dMw Gaming => Racing Sims => Sim Gaming => NetKar - Assetto corsa => Topic started by: Doorman on February 08, 2009, 04:36:19 PM
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 08, 2009, 04:36:19 PM
No registration, no qualifying. Just turn up.
A series of long distance races lasting approximately 50-55 minutes for the F1600. To be run in FULL MODE. The schedule will be the same for all races. 30 minutes practice 20 minutes qualifying Race laps according to track. Server will open at 19.30GMT
Series to start on the 18th February
18th February: Aviano Full GP. 30 laps 25th February: Prato Full GP. 30 laps 4th March: Snetterton. 40 laps 11th March: Silverstone. 25 laps 18th March: Monaco. 30 laps 25th March: Lastplace Lake. 35 laps 1st April: Montreal. 25 laps 8th April: Spa Francorchamps. 20 laps
Points awarded for 1st through to 15th with first place getting 15 points, down to one point for fifteenth place.(it'll pay to finish!)
PENALTIES: 10 seconds for pitlane speeding and 30 seconds for jump starts. Please note that these penalties will not be evident until the server logs have been parsed. So if you think you got away with a pitlane speeding ticket you won't have! All that leaping up and down with glee at your podium position could all be for nowt!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on February 08, 2009, 09:44:41 PM
Good call Ron, thanks for organising this.
I like the idea of a semi formal 'pickup' league. With points too, and we all know what points make..........
I would join a formal league, but committing the time on a regular basis is unrealistic for me. So this idea is great, I look forward to participating as much as possible.
See you all on track :racing:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 08, 2009, 09:49:20 PM
Good man. :thumbsup2:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on February 11, 2009, 05:14:43 PM
Sounds good to me! I'll be there, RL permitting.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 11, 2009, 11:49:22 PM
It looks as though the 'league' starting next Wednesday is up and running on GPChampionships. So all those stats that some of you love so much will be published. :yahoo: I've obviously done something right for once.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: sokke on February 13, 2009, 05:14:20 PM
Nice nice. Looking forward for this. :)
Although I'll miss at least 3 races. :tumbleweed:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Seany on February 13, 2009, 08:04:40 PM
looks good thanks Doors.
Woohoo points up to 15th place, I'll have me some of them :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on February 13, 2009, 09:37:50 PM
..and thank you Doors for providing a far better schedule than GPC has managed. You've chosen tracks we can actually race on :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 13, 2009, 10:50:33 PM
Quote from: The Moose;263734..and thank you Doors for providing a far better schedule than GPC has managed. You've chosen tracks we can actually race on :)
Pshaw! 'twern't nuthin' :blush2: It could still go horrible wrong. :blink:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 17, 2009, 02:24:07 PM
Bump! Read the OP for penalties. :norty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: andrea_ita_nl on February 18, 2009, 07:44:49 PM
The server is passworded, where can I find the password?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on February 18, 2009, 08:29:18 PM
Damn- Lap 2 going fine in 4th place all of a sudden my suspension broke without hitting anything and i lost connection.
anyone else suffer connection loss?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Olivier B on February 18, 2009, 08:32:28 PM
Same here !
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: David Bryant on February 18, 2009, 08:36:16 PM
I was having a really good race with R Salama up until the 5th lap when I lost connection. I hope I didn't spoil anyone's race because i then hit an invisible object:blink:
Thanks to Ron for organising and hosting the race.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on February 18, 2009, 08:37:49 PM
strange thing is the dmr server isnt even showing up on the server list does that mean its still going on?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on February 18, 2009, 08:45:07 PM
Who knows whats going on. This weird stuff seems to happen at Aviano more than anywhere else. Really disappointing.
Thanks Ron for arranging this. I'm sure next week will be better. Aviano has serious issues imo.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: sokke on February 18, 2009, 08:47:13 PM
Arrrrrr! :taz: Just when it was starting to look good.
Server/nKP/AvianoFull bug or something ended the race before it even began properly.
But still, thanks Ron for organizing this. Better luck next week. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Deetz on February 18, 2009, 08:47:52 PM
Everyone looks to have had problems, I got to about lap 5, got a quick ghost car blink in front of me and Moose vanished (ahead). Though Gnome behind me could still see both of us.
Others then said race finished though I didn't get that message. About 2 laps later I lost connection.
Server not visible.
:ranting2:
andrea_ita_nl (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/member.php?u=2266) - Passwords on a thread off the dMr forum homepage.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: richard_johnstone on February 18, 2009, 08:49:48 PM
Not sooooo unhappy with the early bath...next time I'll have the car in gear when the lights go green. :roflmao::roflmao:
Good fight for the first 10 laps Matsuomoto!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 18, 2009, 08:51:23 PM
Gutted gutted gutted. What can I say chaps? I'm so sorry. This was shaping up really nicely. Good clean start.......:crying:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 18, 2009, 08:54:16 PM
Quote from: richard_johnstone;264722Not sooooo unhappy with the early bath...next time I'll have the car in gear when the lights go green. :roflmao::roflmao:
Good fight for the first 10 laps Matsumoto!
You managed 10 laps? :blink: I got to 6 and the 'Race' was won by K Matsumoto! As I went over the line I got the finished race screen. :taz:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Gnomie on February 18, 2009, 08:55:04 PM
Oh dear.. :nope: I was looking forward to this one, and I got off to a decent start. Then the problems started.. "box cars" parked on the side of the road, yellow flags flying everywhere, people loosing connection, and finally Race Over! :doh:
They really need to sort these things out.. nKP is still in its infancy, trying to establish a solid userbase and recruiting new drivers. If people have too many negative experiences like tonight they won't bother coming back!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: richard_johnstone on February 18, 2009, 09:01:32 PM
It was about lap 10...but looking at my replay we were the only cars left by then :eyebrow:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on February 18, 2009, 09:02:34 PM
Never mind- cheers for organising it Doorman- at least i can get to watch the nature program thingy now.
its just funny that we go all the way through practice and quali with no problems- until the race starts.
see ya next week, or sooner
Pete
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 18, 2009, 09:08:17 PM
Quote from: richard_johnstone;264722Not sooooo unhappy with the early bath...next time I'll have the car in gear when the lights go green. :roflmao::roflmao:
Good fight for the first 10 laps Matsuomoto!
Yeah it was really nice, we were really close... a little bit to close... :doh: :lmfao:
I'm checking the replay and it's the same thing over here, we where the last 3 cars in the race... i can't switch to anyone. :angry:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 18, 2009, 09:09:10 PM
Quote from: Doorman;264724I got to 6 and the 'Race' was won by K Matsumoto!
hehe that can't be right :roflmao:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Olivier B on February 18, 2009, 09:09:20 PM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;264728Never mind- cheers for organising it Doorman- at least i can get to watch the nature program thingy now.
its just funny that we go all the way through practice and quali with no problems- until the race starts.
see ya next week, or sooner
Pete
+1, see you soon on track :byebye:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on February 18, 2009, 09:54:06 PM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;264713Damn- Lap 2 going fine in 4th place all of a sudden my suspension broke without hitting anything and i lost connection.
Snap me too, what a shame, it was shaping up to be a good race. I was still on the track and with no damage after 6 laps :)
Anyway it was nice to actually say hello to some of you on Ventrilo this time.
I'm sure that neither this code issue or the credit crunch are down to you Ron :D
Lets hope for better luck next week :thumbsup2:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Deetz on February 18, 2009, 10:28:47 PM
Hmm, its nearly 10.30 (pm) and I still can't see the server. Have you re-set it Doorman ?
Re-configured for Prato ?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 18, 2009, 10:35:05 PM
Quote from: Deetz;264747Hmm, its nearly 10.30 (pm) and I still can't see the server. Have you re-set it Doorman ?
Re-configured for Prato ?
Aye, done.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 18, 2009, 11:14:08 PM
I have decided to scrub the GPChampionships aspect of the Wednesday evening fiasco...er, I mean race. It appears that the system cant recognise ad hoc racers. M. Boissel, did you actually add your name to the league? Because yours is the only name that it recognises! Frankly, it's not working as I imagined so in future we'll just race (Kunos permitting) on Wednesday. It's enough to drive you into the arms of iRacing! NOT!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 18, 2009, 11:22:57 PM
A short you tube clip of the first lap of tonight's ‘race’ :lmfao: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a-CmD1SJqE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a-CmD1SJqE)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 18, 2009, 11:34:09 PM
You've put a smile on my face. Thank you. What a great start you got! :D Just think, 29 more laps like that....You've actually restored my faith in nKP. :thumbsup: I have to admit it was flagging a bit.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on February 19, 2009, 07:56:58 AM
That's an awesome start you got there .pixr, brave too!!!
Thx for the vid.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Olivier B on February 19, 2009, 10:31:20 AM
Quote from: Doorman;264752It appears that the system cant recognise ad hoc racers. M. Boissel, did you actually add your name to the league? Because yours is the only name that it recognises!
Hi.
What do you mean : add your name to the league ?
I wrote a first post on the forum to introduce myself and participate to the Spa F1600 without problem.
Do I mess something :oops:
Regards, Olivier.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 19, 2009, 10:47:51 AM
Quote from: Olivier B;264773Hi.
Do I mess something :oops:
Regards, Olivier.
No no no. It's a GPC thing. Yours and now Stuarts names were the only ones to be recognised by the results programme they have. Don't worry about a thing.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 19, 2009, 02:06:49 PM
Quote from: Doorman;264755You've put a smile on my face. Thank you. What a great start you got! :D Just think, 29 more laps like that....You've actually restored my faith in nKP. :thumbsup: I have to admit it was flagging a bit.
No problem... and please don't loose faith :crying: :lmfao:
Yeah i had a great start but i messed up in the second lap, after that i was battling for position 8 with 2 ppl...it's was really great. (I'm getting excited just talking about it...:blink:)
I'm not that fast but think I'm getting there... i just started with PC simracing (6 weeks orso) before that i was a gran turismo junkie :flirty: so i'm still really pumped about netKar PRO... :woot2:
I will try to make some more movies of the upcoming races (if i have the time off course :ranting2:).
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on February 19, 2009, 08:15:15 PM
Was really looking forward to the race, as I had been doing low 45s/high 44s consistently during the week, so hoping for a good run mid-field. Illness and a disco at the start of lap 2 put paid to those silly notions! But I'm a sucker for punishment, so I'll be there for Prato. Don't give up Ron, it'll all come good in the end m8!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Olivier B on February 19, 2009, 08:21:27 PM
Aviano is reschedule or cancelled ?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 19, 2009, 10:01:35 PM
Quote from: Olivier B;264879Aviano is reschedule or cancelled ?
If Aviano has a bug that will do that to us again then it's canceled. :sad:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 24, 2009, 07:02:01 PM
Quote from: richard_johnstone;264722Not sooooo unhappy with the early bath...next time I'll have the car in gear when the lights go green. :roflmao::roflmao:
Good fight for the first 10 laps Matsuomoto!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bBg2-IXcw&fmt=18
by the way are we still on for tomorrow?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 24, 2009, 07:31:21 PM
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 24, 2009, 10:03:00 PM
Quote from: Doorman;265524Oh yes. If you can take the angst so can I. :D
Look out I've been practicing :lmfao: Man if i look at the leaderbord times i get a little bit depressed :angry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWTv42cGS24&fmt=18
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Seany on February 25, 2009, 06:29:11 PM
Think ill give it a miss this week, having too much fun in the LX :)
good luck with the race gents
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 25, 2009, 07:41:24 PM
is it me or is everybody running a bit late? :g:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on February 25, 2009, 07:41:44 PM
whats goin on with the server- race time and its not up- or am i missing something?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 25, 2009, 07:45:02 PM
The server is running monaco... :S
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: sokke on February 25, 2009, 07:59:40 PM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;265673whats goin on with the server- race time and its not up- or am i missing something?
You may have to add it manually.
Copy the IP & port from here: http://www.wagenvoort.net/rank/servers.php
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 25, 2009, 08:01:46 PM
i tried but it doesn't show up..
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 25, 2009, 08:11:04 PM
:ranting2: i can't get in....!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on February 25, 2009, 08:21:14 PM
I too cant get on. i just cant display the server. how irritating- i'd practiced this one as well:sad:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 25, 2009, 08:27:38 PM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;265679I too cant get on. i just cant display the server. how irritating- i'd practiced this one as well:sad:
Try this ip : 77.108.129.45:9550 The IP at the rank site isn't the right one! I'm so ****ed right now...
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: richard_johnstone on February 25, 2009, 08:45:42 PM
I had to add it manually...but then I got disconnected whilst in a decent lead :ranting2: :g: :angry:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Deetz on February 25, 2009, 08:46:53 PM
15 min or so into race, suspension suddenly broken then connection lost.
:ranting2:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Olivier B on February 25, 2009, 08:47:49 PM
Connection lost during race at 19 laps to do :sad:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: sokke on February 25, 2009, 08:51:22 PM
Quote from: .pixr;265678:ranting2: i can't get in....!
No worries. It happened again. People started to loose their connections and finaly race ended way too early server saying someone won, that someone beeing not the one in the lead nor completed the race distance.
:ranting2:
Really very annoying stuff.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: richard_johnstone on February 25, 2009, 08:56:32 PM
Maybe someone should chat to Jaap...GPC has lag problems from time to time but not server crashing and behaving wonky, maybe they have some secret "don't crash" setting they could help with :roflmao:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 25, 2009, 09:00:05 PM
I have to say I giving up on any kind of meaningful racing until these problems are sorted out. There are too many disappointed people and that doesn't make Dead Men Racing look good. Yes I know it's not our fault but I feel responsible. Sorry chaps. Oh, on top of all that nKPro Rank gets the IP wrong! :angry:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 25, 2009, 09:01:01 PM
Quote from: richard_johnstone;265691Maybe someone should chat to Jaap...GPC has lag problems from time to time but not server crashing and behaving wonky, maybe they have some secret "don't crash" setting they could help with :roflmao:
Apparently not. The questions have been asked believe me. :sideways:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 25, 2009, 09:01:13 PM
Quote from: sokke;265688No worries. It happened again. People started to loose their connections and finaly race ended way too early server saying someone won, that someone beeing not the one in the lead nor completed the race distance.
Ok that makes feel a little bit better...:blink: ... sorry But anyway are these problems server or nK pro related?:g:
Can't we try racing on someone else server? (just to stress test and look if it's server related)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 25, 2009, 09:15:10 PM
Quote from: .pixr;265695Ok that makes feel a little bit better...:blink: ... sorry But anyway are these problems server or nK pro related?:g:
Can't we try racing on someone else server? (just to stress test and look if it's server related)
Good idea, any takers?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 25, 2009, 09:30:23 PM
Quote from: Doorman;265707Good idea, any takers?
i would like to host but unfortunately i only have 100kb/s upstream so that's not nearly enough for 10 ppl. (i think :g:)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 25, 2009, 11:05:28 PM
I've just spent the lonliest hour of my life, well not quite, but damned close. I completed 29 laps of Prato and sat on the track just before the finish line and waited for and hour and five minutes to pass. I then crossed the line and was declared the winner! :yahoo: My theory goes like this. In the config file is an entry that says 'SESSION TIME' this was set at 30. presumably minutes. :g: I think, if I change that to 60 and see what happens. So, what did I prove? I proved that nKP can handle 30 lap races and that it didn't finish as soon as the hour+five was up! Any further forward? I'm not sure. I think that nKP doesn't accept the number of laps as being the defining factor in Race session and that session time plays it's part. The tough part is getting people to give it another go.
The disconnect crap? I have a gut feeling that it's similar to LFS in that one bad connection screws it for those around him. I'm afraid that wireless may be a culprit. I don't know. :sad:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on February 25, 2009, 11:15:51 PM
Good man, did you get your beers in first though :)
Would it be possible to set one of the servers that normally run throughout the week to the specs required for a full race session and leave it going all week? That way people could join for pickup sessions and do a full length full mode race and see if there are any problems? I'd definitely give it a go. It would be a real shame if we were forced to give up the Wednesday races, they were getting good.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Olivier B on February 26, 2009, 09:43:25 AM
Hi,
Congrat's about server investigations.
I just would like to explore all the way possible, I don't know if there is a link but in GPC league Jaap has collect all the skin from all driver's and all driver's have installed all skin in their NKPro folder.
Do we have to do the same here ?
So bad for yesterday, I really appreciate this kind of race, specially with the pitstop.
See you on next event.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 26, 2009, 10:45:10 AM
Quote from: Olivier B;265760Hi,
Congrat's about server investigations.
I just would like to explore all the way possible, I don't know if there is a link but in GPC league Jaap has collect all the skin from all driver's and all driver's have installed all skin in their NKPro folder.
Do we have to do the same here ?
So bad for yesterday, I really appreciate this kind of race, specially with the pitstop.
See you on next event.
Well thanks for sounding so cheerful. It very encouraging. :D You can download our team skins from the 'dMr Downloads' in the side bar. Yours is red and white isn't it. I saw it as you passed me. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on February 26, 2009, 02:47:14 PM
let me know when the next race is taking place... i will be there :)
Concerning the session time setting, i think it's weird that with first two races nobody seems to have the problem with finishing to early.
Maybe the setting only has effect on "official" tracks because the first two races where at Montreal and Spa.... :g:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on February 26, 2009, 10:06:04 PM
Quote from: .pixr;265789let me know when the next race is taking place... i will be there :)
Concerning the session time setting, i think it's weird that with first two races nobody seems to have the problem with finishing to early.
Maybe the setting only has effect on "official" tracks because the first two races where at Montreal and Spa.... :g:
Actually the first race was at Aviano (several weeks ago) and we had a similar problem. It then went to last lake place then Montreal and then spa with no problems- you are right though. It does seem that we have only had problems on official NetKar Pro tracks- This seems pretty blatant to me: Three unofficial tracks had no problems and the two official tracks had the issue.
I know nothing about setting up servers so I’ll leave my investigation at that. :D
I will definitely carry on racing with you guys on Wednesdays though. First off you all seem like a good bunch of fair and friendly guys. Second when it works, the racing experience with NKP is excellent. Thirdly- the missus is out all Wednesday evening so conveniently I am shackle free. I don’t get a lot of time for serious sim racing nowadays so I'll grasp any good opportunity to sharpen my driving skills in a competitive environment with both hands.
Doorman- I think I speak for us all when I say we appreciate all the time that you are dedicating to this- don’t loose faith with it just yet.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: sokke on February 27, 2009, 05:46:08 PM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;265868... It does seem that we have only had problems on official NetKar Pro tracks- ....
...Doorman- I think I speak for us all when I say we appreciate all the time that you are dedicating to this- don’t loose faith with it just yet.
So doing the count 1 + 1 = no worries for the rest of the season. ;)
And yes, it's Great to have some organized action in nKP beside "a-bit-too-serious"* GPC. Please keep it going, at least lets see how it goes in Snetterton.
R.Salama
*No need for anyone to get offended. Just my opinion, I'm in it for fun.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on February 27, 2009, 05:51:54 PM
That'll be three of us then! :D O.K. I'll hang in there if you will. :rolleyes: Thanks for the encouragement guys, it's appreciated. :thumbup:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on March 01, 2009, 11:18:28 PM
Count me in
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 01, 2009, 11:36:13 PM
In the light of some testing done by GPC tonight, the bandwidth setting seemed to make a difference. For Snetterton I've made the server bandwidth requirements 200 somethings as against 300 somethings :D I've also made the Race session not only 40 laps but 70 minutes as well. That would appear to cover all the bases....I hope. If this one goes tits up I have a cutthroat razer by my steering wheel. Listen out for gurgling sounds if you're on Ventrilo! :rolleyes:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: vobler on March 02, 2009, 08:42:20 AM
Quote from: Doorman;266384If this one goes tits up I have a cutthroat razer by my steering wheel. Listen out for gurgling sounds if you're on Ventrilo! :rolleyes:
No need to go that far. You can always fire up iRacing! There are some people waiting for you there... :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 02, 2009, 09:47:24 AM
Quote from: vobler;266391No need to go that far. You can always fire up iRacing! There are some people waiting for you there... :D
"You put a wheel on our grass, Deduct 2 points and go sit on the naughty step" Aaaagh! Listen for gurgling sounds if you're on Ventrilo. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on March 02, 2009, 09:53:03 AM
Blimey, it didn't take long from a representative from the Church of iRacing to turn up and spread the gospel.:rolleyes: :sideways: At least when you've told the Jehovah's witnesses to **** off a couple of times they get the message. :lmfao:
Lets hope we see a difference on Wednesday Ron :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: vobler on March 02, 2009, 11:03:33 AM
Quote from: The Moose;266397Blimey, it didn't take long from a representative from the Church of iRacing to turn up and spread the gospel.:rolleyes: :sideways: At least when you've told the Jehovah's witnesses to **** off a couple of times they get the message. :lmfao:
Well I did not like that very much. I am no ones representative and you are in no position to tell me to go anywhere.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 02, 2009, 12:51:22 PM
Quote from: Doorman;266384In the light of some testing done by GPC tonight, the bandwidth setting seemed to make a difference. For Snetterton I've made the server bandwidth requirements 200 somethings as against 300 somethings :D
Hi Ron,
I saw your post and thought it was strange to reduce the bandwidth from 300 to 200, so I had a look at the manual ( if in doubt RTFM! ). The manual suggests that the actual bandwidth setting applied in the network tab when setting the server should be about 80% of the actual bandwidth available. i.e. if the server actually does have a 300KBs uplink speed then in the server tab you'd put about 240KBs, this is apparently so nkpro can start dynamically throttling the data speed before it busts the actual network uplink limits, which is apparently what will cause lag and warping etc. Bear in mind that whatever the stated network uplink speed is you will never get the full amount due to network protocol overheads.
The manual also states that to host a maximum of 15 drivers you should have at least 262KBs available which would require an actual uplink speed of around 330KBs. Therefore my conclusion is that, at minimum you'd ideally want a 350KBs network uplink speed which would allow a setting of 280KBs in the server tab for nkpro to use.
So having said that, do you know what the actual server uplink speed really is? Hope this helps?
Oh and BTW, please no self harming on race nights, whatever happens!!!! :)
P.S. Don't want to patronise anyone, but just for clarity - KBs = Kilo-Bytes per sec, as opposed to Kbs = Kilo-bits per sec which is eight times smaller/slower.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 02, 2009, 01:09:44 PM
Quote from: XLR8;266420Hi Ron,
I saw your post and thought it was strange to reduce the bandwidth from 300 to 200, so I had a look at the manual ( if in doubt RTFM! ). The manual suggests that the actual bandwidth setting applied in the network tab when setting the server should be about 80% of the actual bandwidth available. i.e. if the server actually does have a 300KBs uplink speed then in the server tab you'd put about 240KBs, this is apparently so nkpro can start dynamically throttling the data speed before it busts the actual network uplink limits, which is apparently what will cause lag etc. Bear in mind that whatever the stated network uplink speed is you will never get the full amount due to network protocol overheads.
I understand that. The trouble is, I think, (and I'm not alone) is nKPs doubtful net code. So going by the manual is a bit hit 'n' miss! Even the 300 figure was an arbitrary one.
QuoteThe manual also states that to host a maximum of 15 drivers you should have at least 262KBs available which would require an actual uplink speed of around 330KBs.
So having said that, do you know what the actual server uplink speed really is? Hope this helps?
TBH I have asked, but either I didn't understand the answer or was told 'sufficient'. I really can't remember. I'll ask again and ask for the answer in words of one syllable. :)
QuoteOh and BTW, please no self harming on race nights, whatever happens!!!! :)
It's my throat and I'll cut it if I want to :narnar:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 02, 2009, 01:13:40 PM
Or to do it the other way round, would it be possible to request that it is set to at least 350KBs for the netKar servers?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 02, 2009, 01:45:17 PM
Quote from: XLR8;266423Or to do it the other way round, would it be possible to request that it is set to at least 350KBs for the netKar servers?
I can set it to what I like, I just want the right setting. I've consulted brains bigger and fresher that mine. Watch this space. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: OldBloke on March 02, 2009, 02:13:10 PM
Quote from: Doorman;266428I can set it to what I like, I just want the right setting. I've consulted brains bigger and fresher that mine. Watch this space. :)
PM answered. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 02, 2009, 04:16:19 PM
Quote from: OldBloke;266429PM answered. :)
In the light of a reply from a bigger and fresher brain, I've upped the bandwidth to 550 kilomegabots/s. I just hope that's enough. :sad:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 02, 2009, 05:09:05 PM
Kilomegabots Rule! :taz:
Lets hope this bodes well for Wednesday.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: OldBloke on March 02, 2009, 05:30:58 PM
Quote from: Doorman;266445In the light of a reply from a bigger and fresher brain, I've upped the bandwidth to 550 kilomegabots/s. I just hope that's enough. :sad:
The nkP server (and all our others) share a 100Mbps pipe.
So if nkP recommends 80% of the available bandwidth then that would be ...
=10000 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
That's a big number. Set it to 750 thingyjobbiewhotsits. That'll be plenty.:)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 02, 2009, 06:17:55 PM
Quote from: OldBloke;266467The nkP server (and all our others) share a 100Mbps pipe.
Hhmmm... just a thought then but, if the servers are all on a shared pipe is there anything else significant that happens on a Wednesday night around 20:30 to 21:00 because that was about the time that we had the problems at each of the tracks where the game crashed?
i.e. is anything else causing a restriction on the available bandwidth at that time?
Are there any network or server stats/logs available for those times? :g:
Quote from: OldBloke;266467Set it to 750 thingyjobbiewhotsits.
If that's KBs then that should be roughly treble the recommended requirements according to the manual, so a big :thumbsup2: to that!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: OldBloke on March 02, 2009, 07:10:01 PM
Quote from: XLR8;266476... is anything else causing a restriction on the available bandwidth at that time?
Absolutely not. We used to have discos on LFS when that was full on a Thursday but since we fixed our firewall issue that has been sweet as a nut.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 02, 2009, 07:11:33 PM
Sounds of footsteps echoing down corridor....Door slams
Door opens. Sounds of footsteps echoing back up corridor. Puff puff puff! Right! 750 kilogramsofcoke/s it is. :eyebrow:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 02, 2009, 07:36:03 PM
So if the servers uplink is at 750 then the netKar network tab setting can be anything up to 600 Kiloelectroencephalogodzillagrams right?
Which should be plenty. :dribble:
The network tab settings is one of the things we tested last night. Made not one iota of difference. :rolleyes:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 02, 2009, 09:28:20 PM
Ok, I'm running out of ideas now. Here's my last three -
A) Does anyone on the forum know how to do Voodoo?
B) Does anyone have Harry Potters phone number?
C) Is anyone willing to sell their soul to the Devil for better netcode?
.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 02, 2009, 09:52:45 PM
Quote from: XLR8;266539Ok, I'm running out of ideas now. Here's my last three -
A) Does anyone on the forum know how to do Voodoo?
B) Does anyone have Harry Potters phone number?
C) Is anyone willing to sell their soul to the Devil for better netcode?
.
Now you're being silly. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 02, 2009, 10:57:59 PM
I must say the server feels very good. I know there were only four of us on but there was no flickering of any description even at the start. I was at the back (nothing new there then) and got VERY wheel to wheel with cars. Bodes well. :)
Title: Aviano Race Video Highlights
Post by: XLR8 on March 04, 2009, 09:28:08 AM
Better late than never, I'm now getting to grips with some video editing software and I've knocked up a clip showing the awesome start from the Aviano race. A fourteen strong grid all getting through the first chicane without any damage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOkXSTBRMWE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOkXSTBRMWE) - Don't forget to hit the 'watch in HD' link for best results.
Time permitting I'll try and do something similar from the next race(s) if there's similar good action.
And yes Ron, you're in there at 0:31 :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 10:18:35 AM
Excellent! Nothing more to say! :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Gnomie on March 04, 2009, 11:00:41 AM
Very nice video! :)
Good luck with tonight's race guys! Fingers crossed..
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on March 04, 2009, 11:36:33 AM
Excellent stuff. Good to hear "The Chain" again before the start of a race, made me go all goosebumpy...
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 04, 2009, 11:40:37 AM
Thx for watching guys, glad you liked it.
Quote from: Itchy;266738Excellent stuff. Good to hear "The Chain" again before the start of a race, made me go all goosebumpy...
Apparently I think the BBC are bringing it back again for this years F1 coverage.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 12:28:09 PM
Quote from: Itchy;266738Excellent stuff. Good to hear "The Chain" again before the start of a race, made me go all goosebumpy...
Ah! I only watched it with the sound off. Please don't tell me you think that rock music is preferable to engines? Sorry, it's one of my pet hates. :sideways: Rock concert or race meeting.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 12:33:33 PM
Having said that ^^, go and post it on the GPChampionship (http://forum.gpchampionship.com/) forum. It'll be good PR. I'd post it myself but it would look like self publicity. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 04, 2009, 01:17:12 PM
Quote from: Doorman;266756Ah! I only watched it with the sound off. Please don't tell me you think that rock music is preferable to engines? Sorry, it's one of my pet hates. :sideways: Rock concert or race meeting.
Well if you'd had the sound on you'd know, but it was neither one nor the other :)
Feel free to post it on GPC but I don't have a profile there.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 03:02:54 PM
Quote from: XLR8;266776Well if you'd had the sound on you'd know, but it was neither one nor the other :)
Feel free to post it on GPC but I don't have a profile there.
Just register like any other forum. They're not a bad bunch. :)
I'll have a look with the sound on this time...in the interests of impartiality. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 03:17:57 PM
Quote from: Doorman;266779I'll have a look with the sound on this time...in the interests of impartiality. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Romus on March 04, 2009, 07:13:30 PM
Quote from: XLR8;266722http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOkXSTBRMWE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOkXSTBRMWE) - Don't forget to hit the 'watch in HD' link for best results.
Very nice video.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 04, 2009, 07:32:32 PM
im getting an error when i connect ot the server "skin is longer then 16" :eyebrow: and only at the DMR racing server, other servers and track day's working fine... any ideas?
Nevermind i installed NKP again :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on March 04, 2009, 07:52:04 PM
anyone else get disco'd? i did and i cant see the server anymore
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 04, 2009, 07:53:18 PM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;266814anyone else get disco'd? i did and i cant see the server anymore
yep me too... can't even add the server manually.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on March 04, 2009, 09:00:04 PM
Well slightly scrappy first few laps but was going pretty well 2nd down to 5th then back up to 3rd and going strong with some nice battles.
came up on someone who had been off the track and seemed to be going a bit slow - went into the final chicane and then said car slowed way more than I was expecting I went around the outside in avoidance but there was no room and we touched which gave me 20 mins of damage :crying: Sorry for hitting you whoever it was.
still dont fully know whats going on with the disco's. I want to sort out whatever is giving the my high ping readings- i assume they must be wrong because i always have excelent connections with no lag/ warping and no probs in other games. Anyone have any Ideas?
Cheers
Pete
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: sokke on March 04, 2009, 09:33:53 PM
Weeee! :yahoo: Server functioning like a dream :)
And some nice racing too. On my part, started from 5th or so, had a good start and was 3rd after 1st lap. 2nd after 2nd. On fire some could say :).
On 6th lap or so I got some, hmmm.. local interference, and placed left hand wheels on grass while braking... Lost two positions there. Then was trying to gather back my concentration around the track for about 5 laps, spunn or went off-road on every one of them.. I guess I was 7th when I got "back on track". Gained some positions back because of others had some moments of their own. And finaly got to 3rd when Oliver went out of fuel on the last lap. That's some serious bad luck.
But nevertheless, server works, racing was goood. And there are many Wednesdays on calendar to come. :) From which I'll miss the next two...:crying:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 09:48:22 PM
Right! Where to start? First thing, the server is not at fault and I didn't see any sign of lagging or flickering cars. The disconnects and subsequent inability to see the server in the lobby was down to one man's connection. It was running a ping of 65,553! Not possible I know, but I think it's nKPs netcode that is the root cause of discos. In any other game that person would simply be disconnected leaving the rest in peace. Pete, that was me you had a coming together with. I'm pretty sure I'm blameless but I'll look at the replay and put my hands up if I was to blame. I also suffered a bit of damage, just enough to put the wheel askew, but I struggled on manfully. :norty: All in all I'm going to declare that meeting a success. Well done to Mark, first race without falling off somewhere which he then wins! :D Good job everyone else. Thanks for turning up. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 09:51:29 PM
Quote from: sokke;266829On 6th lap or so I got some, hmmm.. local interference,
Sounds good, want to elaborate? :norty:
QuoteFrom which I'll miss the next two...:crying:
There'll be loads more, you carry on being interfered with, we don't mind. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: richard_johnstone on March 04, 2009, 09:58:44 PM
Fun race mostly. Had good scraps with Franklin and Boissel and was in 3rd with a decent gap each way, with not long to go before the first pitstops.
At this point I plowed into the back of a lapped driver when I didn't realise he was trying to let me pass until too it was late...cue 10 mins fix time and 7 laps down at the flag.
Really sorry about that...wish I hadn't panicked and locked up the brakes, then we would both have survived with just a scare. Just so you know, slowing on the racing line like that is a really bad idea, even with the best of intentions (you probably know that now anyway lol), especially with a huge long straight coming up in two corners time. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Deetz on March 04, 2009, 10:12:30 PM
Brilliant. :thumbup: A full race with no problems. (Other than my driving.)
I qualified 5th or 6th, and got a good start to the race getting up to 3rd early on, but when the guy in front made a tiny mistake and I had to lift Sokke sneaked through. :doh:. The second place guy then had a moment and Sokke and I advanced a place.
Sokke held me up for a lap or two sliding around too much, but then started to pull away. :blink: I had just put my serious hat on :boxing: when Sokke had a spin or half spin into the final chicane and I was through into 2nd place.
I checked the gap to the leader Mark, blooming heck! :ohmy: 12 seconds already.
After loosing the odd couple of seconds here and there, avoiding spinning car’s, loosing concentration etc, the gap went up to 17 â€" 18 seconds :thumbsdown:, but after this, the gap remained pretty static until the end of the race as I managed (finally) to put some consistent laps in.
A good race, well done to Mark for the win, and all who finished. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on March 04, 2009, 10:33:27 PM
Bah. Mr no life whatsoever actually had to venture into the real world. It had to be on racenight didn't it:angry:
Anyway, I'm glad it seemed to go well. Fingers crossed that the server problems are history.
Grats to the Podium guys (and everyone who finished ;) )
I look forward to the next race.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 04, 2009, 10:48:59 PM
First of all, woohoo! A complete quali and race session with, as far as I could see, no lag or stuttering at all :yahoo: Hopefully the extra kilomegabots (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=26247&page=9) have done the trick :D
Thanks for the kind plaudits :)
As for the race it was an odd race for me, after a bit of pressure at the start the biggest challenge for me was to try and stay consistent, as I didn't have anyone up my 'jacksie' or to chase. But consistency has always been my weak point as you have seen before :doh: So I was really happy just to stay on track for 40 laps putting in reasonably good times. I could see Deetz tailing me from the pitboards and knew that one dodgy spin would put him right up with or in front of me so I was still sweating right up til the end!
Good racing all round but a shame there weren't a few more bodies.
Looking forward to the next race which will be in a fortnight for me, due to a well needed holiday :cheers:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Deetz on March 04, 2009, 10:51:47 PM
Unlucky Moose, catch you next time. :thumbup:
It looks like Doorman has fixed the server 'long session issue' now. (Fingers crossed.) But we did have one problem as Doorman stated. This did effect the server. It looked to be caused by a problem with a single client. Huge ping being shown in game to one connection, with the loss of server visibility in the lobby and loss of connection to some other clients. I hope the net code gets sorted soon.
Onwards and upwards. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 11:01:26 PM
Quote from: richard_johnstone;266835Really sorry about that...wish I hadn't panicked and locked up the brakes, then we would both have survived with just a scare. Just so you know, slowing on the racing line like that is a really bad idea, even with the best of intentions (you probably know that now anyway lol), especially with a huge long straight coming up in two corners time. :)
I've watched a couple of incidents and I have to say from as much as you can tell from a replay Craig (the guy you ran into) didn't do a lot wrong. But you've put your hands up anyway. :) A tad more predictive driving would have had you sail round on the inside with hardly a lift of the throttle. Having said that, it's the easiest thing in the world to do when you watch it 10 times in quick succession. :D One of those things. Your comment about 'a huge long straight coming up' is a breath of fresh air. We've been brought up in LFS where you move out of the bloody way NOW! :norty::roflmao: As the LFS chaps know that has long been a bone of contention with me. Good sport RJ
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 04, 2009, 11:08:17 PM
The other replay I watched was between Pete and myself. It goes without saying that he was completely and utterly in the wrong! :norty: Seriously, it was a classic case of two different lines into a corner and one of them is wrong! Mine, as it turns out. :rolleyes: However, that was my line and making the assumption that my 'wrong' line was a 'move over' was wrong. A little more patience would have done the trick. As a consolation, I will be using your line in future. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on March 05, 2009, 10:23:34 AM
I haven’t seen the replay (I don’t know how to record them…) however I fully accept that it was my fault hence why I apologised :D I wasn’t actually trying to pass you into that corner. As you say your different line caught me by surprise but I should have held back more.
Could someone please post the replay so I can see it for myself? (or is it too big??) I don’t want to contend it I’m just interested + it would be nice to see the rest of the race up to that point.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 05, 2009, 11:46:54 AM
I'll sort it. :) Do you know how to work the replay? Nod once for yes and shake head twice for no.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 05, 2009, 12:01:03 PM
Replay uploaded. It's in the dMr Downloads section/nKP skins etc.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on March 05, 2009, 12:21:59 PM
Cheers for that buddy I’ll take a look later on.
Regarding working the replay- no I don’t know… yet. I assume it is all laid out in the manual. I’m not as computer illiterate as I come across, honest.....
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 05, 2009, 12:44:15 PM
Here are the results of the Snetterton race.
(http://files.deadmen.co.uk/nKP/winnah.jpg)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 05, 2009, 12:56:54 PM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;266914... I’m not as computer illiterate as I come across, honest.....
Damn! I thought I had a chance to show off. :doh:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 05, 2009, 09:46:54 PM
i had a fairly clean race last night, the only contact i made was with attwood just before going into the last chicanes, it broke my rear suspension so i had to go into the pits straight away (and wait for 5 min to fix the car :ranting2:) :lmfao:
but it was great to finish the race :woot2:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 05, 2009, 09:55:35 PM
Quote from: .pixr;267011i had a fairly clean race last night, the only contact i made was with Ron Attwood just before going into the last chicanes, it broke my rear suspension so i had to go into the pits straight away (and wait for 5 min to fix the car :ranting2:) :lmfao:
but it was great to finish the race :woot2:
I thought that was Pete I had a coming together with. I'll have to watch that replay again. :g:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 05, 2009, 10:12:59 PM
I've watched it again and it was a copycat of Pete and I. Only this time I was on the inside. You made a very good pass on me but I thought you'd gone in too deep so I reckoned I could get the place back. Wrong! :rolleyes: I'd locked up and just kissed your rear wheel. My fault, bad judgment. :sad: It was a shame because it was a good scrap for quite a few laps.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 06, 2009, 07:22:16 PM
It was just a racing accident in my opinion :byebye: , if i was smart i would have kept the inside line.... actually i don't recall exactly why i went back to the left... well next time i wont do that again :) :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on March 10, 2009, 10:56:29 AM
About tomorrow's nkP race, does the DMR server has a password? If so, could someone pm the pw to me, please? Because I don't know it.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 10, 2009, 11:40:38 AM
Have a look for 'Server Details and Passwords' :) I have to be cruel to be kind. :rolleyes:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 11, 2009, 09:57:59 PM
Nice to see some new skins tonight. :) On the other hand, I can't deny I was disappointed by the turnout. As a matter of interest, I find I have 100 F1600 skins in my folder, presumably made by people keen enough to be arsed to make a skin. Yet you only ever see no more than a dozen people online. Where are all these people? I despair. :doh:
Mark is off skiing, I know.
Anyway, well done Stuart, it looks as though you and Richard had a good race. Monaco next week? :flirty: I wonder if full mode will be a killer here. :g: Your thoughts?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on March 11, 2009, 10:38:32 PM
Quote from: Doorman;267878Your thoughts?
.......replace it with Laguna :blink::D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 11, 2009, 10:41:52 PM
:g: That has a certain appeal.....Why not!? Do you reckon it can handle six of us? :norty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 12, 2009, 09:34:21 AM
Let me know which track you come up with, i will try to do some practice sessions before we race :)
I really have to be more consistent i always make a big error sooner or later... :sideways: Last night i was it 3rd place and was doing ok until i went into the sand at the 4th corner, i couldn't get out so i had to be towed (10 min penalty) back to the pits.
i really have respect for you guys that can do 20 laps without any big mistakes :byebye: nKP is so unforgiving, that's also the appeal for me :doh:
ps. yeah the turnout was very disappointing, i'll hope more people will show up next week. :ranting2:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Gnomie on March 12, 2009, 12:34:46 PM
I can only speak for myself, but I must admit that I've been putting nKP on hold until the multiplayer issues have been sorted. Just couldn't be arsed to spend a lot of time practicing for an event only to get discoed after like 5 laps.. However, now that the server problems seem to be a thing of the past, I'll be there on Wednesdays whenever I can make it! :) Starting next week.
Cya!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 12, 2009, 12:45:21 PM
It's decided, Laguna Seca it is. Looks like 25-30 laps. As we have no benchmark times to go by we'll leave it as late as we can.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on March 12, 2009, 06:07:06 PM
Quote from: Doorman;267981As we have no benchmark times to go by we'll leave it as late as we can.
I'm doing 1.34's if that's any good as a reference for you.
talking of which.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35wT4FDcEco&fmt=22
..and to anyone that hasn't raced because of the previous problems.... It seems to be fine now :)
Real shame there was a low turnout this week as Silverstone is somewhere you can really race these cars :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 12, 2009, 07:08:17 PM
Quote from: The Moose;268029I'm doing 1.34's if that's any good as a reference for you.
talking of which.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35wT4FDcEco&fmt=22
..and to anyone that hasn't raced because of the previous problems.... It seems to be fine now :)
Real shame there was a low turnout this week as Silverstone is somewhere you can really race these cars :)
Terrific job! Love the gloves you great pon..! :D 30 laps it is then, although I can see where I can knock a couple of seconds off. :blink:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Seany on March 12, 2009, 07:46:00 PM
Quote from: Gnomie;267980I can only speak for myself, but I must admit that I've been putting nKP on hold until the multiplayer issues have been sorted. Just couldn't be arsed to spend a lot of time practicing for an event only to get discoed after like 5 laps.. However, now that the server problems seem to be a thing of the past, I'll be there on Wednesdays whenever I can make it! :) Starting next week.
Cya!
same here
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Mille Sabords on March 13, 2009, 12:51:58 PM
Sorry for letting you down, NKP really is something - full mode does bring immersion, and the inadequacy of communication means with other drivers / pits makes if feel all lonely in the car as it should be. My sim-racing time is close to 2hours / week at best these days, so training / practice and setup tweaking is going nowhere. It feels that I would need to invest more time in this sim to get something of it, and I do not have this time at the moment, so LFS does the job. If time comes by I'll get back in and claim that last place on the grid that has my name on it :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 13, 2009, 01:21:31 PM
Quote from: Mille Sabords;268177Sorry for letting you down, NKP really is something - full mode does bring immersion, and the inadequacy of communication means with other drivers / pits makes if feel all lonely in the car as it should be. My sim-racing time is close to 2hours / week at best these days, so training / practice and setup tweaking is going nowhere. It feels that I would need to invest more time in this sim to get something of it, and I do not have this time at the moment, so LFS does the job. If time comes by I'll get back in and claim that last place on the grid that has my name on it :)
You and indeed anyone here, has no need to apologise. We all play the games we want to play. I was mainly disappointed in the nKPro community in general. There are hundreds of them but they're all invisible. Then they complain 'there's never anybody on line' Hey ho! :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on March 13, 2009, 02:22:50 PM
Quote from: Mille Sabords;268177If time comes by I'll get back in and claim that last place on the grid that has my name on it :)
NO, that's mine, get off!!! :norty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on March 13, 2009, 05:40:45 PM
Quote from: Doorman;268180I was mainly disappointed in the nKPro community in general. There are hundreds of them but they're all invisible.
One of the main problems with the netKar community is its too fragmented. It's a real shame ( and i never thought i'd hear myself saying this :p ) that RSC has been closed. Things were really picking up there in the netKar section, it was a positive atmosphere and lots of new people were there. It was the main forum for netKar enthusiasts.
Now we are left with the Italians that stick to the DrivingItalia forum and organise their own events over there and the GPC crowd who tend to stick to preparing for/racing in GPC and nothing else.
If RSC were still up and you were promoting the DMR night's over there, i think there would be plenty of interest still.
If we can just get a couple of trouble free races in a row with a decent turnout, and everyone spams a few forums reporting how good the races have been, things could pick up.
What we need more than anything else is Kunos to release the next bloody patch!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 13, 2009, 06:41:21 PM
Very well put. What is it with RSC? How hard can it to to run a forum?.....Smilo?.... Smilo? :doh: I'm kidding, I'm kidding. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 13, 2009, 11:21:29 PM
I will do some posts on dutch simracing forums to get some extra interest for the ‘All Comers League’... but by the way they opened up a league section at virtualr.net what could generate some extra attention.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 13, 2009, 11:53:56 PM
Quote from: .pixr;268285I will do some posts on dutch simracing forums to get some extra interest for the ‘All Comers League’... but by the way they opened up a league section at virtualr.net what could generate some extra attention.
http://www.virtualr.net/league-section-added/
Thanks for your input, it's appreciated. I had a good look round that site and saw only one mention of nKPro and that was for the Laguna Seca track release. I wonder if they don't like their sims to be too simulatory :norty: Still maybe we can prise some away from Need for Speed eh? :D I'm going to have to make the rounds and delete the 'league' part of our Wednesday nights. :rolleyes:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 14, 2009, 12:25:16 AM
I've edited the GPChampionships forum. Looks a little better I think :rolleyes:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Pete Franklin on March 17, 2009, 10:45:32 PM
Damn didnt realise you guys were racing last week. I thought it was a week off for some reason- must have been XLR8 talking about being on holiday- I'm pretty fast on silverstone too:doh:
Well I'll definately be racing tomorrow- not been on the sims for a bit but i have done a couple of Autosolos in the meantime so hopefully real life will transfer over. Not tried Laguna with NKP but I have a thing for that track- always loved it and done well in rFactor etc, so it should be interesting.
Lets just hope my 60k ping doesn't show up with me :crying: As I say if its causing problems i'll leave no probs. I'll have a little fiddle with all the cables etc to make sure its not a hardware fault etc. did anyone get to the bottom of why it only shows 60k+ when im stationary in the pits?
Cheers Pete
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 17, 2009, 10:56:37 PM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;268862Lets just hope my 60k ping doesn't show up with me :crying: As I say if its causing problems i'll leave no probs. I'll have a little fiddle with all the cables etc to make sure its not a hardware fault etc. did anyone get to the bottom of why it only shows 60k+ when im stationary in the pits?
Cheers Pete
Don't fret. A simple reconnect does it. The stationary in pits thing was a bit of a red herring. See ya tomorrow. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 18, 2009, 08:14:50 AM
Quote from: Pete Franklin;268862Damn didnt realise you guys were racing last week. I thought it was a week off for some reason- must have been XLR8 talking about being on holiday-
LOL, BTW I'm going on holiday for the next 8 weeks now :norty::roflmao:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 23, 2009, 02:55:36 PM
Sad to say, this 'league' has been a shambles. :crying: Not completely, there have been a few good moments, but on the whole, a shambles. It seems to me the netKar Pro is good for organised events such as GPChampionships league but even they have the same problems, to a degree, that we have had. Mostly connection/lag issues. This has sounded the death knell of our 'long' races. The insecurities engendered are too great for my 'dicky tickaire'.
Given that nKPers need 'organising', that is to say a time and place to be on a regular basis, rather than searching for non-existant pick up races, I propose making the Wednesday night event a simpler, quicker format.
As mentioned elsewhere in this forum it'll go like this:
1: Wednesday evening 7.30 proper time the server will be started.
2: There will be a 600 second (10 minute) wait time during which you can practice, change stuff or whatever takes your fancy.
3: There will be no lap times recorded during this time so the grid for the first race will be randomly selected.
4: If you're in the garage you get the 'Go to grid' sign. If you're out on track, 30 seconds before the off you get dumped on the grid automatically.
5: Race lenght? :g: Not too short and not so long as to strain nKP's memory! I'm thinking 10 -12 laps of Lastplace Lake. (open to suggestions)
6: At the end of that race there will be another 10 minute break.
7: The next race will start but with a reversed grid!
8: One last thing. To start off with, FULL MODE=0
Points from both races will be added together to give us a winner. :yahoo:
On the subject of points spread I am open to suggestions as well.
I'm now sitting staring at my monitor asking myself why am I bothering? The answer is simple. I really feel this sim is worth the trouble and I'd love to see it used more. It's basic downfall is that you can't jump on a server willy nilly as in LFS so you need an appointment. I/we want to provide that appointment. WEDNESDAY 7.30!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 25, 2009, 12:22:12 PM
Quote from: Doorman;269677I'm thinking 10 -12 laps of Lastplace Lake. (open to suggestions)
Can't we race at Newbury or something like that, nice and short track so that we can have a little racing interaction with each other + i noticed lastplace lake is quite heavy on the GPU/GPU side :g:
ps. I will be there no matter what track you choose to race :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 25, 2009, 12:43:37 PM
I'm now in a serious quandary. There are several of us that have signed up for the Race2Play race tonight. That starts at 8pm GMT As Mark pointed out to me, R2P take a dim view of 'no shows' and quite right to, so how's this for a plan? Start at 7:30, have two 6 lap races at Prato short with reversed grid and 5 minute wait time. That'll take 28-30 minutes. Then we all shoot over to Race2Play for their 10 lapper at 8pm ready for their practice session. They have a full grid as well! That way we'll have a decent nights racing.
The following are booked on R2P: Stuart Whitehead Mark Turnbull Jarrko Sihvola Katsushika Matsumoto (.pixr) Ron Attwood
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 25, 2009, 12:51:00 PM
Sounds like a plan to me :)
See you later.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 25, 2009, 01:26:06 PM
good plan :yahoo:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 25, 2009, 09:10:04 PM
This is how good plans shake out. :roflmao:
Race 1 1st Stuart Whitehead 2nd Ron Attwood 3rd Mark Turnbull 4th Katsushika Matsumoto
Race 2 1st Mark Turnbull 2nd Ron Attwood 3rd Katsushika Matsumoto DNF Stuart Whitehead
Combined results 1st Mark Turnbull 8 points (Placed first on account of race win) 2nd Ron Attwood 8 points 3rd Katsushika Matsumoto 5 points 4th Stuart Whitehead 5 points
I made up the points system as I went. :D Well done Mark
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on March 25, 2009, 09:17:14 PM
Sorry guys that I missed the race. It seems that I'm racing in so many RBR, rF and nkP series that sometimes it is hard to remember all races/rallies.
And I'm also sorry for my driving in r2p qual&race. I did too many mistakes.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on March 25, 2009, 09:31:15 PM
Apologies to .pixr for the contact in race 2. **** poor show on my part.
Terrible evenings racing overall. I had to reinstall nKPro and finished getting it sorted with 60 secs to race start.
Everything felt wrong and id had no practice for days, not a good way to have a race. I won the first one due to the rest of you doing great impressions of lemmings:roflmao:
Still i couldn't get anything to feel right...my braking was all over the place. It felt like id never driven nKPro before :(
That continued over at R2P. I didn't have time to sort out what was wrong with the way if felt. Had a crappy qual and a crappy race. Kept going sideways into corners and eventually ran wide in the corner at the end of the back straight, sticking my car in the armoco.
I'm liking the look of R2P, be interesting to see how it pans out when the proper races begin. It's a bit like iRacing for all sims, but without the stupid stuff that really annoys me in iRacing. It's even got me racing LFS again:blink: I don't see anything worth paying for there, but its got decent organised racing so ill stick at it while i can still enter races without having to empty my home for moths........oops, i mean wallet. (their pricing makes iRacing look like the bargain of the century!)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 25, 2009, 09:41:49 PM
I wondered why you disconnected while running in third. I watched the replay and I saw why. :sad: Oddly enough the animations of your car seemed quite jerky. Everyone else's car tyres displayed the motion blur of the Avon sidewalls. Your were very distinct and didn't appear to be rotating. Your 'off' into the barriers looked almost deliberate. Something definitely amiss. :g: My experience was a good one overall. Shame it wasn't on nKP Rank, I had a couple of PBs. :) Good dice with Matzos, I was holding him off nicely for a 4th place when my tyres went all squirrelly, overdid T2 and let him by. Great stuff though. Good job Mark :thumbsup2: The least said about OUR event the better I think. :lmfao:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on March 25, 2009, 10:29:37 PM
Quote from: The Moose;270100Apologies to .pixr for the contact in race 2. **** poor show on my part.
No problem :lmfao: wasn't doing great myself so i had an excuse for my bad results.
Quote from: The Moose;270100I'm liking the look of R2P, be interesting to see how it pans out when the proper races begin. It's a bit like iRacing for all sims, but without the stupid stuff that really annoys me in iRacing. It's even got me racing LFS again:blink: I don't see anything worth paying for there, but its got decent organised racing so ill stick at it while i can still enter races without having to empty my home for moths........oops, i mean wallet. (their pricing makes iRacing look like the bargain of the century!)
I didn't know you had to pay for race2play :crying: i just checked the pricing, and maybe the basic subscription ($7.99) is something for me.
I also find the centralized simracing competition really great, i'm gonna start racing more at race2play (maybe even rfactor/lfs).
Quote from: Doorman;270105Good dice with Matzos, I was holding him off nicely for a 4th place when my tyres went all squirrelly, overdid T2 and let him by.
Yeah we had a nice battle :) although i didn't recognize you at first... for some weird reason you're skin wasn't working for me.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 25, 2009, 10:55:18 PM
I know why you couldn't see the skin. I was using one I had made for someone else. :doh: What a plonker! Sorry.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on March 26, 2009, 01:37:35 AM
Quote from: .pixr;270117I didn't know you had to pay for race2play
Luckily its not compulsory....it just gives paying members a place on the grid before guest members. Most of the other stuff membership gives you is completely worthless to me. Certainly not worth what they're asking. If I'm going to cough up that sort of cash then I'll subscribe to iRacing.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: vobler on March 26, 2009, 07:28:26 AM
Quote from: The Moose;270141If I'm going to cough up that sort of cash then I'll subscribe to iRacing.
:yahoo:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 26, 2009, 11:48:30 AM
Quote from: vobler;270147:yahoo:
You missed the 'if' :norty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Deetz on March 26, 2009, 12:35:39 PM
Well, I'm sorry I missed the racing last night, but unfortunately I was held up at work and didn't get home in time.
Catch you all next time.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 26, 2009, 01:07:37 PM
I can't believe you let work get in the way of an important race event!!! :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 26, 2009, 01:13:36 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270098This is how good plans shake out. :roflmao:
Race 1 1st Stuart Whitehead 2nd Mark Turnbull 3rd Ron Attwood 4th Katsushika Matsumoto
Race 2 1st Mark Turnbull 2nd Ron Attwood 3rd Katsushika Matsumoto DNF Stuart Whitehead
Combined results 1st Mark Turnbull 9 points 2nd Ron Attwood 7 points 3rd Katsushika Matsumoto 5 points 4th Stuart Whitehead 5 points
I made up the points system as I went. :D Well done Mark
Sorry to disagree Ron but I think you're being too kind. I'm sure I came third in race 1 after my Lemming impression? In fact that's definite because the reverse grid in race 2 put me in P2 on the grid behind Katsu.
I think the format worked well, it's just a shame there weren't more drivers on the grid.
I got an invite to a team on R2P on the back of last nights R2P race too!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 26, 2009, 02:19:20 PM
Quote from: XLR8;270179Sorry to disagree Ron but I think you're being too kind. I'm sure I came third in race 1 after my Lemming impression? In fact that's definite because the reverse grid in race 2 put me in P2 on the grid behind Katsu.
What a sportsman! :D Results amended.
Quote from: XLR8;270179I got an invite to a team on R2P on the back of last nights R2P race too!
Bloody poachers! :sideways: Whoever they are, they couldn't afford the transfer fee! :flirty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on March 26, 2009, 03:56:00 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270167You missed the 'if' :norty:
...and it's a bloody huge "IF", as iRacing is a bloody rip off too.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 26, 2009, 04:10:06 PM
Don't hold back. Say what you see. :lmfao:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Mille Sabords on March 26, 2009, 04:19:56 PM
Quote from: XLR8;270179...I think the format worked well, it's just a shame there weren't more drivers on the grid...
LFS: LX6s on South City whatever. Fights at all levels, even with yourself if you happen to get isolated. Bumps, wicked turns, too much power and devil hiding under the bridge. Suprisingly populated server (at race starts :D).
1 hour race tonight, over 500 gear changes estimated!
That may be why nkp is a bit depleted this week.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 29, 2009, 11:31:45 AM
What's the deal for this weeks race Ron? Are you going to use the 1800's :)
Plus could we have a slightly earlier start time so we can get to the R2P race afterwards?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 29, 2009, 12:19:15 PM
Is Wednesday a regular thing for R2P? If so, we could do something else. Being earlier isn't a starter because it's difficult for some to make 7:30! We'll have a race on the same track as R2P and use it as a warm-up event.
EDIT: Looks like the demo users are out of luck this Wednesday. (http://race2play.com/schedule/show/394)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on March 29, 2009, 09:54:33 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270503Is Wednesday a regular thing for R2P? If so, we could do something else. Being earlier isn't a starter because it's difficult for some to make 7:30! We'll have a race on the same track as R2P and use it as a warm-up event. [/URL]
Don't know if it's regular, the nK promo races seem to be at that time, don't know if it will change.
No problem with the time, it was just a thought.
Good idea about matching tracks for the evening.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 29, 2009, 10:03:57 PM
I did a little investigate and it looks as though Wednesday is nKP night. It also looks as if the demo mode 'fun' races have finished.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on March 30, 2009, 10:12:30 AM
Hi all! Not been able to race for a while, RL insists on getting in the way :crying: I can see there has been some changes to Wed nights, which look interesting, so hope to appear this week. So the question is, what, where and when? :D (OK, technically three questions....)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 30, 2009, 12:44:25 PM
Quote from: Itchy;270579Hi all! Not been able to race for a while, RL insists on getting in the way :crying: I can see there has been some changes to Wed nights, which look interesting, so hope to appear this week. So the question is, what, where and when? :D (OK, technically three questions....)
It's shaping up like this; Where? dMr for warm up race(s) at 7.30 with the same track/car as HERE (http://race2play.com/) Then we tootle of to their server, fully honed to kick ass! :D Up to now, they've put on well organised races. Not full mode but good nonetheless. Go sign up, it's free. (http://race2play.com/)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on March 30, 2009, 05:13:03 PM
OK, sounds good. Joined as suggested, but why is there no Deadmen team to join? Just wondering.....
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on March 30, 2009, 07:04:41 PM
Quote from: Itchy;270650OK, sounds good. Joined as suggested, but why is there no Deadmen team to join? Just wondering.....
It costs to run a team on it. Minimum $7.99 pm. Unless someone can show me otherwise. I've searched and search but only came up with the pay way. :sideways:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 01, 2009, 11:16:38 AM
Tonight's race at Montreal 19.30 GMT, right?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 01:54:32 PM
Quote from: Jape;270865Tonight's race at Montreal 19.30 GMT, right?
No, things have gone a bit...astray. I noticed you did the Race2Play event, do you have the full game? They're putting on F2000 at Aviano short tonight so we're having a couple of short, reversed grid races with the same combo as a curtain raiser. Then we'll all go over to R2P
2 x 8 laps with 5 minute wait time. Normal mode. 7.30 BST start.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 01, 2009, 02:47:43 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270874No, things have gone a bit...astray. I noticed you did the Race2Play event, do you have the full game? They're putting on F2000 at Aviano short tonight so we're having a couple of short, reversed grid races with the same combo as a curtain raiser. Then we'll all go over to R2P
2 x 8 laps with 5 minute wait time. Normal mode. 7.30 BST start.
Yep, I did play in r2p. And no, I don't have full game, just the demo. But I undestand the situation and hopefully r2p and DMR makes some FF1600 races again in future. Or maybe I will buy full game..
I wish you all nice&tight races for tonight :byebye:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 03:01:03 PM
Quote from: Jape;270881...Or maybe I will buy full game..
That's the spirit. :D It costs the same as seitsemän pitka kolmenen :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 01, 2009, 06:27:42 PM
Quote from: Doorman;2708742 x 8 laps with 5 minute wait time. Normal mode. 7.30 BST start.
How many litres of gas I need for 8 laps? :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 06:52:11 PM
Quote from: Jape;270923How many litres of gas I need for 8 laps? :)
Good man. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 07:15:33 PM
17 litres. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 01, 2009, 07:23:44 PM
Quote from: Doorman;27093617 litres. :)
Ok, thanks mate. But I don't see the server on the list, at least not yet..
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on April 01, 2009, 08:06:59 PM
%&^*$$£*& :taz: First time in don't know how long that I get time to race, and what happens? nkPro falls over, application failed to initialise... Bl*$&%$ software. Cue 45 mins of frantic fiddling, deinstalling, reinstalling, sacrificing of small animals and general cursing, wailing and gnashing of teeth to no avail. Bum!! :angry: :ranting2:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 01, 2009, 08:21:29 PM
I can't see r2p server... :crying:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 09:04:59 PM
Quote from: Jape;270947I can't see r2p server... :crying:
Did you know it's called Race2Play?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 09:07:48 PM
Language please! :lmfao: If it didn't initialise it's generally because you've put a file where it didn't oughtta be. Have you been fiddling? :flirty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 09:13:34 PM
Bloody good racing tonight. That's it, you can go now. :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 01, 2009, 09:47:03 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270952Did you know it's called Race2Play?
Yep. I knew it. And I find it now, 1,5 h after the race if I refresh approximately 50 times.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on April 01, 2009, 09:53:56 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270955Bloody good racing tonight. That's it, you can go now. :)
Sorry i couldn't make your event tonight. I wasnt going to race at all as i've had problems with netKar and my wheel. At the last moment i decided to do another reinstall and seemed to have things working ok, but i'd missed the start of race1 by then. I decided to go straight to the R2P server and make sure everything was working ok, as i didnt want my wheel to just lock up in race and take someone out...
Boy, am i happy i did race. Everything behaved perfectly and i had one of the most exciting races I've ever had.:yahoo: Race report to follow at the R2P site.
It's nights like that, when netKar is working almost flawlessly, that i love it more than any other sim. R2P's server seems remarkably good....:g:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 10:01:46 PM
Quote from: The Moose;270967It's nights like that, when netKar is working almost flawlessly, that i love it more than any other sim. R2P's server seems remarkably good....:g:
Very true. Y'know, for a little while now I've been pondering the possibility that....dare I say it?....nKP Rank may have a part to play in this! After all, the game is continuously sending data to it :g: That's a question that won't be raised on the GPC forum! :flirty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 01, 2009, 10:03:10 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270955Bloody good racing tonight. That's it, you can go now. :)
I noticed that it really works in my advantage to have the DMR race before the sort of main event (R2P).
But i have really apologize to you Ron. Both of the accidents at DMR event were totally unnecessary. The second one was even stupider that the first one :sideways: (I checked the replay) So i will try to be more careful in next races :g:
At the Race2Play server I had a really good night. Was very happy with my qualification (4th) Really didn't expect to be so high up, after all I only tried the F2000 once before today :blink:
I made one big mistake in the race when I was in 3rd (after about 4 laps). I spun in the two big high speed corners. Somehow I kept it on the tarmac without hitting anybody (that even includes you Ron :rolleyes:) and continued my way in sixth place... actually fifth place but Stuart was right behind me and let him sort of pass (I didn't put up a fight because I was happy to still be alive after that big error).
To make a long story short I finished in 3rd because a couple of guys in front of me spun of so I could pass them quite easily. (I really nice to be consistent once in an while :D).
All in all a great night of racing. :flirty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on April 01, 2009, 10:11:36 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270970Very true. Y'know, for a little while now I've been pondering the possibility that....dare I say it?....nKP Rank may have a part to play in this! :
Funny you should say that....i had the same thought not a couple of days ago. I'll give you credit though because you said out loud first:rolleyes::D
From what i saw tonight it was almost perfect. No one i passed was lagging at all. Still dodgy collision code between me and the Italian chap, but apart from that it was pretty flawless.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 10:12:13 PM
Quote from: Katsushika Matsumoto;270971I noticed that it really works in my advantage to have the DMR race before the sort of main event (R2P).
But i have really apologize to you Ron. Both of the accidents at DMR event were totally unnecessary. The second one was even stupider that the first one :sideways: (I checked the replay) So i will try to be more careful in next races :g:
At the Race2Play server I had a really good night. Was very happy with my qualification (4th) Really didn't expect to be so high up, after all I only tried the F2000 once before today :blink:
I made one big mistake in the race when I was in 3rd (after about 4 laps). I spun in the two big high speed corners. Somehow I kept it on the tarmac without hitting anybody (that even includes you Ron :rolleyes:) and continued my way in sixth place... actually fifth place but Stuart was right behind me and let him sort of pass (I didn't put up a fight because I was happy to still be alive after that big error).
To make a long story short I finished in 3rd because a couple of guys in front of me spun of so I could pass them quite easily. (I really nice to be consistent once in an while :D).
All in all a great night of racing. :flirty:
Your apology is accepted. Don't worry about it. :D The only time I get really annoyed by being hit is in GPC races. They make so much of being clean and rules etc.....coupled with the fact that they (the races) are somehow more important. Anyway, well done on your third spot. I know I would have placed higher if only I fuelled for the race. I was on the grid with 20 seconds to go and I noticed 8L of fuel! :doh:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 10:15:08 PM
Quote from: The Moose;270972Funny you should say that....i had the same thought not a couple of days ago. I'll give you credit though because you said out loud first:rolleyes::D
From what i saw tonight it was almost perfect. No one i passed was lagging at all...
It begs the question, do we need Rank? Answers on a postcard.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on April 01, 2009, 10:16:38 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270976It begs the question, do we need Rank? Answers on a postcard.
Answer...not if that is the problem. I feel a test coming on.....
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 01, 2009, 10:18:08 PM
Quote from: The Moose;270977Answer...not if that is the problem. I feel a test coming on.....
Test server online.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 01, 2009, 10:22:47 PM
Quote from: The Moose;270972Funny you should say that....i had the same thought not a couple of days ago. I'll give you credit though because you said out loud first:rolleyes::D
From what i saw tonight it was almost perfect. No one i passed was lagging at all. Still dodgy collision code between me and the Italian chap, but apart from that it was pretty flawless.
I had the same experience, I noticed no lagging at all... only once during practice when I was driving there was small stutter because someone joined the session.
I feel a little test coming on concerning a nkp server without nkp Rank ..... :rolleyes: :)
EDIT: Moose we have some on the same thoughts... :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on April 01, 2009, 10:24:38 PM
Quote from: Doorman;270953....Have you been fiddling? :flirty:
:rolleyes: ohhh...... with netkar..... nope, not me squire
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 02, 2009, 11:51:44 AM
A great nights racing last night :D
It was good to practice on our server first, and the races were close too, just a shortage of bodies again :sad:
The R2P race was probably the best online race I've ever been in! Here's a copy of my race report -
I qualified 5th, nearly a second behind P1 (Stuart) so I wasn't planning on winning, I thought I would just try and be consistent, not make mistakes and see how it panned out. Then the green light lit and the racing devil inside me came out! I got a good start and passed one person on the grid and then outbraked two more at T1 keeping it tight against the kerb. I was now P2 behind Stuart but he spun on lap 2 on cold tyres making me P1. I stayed in P1 until lap 20 but it wasn't easy. I was relentlessly pursued by R Massa and E Dauti in turn, great racing guys, very clean. Due to my heavy braking I felt the tyres starting to go off around lap 12, only half way through the race! Then Stuart got back up to P2 and started hunting me down. I was running a lot of wing and was quick in the turns and it was obvious Stuart had a lot less wing as he murdered me on the straights. Because of this there was a lot of close racing back and forth and I had to defend hard. Then Stuart finally passed me into the quick left handers but because of his low wing, and tyres going off, a couple of laps later he went wide in the same bends and I got back to P1 with just two laps to go. Stuart caught me at the end of the first straight on the last lap. I had to be defensive at T1 staying on the inside, but because the tyres were off I outbraked myself and went too deep. Stuart quickly shot up the inside to retake P1. I chased him for the rest of the lap getting close in the braking zones on the tight turns but not close enough. We crossed the line after nearly half an hours racing just 0.5 secs apart!
DMR drivers placed 2nd, 3rd and 5th! Not bad. Grats to Stuart for the win and nicely done Katsu and Ron :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 04, 2009, 10:31:20 PM
Ok, it's been a learning curve but I've finally managed to nail together a video compilation of the highlights from the R2P Aviano F2000 event last Wednesday.
You can find it here - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8vmyf_r2p-aviano-short-f2000-event-1st-ap_videogames - because youtube wouldn't accept it due to the music track :norty:
Hit the 'HQ' button for best quality and don't forget to turn up the sound (Ron)
Also, note the subliminal advertising for DMR thanks to Rons skin :)
Hope you enjoy it.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 04, 2009, 11:32:25 PM
Fantastic! Loved the advertising. I've only two things to say. 1: Go get Lastplace skins and 2: I was that backmarker getting in the way! I was damned if I was going to get lapped with 200 yards to go! :D Great movie, loved the music. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on April 04, 2009, 11:33:25 PM
Nice vid, good work.:clap: Saved me doing it!
Only problem is the sound stutters and is completely out of sync for me :(
Nice to hear you have good taste in music as well :devil: Though that's the worst track on the album :narnar:
Ron will be happy it wasn't playing all through the vid though :D
EDIT:..ohh he liked it! I bet he wouldn't when it kicks off though :D
EDIT 2: Got it with the sound working properly :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 05, 2009, 07:43:57 AM
Quote from: Doorman;271410I was damned if I was going to get lapped with 200 yards to go! :D Great movie, loved the music. :D
:) LOL, I knew who it was, I just didn't want to name and shame you on film :wink:
I'm glad you liked it, and the music, which is a Metallica intro if you didn't know.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 05, 2009, 07:50:27 AM
Quote from: The Moose;271411Nice vid, good work.:clap: Saved me doing it!
Only problem is the sound stutters and is completely out of sync for me :(
Nice to hear you have good taste in music as well :devil: Though that's the worst track on the album :narnar:
Ron will be happy it wasn't playing all through the vid though :D
EDIT:..ohh he liked it! I bet he wouldn't when it kicks off though :D
EDIT 2: Got it with the sound working properly :)
Glad you liked it too Stuart, I think you must have been driver of the day to come back from that first spin to win!
I think the sound issue is due to the quality/speed of the network affecting the streaming of the file.
It may or may not be the best track but it's great as an intro for something like this. Maybe I'll try something heavier next time. I did a GTR tribute with a Death Angel soundtrack which worked well :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Gnomie on April 05, 2009, 09:50:29 AM
Great video! That looked like fun. :)
What album is that song from? Great music..
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on April 05, 2009, 11:41:13 AM
Quote from: Gnomie;271418Great video! That looked like fun. :)
What album is that song from? Great music..
It was fun! From a personal point of view it was one of the most exciting and incident packed races I've raced in. Leading,back to last by lap 2, passing then getting passed back on more than one occasion, getting the lead back then losing it with 2 laps to go ,then regaining it on the last lap and holding on to the win by 0.5 secs.
How much more can you ask for in a 30min race!
The album is Metallica - Death Magnetic. The bit of music in the vid is the intro section to The Unforgiven III. The rest of the album is as different from that bit of music as you can get. :devil:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 05, 2009, 12:49:52 PM
Quote from: XLR8;271417Maybe I'll try something heavier next time. I did a GTR tribute with a Death Angel soundtrack which worked well :D
Don't get too carried away. :flirty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 05, 2009, 02:01:23 PM
Quote from: The Moose;271424The album is Metallica - Death Magnetic. The bit of music in the vid is the intro section to The Unforgiven III. The rest of the album is as different from that bit of music as you can get. :devil:
:D lol, definitely misleading intro, the rest of the album is more like this :taz::ranting2::devil::woot2::frusty::crazy::taz:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 05, 2009, 09:58:27 PM
This Wednesday: F2000 at Falkenberg! :doh: I tell you, this will be a severe test of patience and nothittingothercarsidness! :flirty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 05, 2009, 10:55:30 PM
You've got that right!
Just had a 2 car race with P Sala and that was bad enough :blink:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 06, 2009, 11:31:26 AM
Quote from: XLR8;271408Ok, it's been a learning curve but I've finally managed to nail together a video compilation of the highlights from the R2P Aviano F2000 event last Wednesday.
Really nice video Mark :)
The Race2Play F2000@falkenberg event is april the 15th, so that's next week... are we gonna race the same race at DMR this week?
@Ron: By the way I was racing last Thursday of Friday (@prato short) against someone on the DMR server and we both had disconnects during the race. We both reconnected and everything was fine again don't know what the issue was exactly but I looked exactly the same as the problems we had before. Thought you should know.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 06, 2009, 12:02:17 PM
Quote from: Katsushika Matsumoto;271544Really nice video Mark :)
The Race2Play F2000@falkenberg event is april the 15th, so that's next week... are we gonna race the same race at DMR this week?
Yes indeed. Same deal as last week as it seemed to work ok
Quote@Ron: By the way I was racing last Thursday of Friday (@prato short) against someone on the DMR server and we both had disconnects during the race. We both reconnected and everything was fine again don't know what the issue was exactly but I looked exactly the same as the problems we had before. Thought you should know.
I'm coming to the conclusion that these random discos are the same as for any other online game. The only difference is that we're more paranoid about it in nKP. :dribble: As a side note, nKP Rank may have a role in it. We'll try running it on Wednesday without Rank.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 06, 2009, 04:43:26 PM
Falkenberg is gonna be mayhem if there's a full grid... :blink: I don't really like the track. Oh well we'll see how it works out :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 07, 2009, 10:15:45 AM
Quote from: Katsushika Matsumoto;271605Falkenberg is gonna be mayhem if there's a full grid... :blink: I don't really like the track. Oh well we'll see how it works out :)
Well, I find it quite different. With nkPRO's 15 cars grids, in my opinion there is never what could be called "full grid". 30 cars would be what I'm looking for - tight racing. And with 15 cars races on long circuits can be boring, with short tracks like Falkenberg it is much nicer, because you can actually see other cars on a track..
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 07, 2009, 10:49:18 AM
Quote from: Katsushika Matsumoto;271544The Race2Play F2000@falkenberg event is april the 15th, so that's next week... are we gonna race the same race at DMR this week?
Well spotted Katsu, I mistakenly thought it was this week. Ron/all do we really want to do Falkenberg twice, couldn't we do somewhere else tomorrow?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 07, 2009, 12:42:32 PM
Quote from: XLR8;271694Well spotted Katsu, I mistakenly thought it was this week. Ron/all do we really want to do Falkenberg twice, couldn't we do somewhere else tomorrow?
I refer the honourable gentleman to the thread I made some days ago. Note (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=27072) (yesterday actually :))
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 07, 2009, 12:48:41 PM
Quote from: Jape;271686Well, I find it quite different. With nkPRO's 15 cars grids, in my opinion there is never what could be called "full grid". 30 cars would be what I'm looking for - tight racing. And with 15 cars races on long circuits can be boring, with short tracks like Falkenberg it is much nicer, because you can actually see other cars on a track..
I tend to agree. Have a look at this site (http://speedcastprod.vidiac.com/mostdiscussed/0/374a1ceb-2846-4865-9bdb-9959011c95fd.htm)for the sort of racing nKP tries to emulate. Now they are what I call full grids! :blink:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 08, 2009, 02:57:46 PM
Quote from: Doorman;271709I refer the honourable gentleman to the thread I made some days ago. Note (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=27072) (yesterday actually :))
:doh: Duly noted, ta.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 08, 2009, 06:56:06 PM
Do we race tonight? If so, when and where, please? Spa?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 08, 2009, 07:23:02 PM
I'm having trouble seeing/connecting to the server tonight!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 08, 2009, 07:40:38 PM
Well it's here. 77.108.129.45:9550 as always
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 08, 2009, 07:50:32 PM
Quote from: Doorman;271951Well it's here. 77.108.129.45:9550 as always
Weird it still doesn't show up when I add it manually (even with port 9500) :g:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 08, 2009, 07:54:03 PM
I give in :doh: 9550
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 08, 2009, 07:58:29 PM
I can't see it no matter what I do. I've rebooted everything including the cat! I can't add it even with the right IP and Port. Turning off FW and AV doesn't help, not that it should be them. I can see and join other servers tho.
I give up now. :crying: It's a BYOB night at the local pub (yes I know :g:) so I'm off for tonight.
You've not got me on a blacklist have you Ron :blink:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 08, 2009, 07:59:05 PM
Quote from: Doorman;271953I give in :doh: 9550
Sorry if I didn't make myself clear but I tried port 9550 AND 9500... :g:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 08, 2009, 08:01:28 PM
C'mon guys, click refresh x 100, it will appear finally..
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 08, 2009, 08:01:44 PM
Well Jarkko Sihvola has joined
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 08, 2009, 08:12:08 PM
No matter what I try I don't see the server... @ Jape : even tried to refresh at least a hundred times :blink:
I can get a response from the IP via the ping command, but that's about it....
update : I did a trace route to the IP and now out of the blue I can see the server in NKP :blink: Unfortunately the race started a couple of minutes ago :sideways:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 08, 2009, 08:40:13 PM
It must be a variation of the famous nkp lobby bug. :angry: Oh well, it was one of those nights....again :rolleyes: .
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 15, 2009, 04:02:06 PM
is there gonna be a r2p prerace event tonight? :blink:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 15, 2009, 04:48:52 PM
Indeed there is. 7pm. A few 10 lappers eh? :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 15, 2009, 04:58:36 PM
I'm afraid I can't be around tonight. Hope you all have some good racing. Like the way the R2P team page is looking Ron :) Catch you later.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 15, 2009, 05:33:02 PM
Quote from: Doorman;272781Indeed there is. 7pm. A few 10 lappers eh? :D
maybe even a full race distance, to check out the tire wear :g: but anyhow i could use the practice :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 15, 2009, 06:30:11 PM
Quote from: XLR8;272785I'm afraid I can't be around tonight. Hope you all have some good racing. Like the way the R2P team page is looking Ron :) Catch you later.
Boo! Down that pub again, I'll be bound!
Matsu, can you get on Ventrilo for the practice races?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 15, 2009, 06:59:06 PM
so i don't have ventrillo installed, and don't have a mic... ron, we could just go over to the r2p server as it's already online...
looks like there are already 4 people practicing.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 15, 2009, 06:59:30 PM
I went to DMR server a minute ago, and I got this message: "Server is not responding"
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 15, 2009, 10:54:36 PM
Quote from: Jape;272803I went to DMR server a minute ago, and I got this message: "Server is not responding"
Just a tiny 'glitch'. It's OK now :) Mark, you missed a brahma! :norty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on April 16, 2009, 09:58:07 AM
Ron i made a youtube clip of our epic battle :yahoo:
[YOUTUBEHD][/YOUTUBEHD]
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 16, 2009, 10:19:56 AM
Fantastic! It's clear where I was slower, my lines are 'scruffy' but it was only the really bad mistake in the final turn that lost it for me. Terrific driving Katsu. :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: delankster on April 16, 2009, 10:29:35 AM
cracking replay !! nice driving chaps :D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 16, 2009, 12:49:33 PM
Great driving guys :clap2:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on April 16, 2009, 09:17:28 PM
Great driving from both parties! Really entertaining to watch, thanks for posting.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 22, 2009, 07:55:47 AM
Do we race to night? I have proper computer this week :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 22, 2009, 04:48:11 PM
I've been thinking about this server....a lot. Unless we make an effort to be on it at least on Wednesday evening then it'll sit there like so many nKP servers...empty. People look for a server with life on it. Let's make an effort to liven the place up, there are at least 5 of us and that is an incentive for to others to join. I'll be on it from at least 7:30 and shall keep restarting the quali session till there's enought of ust to race. Otherwise I can see no good reason to keep the server running. :sad:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Gnomie on April 22, 2009, 05:33:11 PM
You're no longer doing the F1600 regularly, right? I've decided not to buy a full licence at this point. My PC seems to be struggling more with nKP than any other sim, and I'm getting tired of running at super-low resolutions and still get stuttering. I'm not sure, but I think it's also affecting my force feedback.
So: I'll still join you guys for some F1600 fun if you'll run that again in the future, but a full licence will have to wait. :crying:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Jape on April 22, 2009, 07:55:10 PM
:crying: Race going on there...can't join to server.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 22, 2009, 08:17:13 PM
Disco'd again right before the race :ranting2:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 22, 2009, 09:46:05 PM
Quote from: XLR8;273552Disco'd again right before the race :ranting2:
You and a couple of others. We restarted the session and they returned. :) Except you. :sad: Some damned good racing too. I think my suggestion worked! :yahoo:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: The Moose on April 22, 2009, 09:57:07 PM
Yup, shame you didn't rejoin Mark. It was fine after a restart. Lots of people in as well.......Bonus :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on April 22, 2009, 10:06:53 PM
A good evenings racing! Improved my lap times, and led a race (very scary :blink: ), so I'm happy. Nice to see lots of people on the server, let's hope it continues.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on April 22, 2009, 11:16:07 PM
Quote from: Doorman;273567You and a couple of others. We restarted the session and they returned. :)
Bugger! I kept 'refreshing' looking for the server for several minutes but I couldn't see it or 'add' it :sad:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on April 22, 2009, 11:31:23 PM
Quote from: XLR8;273591Bugger! I kept 'refreshing' looking for the server for several minutes but I couldn't see it or 'add' it :sad:
You're sure about the IP? 82.34.44.197:27000
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: XLR8 on May 19, 2009, 01:41:09 PM
Will there be any racing on the Finnglish server this Wednesday? And if so what, maybe a practice for next weeks R2P? :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Doorman on May 19, 2009, 03:41:43 PM
Quote from: XLR8;276627Will there be any racing on the Finnglish server this Wednesday? And if so what, maybe a practice for next weeks R2P? :)
1: As a general rule, an hour or so before the R2P race on R2P race days. 2: I can't run nKP and rF-GTL and guess which is fave atm. :norty:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on September 30, 2009, 04:08:07 PM
Are you guys gonna race at RSR tonight? :g: Don't know if I'm gonna participate.
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Katsushika Matsumoto on September 30, 2009, 07:17:32 PM
Im racing tonight...:D
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: trialboj on December 11, 2016, 03:35:54 PM
Hi,
Is there any forum topic where you guys speak with each other? It's weekend but I cant see anyone else on the current combo :(
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Seany on December 11, 2016, 08:18:03 PM
hey ya
yeah, you can make a post any where in this section if you want to ask about Assetto racing etc: http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?279-NetKar-Assetto-corsa
This thread is the one where we announce the current combo, most discussion goes on in there: http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?39864-Assetto-Corsa-Server-Track-And-Car-Combos/page48
Unfortunately with so few racers the server is empty most of the time, but keep an eye out in the evenings, this is when you will most likely see us on. 8pm(GMT) tomorrow there will most definitely be racers on! :)
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: trialboj on December 14, 2016, 08:25:19 PM
I cant find anyone on the server :( ... There was only ONE 5 min race? which I missed, and everyone is gone?
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on December 16, 2016, 01:41:52 PM
I couldn't even find the server :sad:
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Seany on December 16, 2016, 05:36:16 PM
Quote from: Itchy;420330I couldn't even find the server :sad:
Hey Itchy mate, any more info on that, you tried to join on Thursday and were unable? Server should be up and running no probs as far as I can tell. Do you have all the DLC? The current combo is using The Porsche 911 GT1-98, this is part of the "Porsche Pack II" DLC. It is also using the Red Bull Ring track which came in the "Red Pack" DLC.
Filters are the only other thing I can think of that might be preventing the server from showing up. Once these filters are set correctly and you have the DLC, all you should have to do is type "DMR" into Assetto's lobby search box, and it should hopefully show up.
PS the best day to come on the server to join us for some racing is Monday. We try to do Wednesday too, but some of us may be busy and not able to come on (this is what happened last Wednesday). PPS This thread is ancient, from another era when we where racing in NetKarPro. Sorry for any confusion. :) PPPS :D As with triaboj, we would love to have you on racing with us Itchy, the more racers the better in these quiet times!
Title: Dead Men Racing on Wednesday night
Post by: Itchy on December 16, 2016, 11:38:47 PM
Hi Seany, how's things? I tried to join on Weds, but no sign of the server. Just tried again now and found it, no problem. Bought all the Porsche DLC on release, who could resist. Can't wait to drive a 917.... Looking forward to racing with you guys again, will be fun.