Quote from SamH :

Pick any replay from the list, but include the name of the replay you DO want to report in your report text. We will fix it before processing.

If someone hasn't raised a report within 48hrs, they usually won't go back later to do so. In future, please try to make sure you raise any reports within the 2 day timeframe. That said, if it's needed after that, we can still find a workaround

Thanks!
How about simply adding a drop down option in the list "Replay older than 2 days. Details in report"?

Quote from felplacerad :

In LFS, press and hold ctrl+shift to turn the FPS display into a clock. That clock displays the exact times of the events in the replay - not the current real world time.

Thanks. Got it now.
Any ideas how I compile a report when the race is not listed in the drop down box?

Quote from JO53PHS :

I hope you aren't downgrading people with rather high yellow flag ratios (only 28% till silver)

Just on this point (hijack). I'm a mid to back field racer on Race1 and many of my yellows are not my fault. If you crash at T1 due to a pile up in front of you, get rear ended at the end of a straight and so on, you get a yellow flag.

This pushes up my yellow flag ratio when I'm not at fault. Just something to note.

After the race I downloaded the track to view, I now want to raise a report but when I log on to MyCTRA the race is not in the drop down box. It seems as if there are only races in the list for the last 2 days.

So can I raise a report on a race that is about 4 days old and if so, how do I select the correct race for the drop down box in the report?

Thanks.

edit: another question.

The downloaded track has a name, like (Race1_FE1_03_May_2008_1831.mpr) while the races in the drop down box have a time. I have no idea what time the race was so how would I know which race to choose in the drop down box as I only have the above track info?

Last edited by Sig_ZA, Mon 5 May 2008, 03:11.

Very nice idea.

So does LFS recognise both the G25 and the sacrified game controller and you assign the button functions in LFS?

Did you glue the aluminum piece to the wheel and doesn't the long cable for the old game controller get in the way?

Quote from -Willi- :

I have attached an aluminium-plate on the lower part of my G25 wheel, placed 10 Buttons from an electronic shop on it and an old gamepad was slaughtered for the functionality. Works quite well and all needed keys/functions of lfs are available at my thumbs

Any pictures? Sounds interesting.

What are you guys doing with the turn signals?
I see from above that they feature well for button placement.

I like to keep the horn button handy as I find it helps to reduce accidents, like when people are backing up after a crash without looking.

The handbrake is for the rallyX tracks and I use it to get out of trouble when I'm understeering towards the wall in a fwd.

I'm very tempted to get a G25 and would like to know how most people set up the buttons.

There are only two buttons on the wheel and then the shifter paddles.

The buttons I use most are view left, view right, hooter, view rear and handbrake. Pretty much in this order.
I have these all as buttons now.

I would like to use the paddles for gear changes and I think the two buttons for view left and right. But then the other functions need to move to the buttons on the H-shifter unit.

So what do you think?

Sam, thanks for the reply.
Don't get me wrong, I not knocking the CTRA setup.
And yes I know some of the limitiations are mine, ie. time constraints and erm, skill.

But the others like the race being full and the first corner stuff can be (very) frustrating.

I haven't been racing too long, but mid field first corner carnage with a full grid, especially on the tight street circuits, is high imho.

Sometimes I enjoy starting at the back of the grid and then picking my way through the debris and gaining a few spots in only one or two corners.

Regards reporting, yes will do in extreme cases. But I have also caused some damage myself and people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

If the server is very full I am almost always booted (connection lost) a minute or so after I finish the race when I'm down a good number of laps.

I thought that the server may be set up like this so to allow the others a turn to race?

@dungbeetle
Thanks. I haven't given up yet, this sure beats those okes dodging cones.

Quote from SamH :

I'm going to pick out the points that make the most sense to respond to. Some of the points you make are common sense and don't need reinforcement from me While we set our standards, we cannot escape the fact that this is a multiplayer environment. While we structure the environment, we have no control over the people who won't drive within the structure if their victims will not file reports against them. Some accidents are simply racing incidents. The same accident repeated over multiple races stops being a racing incident and becomes an issue to be addressed.


Everybody can expect a shunt or two in a race, primarily at T1, probably 50% of the time. I have observed that there are two types of "victim". I have no idea which kind of accident victim you are. I haven't watched to see, but here are my observations after over a year of watching replays as an STCC/CTRA admin:

1. There are the accident victims who, on being struck, immediately take countermeasures, eg: countersteer, to recover. Usually they don't even lose a position.
   
2. The other type of victim, on being struck, makes absolutely no steering input whatsoever. They just resign themselves immediately to being victims of an accident. It's like they're pointing their wheel in the direction they want to go, and are bloody-minded about it, and if something interferes with that, they're to blame and that's the end of it.

The latter type of driver will not be able to progress on CTRA servers until he changes his own approach to racing with other people. Race drivers do not accept being the victim of happenstance, and determine to be proactive.

Unless you are ignoring a message from the server, there is no situation where the server will kick you. Are you repeatedly trying to rejoin and ignoring a no-midrace join message?

Hooter spammers are hooting because if they shout "blue flag get out of my way" they get a screenful of text. That doesn't make hooting okay. We will pull drivers aside for over-use of the horn. Your responsibility is to allow blue-flagging cars through at the earliest safe opportunity, so it sounds to me like you've got things right. However, if you're not reporting people for being overly aggressive on the track, that is where you are not doing things right. We're happy with people giving the occasional toot on their horn to ensure the car ahead knows they are there, but anything more than that will attract the attention of the admins - but only with your help.


Drivers on CTRA servers are not prevented from progressing, except by their own shortfalls. It has been said many times before, but CTRA licences are not a rite of passage. You will be awarded points on CTRA servers if you earn them. I understand the frustration of being beaten down the field by higher-licenced racers, but the fact is that a Copper licenced racer has no less opportunity to win a race than a Platinum licenced racer, and has no greater entitlement to that win than any other driver of any other licence level.

Regards the decision by the admins.
From what I understand they only look at the incident.
I submit that perhaps, though not practical, the driver's record and conduct through the race should also be taken into account.

As a rookie I spend lots of time being lapped. For those of you that were ever there, it's not as easy as it may seem being lapped. You may not know the circuit that well, tyres may be shot and you need to get around the corner ahead and keep an eye on the mirror. This is not easy!

I try my best to stay out the way, but I have caused accidents in the past and I wouldn't want one bad incident to be held out above all my good honest attempts to stay out of trouble.

I am new at LFS and after exploring many of the servers I have decided to start at the bottom and joined CTRA and their Race1 server.
The main reason I race CTRA is that there are a good set of rules that cater for the experienced and new racer as well for civil behaviour on the server.

These are my experiences and impressions so far:

Busy Server

I only have a limited time in the day I can race, about an hour round 17:00GMT. Unfortunately this is the busiest time on the server. I often need to wait race after just to join. This is naturally very frustrating.

When I do join it's normally mid race and I use the time to practice or start the race a few laps down (depending on how many laps are left). During this I try my best to stay out of the way of the yellow triangles.

First Corner

If I start a few laps down I normally finish and get a mid grid position. The race starts and I do my absolute best to go easy into the first and second corners. I go tight or wide (depending on the side of track I'm on) and keep a look for cars next to me.

And then BAM:irked:, I'm taken out by someone behind me. This happens at least 50% of the time. Please understand how frustrating this is to me after having waited so long to join the race.

So I go to the pits and start the race when the pit opens. The end result is no points and I’m promptly kicked from the server. I then need to re-join and go through the whole process AGAIN!

Hooters

If I do survive the first corner I race hard, but I am normally lapped at least once. Some guys are really great about this, but then you have your hooter spammers.

As an example, a few races back I'm on the line heading for a tight right corner (just after a tight left). The leaders appear behind me racing abreast. It's a narrow street track and I have NOWHERE to go. The one guys comes along side and starts to over take and of course I in the way of the guy behind me (hooting starts), through the corner I take the line as if I don't I'm hitting a barrier, now the hooter spammer is really upset. Once I'm out the corner I stay to the side and let him by. He's still hooting like crazy.

The Point

My point here is that Race1 server is the bottom entry point (I can't start any lower). How am I ever going to get points at this rate? I also think that the fast paced guys should realise that there are lots of slower people on the server and give them a break, especially those guys who can race on higher servers.

Quote from SamH :

You get points as if everyone who started also finished.

Does the points weighting for your finishing position depend on the number of racers who start the race or who finish the race?

You always have more starters than finishers and I think those of us that soldier on through to the end should be rewarded, even if we are off the pace, and should not be penalised due to people ahead of us dropping out and thus reducing the number of finishers. :checkered

Thanks people!
I knew I was right.

It's a pity that some racers feel that they should ban/kick other racers just because they think they are right without even getting any input from the racer they want to kick.

I really try to accomodate the blue flag where possible, but it's not always easy trying to help they guy lapping you and to stay on the road.

As a relative noob I think some off these drivers must get off their high chairs!!!!

I get banned from a server because I get accused of not getting off the racing line during a CHICANE under a blue flag and causing the driver to crash.

Firstly, there is normally only one line into, through and out of a chicane and secondly I have lost count of the number of times I have crashed or gone off trying to get out of the way of a lapping car by go off the line.

I can understand more stricter enforcement during league races and so on. But this cr@p on a normal open racing server Some people think that because they are lapping they can force the cars off the road in front of them. Grow up children!