What's the best way to contact an admin for non-urgent CTRA reasons? There is no obvious way to contact anyone on the CTRA pages.
How to contact an admin
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How to contact an admin
I suppose you could just PM one of the CTRA people here in the LFS Forum 
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when i had some probs going on i send the Admin a PM, and the same day i got a reply. so i think that's the best way!
After posting the above (now edited), I've had a PM about a report.
Please note that if you want to appeal a report you must use the Appeal function within the CTRA system. Admins will not consider any action from PMs regarding individual reports - we have provided a system that makes the workload managable for us and for you. You must use this system.
Please note that if you want to appeal a report you must use the Appeal function within the CTRA system. Admins will not consider any action from PMs regarding individual reports - we have provided a system that makes the workload managable for us and for you. You must use this system.
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- Becky Rose
You'd get a fair few more each week if they would stop PM'ing me Chris 
I'm finding i'm getting less and less helpful
I'm finding i'm getting less and less helpful
Heh - thanks for the efforts Becky but you should just point them to this forum.
To be fair, it's been pretty clear for a while that you've left the CTRA and you're working on STCC/other. I'd either ignore them or if you're feeling kind then send them to this forum for answers - you shouldn't be wasting any more time on our day-to-day operations. I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering what you're going to pull out of the software-writing hat next.
To answer the original question of "how to contact an admin":
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=34839
Although the above sends to a thread about dealing with Bans, the same still stands.
To be fair, it's been pretty clear for a while that you've left the CTRA and you're working on STCC/other. I'd either ignore them or if you're feeling kind then send them to this forum for answers - you shouldn't be wasting any more time on our day-to-day operations. I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering what you're going to pull out of the software-writing hat next.
To answer the original question of "how to contact an admin":
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=34839
Although the above sends to a thread about dealing with Bans, the same still stands.
#8
- Becky Rose
I've had X2 for months... ;p
LOL! Do we need to upgrade the CTRA security AGAIN?? I'm half curious to know what comprises the X2 spec in your definition LOL!
I'm half curious to know what comprises the X2 spec in your definition LOL!*looks puzzled* What do you mean "AGAIN?". The only access attempt i've made to your server outside of being an end user on CTRA was launching my old UKCT team & public access profile's in my FTP program whilst trying to delete them. No point having them if i'm banned afterall. I hardly call that hacking. *looks hurt*
Whatever I planned to introduce for the events system is a moot point isnt it, you cant say you no want me on the one hand, then take what you want from me with the other.
Hmm.. I was only half curious.
We have our complete definition of X2, which we have extended to the nth degree and thoroughly hammered out between us a good few months ago.. and I already know the full extent of what that is, in its current guise and definition. Since you said you already have X2, I jokingly postulated interest in knowing how you came to have it. It was a jest. I'm not asking what you're working on. Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be excellent.
We have our complete definition of X2, which we have extended to the nth degree and thoroughly hammered out between us a good few months ago.. and I already know the full extent of what that is, in its current guise and definition. Since you said you already have X2, I jokingly postulated interest in knowing how you came to have it. It was a jest. I'm not asking what you're working on. Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be excellent.
OK, I just read what you wrote as infering I was a security risk, which annoyed the hell out of me.
EDIT: In fairness yes I am, but i've not used my skills for malliscious purposes since I left college.
EDIT: In fairness yes I am, but i've not used my skills for malliscious purposes since I left college.
OK well in the spirit of it not being an accusation, here's vaguely how I saw the events system as coming off.
Firstly to generate interest in lesser used car classes, and also to provide a home for pickup and play style league racing, there would be a number of events each night. The nature of these events was to vary wildly and each be given a 'brand/series name' classifying it's type. The regularity of any given event type would have varied with its popularity/attendance.
Events would be listed several days ahead of time, and players would have been able to reserve places in them ahead of time from within the server and I hoped from the webpage too ('though that bit would not have been down to me). You would be able to just turn up too - but once the event started the server would go passworded.
Different events would have had different licence requirements, which in turn would reflect on the standard of competition/stewarding expected within the event.
Each event type would have been a 'pickup and play' style league with it's own points tables, restarting every 6 months - so every you could compete in the "Mini Clubman" league by turning up for 6 out of perhaps a dozen or so "Mini Clubman" events, and so on.
I envisioned having many many different types of events from club racing through to Grand Prix, and some new ones such as an owner driver style event using intake and ballast to represent car age, designed to appeal to cruisers and draw them into racing.
The goal being to further blur the boundaries between pickup racing (CTRA as is now) and league racing. Effectively offering a service similar to Race 2 Play's.
Additionally before I left the CTRA various things where coming on board which saw the CTRA starting to establish itself in the position it had been aimed at - as a governing body, Jo's eTM series and STCC being two examples of that.
As you know we'd had conversations between the two of us about governance of the sport and official recognition from sporting bodies. We had talked of expanding the services of the event system and services offered by the CTRA to support other leagues, although the mechanism for achieving that isnt something i'd thought too much about by the day I had the fateful MSN from you.
That's a broad overview anyway, in the details I had a pretty clear vision of how to bring it about and deliver it in a pallateable and appealing way to the user base. I hoped it would serve to both strengthen the CTRA's position as a sporting body, and consolidate it's position as the major server operator within LFS, and therefor be more appealing as a commercial prospect - something you where always on at me about, as much as I conduct my projects in a businesslike way - I have always given my output for free and there's never been an exception to that.
Firstly to generate interest in lesser used car classes, and also to provide a home for pickup and play style league racing, there would be a number of events each night. The nature of these events was to vary wildly and each be given a 'brand/series name' classifying it's type. The regularity of any given event type would have varied with its popularity/attendance.
Events would be listed several days ahead of time, and players would have been able to reserve places in them ahead of time from within the server and I hoped from the webpage too ('though that bit would not have been down to me). You would be able to just turn up too - but once the event started the server would go passworded.
Different events would have had different licence requirements, which in turn would reflect on the standard of competition/stewarding expected within the event.
Each event type would have been a 'pickup and play' style league with it's own points tables, restarting every 6 months - so every you could compete in the "Mini Clubman" league by turning up for 6 out of perhaps a dozen or so "Mini Clubman" events, and so on.
I envisioned having many many different types of events from club racing through to Grand Prix, and some new ones such as an owner driver style event using intake and ballast to represent car age, designed to appeal to cruisers and draw them into racing.
The goal being to further blur the boundaries between pickup racing (CTRA as is now) and league racing. Effectively offering a service similar to Race 2 Play's.
Additionally before I left the CTRA various things where coming on board which saw the CTRA starting to establish itself in the position it had been aimed at - as a governing body, Jo's eTM series and STCC being two examples of that.
As you know we'd had conversations between the two of us about governance of the sport and official recognition from sporting bodies. We had talked of expanding the services of the event system and services offered by the CTRA to support other leagues, although the mechanism for achieving that isnt something i'd thought too much about by the day I had the fateful MSN from you.
That's a broad overview anyway, in the details I had a pretty clear vision of how to bring it about and deliver it in a pallateable and appealing way to the user base. I hoped it would serve to both strengthen the CTRA's position as a sporting body, and consolidate it's position as the major server operator within LFS, and therefor be more appealing as a commercial prospect - something you where always on at me about, as much as I conduct my projects in a businesslike way - I have always given my output for free and there's never been an exception to that.
Becky, what you just explained as the "events system", sounds very similar to the way events work in iRacing.
*shrug* I ent a millionaire so I never looked at iRacing.
Nope you just programmed it. 
How to contact an admin
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