Please PM your Steam GUID's to me so you can be "Prebooked" for AssettoCorsa Servers

[Seany]

Any Assetto Corsa Player; Please Private Message me your Steam GUID as well as the Driver Name you would like to use on the server.

You can get your Steam GUID from here : My Documents\Assetto Corsa\cfg\race.ini  . In this file look for the following section : [REMOTE], you will see your GUID=#### a few lines down.

**NB : This file is only filled with info like the GUID after you have been booked on at least one online server,  make sure you do this or the file will be blank with no GUID. (Thanks Aquilifer)

About PreBooking

• This system is pretty good.  It allows any PreBooked driver to join during Practice/Qualifying and even Race.



• It seems it is only the GUID that is important.  Eg if my game name is Seany and I put my name as Batman in the prebooking list, it will still let me join, but my name will be Batman.



• Information for PreBooking is put into a file called entry_list.ini.  This is what it looks like:

[CAR_0]
DRIVERNAME=Seany            ;;Driver name in game, but like I say, it does not have to be the same as your ACTUAL game name (plenty of mickey taking opportunities here )
TEAM=dMr                         ;;Don't think this matters much.  I will just put DMr for now.
MODEL=abarth500_s1      ;;You have to specify the car the driver will use, you can't change it before you join.  If you try to prebook more than one car the Client crashes when they try to join.
SKIN=light_blue_orange      ;;You have to specify the skin the driver will use, you can't change it before you join.  If you leave this blank it seems to use the Default skin.
GUID=##############   ;;The important part of this file.  This is your Steam GUID which can be found in :MyDocuments\Assetto Corsa\cfg\race.ini\[REMOTE]\GUID=####
SPECTATOR_MODE=0      ;;Haven't figured what this is yet.

[/LIST]

I have the List of GUID's and names. Private Message me if you would like a copy to use for making Server configs etc.

[Blindfury46]

Nice one Batman

[Neys]

Hey Batman,

Joker's GUID:

:-)

BTW: Not sure, but my feeling would be a bit better, if we could make this thread private for members, if this is possible? Just in case there are real Jokers out there...

[Seany]

I checked around quite a bit and haven't found (yet ) any way that some one could use your Steam Id for malicious purposes.   I think it is meant to be available, publicly, for anyone to use for situations like this where you are organising groups of steam players for steam servers.

But...I have no problem moving this thread to the Admin section, or some where similar, if you all would prefer that.  Either way, Neys, you can remove yours for the moment if you like, no problem.  I have it written down now.

Maybe Tealeaf (or anyone else familiar with Steam) would have more insight.

[TeaLeaf]

We could always just do this via PM if it helped? I have not had a chance to look at the AC number yet, so I have no idea if it can be dangerous to have it posted here.  I'll try to do a web search at the weekend to find out, bit rushed for time atm, sorry!

[Neys]

Either way, Neys, you can remove yours for the moment if you like, no problem.

Sorry, I didn't read the whole post and so I missed the link in the OP. After reading it, it seems to be safe to have the GUID public...

[Seany]

Sorry, I didn't read the whole post and so I missed the link in the OP. After reading it, it seems to be safe to have the GUID public...

Ok, cool.  We'll continue to put them it the first post.

Cheers guys.

[Goat]

Goat:

[Deetz]

Deetz

GUID=

[gooner andy]

gooner andy

[Aquilifer]

When I try to check my GUID it is empty. The whole [REMOTE] section is like this for me

[REMOTE]
ACTIVE=0
SERVER_IP=
SERVER_PORT=
FIRST_NAME=
LAST_NAME=
TEAM=
GUID=

[Seany]

Sorry! I should have checked this sooner, got involved racing and forgot!

Make sure it's the one on your My Documents folder.  I see there is one in the Game Installation folder that is just blank, like above.

PM it to me and I'll have you added to the booking list.

[Aquilifer]

Yep, I had noticed it already. They are both similar.

I wonder if the game gets messed up if the Windows is not English speaking.

EDIT: BTW. It complains the PW is not correct when trying to join normally. I assume it was the same pw as listed in the pw section of the forum for LFS servers.

[Aquilifer]

Bit of thinking and I thought the reason could be that I had never played online yet. Quick testing and voila now it shows. Maybe OP could add a note in the first post that you have to have booked yourself at least in one server before.



As a side note the whole server joining system sucks. And this prebooking thing...not sure but does it mean that these slots are always reserved even if these people are not joining or do they get released to other people if they do not show up in the booking time?

[Seany]

Cheers Aqui.

Bit of thinking and I thought the reason could be that I had never played online yet. Quick testing and voila now it shows. Maybe OP could add a note in the first post that you have to have booked yourself at least in one server before.

Ahh, well spotted. Didn't know about that one!  I'll update the first post

As a side note the whole server joining system sucks.

Yes, Yes it does .  Oddly it seems the only ones who are not aware of this are the Kunos, the Assetto developers! :doh:

 

And this prebooking thing...not sure but does it mean that these slots are always reserved even if these people are not joining or do they get released to other people if they do not show up in the booking time?

You are correct with your first assumption, the slots are permanently booked (/reserved).  You'll notice that even if you join the server alone you will see all the cars of every other prebooked player sitting in their pit box.  This seems hugely wasteful of resources to me ( I bet Mr Efficiency - Scawen Roberts is laughing his ass off at stuff like this ).  

The main advantage of prebooking is that, if we are having some racing and some one shows up late (after booking is over and we are in a race or qual) they can still join.  Previously they would of had to sit around for 10-15mins mins until the server went back round to booking again, or we would have rebooted the server to force it back to booking.

Hopefully they (Kunos) have received enough criticism for the current MP system that they will rethink it.  There are supposed to be some big updates soonâ,,¢ to do with graphics and Client Netcode.  I really hope it contains some fixes to improve this horrible system!


Feel free to delete your GUID from this thread, Aquilifer.  I have it written down now.