

Last edited by troy, Sun 19 Aug 2012, 16:41. Reason : typo

meh, I've read about the 75% off coupon too but didn't get one (even though I own Portal2) guess not everyone got it?

face -> desk

How has somebody finding an exploit anything to do with the age of the software? Just look at DayZ theres plenty of hackers around there and while it is brand new and gets updates pretty much every month they still can't get rid of them. And I very much doubt Scawen just has to change 1 bit of code to stop these kind of things happening, the only possible outcome this whole adventure will end up in is that the physics will be delayed even further because Scawen has to reverse engineer how this guy manages to beat the cheat protection.

Quote from Taavi(EST) :

Someone's DDoS'ing again...

I blame vic!

edit: crap beaten by pringles

Lovely to see all those happy faces, took a screenshot of the first 2 pictures broadcasted from curiosity

Last edited by troy, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 06:03.

Sunday, August 5
NASA Mars Rover Landing
8:30 to 10:45 p.m. PT
Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Rover Landing Coverage and Commentary #1 - Entry Decent and Landing

Should be 30min from now if I got the timezone conversion right.

uploaded it to youtube, you can see it much better on moving pictures:

http://youtu.be/dJSi8GWrHts

Some idiot throwing a beer bottle just before the start:

I asked Victor on IRC yesterday, he was looking into it and Scawen already knew about it too. Usually these kind of hacks are not fixed in an hour or two so I guess you need to wait until Scawen comes up with a solution to the problem.

Until then you could try to IP ban the guy if you got root access to your server? It's probably no measure that works for long but it's worth a try.

Just watched this interesting documentation on BBC HD, it's still on the iplayer if anyone feels like it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e ... 20122013_Mission_to_Mars/

Synopsis from the bbc website:

Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. In six days time, the nuclear-powered vehicle - the size of a car - will be winched down onto the surface of the Red Planet from a rocket-powered crane. That's if things go according to plan: Mars has become known as the Bermuda Triangle of space because so many missions there have ended in failure. The Curiosity mission is the most audacious - and expensive - attempt to answer the question: is there life on Mars?

We're about to find out if everything works according to plan on 6th of August 6.31 AM BST.

Livestreams: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 (mission feed, no comms)


Some pictures
from cbc.ca

nasa.gov


Further infos: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/

Last edited by troy, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 22:49.

http://www.simnewsdaily.com/as ... loper-statement-interview

And one more, some interesting bits in that too.

Damn it Dandy, you used to put more effort in those!

Some good new info in that even if it's centred mostly on Lotus.