F1Time - V2 Update by TaBu
A copy of the message from TaBu
+ runs a race,
+ updates office,
+ balances,
+ creates race report,
+ updates driver stats,
+ finds new sponsor proposal,
+ renegotiates if ordered,
+ shortens old ones,
+ shortens all staff contracts,
+ builds new parts,
+ improves design of parts,
+ clears practice, testing, warmup, qualification laps,
+ creates xml files to be used by live race.
+ inserts some stats into race history table
+ updated current streaks: wins, no wins, points, no points, podiums, no podiums, etc,
What is left before it goes live?
- update current position,
- update manager stats tables,
- add more events to race history (currently only reports pits)
- adding more stats into DB
o money awards for performance
o process driver firing, assign new temp one
o process c.director firing, assign new temp one
o process designer firing, assign new temp one
o process markets
! adjusted finances
! ... lots of tuning and polishing things up.
Legend:
+ done
- not done, needed to run live test race
o not done, but not needed to run live test race
! not done, stuff between alpha and beta tests
Another milestone for F1Time when it reached 2000 users on Tuesday, Nov 29th.
Unfortunately only 1956 managers are accomodated as of now and the others have to wait on for deletions before they get into this game. With another month to go before the active start, i expect a big number getting deleted due to inactivity.
A long awaited announcement from TaBu and something which shows the site is still active.
Release date and some info By Tadas Bubelevičius
On: 2005-11-21 10:10:10
F1TIME new version will go live on 9th of January 2006. On that date resets will take place. First race of a new season will be held on 16th of January. From now on, and till then, we will have races at least every Monday and Friday (also 3 Wednesdays in December). After every of these races, results will not be reset, money awarded, staff changes, etc. will happen and season will move on to the new track.
I have found this site only yesterday and thought it to be cool. I created a F1Time map hoping atleast some of my friends would add them to this map.
Click Here For The F1Time Map
All the 64 groups are currently filled and the users are in the Waiting List for the last few days. Thats an encouraging sign for TaBu but the bad news is we still donno when we can expect the new game to begin.
The Wait continues
This is not really F1Time. But i think this is useful stuff.
If you have used Firefox you've probably noticed that it suffers from what can be described as a fairly harsh "memory leak". The main cause of the problem appears to lie within the plugin for Flash content. There are 2 workarounds that I've located.
The first is rather straightforward and simple but wasn't practical for me. All you have to do is un-install/remove the flash plugin and performance increases significantly.
The other option (and the one I'm using) requires you to make some changes to the Firefox configuration. This is how you fix this "memory leak" problem. (It's not actually a leak, it just doesn't flush the cache it has.)
1)Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
2)Right click any line to bring up a sub-menu
3)Choose "new">"integer"
4)paste this into the dialogue that appears:
browser.cache.memory.capacity5)Next click Okay
6)Specify the amount in kb (about 60000 should do) in the next dialogue that appears
7)Restart Firefox and happy surfing.
When v2 started, it just had the existing managers from v11 which came to around 900+. The new version can accomodate upto 2550 Managers and today it crossed the 1500 mark.
The Game is slowly but steadily building up. When v2 started, every group had around 14 free spaces but now it has come down to half (7). With this kinda signup, i expect the groups to be FULL by the time test races start. Now we have the Practise/WU/Qualify and Race Orders Page finished. And I am hoping the test races to start by the month end.
