To expand on this, IIRC the player does get renamed in some places, but not all, causing the name shown in the player list/chat/over car to be different. This discrepancy can be detected in the InSim packets, which is why several InSim applications try to deal with the problem, usually by kicking the player.
I guess you did that by placing layout object while your engine is turned off ?
Its already quite known that LFS stops calculating physics if your enigne is off and your speed is equal to 0. Many other thing/bugs come from that thing. http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=76887
On dedi host, if you press the X for windows close, and keep it pushed for a while ( 10-15 seconds ), then release the button in non X button, LFS say: HOST -> Timer bounded.
Moved some spams, etc to the spam thread. All points are noted and only need to be mentioned once. I may or may not fix things that are reported. I will not reply to most posts. I'll just make a note of them and fix the issue if possible / relevant / time allows it / high enough priority. I'll reply if I need more info or want to discuss anything. Let's avoid off-topic posts and comments about how we should go about development. Thanks!
I keep loosing connection on every 0.BB9 server? and i dunno why ? i join a host give it at least a min, then bang loses connection for no reason? happens everytime? works fine on 0.6b8 and all the others, but wont work on the new update?
To be honest I didn't tested all this yet. Only if it still was possible to cheat, which is... I didn't even got an ACK that my mail has been read so for me it doesn't matter much whats going on.
Either everybody is allowed to cheat, or nobody. This means I will make public how to do it in a short while. No point in putting your hands in front of your eyes and saying "nothing is going on, nothing is going on". And I don't want to suspect people on a daily basis. Hate that.
So you didn't test what this patch was supposed to fix but you did test something completely unrelated which is out of the scope of this round of fixes? I'm trying to avoid the word idiot, but it's just...
On topic:
I tried to drop a button bomb of 238 IS_BTNs on B9 hosts running both on Linux and Windows and all was handled fine. Do you do anything more advanced that this to reproduce the problem?
I got your first mail, I got your second mail, I've been looking into it.
You made a forum post that was intended to annoy me, and I confirmed that it annoyed me. Now you expect me to start writing to you acknowledging your help. So basically you would like to force me into action, instead of staying on the polite side?
OK...
1) Thanks for your mails and explanation.
2) You said you didn't know how to go about it a better way... well, you could have just written again privately instead of making a sarcastic and confusing post (the one that was moved into the spam thread).
I already asked people (and that includes you) to just make your points and see what happens. I make a note of everything and I'm not missing anything.
You run a good server so I'd like to be on your side. You're making it hard to like you, making threats and trying to wind me up.
What is losing connection? The InSim client, or the guest that you were sending the buttons to?
Thanks for the test... please can you be quite specific about how to reproduce the bug.
Thanks for the test.
If anyone else could give this a go that would be helpful. I'm currently working on additional cheat protection and I think the release should be next week.
No, just an ultra short understandable reply should have been enough.
1) I'm aware of it, not easy to fix have to look into it, takes some time.
2) I'm aware of it but I don't think its being abused on such a wide scale at the moment so I don't give it priority.
Simply being ignored gives the feeling that, in this case, me... Is not taken seriously. Which is OK, but then I get the feeling that I have to do some action to be taken seriously yes. Because I'm sitting in between this cheat discussion, about daily now.. If somebody is cheating or not.. And that.. Gets quite annoying.
And I do not threaten just to be taken seriously, but it's just no fun to maintain racing servers if you cannot trust who is driving on it.