NFS-Shift Weekly Online Racing Thread

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MannyMoenjack
I was thinking about something along those lines myself. The other (less fun) idea would be to set the Minimum number of racers to something like 12, which (I believe), would delay the start of the race until everybody arrives. Do you think that would work?
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that's worth a try for sure, never hosted that many berfore. normally lobby clock starts when 1st opponent arrives, i hope you are right will be much easier for you.
 
No i just test it. And the timer counts from 2 minutes to 0 while are still spots to fill in, so for that reason you will have to send invites real quick. And that might be a problem to complete all 12 players before time reaches 0 and race will begin.

And there is something else, the computer will fill in for missing players . If you set a minimum players for 12 you might find you in situation while you have 6 real players and 6 computer players.
 
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If everybody tries to invite everybody else, if you see what I mean, there will be more chance of everyone getting into the race. I dislike the 2min timer a lot!
Thanks for clearing that up Manny about the tuning. I can tell teh muscle car race is gonna be scrappy for me. I can never get to grips with the steering which appears to control some form of rudder at the back of an oil tanker... :P
 
darkos
No i just test it. And the timer counts from 2 minutes to 0 while are still spots to fill in, so for that reason you will have to send invites real quick. And that might be a problem to complete all 12 players before time reaches 0 and race will begin.

And there is something else, the computer will fill in for missing players . If you set a minimum players for 12 you might find you in situation while you have 6 real players and 6 computer players.
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Ok, we will go with Plan B. I'll set up a two-lap warm up race at Silverstone if everyone hasn't gotten into the lobby by the time the timer counts to zero.
Once the warm-up is over I'll hopefully have time to finish sending or re-sending the invitations before the main event. (Oh, the pressure!!!:scared:)
 
Oh, and one other thing before I have to leave to run some errands...

None of this is set in stone. If we find certain problems with the logistics or connections today, we can always adjust the way we run the thing.

We might need to split it into two seperate meets depending on your location, or we may want to make the races longer if there is support for that. So, don't be too upset if the thing balls up some today. :)
 
^Sounds good
I'm in a dilemma... Not sure which car to go for in the Spa race. I've got an RX7 and an Elise that could do the job nicely. I have made my first foray into teh world of tuning and it payed off for both of these cars.
 
well i cannot for the life of me get to grips with the F1, so when the race starts i will make sure i get out of everyone's way.
I don't want to spin and take any one out.
 
There will be collisions. I have raced each track today with 11 ai cars, until pack spreads out it will be unavoidable.
 
First Glitch! As you may know I mis-typed the UK start time above. Your correct start time is 10pm (1 hour from now). Gawd I suck at this! :)
 
well i am getting the hang of the F1 now but not well enuf to push hard.

So any one that gets on my bumper don't try any moves just let ME get out of the way for YOU.
Then that will avoid me messing any ones race up.
You cannot miss me i am the white and black F1 with the little man and tanks on the side of my car.

BUT BE WARNED THE SAME CURTISY WILL NOT BE SHOWN IN THE OTHER TWO RACES :lol::lol::lol:
 
THE HOG
well i am getting the hang of the F1 now but not well enuf to push hard.

So any one that gets on my bumper don't try any moves just let ME get out of the way for YOU.
Then that will avoid me messing any ones race up.
You cannot miss me i am the white and black F1 with the little man and tanks on the side of my car.

BUT BE WARNED THE SAME CURTISY WILL NOT BE SHOWN IN THE OTHER TWO RACES :lol::lol::lol:
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Oh, you mean the McLaren where the little cyber-driver is screaming in fear?:lol:

My only fear is the first turn of each of the races, just like in real racing. But again, we'll all try to avoid bumping, but it's probably going to happen anyway. Also lets just do Visible damage only this weekend. No sense driving 10 laps in busted car.
 
For mi this is late night racing, so i already did tank Red Bull into my tank/head and I'll see where this will get me
 
I lost my dam connection, it was fine and then second race it lost it:crazy::grumpy:.

And the race i was most dreading in the mclaren F1 at silver stone turned out to be my best race :lol: i only span four times quite happy with my self.

Manny and steve0 those nudges i gave you were not intentional, i don't know what happened one second you were miles ahead and the next thing i knew you were rite there infront of me lag in the game i think it was.
 
THE HOG
I lost my dam connection, it was fine and then second race it lost it:crazy::grumpy:.

And the race i was most dreading in the mclaren F1 at silver stone turned out to be my best race :lol: i only span four times quite happy with my self.

Manny and steve0 those nudges i gave you were not intentional, i don't know what happened one second you were miles ahead and the next thing i knew you were rite there infront of me lag in the game i think it was.
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No problem at all HOG. Those McLarens were a handfull and a half! With the lag issues we saw (I saw), I think we did remarkably well under the circumstances. Good clean racing just as it's supposed to be.
 
Well I certainly enjoyed that apart from the muscle cars! I got lonely at the back struggling to drive with the barge-like handling of the 'Vette so I gave up and sat at the side making flames come out of my exhaust :P
I'll post the full results up tomorrow but heres the top three for each race.
F1 Race at Silverstone:
1-nWcPL
2-Nitrovious
3-SteveO

The Spa race:
1-Nitrovious
2-nWcPL
3-Me, Aldo_GTP (yay :lol:)

The Muscle car race at Road America:
1-nWcPL
2-Manny
3-MrB

Hope we can do this again next week
Thanks again for setting this up Manny! :cheers:
 
That was fun
, i didn't experience much lag to speak of really, i know i had a couple collisions, sorry whoever that was :) , thanks Manny great job!
 
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THE HOG
I lost my dam connection, it was fine and then second race it lost it:crazy::grumpy:.

And the race i was most dreading in the mclaren F1 at silver stone turned out to be my best race :lol: i only span four times quite happy with my self.

Manny and steve0 those nudges i gave you were not intentional, i don't know what happened one second you were miles ahead and the next thing i knew you were rite there infront of me lag in the game i think it was.
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Me to very frustrating happened to me twice while i was in 1st...:banghead::banghead::banghead:

I was having such a nice battle with NITROVIOUS...pitty hope in the next time it works better...👍
 
arvore
Me to very frustrating happened to me twice while i was in 1st...:banghead::banghead::banghead:

I was having such a nice battle with NITROVIOUS...pitty hope in the next time it works better...👍
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was sorry to see you disappear right in front of me :( we were quite evenly matched
tried to add you to psn friends list but your list is full
 
Silverstone Gran Prix Raceway from the star game start to lose it video frames, thats because there was to many players, i count 9 ! there is no way that Shift will run smoothly with such amount of players. Max should be 5 just like in Road America where game finally stops loosing frames and i did go smoothly. And i did put to much foot on the throttle once, i don't know why second player nitrovious was unable to overtake me. From my point of view it looks like he did brake hard trying not to hit me, what was a noble thing, i would react in the same way. Thats what racers do. Anyway the issue with vid. frames makes this race easier for me.

SPA oh wow, i crouch behind some one and in the very first corner i did get hit, and land in the last position but that was good chase. From last to second that was the best what could i achieve.

Road America I've decided to go not wide but inside a first tight corner, in rear view mirror i saw MannyMoenjack going a little bit too sideway and too much into the grass i think. I did used nitro only in uphills to maintain speed, and just to jump a little bit ahead of chasing guys :)

I'm very sorry Aldo_GTP, and GTP_bbnascar i have no idea how that hapend, from my point of view cars in front of me starts jump all over the track, one closer one further and for that reason i was unable to know the actual position of your car. we did one race at SPA earlier today and i notice that you chose wrong car :) but in the race you take different car, wrrrrrrr that was a pain in the spine because i was unable to overtake you for a while so i have to wait until you go wide and then try my overtake. It happened in other way, we did crash.

Here's the laps after each race.

Silverstone
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SPA
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Road America
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THX for MannyMoenjack letting me fill in for RW
 
Yeah I understand about the crash now, its alright. :)
When I raced you earlier at Spa that was the car I was going to use. But then, after experimenting further, I found the Evo 9 was quicker than my Elise :P
You had the same idea as me, taking photos. I was gonna post them up tomorrow when I got on my PC. :)
Forgot to mention, I experienced no lag in any of the races ;)
 
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SPA oh wow, i crouch behind some one and in the very first corner i did get hit, and land in the last position but that was good chase. From last to second that was the best what could i achieve.


Yea then you flew into the side of me took me clean out into the grass then barrier :grumpy::sly:
 
Thanks Darko for thinking to photograph the results.

Well I was very disappointed with the slowdown/lag problems in the first and second races, but I enjoyed the clean racing although I spent most of the time alone. :indiff:

I'd be interested in hearing any suggestions on ways we could improve the weekly races.

In light of the disconnects and lag/slowdown issues should we split the group into two, and race with only 5 or 6 cars? (The third race which had only 5 or 6 racers had no slowdowns or framerate issues for me)
 
NITROVIOUS
was sorry to see you disappear right in front of me :( we were quite evenly matched
tried to add you to psn friends list but your list is full
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Hope it works better next time... shame you all seemed to be very nice racers...👍

Maybe the host should have the ps3 wired directly to the modem surpassing the router...same problems happened in events i use to attend in scc and that was the way to resolve it now we play in 16 players lobby whithout connection issues...💡

NITROVIOUS i'm sorry for the full list i will try to make room but i don't know who else i will boot...:)
 
Congrats to everyone.
Man i had my hands full with the F1.Which is why i'm going to lobby for the use of traction control.I always use a little but what differance with out it.Thanks
 
Had a great time. The 1st race I had some problems, the F1 just wouldn't handle like it was in testing. It could have been lag or frame rate, but I think the server just couldn't keep up with us.
In the 1st race I got hit in the butt and went off into the weeds (by accident), I think I ended up in Wales somewhere, it took me ages to get back on the track and to make it worst, I got a 5 sec penalty (bummer).
2nd and 3rd races were great, had a ball.

3rd race, NITROVIOUS and myself had a great battle for 3rd place, loved every minute of it.
Bring on next week. 👍 Thank you Manny, great job. 👍
 
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