This guy NickC just came on the Silver&Gold server and joined a race although he said that he has only bronze. I said he should report it but he refused so I thought I should inform you here. Watch the replay, its self-explanatory.

I would have sent a pm, but you cant attach replays there. I also tried on the official STCC forums but its the same problem there.

Thank you for highlighting this.

Again not a bug in the program as such, but an error in the config file. I really regret changing the format of that file now ! lol...

It's all fixed.

Hehe, ok, glad I could help.

Licence lookup doesn't seem to work at this time.

yep...not working... error validating your license php/mysgl record...

Yep, MySQL has totally ****ed up. According to one of the server operators, it starts up, then instantly shuts down, and he doesn't have the appropriate expertise, so he's waiting for Sam or another person to wake up to get it fixed.

Somebody get round his house and rap him up. Saturday's a busy race day ... You know he'll thank you for it

Yep, it looks like MySQL has crashed on our server. We're trying to get it restarted without having to restart the server itself. No success so far.. but still working on it
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Okay, we give up. We're restarting the server itself

It looks like something has a hold on the port that MySQL uses. We can't find what it is though
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Server restart has solved the problem (whatever the problem was!) so it's race ON again

urm.. is this something to do with how I suddenly has Silver license while Im actually still Bronze? (just got it yesterday)..

You're still showing as copper in the licence lookup I think there's a problem with the licence calculation in Becky's code. Not that it's recording the points incorrectly, but the in-game lookup seems to be incorrect.

Will Test Patch V4 be OK with the latest update ?

Thanks, Tony

In order to move the dedi server from v3 to v4, some recoding of the SRA software is needed. Becky coded around the problem in dedi v3 that is now fixed with dedi v4, so to upgrade the dedicated server to v4 will need some recoding of the SRA. Your v4 client will be fine in the server while it's still running dedi v3

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You're still showing as copper in the licence lookup I think there's a problem with the licence calculation in Becky's code. Not that it's recording the points incorrectly, but the in-game lookup seems to be incorrect.

oops my bad, I was copper and am still copper.
Just left STCC 1a server and the license validate thing is till not working. At first it was working fine but few mins ago (from this post) the problem exists.

Yep, MySQL has fallen over again. I'm going to have to stop the STCC software until we figure out what's causing it.

STCC2 is getting an mysql error. Its like a ghost town in there

I've narrowed the problem down. The server manager is running for now, but I need Becky to address an issue in the software urgently. It's affecting everything that uses MySQL, and on the UKCT server that's quite a lot of stuff!

She's sleeping in this morning, so for the moment the software is going to be tentative at best. Can't be helped.. working on it, etc

Good to hear Im sure it will be fixed in the not too distant future

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Good to hear Im sure it will be fixed in the not too distant future

Nothing in STCC is neglected =) Well nothing but me! =)

Quote from Viper93 :

Nothing in STCC is neglected =) Well nothing but me! =)

Awwww!!

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Awwww!!

Yay! Even now even myself isnt neglected =)

Just on the silver and gold license, about 10 laps into a 12 lap race on Aston North, a load of us got kicked into spec with the message, "your license does not permit you to drive this car"

I have just been on the 1b server (uf1) and i kept getting the message "your licence will not be updated whilst in this car".

Weird.

Even our licence signature bars aren't working.............

I'll continue the trend, according to $license I apparently have gold atm, even though I had copper just 20min ago.
Server 1a in XFG.

Quote from danowat :

Just on the silver and gold license, about 10 laps into a 12 lap race on Aston North, a load of us got kicked into spec with the message, "your license does not permit you to drive this car"

Exactly the same thing happened last night, 10 laps into a 12 lap race at Blackwood. Always a pain when your winning