UKGPL Season 26 (2014) Historic Trophy (66) - Jops Siffert - May 20

[Robert Fleurke]

Congrats Clive, been a while since you topped the podium I think, so good to see ending that losing streak! Tristan has been absent also in 65 and 67 last few races sadly...

[Iestyn Davies]

Yes, indeed.. so Clive, if Tristan doesn't show, you are a deserving '66 champion! 

[EvilClive]

TBH I would rather not win by default just because Tristan does not show...nice as winning might be 

Does anyone know what has happened to him?? he seems to be missing from the UKGPL scene generally. perhaps he is on vacation?

Either way, a handicapped 3ltr 66 car around Mexico is going to be one hell of a grind to finish the season lol!!

[Rainier]

TBH I would rather not win by default just because Tristan does not show...nice as winning might be 

Does anyone know what has happened to him?? he seems to be missing from the UKGPL scene generally. perhaps he is on vacation?

Either way, a handicapped 3ltr 66 car around Mexico is going to be one hell of a grind to finish the season lol!!

I just heard he has moved to a new house. Currently, he has not yet an internet connection.
...but he will soon (I hope) come back, stronger than before     

[Iestyn Davies]

Hmm, tried to phrase it right and still phrased it badly 

I meant that you or Tristan make a deserving champion, Clive, looking at the championship standings.

Good to hear Tristan has moved house and will be back when he has a new connection. 

[EvilClive]

I took the trouble to look at the points table and it is very close if Tris returns for the last race. I still have to drop one score ( Tris has already missed 3 race so drops none. Which in effect means that I am only 6 points ahead of Tris, but with a 7 point difference between 1st and 2nd............ if Tris wins at Mexico he still takes the crown even if I finish 2nd 

If I was a Waza I might consider devious tactics  but as a reformed Blue Mooser I shall contest the race in a sportsmanlike manner 

[Rainier]

Thanks for all the chat during qualifying.  

I think you can deactivate messages when you are running on the track , or am I wrong ?

Sorry for these messages, but we really wanted to not disqualify Francesco for this kind of mistake.
For the next races, the avalaible cars should be selected when starting the server

ONE moderator should inform the driver, ONCE. If driver ignores this, DQ.

Is it a new official rule or is it YOUR rule ?



Moderation published.

[Cookie]

Maybe we can avoid such chatting troubles if the server "boss" learns to use the commands to kick a client  

Even if the server has only the available cars selected, it does not prevent any driver to join with another car if he has it chosen before!

TBH, I am most disturbed by these imho unneccessary "DRIVER_XY PO" and "DRIVER_XY PI" messages some drivers do,
as they do not help to avoid any dangerous situation but give a massive glitch to every OGL driver...  

I have found a semi solution for OGL

In GPL-shift there is a setting for font size. Find the [GPL Font] Auto_Set_GPL_Font_Size and set it to 0. You might find the chat a bit hard to read, the text gets rather small but it helped me with the fps drops anyway.

Göran

[maddog]

At Gplracer, all PI and PO messages are banned, and any chat at official races receives a warning the 1st time.  The second time a wheel falls off! 

[Cookie]

YES! Martin that should become a rule for UKGPL too!

Goggle helped me to find the GPL Wiki re chat messages

Multiplayer - Chat commands and Boss Control
http://wiki.grandprixlegends.info/index.php?title=GPL_Keyboard_Assignment

I learned, that we can do private chat messages to any one of the players connected to the server.

[Rainier]

At Gplracer, all PI and PO messages are banned, and any chat at official races receives a warning the 1st time.  The second time a wheel falls off! 

Only moderators have the right to chat, any other drivers chatting will be DQ.
I don't know if this is an official rule, but it is MY rule. Everyone who disagrees will be DQ. 

 

[DLogan]

...I think you can deactivate messages when you are running on the track , or am I wrong ?...

Yes, you can, but I would prefer not to, in case something is said that does apply to me. Chat messages don't bung my system like they do to others, but it's still more than a little distracting while trying to qualify and there are messages popping up ALL THE TIME "uh oh, someone's in wrong car" "HEY YOUR"E IN THE WRONG CAR" "is he in the wrong car? " "Yeah he's in the wrong car and we're trying to tell him" "someone should tell him he's in the wroing car" :HEY YOURE IN THE WONR G CAR" " maybe he has messages turned off" etc etc etc while everyone and his mechanic chime in with their 1.5 cents (pre-VAT) worth.

...Is it a new official rule or is it YOUR rule ?...

Neither. "Should" was meant to imply it SHOULD be a rule in my opinion. As I'm not a mod, maybe one of your fellows can explain the niceties to you.

[GregT]

I took the trouble to look at the points table and it is very close if Tris returns for the last race. I still have to drop one score ( Tris has already missed 3 race so drops none. Which in effect means that I am only 6 points ahead of Tris, but with a 7 point difference between 1st and 2nd............ if Tris wins at Mexico he still takes the crown even if I finish 2nd 

I'm relieved I didn't completely ruin your season after what I did at Nurburgring. When I looked at the season standings after that race, I was really disappointed with what I had done. I had thought about starting at the back since that was only the second track I'd driven the 246. If I race these cars again I will start at the back until I've got a lot more experience.

I've been a poison pill to you this season. I apologize. In the future if I we're in the same race I'll start at the back except for the Works and Friday series. I'm not a big fan of the F2's so I don't expect to race them much.

Take care Clive. I hope I haven't angered you too much this season. None of the bs I caused was intentional.

I hope you win the championship!

[Rainier]

As I'm not a mod, maybe one of your fellows can explain the niceties to you.

No need to explain the niceties of your rule to me.
I will not change the UKGPL official rules because this is not my responsibility.

Your answer is one of the reason (a minor one) I am not really happy to be again races moderator on the next seasons.
We try to arrange things to allow a maximum of people to race (Francesco in this particular case) and we just receive critics.

[DLogan]

...We try to arrange things to allow a maximum of people to race (Francesco in this particular case) and we just receive critics.

Francesco was free to race whatever chassis he wanted to in that race (as whoever started the server failed to restrict the car choice). Whether he gets points or not is a different question and could have been dealt with afterwards.

I had a really good chance at taking pole there (which might have allowed me to avoid getting involved with other people's over-aggression [thanks for the apology, RC  ] and incidents leading to my VERY EARLY RETIREMENT AND ANOTHER NO POINTS FINISH), but with the bullshit distractions going on I gave up trying for the last 15 minutes and went to find something else to do until the race started.

If you can't take people disagreeing with you and raising their objections politely, maybe you shouldn't be a mod.

edit: I'd like for the moderation to be re-opened, and wish to protest the entire race result, due to the concerns I've raised above.