This is an empty one at the moment. I would suggest that the racing admins put their heads together an write a short or long introduction. Wouldn't take too long and it is simply just missing now :)
Structure proposition:
- Which games are supported and how
- Generally about the dMr racing style and ways
- When is it done and where
- etc
I could try to write something but I haven't really raced under dMr so I don't have the right insight to it. But if you want I can try to put something together.
May I refer you to Oldies 'Stickie' post?
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=23892
Quote from: Lameduck;305819May I refer you to Oldies 'Stickie' post?
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=23892
Oh damn, how did I miss that. I will get on to it straight away.
QuoteDead Men Racing - Introduction
About Us
Dead Men Racing are part of the Dead Men Walking gaming community and, as such, are not structured like most teams in LFS. Membership, for example, is by invitation only and we only invite racers who have consistently demonstrated a mature attitude to racing. Skill levels are not important. When members are invited we make it very clear to them that the dMr tag makes them ambassadors of mature, clean and fair racing.When you see someone wearing the dMr tag you *know* they will race hard and fair. Supported racing sims for the time being are: Life for Speed. But we also have people playing other racing games like iRacing, netKar Pro and rFactor.
Our Server
Live for Speed details are following:
Our server is public and it's busiest between 8pm and 10pm GMT. We have ...
Forced Cockpit View = ON
Wind = ON
Pit Stop = ON
Just look for 'Dead Men Racing' on the server browser.
Our Racing in Live for Speed
We structure our racing in one week cycles. A different car/track combo is chosen for each week and we round the week off with a one hour race on that combo.
The 'Long Race' is on Thursdays at 8:30pm with a 20 min qualy starting at 8pm (all times GMT/BST). The server is made private shortly before qualy starts so no late joiners. So if you fancy joining us then you will need to sign up on our forum for the server password.
In addition I can't stress enough how much more fun racing is when Ventrilo or Teamspeak is used. We prefer Ventrilo and use it at all times. Details, again, are on our forum.
Our general race durations tend to be around the 10-15 minute mark. When the race ends do not expect to see the next race start immediately. We normally have Airio handle an auto restart of 5 minutes to allow for bladders to be emptied, glasses to be filled and setup tweaks to be tested so please: be patient, keep the track clear and resist the urge to vote. Remember: quality not quantity.
Our Admins
We have a zero-tolerance policy regarding 'numpties'. We try very hard to ensure that our guests are provided with the best racing experience we can deliver and we refuse to let the reckless actions of others spoil that. However, we all make mistakes. So if you feel that an admin has dealt with you harshly then please take it to our forum where I can guarantee a mature response to your complaint.
Your Experience
You have a large choice in where to race so why give us a try? Well because you'll be hard pushed to find a friendlier well-run public server to race on where speed around the track plays second fiddle to mature people having clean, fair and fun racing. When you leave our server we want you to be thinking 'That was fun' and we hope that will make you a regular.
Race you soon?
Edit: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1809182/Racing%20Sims.rtf
At the moment we only really support LFS as dMr, so the racing section is geared (npi) towards that. I don't know the status of the rFactor server but I know none of the team play on it but guests view and post in the sub forum occasionally. We have one team member who plays iRacing but have no server, I would like to keep the sub forum open for him and finally we don't have a Netkar pro server but the sub forum gets some guest views/posts.
One thing that bothers me is that the rFactor, iRacing and Netkar pro forums are being used as recruitment for Doormans own servers which is taking the p somewhat. As Doorman is still a member of Dead men though, it throws up a conflict of interests which I don't feel I have the power to deal with at my level. If this has any bearing on the final decision on what stays and what's cut from the racing section then it has my support.
Does it look any better, and by all means you can change it as you want. I'm just trying to get the basics done but as you can see I'm not a racer :)
QuoteDead Men Racing - Introduction
About Us
Dead Men Racing are part of the Dead Men Walking gaming community and, as such, are not structured like most teams in LFS. Membership, for example, is by invitation only and we only invite racers who have consistently demonstrated a mature attitude to racing. Skill levels are not important. When members are invited we make it very clear to them that the dMr tag makes them ambassadors of mature, clean and fair racing.When you see someone wearing the dMr tag you *know* they will race hard and fair. Supported racing sims for the time being are: Life for Speed and rFactor. But we also have people playing other racing games like iRacing and NetKar Pro.
Our Servers:
Live for Speed:
Our server is public and it's busiest between 8pm and 10pm GMT. We have ...
Forced Cockpit View = ON
Wind = ON
Pit Stop = ON
Just look for 'Dead Men Racing' on the server browser.
dMr HistoriX Server:
Is running on 77.108.129.45 but should be available from the in-game browser. Look for Dead Men Racing (beware of the strange alphabetical order they use)
Live for Speed format:
We structure our racing in one week cycles. A different car/track combo is chosen for each week and we round the week off with a one hour race on that combo.
The 'Long Race' is on Thursdays at 8:30pm with a 20 min qualy starting at 8pm (all times GMT/BST). The server is made private shortly before qualy starts so no late joiners. So if you fancy joining us then you will need to sign up on our forum for the server password.
In addition I can't stress enough how much more fun racing is when Ventrilo or Teamspeak is used. We prefer Ventrilo and use it at all times. Details, again, are on our forum.
Our general race durations tend to be around the 10-15 minute mark. When the race ends do not expect to see the next race start immediately. We normally have Airio handle an auto restart of 5 minutes to allow for bladders to be emptied, glasses to be filled and setup tweaks to be tested so please: be patient, keep the track clear and resist the urge to vote. Remember: quality not quantity.
Our Admins
We have a zero-tolerance policy regarding 'numpties'. We try very hard to ensure that our guests are provided with the best racing experience we can deliver and we refuse to let the reckless actions of others spoil that. However, we all make mistakes. So if you feel that an admin has dealt with you harshly then please take it to our forum where I can guarantee a mature response to your complaint.
Your Experience
You have a large choice in where to race so why give us a try? Well because you'll be hard pushed to find a friendlier well-run public server to race on where speed around the track plays second fiddle to mature people having clean, fair and fun racing. When you leave our server we want you to be thinking 'That was fun' and we hope that will make you a regular.
Race you soon?
I think this is more like it.
Quote from: Jamin;305879One thing that bothers me is that the rFactor, iRacing and Netkar pro forums are being used as recruitment for Doormans own servers which is taking the p somewhat. As Doorman is still a member of Dead men though, it throws up a conflict of interests which I don't feel I have the power to deal with at my level. If this has any bearing on the final decision on what stays and what's cut from the racing section then it has my support.
You do have the power Jamin, it's *your* section. If you want elements of the forum archived as they are not what we do and detract from the community then we will fully support you. We're not here to support & develop somebody else's private race team.
QuoteDead Men Racing - Introduction
About Us
Dead Men Racing are part of the Dead Men Walking gaming community and, as such, are not structured like most teams in LFS. Membership, for example, is by invitation only and we only invite racers who have consistently demonstrated a mature attitude to racing. Skill levels are not important. When members are invited we make it very clear to them that the dMr tag makes them ambassadors of mature, clean and fair racing.When you see someone wearing the dMr tag you *know* they will race hard and fair. Supported racing sims for the time being are: Life for Speed and rFactor. But we also have people playing other racing games like iRacing and NetKar Pro.
Our Servers:
Live for Speed:
Our server is public and it's busiest between 8pm and 10pm GMT. We have ...
Forced Cockpit View = ON
Wind = ON
Pit Stop = ON
Just look for 'Dead Men Racing' on the server browser.
dMr HistoriX Server:
Is running on 77.108.129.45 but should be available from the in-game browser. Look for Dead Men Racing (beware of the strange alphabetical order they use)
Live for Speed format:
We structure our racing in one week cycles. A different car/track combo is chosen for each week and we round the week off with a one hour race on that combo.
The 'Long Race' is on Thursdays at 8:30pm with a 20 min qualy starting at 8pm (all times GMT/BST). The server is made private shortly before qualy starts so no late joiners. So if you fancy joining us then you will need to sign up on our forum for the server password.
In addition I can't stress enough how much more fun racing is when Teamspeak is used. We use it at all times and details, again, are on our forum.
Our general race durations tend to be around the 10-15 minute mark. When the race ends do not expect to see the next race start immediately. We normally have Airio handle an auto restart of 5 minutes to allow for bladders to be emptied, glasses to be filled and setup tweaks to be tested so please: be patient, keep the track clear and resist the urge to vote. Remember: quality not quantity.
Our Admins
We have a zero-tolerance policy regarding 'numpties'. We try very hard to ensure that our guests are provided with the best racing experience we can deliver and we refuse to let the reckless actions of others spoil that. However, we all make mistakes. So if you feel that an admin has dealt with you harshly then please take it to our forum where I can guarantee a mature response to your complaint.
Your Experience
You have a large choice in where to race so why give us a try? Well because you'll be hard pushed to find a friendlier well-run public server to race on where speed around the track plays second fiddle to mature people having clean, fair and fun racing. When you leave our server we want you to be thinking 'That was fun' and we hope that will make you a regular.
Race you soon?
Edited to change ventrillo to teamspeak.