The "I switched my work hours for MP launch day" thread

iR doesn't allow to join started Q or R sessions unless you're registered on them.

 

In iRacing when you join a server you essentially end up in what they label the Drivers Briefing page (here they display useful information about the track and some of the general rules for online racing etc.), there is a visible count down to the session start time over a disabled button,which then becomes active once the timer has run down and then you can join the server session

 

Read the .pdf it says, if I have read it correctly, that if you book a server you won't be able to join until the next session.

 

Unfortunately I'm still working until 5:30 today

 

I don't understand why they just can leave you in the lobby until the race finishes like most MP driving games there out there.

You should be able to join mid game if its practice/qualifying just not the race. Hopefully that will come in the furture.

Do we even know if we will have practice/qualy/race sessions to setup?

 

So the server wont have to load your car model therefore lagging for 1 second, which is enough for everyone crash into eachother
Everyone who has played older sims know this very well.
That said, i hope they find a way to load up new player cars while in the middle of the qualify/race without the lag

 

I am on a medical leave, so I am ready to go!

open, open, open

 

Quit srw, It's a ****ty attempt at a simulation game Ac & Iracing all the way.

In your heart you know how poor srw is Joseph,

 

YES! (I mean NO!) the infamous "Join Lag"
the worst of this was if the warmup/qualifying session used your lap time to grid your starting position.
Then every time someone joined the session you'd get a micro lag (sometimes a full 3 seconds), so if you didn't crash, you end up with a 5 sec slower lap than if no one joined during the lap.

I think the guys at Kunos have "been around the Sim racing block a few times", and they will have a working solution for join lag when multiplayer is released in the next few hours.

 

What do you mean by this? From what I understand, you must book into a server before practice starts to be able to join it at all - whether you join during practice, qualifying, or race - your car should already be loaded since you're required to book.

From what I understood from the .pdf, you will be able to join at any point - practice, qualifying, or the race - as long as you booked a spot in the server. It seems that servers will be set up with 15 minute practice, qualifying, and a 10 lap race.

I like the idea of being able to jump in at any time during practice and qualifying (as long as you booked), but joining mid race? If you didn't begin the race in the starting grid, I don't think people should be able to join in. But I could be reading things wrong in the .pdf.


EDIT: Everyone please read this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103005/AC/AC_online.pdf

It's the .pdf that I am referencing from the AC devs explaining how some of the Multiplayer features work. As for everyone concerned about "join lag" AC has implemented 'booking' to combat the issue.

 

I divorced them last month after the umpteenth rammer
(nice to see you dude )

No, I am now AC and iRacing guy, no more SRW for me (sigh, I used to love em too)

 

I think that's in the past already... LFS, for example, has always accepted mid-race joining and they never had that kind of problem. Maybe a micro-stuttering because of MY slow computer back then, because I played a lot with onboard graphics and low FPS, but never server-side problem.

 

No joining in mid race is fine, but there needs to be some time between end of race and beginning of next session.

Actually there must be a joining time otherwise no one would get on the first session .

Maybe just a join in mid practice, because lag in that session is no biggie. The once you get to qualy/race you're in lockdown? Anyway, why speculate as we get to find out later

 

First time in my life i am not so happy to have a gig with my band tonight

 

Same here but the way srw has been ran for the past year (Since people who actually did work left), It's discraceful how poor it is now, Only one member of staff seems to do anything & even still he's a ***** most of the time, but he seems to think I will be wrong about my predictions for srw's future but it's eveident i'm right on some aspects ie players? where are they? they reduced car prices to get more people to play i guess but it hasn't worked. I also get called a troll no-matter what I say

The game is a failure & it will never be successful, There's only one reason people play it & that's because srw offer money as prizes .

It takes 6 months to see the money in your account though and alot longer for withdrawal requests because as we know certain people don't do their job properly.

Anyways, rant over

On topic: I'm so excited for populated multiplayer races, It's like Christmas

 

I mean they get rid of the requirement to book the server in order to join AND manage the server to get no join lag as soon any player joins in the middle of the race.

 

No LAN play yet... I foresee waves upon waves of butthurt when all the public servers fill up.

 

Beta has been updated twice in the past half hour. So excited that I've hardly been able to work at all today.

Going to setup a dedicated server whilst downloading the update (assuming that they release the server files in this update)

 

I was working from 15:30 - 00 and switched to 07 - 15:30, and im DYING to see how noob i am against some of you....

 

Yep, the first few races are going to be totally depressing.

And after that we can look forward to the ramfest as all the even less skilled drivers download it