rFactor + GTL

[Lameduck]

Doorz was so upset that I won my first Historix race and whupped the pair of you, that he insisted that we change cars to give you both a chance.:roflmao:

Needless to say, I never completed a race after that:crying:
Doors kept asking where you had gone but as far as recall you never appeared on 'chat' or anywhere else in the game. :sad:

[obsolum]

Disclaimer: I'm tired and frustrated right now for reasons completely unrelated to this right now, so there's a chance that I'll come across more cross than I intend to be. (...)

If it's any excuse I was at least as frustrated as you for many and more reasons when I wrote that post :narnar:

[mattgirv]

I've just had a kerfuffle with my router which resulted in me kicking it down the stairs! Replaced router, but a new IP was issued at the same time. If you don't see Finnglish in the list the IP is 94.168.126.236. It you use the favourites/Bookmarks you'll have to do it again.
Tip: rFactor\UserData\You\Bookmarks.xml Open it in Notepad and delete the existing Finnglish. Otherwise you'll end up with two entries and only one will work. (trying to keep the frustration factor down )

Hey I have been trying to find the server for the last couple of weeks. It doesn't appear in the server list, and I have tried adding it but it says it doesn't get any results.

Does the server only run at certain times? And is it down at the moment?

Would like to try this with you guys Been playing against the AI since it was released pretty much and its such a blast, I think I'd explode in excitement if I actually managed to get a proper race in. :woot2:

[Doorman]

Hiya Matt. I fire it up about 7pm. Check the 'Tracks you'll need' thread and make sure the versions you have are the same. It's a drawback with rFactor that there are so many people making tracks etc. Particularly look out for the CADWELL.gdb, it's a must have. See ya tonight? I'll be on if no-one else!
In fact I'll start it now.

[mattgirv]

Cool, yeah got all the maps. Redownloaded em just to be sure they're the same version. Had enough headaches with mismatches and stuff before.

Will have a look for it in a bit :lmfao: The server not being up doesn't help in me finding it, haha. I thought it was just rFactor being screwy.

[Deetz]

Is the server up Ron, I have tried all weekend and no server, with either the old IP or new. :sad:

Mind you , it meant I enjoyed a cracking 30 Lap race round Oran Park in Lotus Elan with about 30 other like minded loonatics. :woot2:

[obsolum]

Mind you , it meant I enjoyed a cracking 30 Lap race round Oran Park in Lotus Elan with about 30 other like minded loonatics. :woot2:

What? Where was that?

Doorz has been having router problems (as he mentioned in 2 different posts, already), which is why the server is offline at the moment. It will be up again sometime this week hopefully.

[Doorman]

Is the server up Ron, I have tried all weekend and no server, with either the old IP or new. :sad:

Mind you , it meant I enjoyed a cracking 30 Lap race round Oran Park in Lotus Elan with about 30 other like minded loonatics. :woot2:

Do tell. I know, AI...yes?

[obsolum]

Do tell. I know, AI...yes?

That's what I was thinking but it would surprise me. Although the AI seem to be a bit more intelligent than the AI in LFS they're still not very smart. I've tried numerous times to do the offline championships with 19 AI's. The first track is always Goodwood, and they always go off in the first right hand turn. Within the first 2 laps they cause such mayhem that the safety car comes out for a number of laps. And then when the safety car comes back in and we get a green flag again it's only a few laps before the same thing happens again. And that's if I'm lucky. I've seen them crash into the safety car effectively taking it out, and then stay behind it :doh:

Maybe I should try it without yellow flags... :g:

[Deetz]

LOL, no AI involved, just 28 (I checked my replay) real people.
 
The server was news.rfactorcentral... server 6
 
They have a Porsche 911 at Rattlesnake Pass combo this week. The track is fictional (I think) and is a bit too long and bland.
 
But I think I'll be checking Sunday evening to see if there is another hoard of people to race.
 
:boxing:

[obsolum]

Hmm, interesting. So is that some kind of weekly event then, you think? Is there any info on this? I'm browsing rF central at the moment but can't seem to find anything about it.

[lovretta]

RF central every week (or almost every) holds such events with different mods and tracks, for some of them you pay some small amount of money like 2 $ or 5$ and you compete whole week in 5 classes for top prize of 250$ in each class - classes are divided on final rank, 5 by 5.

Not sure can you connect if no pay is done, but they also host free events, probably something like Deetz was driving.

[mattgirv]

If you are looking for free events, have a look at RaceDepartment. I have come across quite a few HistoriX events on there, and tbh theres something of everything so its worth a look.

Also Obsolum, did you try setting warm up laps before your race? Sometimes the AI can go a bit screwy otherwise. I think they are meant to improve over time as well?

[lovretta]

Yup, AI is meant to be better over time. Butttt. rF AI depend heavily on how good the modder made them for his particular car and how good the track AIW is...
Thats why you get interesting AI in simbin games (don't qoute me on this, others who choose AI as #1 say so) - they made their specifc files for the car very good (as i know, lots of testing) and tracks also have good AIW....

[mattgirv]

Yeah I only run practice sessions with the AI in HistoriX and have noticed they are very prone to oversteer. They usually correct it but end up losing loads of seconds over it so they aren't the best of competition.

I got a few point to point tracks that they really seem to hate, and just getting them out the pits and on the track moving is a challenge in itself. Don't really know much about pathing but I guess with these tracks its just a case of them not knowing where the track is or whatever.