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If I press ESC while I'm on the track (offline) the FFB stops shaking - very good new feature.
But this funktion doesn't work online. At least my wheel continues to vibrate after entering the on screen menue.

I just tested some standard race starts with KS1 in Host Local.


First test with sighting lap on.

After qualifying, Sighting Lap is shown and I have to drive 5 minutes sighting laps or stay in the garage and wait there.
Before the end of the 5 minutes I have to enter my starting grid.
Now the warmup laps start. I have to stay on the track for 5 minutes and be on my starting position before the 5 minutes end.
(I can't shorten the time of the warmup laps). Then race starts.


Second test with sighting lap off.

After qualifying, Pre-Start is shown and I have to enter the track within 60 seconds.
Warmup laps start.
Now the difference: I can drive 5 minutes or I can go back to my position after one lap and the starting lights are shown within 5 seconds after standing still.
Race starts. That means I can shorten the warmup time to one lap. This doesn't work with sighting lap on.


Are the warmup laps intended to work different with sighting lap on or off?

There seems to be a problem with Firefox 8.0  to download attachements. They show up as index.php. With IE8+9 it works.

Here are the setups of my hotlaps. Maybe someone who is struggling with his setup is interested.
I'm not the fastest and my setups are surely not the best, but I hope they help for a first attempt. 

All hotlaps were driven with KS1, CRG. I drove most times in lap 4 to 9 of a tyre set.


Here is the list:

Lonato Short            30.471 /16°, clear, no wind.
Essay                       47.765 /20°, clear, no wind.   
Essay Short              34.711 /16°, clear, no wind.   
Kerpen                     44.928 /20°, clear, no wind.
Amsterdam Indoor   27.462 /20°, clear, no wind.   
Roskilde Karting       49.868 /16°, clear, no wind.   
Karting de Joigny     42.859 /20°, clear, no wind.   
Magesq Historic       38.433 /16°, clear, no wind.

I just tried to attach a new translation file for beta4 to my post (Deutsch.str, 12KB) and got this messsage:

An Error Has Occurred!
The upload folder is full. Please try a smaller file and/or contact an administrator.

Velocipede seems to have registered a new track in KRP stats: Ortona b1

I can't find the link to this track. Any hints?
Velocipede?

I set up some dedicated servers. Is it ok for you? I can do more of them or reduce the number or disable them completely.
Any comments are welcome. They run on my backup-line, ping is not the best, but usualy there is no other traffic.

If they are desired, you can also tell me your wishes for tracks and settings.

I have a proposal for modifying the KS1 gear change behavior in Beta4 (all aids disabled).

- Upshift without lifting the throttle should not be possible at all. In Beta3 it's possible at max rev.
   http://forum.kartracing-pro.com/index.php?topic=873.msg4708#msg4708

- The amount of lifting the throttle for upshift should be lowered.

- The window when you can change the gear should be widened a bit. If you use a separate shifter, like Logitech G25, it's not so easy to synchronize the timing between lifting the throttle and the final click of the micro-switch. It would be nice to have some milliseconds more.

In real life it's much easier to shift, because you feel the resistance of the gearshift and it can't be moved until you release the throttle a bit. Game controllers don't offer this feature.


Here is a small diagram of the situation:

PiBoSo, in the GP-Bikes forum you wrote, that it will be possible to use KRP tracks in GP-Bikes.
http://forum.piboso.com/viewtopic.php?p=1981#p1981

Can we use the official and user created GP-Bikes tracks too, when their Beta1 is released?
Maybe after adjusting the .rdf files?

How about a user interface like tracked and painted which allows us to create our own karts. We could create user defined engines, gearboxes and chasis. So also more exotic or historic kart classes could be modelled.
I've already the name: karted .

What happened this afternoon on this server? I got twice a CDT and each time I had to restart the pc to enter the track again.
Reconnecting or restarting KRP was not enough, I only got a black screen when I entered the track, but could hear the other karts.
Looking at other drivers with the replay live screen always went fine.
Without restarting the pc I always got funny pictures like this, a mix of two karts.

1.
Looking at logdata.csv and krp_proxy.c, I miss the tyre temperature, pressure and inside / middle / outside wear.

2.
For most of us the telemetry and proxy plugins are not very usefull, as long as we have no graphical interface to display the data.
We need a software, which displays the data in a usable way or a data format which can be interpreted by an existing  product.

Motec and others block the import of .csv files, they read only their own formats. 

3.
With the new proxy plugin it should be possible to write a program, which displays the data in real time on the screen like in other sims (GTR2, rfactor ..).
It could also log the data for later analysis.

With the starting hot lap competitions, I think there should be taken some steps to make the system more secure.

One example - who prevents me from using a .rdf file with all checkpoints removed?   



PiBoSo here's a simple proposal to prevent manipulation of tracks:

Each track has to be packed in a pkz file. A MD5-hash of the pkz has to be disposed for registering a new track.
When you drive a hot lap, KRP takes a MD5-hash of your local pkz file and transmits it with your lap time to the stats server.
Only if the MD5-hashes match your lap is valid.

Here you find a complete list of KRP tracks (Thanks VELOCIPEDE):

http://www.drivingitalia.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=52072



Most of of the links are direct, for the rest you have to register or if you don't speak Italian you can use the links here:


La Conca v1.1:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TG71U950


Nevaring:   
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ezwxf9kh4hb68t0


Russian Ring including RDF update:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?a5tusqg7vyqi52s

Please stop cheating hot laps.
(http://stats.kartracing-pro.com/records.php?trackid=1&kartid=1)


@all: take a look at the hot lap charts and it's obvious that more and more laps are cheated.

Lonato: look at T2 (and the slower T1). A time of 15.0 and below can only be achieved by using the shortcut.
              As you have to break earlier to use it, your T1 gets worse. (3x KC1, 1x KS1)    

Magescq: T1 and/or T3 cutting. (2x KC1, 2x KS1)

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@track creators: please use CHECKPOINTs in the final releases of your tracks.

What checkpoints are good for: to prevent shortcutting a corner or to say it in simple words - cheating hot laps.

To see what I mean:
Extract the Lonato track. Open it in TRACKED.EXE and view it with RACE DATA loaded. Look at the checkpoints (blue lines at the apex of most corners).

A Lonato hot lap is only valid if you have passed ALL checkpoints + SF, ST, S1 and S2.

I don't know how the penalty values work, ask PiBoSo. The rest should be obvious, if you look at the track.

At the end of LONATO.RDF you find the checkpoints.

For all tracks (except Lonato): For a valid hot lap you only have to pass SF, ST, S1 and S2. The rest of the track is not checked.

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@PiBoSo: Please explain the use of checkpoints in your Track Editor manual.