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[EX_stream_tuna]

wolfpack/dawson, you should really check it out this week.

S2000s!!!!

(well in a min once I update the OP.)

[EX_stream_tuna]

bumpity bump bump

[EX_stream_tuna]

Thanks for coming out Wizard!

congrats on the win too!

new specs for the week will be posted soon.  stay tuna'd.

[Wiz]

Thanks for coming out Wizard!

congrats on the win too!

new specs for the week will be posted soon.

Thanks for having me.  It was

stay tuna'd.

I love this!  

[EX_stream_tuna]

lol... couldn't resist.

updated OP with this week's specs, courtesy of MasterGT.

[EX_stream_tuna]

check out OP for new specs for this week's event, courtesy of Dan_Zitions

(NSX RM Unrestricted tuning)

[EX_stream_tuna]

I hear that Fried made it out to last Saturday's race, though I personally was not able to.  Sorry I missed.  Heard you put on quite the show and took the win!

sorry about the lag and other issues.  We're working on a solution to that whole 12 person limit thingy.

we may end up with two rooms when we exceed 12.  Not sure yet.

feel free to provide any ideas you may have (all)

[CharlieTuna]

feel free to provide any ideas you may have (all)

 Maybe get Sony/PD/Kaz to fix the problems.  Nah, that would make too much sense, huh?



So maybe we do it like they do March Madness only with race drivers - two racers go in and only one comes out...  Oh, I guess that was "Thunderdome"...  
                                                                                                                                                                      

But you get the idea, right?  We start off with 256 racers (way more than currently) and they all pair off to race.  Go!  Lap, lap, lap...  Finish.  Boom!  Down to 128... And because it's set up like a bracket folks would know who and when they race...  And it would only take 8 races to determine the "National Champ".  And guess what else?!  No LAG.  Also also, up to 14 people can watch each race...  

[EX_stream_tuna]

yea it really sucks that we even have to figure out how to make a game work that is advertised as being able to handle 16 players w/ peripherals.

updating OP (gimme a min)

[EX_stream_tuna]

ok updated OP again with a room-splitting procedure we're testing out for this week, should we need it.

main thing is to send a FR to GT_Saturday2 in additional to GT_Saturday, and to look for a text chat invite called "GT Saturdays (Save this)".

try your best to get into main lounge by 3:00 and if there is overflow we'll know it from those checking-in to the text chat.

splitting will be based on lap times in the main lounge so showing up a few min early to run a couple laps is a good idea

hope to see you guys there!

[EX_stream_tuna]

cip has provided the specs for this week which are posted in the OP of this thread.

I personally won't be present.  Wish you all a great fun race day!

[EX_stream_tuna]

posted some specs for this week, courtesy of ... ME!

I haven't had a chance to take my Evo to the track yet, so you can guess what specs I chose!

Evos vs STi's on Nurburgring with Time & Weather change! (Weather should not be very severe, but is designed to make things interesting)

This could be a really popular format so please come out and join us this saturday @ 3pm!

[Wiz]

(Weather should not be very severe, but is designed to make things interesting)

I'm not so sure about that.  What do you plan to set the weather at? 

We had some problems with the weather settings in the TunaCup Miata series.  Even setting weather to the lowest possible settings, it would still rain until track saturation was 100% and then it would stay at 100% for the rest of the race.  It kind of sucked.  PsychoPhreak also ran a 2 hour endurance at Nurburgring with the lowest settings and the same thing happened.

In other words, I think the weather is jacked in this game and it doesn't seem to work like it should.

Just some food for thought.

[EX_stream_tuna]

definitely appreciate the input.  I'll test it out some more before Sat and adjust as needed so that there is SOME rain but not constant.

There are three sliders to consider:
Weather % - status of skies at room creation/reset
Changability factor - how likely is it to slide up or down from where weather % is currently.
Surface Water - amount of accumulated water upon room creation/reset.

Weather % seems to dictate where things start off and affects the liklihood of change.

If you include a very low changability factor along with a low Weather %, you will most likely not see rain.

From my research/observation, it seems that a setting of:

W = 25%
C = 7

will make it very unlikely to rain near the beginning of the race, but hopefully would give us some rain before its over.

I need to run a full race or just let the room run for an hour to see what happens...

Just so everyone knows for peace of mind.  If my testing shows that it is too hard to control weather we will ditch that aspect of the specs and just go with time change.

thanks wiz

[Brindle]

To make matters worse Ex, I have found that even with the exact same settings, reseting the track changes what the weather does.

I have not done further testing, but I know that a 25%  1  0 makes it start to ran about 5 or so minutes in.  Change settings and 50%  1  0, reset track, change back to 25%  1  0 and now it takes 15 20 mins to start raining.

Oh and in both instances, it NEVER stopped raining after it started (hour long race).  Although it staying rainy could have been because of the "1", but I was hoping for it to stay dry for the bulk of the race, then MAYBE change to rain.  That has never, ever happened.

Good luck.