Hey Racers,
our first attempt on the Island was a little too optimistic, apologies for that. However, I was right that Eole from Nadeo and Undef with his UASECO did and do an awesome job for TM², specially Undef's support he gave me over the last 3 weeks was the best I've ever got.
Last night I switched the NRL Event Server to scripted mode and I didn't find a reason yet why to switch back again, although I have still some ToDos that we really can race with it next Sunday in the NRL.
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Race Results:
Basically I must write it from scratch, so I'll focus this week just on that, which means the up to now buggy /team stuff I'll probably skip. Results on the website are what is counting.
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"Nice to have" which I'd like to get done until Sunday:
Music Server, there we have atm still a bug on our side as I know it's working.
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We need your support:
The scripted server should be stable, but as UASECO is still very young it's still possible that it could break somewhere (= stop working, e.g. last week /pm made all UASECO disappear).
As testing is not a particular strength of mine^^ you could help a lot by joining this week the Event and try to kill UASECO. If you succeed please report here in a comment (or PM me) and tell me what you did. Better now than during the races on Sunday. Your place in the NRL-Hall-Of-Fame is sure, TIA.
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Preview 2015:
Again thanks to Undef as the fire starter and Eole as the executing force I got last week a new feature which I was dreaming about since years... you'll realize at once if you start driving.
Nadeo allows now in the Controller config (= for us: UASECO) to move the position of the Speed Display.
I was really surprised how hard it was even for me to get used to this "over-head-display" of speed, so I don't think we'll introduce it now in the middle of the chase, as it might manipulate the outcome of the championships.
(Ofc if all active drivers would tell "we need it", it would be something different, but I doubt this will happen.)
I'll start hopefully tonight another topic including a screenshot with the other 3 display positions I think could be good. Please share your thoughts over there that we get it perfect for 2015.
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Have fun testing the future of the NRL ! 
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S 
A few notes:
- I really like the speed display in the center of the screen. What I personally don't need is the total driven distance above it. Also as Jennyfur suggested, is it possible to make the text slightly transparent?
- I wouldn't mind if the speed display change would be introduced this season already. How about we make a poll so everyone can vote on whether they want it this season already or not?
- /tc didn't work. But I don't know if it's just not visible because noone was in my team at the time.
- In the attached screenshot you can see that I'm displayed ahead of Jenny in the Live Rankings although I completed less checkpoints than her.
Otherwise it looks to be stable.
Thank you for the feedback Cactilla, very apreciated.
BTW: During some bug fixes today I also moved the Speed up to where usually displays temporarily the CP times, the CP times I moved a little further up to avoid an overlay.
This might be less disturbing for the people with the less convinced comments I heard so far.
Personally I'd also like to do it at once, though this is not an exploding thread, which means at least that others don't see it as positive as you and me. I got some ingame comments from love to like to "I might get used to it" until "I don't like it".
We have 2 championships in the deciding stages. It could influence the outcome.
I'm not against a vote, but IMO the hurdle would need to be very high, e.g. chase participants have a veto right (for a clean championship), league requires a 2/3 majority for a change.
As UASECO really looks great already - atm I know just about 2 minor bugs - I'll install it latest Monday on our other server. On Island and SRE 60k I'll move Speed and we can wait for more comments.
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S
My impressions:
+++: I like the speedometer, now higher (yes, perhaps the data of the covered distance is useless). It will take getting used to it but it's positive for the owners of large monitors (not jjaaperoloco
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+++: The donation panel is much better now.
++: The data of the CPs over the running time is well located.
---: I can not see the number of lap and that is very important!
--: I miss a lot the top-right menu (Maps, HUD Customize ...).
-: On the drivers table (TAB), there is no way to access the information of a particular player.
-: The link to Amazon does not convince me (but I do not care too much).
Overall I like these changes (although I am a bit fussy). Great job, NRL-makers!!!
For me, a good indicator of speed and good size, remove the meter indicator for me is useless.
Suma.
Lap times: + red, - green, data on time to CP are small for me, I like big, green replaced with blue, over the years, what I'm playing I'm only more accustomed to blue. Otherwise, it's nice, Thx
Kuku>
/tc: UASECO is based on Xaseco2, but it's mostly a complete rewrite. This means some features are still missing. Teamchat sure won't be done until this weekend, I'm not aware that anybody would already work on it and also until when I could try to port or rewrite it I can't promise anything.
number of laps: great catch, move it to the left until it's beside the ManiaKarma plugin should do it?
Menu: Undef told on MP that it's on his ToDo list, but not yet done. I'll sure install it as soon as it's available.
Player information: the link to the infos is moved to this little icon in the center of his field. Under the watch link which is also an icon now.
Music server/Amazon: Something is wrong with my music server, but I didn't find it yet. As the music server is turned off atm, this panel shouldn't display at all, which I think is a minor bug. (minor because it doesn't disturb us with racing)
Distance display: SpeedAndDistance is one "module", which I can just move as a unit. I doubt I can adress them separately, e.g. with a style "transparent".
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S
During endurance practice with about 20 players online there was a severe cp and record message delay (about 30 seconds or so). Also connection messages had a delay of several seconds.
May be partly due to my high ping (~140).
Another thing during endurance practice: "Unknown" players in Live Rankings (see screenshot)
just in case someone else wants to watch other drivers ( race Cam )
or get Player Info.
Yesterday, at the Endurance (am I the new leader
?), all we could see promising improvements and a few things to correct, such as delays in some information (dedimanias, chat), a few moments of freezing in the race, or some panels with incomprehensible data ('round score'). Btw, the placement of the speedometer is now perfect and, yes, we can access the data of the pilots from tab-screen.
Best part -for me- is the improvement in the lower right panel of the times. It's good to know again about your gap with the pilot that pursues you (although right now *only works if you're in the top four*). When this works properly I will be able to know how close is Godiction from me -in order to appear in his videos
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Great job and thanks for the effort!