I really didn't plan on getting involved, but after seeing these 2 so called "fair racers" moan about how someone is taking "their" S1 licenses, I had to chime in. How to overcome this behavior? Really unfortunate that Pascal came to S0 server? Dav, as the admin I would expect a more realistic approach from you. Both cuprum and fre2 are some of the lamest and worst drivers around, and why someone would even consider them to deserve or even be entitled to a reward is beyond me. They will literally drive 95 % of the race distance hoping that someone takes out the leader (me in this case) or that he screws up somehow, and after this doesn't happen, they will go to spectators just so you wouldn't get any points off them.
After spending 3-4 times as much required races driving alone or against no one to gather some points and become a threat to them, they will start insulting you (telling you that you stink and just generally use your nickname enough times to constitute flooding), after this they will start inviting their friends to try and take you out of races by crashing.
After all this fails, as it did this month, they will quietly give up on racing, actually finish some races to try and seem "fair" and then go moan in the forum while presenting themselves as victims. Correct me if I'm wrong but most of the licenses went to the Latvian demo community of which Litro seems to be the CG supporter. So, either call this "monthly-free-S1-for-latvians" or start asking for the other side of the story. I mean really, Pascal doesn't deserve S1 because he's fast and didn't have to do as many races as these two talentless idiots who drive only against people who are slower than them? (and if they missjudge the speed of their competition they just don't finish races)
Please, don't take my word for it. Let's look at some evidence, here's several replays in support of their behavior described above.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EI2UFGWL1. & 2. replay:As most of these replays, this is from a while ago when both cuprum and fre2 had more points than me and every time I would look for them online to race and maybe get some points, they would drive almost up to the last lap and then join the spectators so I wouldn't get anything. I'm just sorry I didn't remember to start saving replays before, as there were NUMEROUS examples of this before these replays.
3. replay:Following their experience of racing against me and not being able to win, fre2 tries to inlist a friend of his in the following chatlines:
Quote:
fre2: Dzigys - kad wazza brauc boksos, brauc aiz vina, un uztaisi vinam DT (Dzigys - when wazza come in boxes, run behind him and Make him DT)
fre2: Dzigys - saprati plaanu? (Dzigys - plan you understand?)
Nothing came of this plan, but for someone who's now crying about how it's unfair that they got removed from the top of the chart after driving fairly for the whole month it sure shows another side.
4. replay:More of the spectating.
5. replay:Cuprum wins the previous race and goes to spec (guerrilla warfare) while I pretend to be AFK and wait for the race to restart. When he saw I wasn't in the race, he joined.. but so did I. He gets crashed at start and goes to spec.. maybe the only justified reason to go to spec and if there wasn't for the start and waiting to see if I'm in the race I would've left this one out. However, he pulled this game of cat and mouse too many times before (waiting for me to go offline, then quickly joining the server and starting a race only so he could finish first).
insults replay:fre2's friend flex (Noxx-2 license) comes in and starts insulting me and another guy on the server (we were in spectators). This replay is just an intro into what happened in the next one.
6. replay:I join the race because fre2 is in it (at this point he still had more points than me) and flex is there too. At the start flex slows down intentionally to let me through and then aims for a nice crash in T1. If he wasn't that incompetent he would've hit me head on, but this way I just got stopped in the corner and he took out his buddy fre2. All laugh and join the spec. Then the following lines in latvian are exchanged (tnx google translate):
Quote:
Noxx-2: nesanâca (did not work out)
fre2: nakamreiz vinu nocrasho
(no, crash him next time
)
7. replay:This one is right after the 6th and the plotting between them continues. First fre2 tells flex to start last (so he can aim for a better crash). When you watch the replay and read the following it's all pretty clear.
Quote:
fre2: tu pedejais
(You go last
)
Noxx-2: bla vins prieksa (blah, he something - i.e. I was not where he thought I'd be.)
Noxx-2: bus gruti (it will be difficult - To crash me..)
Noxx-2: paosti formulai zem spoilera,ostîtâj... (something about me having formula spoilers on the car because he can't catch me)
He can't catch up by T1 on the first lap so he pits and takes a new car as I'm starting lap 4, this is where he aims for a crash in Turn 3 but again he's too far away and misses (disconnects right after).
Now, if you really want to fix your server so that it's fair for everyone you need to do the following. Going to spectate and robbing people of points has to stop, this can be done only in one way: by taking away the ability to gather points after a number of DNF's has been achieved. Best explained on the example of cuprum/fre2. If these two didn't finish more than let's say 2 races in a day/week, the system should not give them any more points for finishing any other race that day/week. Two DNF's would secure that people who actually got an accidental DNF after a timeout wouldn't lose any points because timeouts don't happen that often (normally, I wouldn't put it past these 2 to just turn off the modem before the line to avoid losing their precious points), also these not-finishers are quite clever so they could also just park or flip the car in the last corner, not do a pitstop and get disqualified from a race and numerous other examples. That's why if someone was serious about competing, they would finish races even if someone crashed them and they weren't in a position to win. Any DNF should result in no points for any more races for some period of time. If this was done, I bet that the whole problem of someone fast coming in and taking away points in a smaller amount of races wouldn't be an issue, because currently - your server encourages these not-finishers to hog their points and then run away when the fast crowd arrives, which results in fast people just giving up because they don't have all the free time in the world to chase these guys around and then watch them run away.
If they have anything to say against me, I welcome their attempt to provide ANY replay where I've backed away from a race or not finished (even if I got crashed and it was one of them two who would be getting points off me).