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RDHGP 2009 - RaceDepartment Historic Grand Prix 2009

Details: TBA!

 

[Ross McGregor]

Re-sent link via PM

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Is it only me, or is the GPCOS website down.
I haven't been able to access it for a couple of days now.

Me too unfortunately.

I'll have to handle the results manually via autosim analyser, and I'll do a manual attendance thing from Round 1 onwards if its not back up by then.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Defo not a lack of interest Stuart. I'm going through my work rota with a fine toothcomb atm. My normal hours are 0700-1900, what I want to avoid (and what's happened before) is putting down to race, copping a late job at work (which is getting more frequent) and then getting home too late. I'd honestly rather not participate at all if there is a chance of that happening again as it feels bad considering all the hard work you and Knut put in to organizing these events and everyone else puts in to participating.

If it looks viable then I'll be signing up Monday night with a default livery Escort

Si, look at it this way: neither me nor Knut has any problem with someone who can't make all the races or whatever, and says so up front. Work happens, we all know that.

The people we have no time for are the ones who come in like a lion - I'm in, I'll be there, loads of chat in the threads - and are never heard from again with no courtesy contact to us. No reason for missing races, or rubbish reasons at best etc.

We'd be organising the races anyway, and if you can make some, then great. Yeah, if your schedule could be patchy, you'll probably be struggling to place highly in the league, but at least you'd be signed up and able to race the ones you CAN make.

If you're not signed up, and an evening suddenly becomes free you won't be able to race.

 

[Warren Dawes]

Simon, I can't make all Rounds either. After discussing with Stuart, I decided to put myself on "standby" to see if the numbers were getting close to the maximum (I didn't want to deny a regular attendee). However, I now realise that the numbers are not going to be an issue, so I signed up to allow myself to join the fun with the gang whenever I could.
Hopefully, you can do something similar.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Got it.

I will have the Test Event skinpack available for download today, and be putting the server up as well - I'll have to use the 'bude lobby give the state (non-existence) of the Simbin one.

 

[Simon Bacon]

In that case, I'll be in for as many as possible, see you Tuesday

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Don't forget to do your sign up and car choice matey

 

[Simon Bacon]

Driver: Simon Bacon
Vehicle: Ford Escort RS1600
Car#: 114
Livery: Default

 

[Stuart Thomson]

OK the livery pack for User & Team created skins (and who supplied their files by deadline) is now available for Download here

Here's what the file contains (clockwise from top left Carlos, me, Jack, Ross, Dmytro, Hans)

 

[Senad Subasic]

A disturbing lack of brown there.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Everyone really wants brown, but no-one wants to infringe on your copyright.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Link added for the livery pack

 

[David Cuthill]

Haven't forgoten about this, just haven't had time to spend time in sussing out which I'll find most fun over the season. So far, wavering between the Alfa & Nissan. I'll put a few more hours in before committing.

 

[Tim Ling]

Sorry @Stuart Thomson, I've been busy & otherwise engaged recently. I'll take a default skin

 

[Stuart Thomson]

OK @Tim Ling - no probs, just sign up when you've picked one.

There's a new version of the liveries pack (found a few minor gremlins in there) v1.01

Available on the same link here

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Forgot to mention - point the zip file at your main GTL folder, and allow it to overwrite if asked.

 

[Warren Dawes]

Just tested the livery pack and all seems ok to me, with one minor observation.
Jack's Alfa shows up as a Black AC Cobra in the first preview screen (the video, where you choose the car), but it shows correctly if you go to the "View Car" screen. It also shows up correctly in the actual game too.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Jack isn't driving an Alfa, though?

But it's prob just the naming on the bik file. I'll check it out.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Yeah - It's Hans' Alfa - I forgot to rename the bik (the Bink video that shows in the preview window) file.

Rename it from "63.bik" to "63_SIM_GTC_ALFA_2000GTA.bik"

 

[Stuart Thomson]

I've updated the pack file to v1.02, but the only change is the file name change mentioned above, so if you have already downloaded it, no need to do it again, just manually change the file name.