Tonight's GTR race?

Author
Discussion

_dobbo_

Original Poster:

14,425 posts

249 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Where is it tonight? I don't think there was an "official" Barcelona last week (certainly didn't see results posted up) so I assume we are racing there?

Been practicing a bit - much more consistent now even if not much faster, but I might make the one hour race without crashing out!

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

229 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
_dobbo_ said:
Where is it tonight? I don't think there was an "official" Barcelona last week (certainly didn't see results posted up) so I assume we are racing there?

Been practicing a bit - much more consistent now even if not much faster, but I might make the one hour race without crashing out!


Barcelona is indeed on tonight, thats what I have read anyway.

Looking forward to it as usual!!

See you on the track later Dobbo.

Are you doing NGT tonight? I am.

Steve_Evil

10,664 posts

230 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
I'm getting hold of this today hopefully, will obviously need some practice but are there regular non-league games with the folks on here?

_dobbo_

Original Poster:

14,425 posts

249 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all

Yep, sticking with the NGTs. I've been practicing online a bit which sort of forces you into a GT car since that's what everyone else races. As such, much of my practicing has been in a lister, not sure if that's going to be a help or a hindrance!


Steve - there are non-league races, not that i've ever been available to join one

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

229 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Steve_Evil said:
I'm getting hold of this today hopefully, will obviously need some practice but are there regular non-league games with the folks on here?


Steve, get some practice in today if you can on Barcelona. Then get yourself online later with us in the league race. You will be fine i'm sure.

Make sure you get a decent grippy car, an NGT like a Ferrari 360 or something similar, or even use the Elise if you want a car that is really hard to crash. Get the laps in and join us tonight, everyone is welcome. The race lasts an hour and people do retire from it so you may be able to get a good placing, just stick at it!

The only thing I would do well in advance is register with the online lobby in the game, and make sure you can get online ok. Also make sure you have got a little card in the box with an online serial number, you will need this to access the online lobby. This can be a bit of a pain to sort out and is quite a buggy system, but once you are sorted you will be ok.

The league we race is fun, there are no idiots who want to smash into you by driving round the wrong way, and we (try to) drive fair. You will be much better off joining our league later as the public servers are only full of race wreckers. You won't get many practice laps in if there are fools around online.

Get this sorted and hope to see you later.

Dobbo, glad to see your going in for the NGT's. Will see ya later!!

Steve_Evil

10,664 posts

230 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Ok, cheers for the tips, hopefully it will come through the post today and I can get my old driving force wheel hooked up and some practice runs in. I take it the original driving force wheel will work fine with the relevant drivers.

FourWheelDrift

88,692 posts

285 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Yes, tonights race sponsored by Serrano Ham is.....

D_Mike

5,301 posts

241 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
I can't come moved into a new house and haven't got internet sorted out yet... Have fun guys

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

229 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
FourWheelDrift said:
Yes, tonights race sponsored by Serrano Ham is.....



Ha ha, Serrano Ham??? Where do you find that??

Can next week's race be sponsored by the British Corned Beef Consortium FWD??

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

229 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
D_Mike said:
I can't come moved into a new house and haven't got internet sorted out yet... Have fun guys


Sorry to hear that D_Mike

Will do a donut for you if I last till the end!

pvapour

8,981 posts

254 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
funkyrobot said:


D_Mike said:
I can't come moved into a new house and haven't got internet sorted out yet... Have fun guys




Sorry to hear that D_Mike

Will do a donut for you if I last till the end!



you'll be missed Mike, get that BB sorted!!!

looking forward to tonight as I have'nt raced for 3 weeks

Hope you'll be there James or are ur yella belly CHICKen.....

l8r chaps

Nik


>> Edited by pvapour on Monday 4th July 18:49

jimmy5

544 posts

227 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Just had a look in the lobby and the servers not there

I just hope Sammies house move went ok and we don't get a rerun of last week

_dobbo_

Original Poster:

14,425 posts

249 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Still not there...

Who has the fasted upstream bandwidth - they can host if the worst comes to the worst... I'm 256k, but someone will have to tell me how to host a game.

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

229 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Has anyone emailed Sammie about this?

Don't want to send him one if someone else has so I don't flood his inbox!!

_dobbo_

Original Poster:

14,425 posts

249 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
I haven't but I think FWD did last week.

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

229 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
I hope the server appears soon!!

pvapour

8,981 posts

254 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Chat room up and runing

_dobbo_

Original Poster:

14,425 posts

249 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
Well, don't know about anyone else, but i'm well pissed off with that.

Waited all week for this, bribed off the G/F by recording her favourite stuff on Sky+ and opening a bottle of wine for her, practiced barcelona last week, looked forward to a race all week end and then......

all. No server.

FourWheelDrift

88,692 posts

285 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
I know what you mean. I tried to email Sammie again but I don't this the email went. I tested the email to verify and the host couldn't be found, maybe it's down or something.

Annoyed,

_dobbo_

Original Poster:

14,425 posts

249 months

Monday 4th July 2005
quotequote all
If his email is anything@greatergreen.com then it probably wont work - no MX records which basically means he probably wont get mail.