Surprise Login Competition - Season 1 [Login/Race]

[The Noose]

I'm in.

The Noose
Finland
santerius gmail.com

[FogoRJ]

ok, I'm in!
FogoRJ
Brazil
ejinkings@ig.com.br

[Vilf]

vilf
Finland
vilf1994@gmail.com

[Vilkku]

Okay welcome everyone!

At the moment everything looks good and we have already 17 drivers if I count right! It's much more than I expected and that's why our test round deadline is already 10.04.2011 23.59:59 GMT.

I will try to make everything ready in next 3 days so login should be ready for monday!

Sign up is of course open for whole season, so everyone can always join!

Ready, steady.....

[The MNZ]

Please, when login is ready, put on it a file named "test.txt" and inside write anything . So we could test the login system.

[Vilkku]

Please, when login is ready, put on it a file named "test.txt" and inside write anything . So we could test the login system.

I will test it before by myself. Test Round is for testing that everything goes right. If there is problems during test round, I will fix these problems.

[Hangman]

Hangman
FIN
hangmanni gmail com

[akouk]

akouk GRE akouk at otenet dot gr

[Vilkku]

Welcome akouk!

Okay, in first post you can now download gr-pack for this competition. It includes AI-drivers and right settings. Track and cars you will get from login of course .

Important note:
Race length changed to 18 kilometers. 18.

I will try to get login pages and files ready today. And of course I will send your username and password for login before it's ready. I still need Ivo's (Trigger Happy) e-mail to confirm him sign up.

-Vilkku

[Mad Dan]

I might have time for this compo . Because it doesn´t require practice .

haq
Czech
Dan.haq(at)seznam(something)cz

[Trigger Happy]

... I still need Ivo's (Trigger Happy) e-mail to confirm him sign up.

I edited by earlier post few hours ago.

[Hiken17]

vikku if you need to send me something please do it via PM, not e-mail, i don't check it so often

[Vilkku]

@maxi17, I will try to remember that...

I hope I can get everything ready tomorrow, because now I have technical problems with login site(s).

Almost 20 drivers signed up, good job guys

[Hiken17]

thanks!

[Vilkku]

Okay guys!

Login infos sent and login is ready! Green flag! Good luck!

Please remember that you are not allowed to tell tracks and cars for anyone before results are online!

I will update here drivers who raced already and their +/- time for time limit. I got idea from competition, hope it's not too much copying.

Driver/Time limit -(time left)/+(over time):
XYY/+1min
Hangman/no files
Mr.J/-3min
maxi17/-3min
reh/-3min
The Noose/0min
Vilf/-2min
mplume/-4min
Mszostus/-4min
Tuomoh/-3min
Buka/-2min
FogoRJ/no files

[XYY]

I just sent my race. Hope that everything's fine and that I'm not too bad

[The MNZ]

Site was blocked

[Vilkku]

Okay, it looks like our site have problems already for many drivers. If it doesn't work tomorrow, I will try to do something about it.

At the moment XYY is only one who were able to make race.

[The MNZ]

Try to use the byethost.

[Trigger Happy]

Allegedly byethost tends to block from time to time generally various problematic ''hackers' states'' from connecting to their servers, if remarkable problems happen from them - like Pakistan, Uganda, Vietnam or .... Brazil. Funny is, that allegedly similarly Brazilian Telefonica (or other key local provider?) sometimes blocks access to byethost servers for its Brazilian customers from similar security reasons too (considering the servers to be threat). So maybe it's not best choice.

[Vilkku]

Okay guys!

Don't use _ mark in while you are saving your game. It changes for / mark and it doesn't save the game. Just write example testroundyourname and it should be fine.

[Reh]

race done. might be terrible...

[TuomoH]

After 8 minute of waiting I thought that the file isn't coming at all. Can't you really use another server? Thankfully I do have more time during the weekend but I won't try until you say it should be ok again.

What's the matter with logins for me today? First the 3rd file from GRF1 was complete, now I didn't get even the first file here.

[Vilkku]

After 8 minute of waiting I thought that the file isn't coming at all. Can't you really use another server? Thankfully I do have more time during the weekend but I won't try until you say it should be ok again.

What's the matter with logins for me today? First the 3rd file from GRF1 was complete, now I didn't get even the first file here.

I will change it when I find more time. Good luck all of you with server and race. I come back in sunday, so then I can update something if needed.

[TuomoH]

I got the login to work. A funny thing is that as soon as I tried the link again, it gave me the track without the need to re-enter the login info...

But I strongly suggest a move to 1.05 - the 1.10 save bug hit me and the replay is empty. This is the first time it happened to me with a single race, before I've had it happen during championships.

There may be a workaround though: I've noticed that if I take a look at the replay during the race, I haven't had empty replays at the end.

Another possible option is to save the replay after finish but just BEFORE the results screen appears - the bug has always occurred to me only after the results screen.

However, I can't be sure that either of these two options are 100% working, that's why I suggest using 1.05.