I'm missing RaceManeger (if I'm not completley blind). I know it's supposed to be an S1 tool, but it works with S2 as well. It's the only tool I know that handles a pace lap and a rolling start.

Thankyou
Getting the update right now!!!

SCORE server will be online for for some relaxed practice every thursday from 20:00 CET. Cars will be the the same all the time, but tracks will vary. Races will be around 50km.
All these practice runs leads up to a series that starts on January 15.
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Quote from Gabkicks :

i think 3 cars, 1 track and online support is enough for a demo. many other games offer much less. look how satisfied they are staying demo racers for so long...

Indeed it is. GTR Demo had one track and two cars (of witch one was fugly and hard to handle). rFactor demo had 3 variations of the same car (but it wasn't all fugly) and one track.
LFS has not one but two tracks since you can drive the rallycross track as well, and you can drive them both in reverse direction, witch is 4 layouts. So 4 tracks and three cars is very generous I think.

What should be added though (as mentioned before by both me as well as others) is some sort of replay viewer so we can "show off" S2 and future versions to those who still hesitate

Lot's of awesome videos at http://video.supercarchallenge.nl
Some with dutch commentators, some with english commentators and some with just the original sound. This really shows the beauty of multi class racing

Quote from Hyperactive :

Only couple of people even mentioning GPL! Shame on you.

Well I did play GPL... Just didn't mention it cause it didn't have that much of an impact on me. No open wheel cars ever did. Had there been a mod for GPL with real cars (yeah, yeah, don't start, I've heard it all ) I would have played it more. Shame that GT40 mod never made it to release...

Thanks Al
Is use it for desktop background now

So after gathering some opinions about race length and and race format, here goes...

You're welcome to participate in the SCORE GT-Challenge 2006 with start January 15. Season is devided in two halfs, one Spring and one Fall series. Races will be about 1 hour in length, depending on track, but due to requests the races will be set to fixed number of laps rather than to use a time limit. There are two exceptions to this, witch are two 3 hour events.

There will be two classes on track at the same time.
GT Class consists of: FXR, FZR and XRR.
SuperSport Class consists of: XFR and UFR.
Both classes earn individual points.

Up until series start this spring, SCORE will host practice runs of about 50km in length every thursday night, starting at 20:00 CET* / 2pm EST** and keep at it for as long as there are people on the server, or at longest until midninght CET* / 6pm EST**.

Any questions or opinions at all, please post here or send an me a mail
[email protected]

Please visit www.SCORE.does.it to sign up and learn more.


* Central European Time
** Eastern Seabord Time (USA)

F1GP for Amiga - My first contact with real sims.
Flashback for Amiga - The first real adventure game I got hooked on.
Elite for Amiga - I think I played this one for 16 hours straight when I got it.
SCGT - My second contact with driving sims and the one that got me go buy a wheel.
Nascar Heat - The sim that saved SCORE. Best multiplayer code I've seen so far.
LFS - Probably the one sim that has potential to break up my marriage

The thing is that SCORE has hosted these kind of events for other sims, mostly Nascar Heat (with roadcourse mods of course) for a pretty long time. When I came across LFS and found it had a working driver change online (among many other superb features) I almost fell of my chair in pure joy. I saw the possibilities for simulated GT racing in an instant.

Almost all GT racing I know of has at least two classes of cars on track. FIA-GT has two, ALMS has four, Super-GT (former JGTC) has two, and my new favourite Dutch Supercar Challenge has three and is very similar to the American World-Challenge. Basically all vehicles in a class are competitive amongst each other but there are almost no competition between two classes.

So... One class would of course consist of the FXR, the FZR and the XRR. The other class would consist of the XFR and the UFR. Both classes race at the same time on the same track as in real life and before you know it, you got a simulated GT event with hopefully a lot of action.

FIA-GT use both time and lenght (laps) limit. The race stops after the lead car has reached the 500km mark or has done a full three hour of racing. LFS can have either time or lap races, but not both, so when I set up the basics for my little GT Challenge I chose to calculate the number of laps needed to reach 500km.

I've been trying to draw some interest to an endurance series called GT Challenge, with two classes on track. Problem is that I actually didn't get a single signup or even so much as sign of interest. This leads me to think that most people don't want to race for so long, or have forced driver swapps, or possibly it's the two class on track that scares people away.

So... I would like to set up a series that people enjoy, using the the GTR cars in one class plus the FXR and the UFR in the other class. Should I set time to only one hour? Should I take away the forced driver swap? Should I set up a tighter schedule or what? Or is two class racing simply out of the question?

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Sounds like a really good idea

ok, now I'm here again
Last update was pretty much what I was looking for but (and here it comes)...
It doesn't match words, it match cmbinations of letters.
Meaning...
If I type "hi" it answers "Hi there" or what ever I've preset.
But if I type "That was some really shitty driving" it answers "Hi there" cause the letter combination "hi" is in the config

I hope you understand what I'm trying to explain, hehe.
Anyway, it's not a big deal. If anything, it can bring out a laugh every now and then

Thanks. One less thing to think about
Tell me... Is it me or is the text recognition case sensitive? Is "Hello" the same as "hello" or do I actually have to bind them both?

Thanks a lot
I'll test it properly later tonight!

Really sweet looking paints ther Mr Al
I think I asked before, but do you do requests?

Thank you so much for these fixes
The best is really the pit info in the F12 menu!
Two thumbs up!

Server is up for practice, tuning and testing.
Server name: www.SCORE.does.it
Server will be up untill midnight, European time.

On paper, I also have 1Mbit upload speed, but the sad truth is that the internet isn't always at it's best, and so I preffer to play it safe and meassure actualy speed to servers in various places on the globe. I find that I an upload speed of little about 850 kbits / sec is what I should set it to, if I like to serve safe even for people in Australia or the US westcoast.
With that setting I can still serve 17 cars and have 23 guests, witch should be more than ok for the long endurance event's that SCORE will serve during 2006

Why do you say that? The FXR is the one car that actually is possible to bring out of a sandtrap if you mess up. It may not be the fastest kid on the block, but it will last all the way to the finish line

- FredrikB -
Try this setup I made for Westhill. It's probably not the best setup you've tried, and it's definalty not the fastest, but if you drive it right, it should last for at least 60 liters of fuel from start, probably more.
I've also attached a replay of how I drive it to get the tires to last. You can probably improve both driving and setup

NOTE!
You will probably have to adjust the Maximum Lock (under steering) to suit your needs. But don't set it higher than you need to since a high lock result in "twitchy" steering witch consumes tires.

Hurray
Thankyou so much for your hard work!

This spring, SCORE will host and maintain a 5 event GT series, with a following 5 event's in the fall. 500km events in two classes plus two 24 hour event's ending each of the series.

In addition, there will be two practice events of about one hour each, to get a feeling for what it's like to race with two classes of different speed on track. These events take place in November and December this year. More info about dates for these practice events will be posted in the SCORE forum.

For more info about practically everything, please visit SCORE. Read the rules, gather a driving team, pick a car and a class and sign up for this exciting series, brought to you by SCORE.

SCORE has been serving online GT and touringcar events since January 2003, using SCGT and Nascar Heat among others. The time is absolutely right to move on up the ladder and start using LFS

Most welcome! - www.score.does.it