Open Long Races

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Open Long Races
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An easy hour of colourful endurance racing on a couple of circuit-like tracks, hosted by Sauss. Basically, me and RX1 were having challenging race duels off the record for quite a while and would like to invite you to these. They're a mental challenge, lasting over lots of laps, but in fact quite beginner-friendly through the choice of simpler tracks and the more repetitive nature of an endurance race. Pickups will be absent at most of the races as well, so it allows for some cleaner racing.


Joining
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Races will be held regularly at 16:00 UTC time on Sunday. There is no fixed host address, so instead, the server's IP adress will be announced down there at the respective race announcement post on the board a couple of minutes before the race should take place. The IRC channel #rvgl at libera.chat is also open for questions.


General Race Schedule
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There will be a small number of races, leading up to a final, a long race of around 20 minutes.

In general, the race scedule will look like this:
1st race: Warmup race with pickups (ca. 2 minutes).
2nd race: Long race without pickups (ca. 10 minutes).
3rd race: Long race with pickups (ca. 10 minutes).
4th race: Final race without pickups. (ca. 20 minutes).

There is room for experiments.

Should there be a championship, points would be given like this:
Warm-up races: 3-2-1
Races of around 10 minutes: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1
Races of around 20 miuntes: 15-12-10-8-7-6-4-3-2-1
Fastest lap classification *: 5-4-3-2-1
* only to be used on longer races without pickups


Car Selection
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These races are open to all cars, that are made in the spirit of competition. Basically pick whatever you like, except cars that exceed the Super-Pro class from current online I/O races. Slower cars are eligible as well, as races will be held as a multi-class event. Classification is done a bit differently than in other online races. If the leader crosses the start-finish-line after the scheduled distance, all cars following are flagged off at the line. So the lapped cars don't have to complete the whole course.


Track Selection
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There will be an emphasis on cleaner tracks that allow for some pure racing without items. That means some rather different tracks will appear in the races compared to what's played in most online sessions. Links to Revolt World (www.revoltworld.net) will be provided in the announcement. Please download them in time.

The following tracks are in contention to be used for the races.

Name - Len. Picks Record
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RC Stadium 1 - 432m Y/N 24s
> Circuit with walls
Wonderful Skylands 1 - 477m Y/N 26s
> High-Speed track with jumps and bumps
Aspenside - 327m Y/N 22s
> Challenging winter track with elevation changes
Best-Milk Farm - 389m Y/N 21s
> Bumpy outdoor circuit with variying shortcuts
Cardboard Castle - 426m Y/N 27s
> Mixed circuit of rather simple shape
Dankernkart - 392m Y/N 25s
> Twisty kart circuit with slippery curbs
GBA Bowser Castle 3 - 504m Y 34s
> Flat low-fi track, requiring cars that reach a certain speed (Advanced and faster)
Genghis Castle - 626m Y/N 39s
> Fast and swift Mario Kart track with jumps. A bit laggy.
GPX - 1394m N 1m16s
> A long and ordinary race circuit, good for short races
Grand Prix de Morvan - 213m N 12s
> Mentally challenging tiny circuit track
Hyperborean Harmony - 409m N 30s
> Winter-themed twisty circuit
Ice Peaks Islands - 465m Y 27s
> Winter circuit with lots of items
Elkhart - 503m N 30s
> Simple narrow circuit track, only for experienced racers
Wladyslawowo - 619m Y/N 42s
> Backyard alley with an Phoenix-like street circuit feeling to it
Road in the Sky - 399m Y/N 22s
> Experimental track against all gravity, doubt it runs well with simulation physics
AMCO Driftume - 378m Y/N
> High curbed slender curves allow for some fine racing
AMCO Bitume - 529m Y/N 37s
> Circuit track requiring a clean line
Donut Plains 3 - 457m Y/N 29s
> Bumpy Mario Kart track
Junkyard 2 - 517m Y/N 31s
> Tidy but not tidy backyard track that could be from original Re-Volt
Short_Oval - 186m Y 11s
> Bumpy elliptic track
The Gorge - 425m N 35s
> Rally-like track
MKDD - Mushroom City - 630s Y 32s
> A very wide city-circuit at high speeds

Secondary list:
- RV Temple - 1116m Y/N 1m13s
- Schools Out 1 - 495m Y/N
- Schools Out 2 - 1545m Y/N
- Kadish Sprint - 814m Y/N 1m03s
- Jailhouse Rock - 729m Y/N 50s
- Wildland - 712m N 43s
- Chilled to the Bone - 838m N 1m05s
- Kadish Basic - 829m Y/N 58s
- Industry - 738m Y/N 55s
- Sakura - 752m Y/N 56s


Racing Etiquette
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Please don't deliberately push off or shoot at cars, that are in different laps than your own. Through having cars of different speeds on the track and the races being quite long, some friction will be unavoidable. But every driver should do everything possible to let a faster car that's in a different lap go by. Like listening, if an engine noise is approaching from behind. And checking, how far the next opponents are away (down at the radar).

Whether "Simulation Mode" can be used reliably in online-races with a certain amount of lag, has to be tested.
Anyways, let's see, if this works.

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Race Announcement:

Date: Sunday, the 1st September 2024 at 16:00 UTC.
Server: (game done)

1st Race: Cardboard Castle with Pickups - 3 laps
2nd Race: Cardboard Castle - 20 laps
3rd Race: Cardboard Castle in Reverse with Pickups - 20 laps
4th Race: Kadish Sprint - 20 laps

Download Cardboard Castle here: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/cardboard-castle/
Kadish Sprint is part of the main pack from re-volt.io: https://re-volt.io/downloads/packs

Car Classes: Open (you'll probably go for Super Pro, but you don't have to)
Physics Mode: Simulation

[RX1]

Hello everyone,

this is my first post here on the Board, so here is a brief intro.: I'm playing RVGL online more or less frequently since Dec. last year and I'm really glad that this game runs such well on Linux and on old hardware. Re-Volt used to be one of my favorite games, back in the days when the original game was still new. I still remember how much fun we had with the PC demo version (from 1999) . Later I enjoyed creating and playing my own Lego tracks a lot. Thanks to Re-Volt / RVGL community I can revive these times and it's cool that the games performs and looks even better now. I also really like the extra content and the improvements to the game play balancing. I sometimes enjoy racing the tracks alone, just tying to find good lines and drive well, but when I play with others, having fun together is the most important thing.

The "Open Long Races" should be interesting for everyone who enjoys longer races and playing some of the less established tracks. I also think it's cool to have some variation in a session (race length and pickup-wise). Suggestions of tracks to play are welcome (I will post mine here soon).

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Server is up. IP is in the race announcement post.
viewtopic.php?p=6750#p6738

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These races will continue to be run every second week on Sunday at 16:00 UTC. Further announcements will follow.

Now how to upload the result files to the RVGL session parser (https://online.re-volt.io/sessions/results.php)? What kind of password is required there? Where to register?

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Track test session today (Sunday, 8. September 2024) at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, 19:00 Helsinki time). Feel free to join. to try out some rather "different" tracks. IRC Chat at #rvgl on libera.chat.

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Race Announcement:

Date: Sunday, the 15th September 2024 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin, 19:00 Helsinki).
Server: (race done)

1st Race: GBA Bowser Castle 3 - with Pickups - 4 laps
2nd Race: Donut Plains 3 - without Pickups - 20 laps
3rd Race: MKDD - Mushroom City - with Pickups - 18 laps
4th Race: Genghis Castle - without Pickups - 20 laps

Download Bowser Castle: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/rbc3/
Download Dount Plains: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/donut3/
Download Mushroom City: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/mkdd_mc/
Download Genghis Kastle: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/kastle/
Three of these four tracks should be part of the Bonus I/O Track Pack (https://distribute.re-volt.io/packs/io_tracks_bonus.zip)... just check if you have all of them installed.

Car Classes: Open.
Physics Mode: Simulation

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Race Announcement:

Date: Sunday, the 29th September 2024 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin, 19:00 Helsinki).
Server: races done.

1st Race: Best-Milk Farm - with Pickups - 5 laps
2nd Race: Dankernkart - without Pickups - 25 laps
3rd Race: Short_Oval - with Pickups - 60 laps
4th Race: Wladyslawowo - without Pickups - 20 laps

Download Best-Milk Farm: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/bmfarm/
Download Dankernkart: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/dankernkart/
Download Short_Oval: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/short_oval/
Download Wladyslawowo: https://www.revoltworld.net/dl/wladyslawowo/

Car Classes: Open
Physics Mode: Simulation

[RX1]

Here my track suggestions.
These are tracks that are (currently) not played in IO online events, but might be worth racing. Most are part of the IO bonus pack. I tried to sort them by difficulty.

Easy:

• AMCO Bitume
• Dankernkart
• Wildland

Medium:

• Airport 2
• Battered Mansion 1
• Bridge Mayham
• Donut Plains 3
• Ghengis Castle
• Industry
• MKDD - Mushroom City
• Junkyard 2
• Wladyslawowo

Hard:

• Blood on the Rooftops
• Chilled To the Bone
• Cake
• Fukushima
• Kadish Basic
• Market Mayham
• Rooftops2
• The Gorge

Possibly a little unfair (because of an ambiguous track layout, but not worse than established tracks like Skating Toys Redux or PetroVolt):

• Battered Mansion 2
• Cactus Volt
• Go Play Outside
• Hullbreach 3000
• High Rollers
• Nood Grimm
• Re-Ville
• Roof Bottom
• Toys in the Hood Ex