Hello,

At many servers we have been having a problem with this message appearing and then the server kicking everyone out.

"Host: Automatic Restart"

I have narrowed the problem down to a joining/time out issue. When you get timed out you get the error:

"Username is already online"

For this automatic restart to occur, a player times out then rejoins the same server before the LFS Master server has picked up whats happened. So then you have 2 instances of the same username connected to the same server.

As you can see in this screenshot - this has happened.

http://img394.imageshack.us/im ... stemergencyrestartsu0.jpg

Just as UKD1 Daniel connected again after timing out, he is connected twice. The server then spits the dummy out and calls an automatic restart.


Thats my theory on this matter, I don't know if this is what is actually happening but we definatly need this fixing. Many insim programs on servers have been totally dumbfounded by this happening, often taking money away from players or points away from stats.

Could you please look into this?

It usually means it can't record the replay anymore, and has to restart.

I think.. Don't quote me on that.

Quote from Falcon140 :

It usually means it can't record the replay anymore, and has to restart.

I think.. Don't quote me on that.

Is that not:

MP Replay out of Stash Space.

*someone times out*

Stash space recovered.

Heres another one with huge lag, and possibly a host restart, but I didnt catch it
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/985/biglagrp3.png
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Quote from imthebestracerthereis :

Heres another one with huge lag, and possibly a host restart, but I didnt catch it
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/985/biglagrp3.png
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You gotta be kidding me, sorry if this offends anyone including you, but the cops and robbers crap needs to be kept to games like San Andreas Multiplayer, but now as i see so many people on the forums want to drive casually, or try to replicate city commuting, it makes me almost want to spend that money I have saved for S2 (to get s2 tomorrow) on something else and go back to demo drifting/racing. I still want to buy S2, but I wonder if i would be able to find any serious racing servers. If I wanted to play cops and robbers, it would be on a game designed for it, not a serious racing sim.

Quote from h3adbang3r :

You gotta be kidding me, sorry if this offends anyone including you, but the cops and robbers crap needs to be kept to games like San Andreas Multiplayer, but now as i see so many people on the forums want to drive casually, or try to replicate city commuting, it makes me almost want to spend that money I have saved for S2 (to get s2 tomorrow) on something else and go back to demo drifting/racing. I still want to buy S2, but I wonder if i would be able to find any serious racing servers. If I wanted to play cops and robbers, it would be on a game designed for it, not a serious racing sim.

It changes ALOT when you have faster cars, layouts, and better tracks
so dont rant

Quote from imthebestracerthereis :

It changes ALOT when you have faster cars, layouts, and better tracks
so dont rant

You may be right, I may end up coming into one of those servers when im bored :

didn't someone post a thread saying that there is a hacker making the server do that and then it crashes?

Quote from Zachary Zoomy :

didn't someone post a thread saying that there is a hacker making the server do that and then it crashes?

yes, and we rubbished the ideas because of so many variables

Quote from imthebestracerthereis :

Heres another one with huge lag, and possibly a host restart, but I didnt catch it
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/985/biglagrp3.png
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very off topic:
whats timbes voice like ?
i've been driving a while with that guy(end 2006) but i allways wondered what his voice is like, i saw him in your teamspeak