Since Zak has updated the version number, new thread for suggestions and complaints!
Anyone interesting in bringing the Newbie Guide (http://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=newbie1&showguide=1) up to date? The whole text is on this pad (http://piratepad.net/ki7OGww618).
At 340 lines it might be... a bit long and scary for newbies :)
Quote from: dreadnaut on January 11, 2014, 06:06:26 PM
Anyone interesting in bringing the Newbie Guide (http://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=newbie1&showguide=1) up to date? The whole text is on this pad (http://piratepad.net/ki7OGww618).
At 340 lines it might be... a bit long and scary for newbies :)
Tell us what you need. It can be solved in team work.
as you mentioned earlier, some videos would be cool
Quote from: CTG on January 11, 2014, 06:30:14 PMTell us what you need. It can be solved in team work.
I only have vague ideas :P
I was starting to clean up the registration/login code (anyone wants a "remember me" option? ;) ) so I took another look at the guide and found it a bit long.
Then I got distracted by trying to put dosbox+conf+stunts+shortcut in a single directory... (spoiler: it works)
Dunno why, I associated from "Newbie Guide" to "Driving School"... :D
Quote from: CTG on January 11, 2014, 07:22:10 PMDunno why, I associated from "Newbie Guide" to "Driving School"... :D
Videos for the Driving School would also be great! I can think of a bunch of tricks that I didn't know were possible a year ago. I would include:
Basic stuff
- replay handling
- fast grass
- powergear
- dual-way
- magic carpets (ZCT138/139 should have useful replays)
Obstacles tricks
- Slalom: driving through at high speed and driving on the side (ZCT139)
- Corkscrews: skipping the loop, slide-turn on the way out (DEFAULT, ZCT139)
- Loops: jumping out to the side, cutting through, loop base bug (ZCT139, ZCT148)
- Cork U/D: driving outside (ZCT149), jumping above (ZCT145?), going through the wall (ZCT140)
Speed up tricks
- 'boulevard' jumps (ZCT143)
- banked road jumps (ZCT138)
- half-pipe jumps and bumps (entrance, mid-pipe obstacles, exit)
- ramp small-jumps, inside or on the side (often in yours and Renato's replays)
Advanced tricks
- the turning-mid-air-by-jumping-while-sliding thingy
- sliding-then-suddenly-going-forward-without-slowing-down
- powergear on water near fences (USC-Cucuta)
- powergear "corners"
- helicopter?
Is it possible to bring back the car bonuses table sorted by %?
It was very useful. :)
About the customized profile, where is shown then? I can't see others profile (not statistics but years expertice/height/problems/background/problems profile)
Quote from: alanrotoi on January 31, 2014, 05:26:54 PM
Is it possible to bring back the car bonuses table sorted by %?
Sure! Would it be better to sort the table, or directly to have the graph in the
results page sorted?
QuoteAbout the customized profile, where is shown then? I can't see others profile (not statistics but years expertice/height/problems/background/problems profile)
There only a "profiles" page (http://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=profiles) using that information, but it doesn't seem to work. I'll give it a look ;)
1) As you wish. The table was a bit "offside" from the track section but I always used it. :D Maybe if in the car bonuses section you add the sort option or if every month it sorts by % may be easy to code.
2) Great! Thank you!
Quote from: alanrotoi on January 31, 2014, 05:26:54 PM
About the customized profile, where is shown then? I can't see others profile (not statistics but years expertice/height/problems/background/problems profile)
Just as a temporary solution, I grafted those field at the bottom of the profile page (http://zak.stunts.hu/pipsqueaks/alan+rotoi#info) :)
Perfect! Only a bit of design order and it's done :).
Quote from: Zak, on the shoutboxBTW, you can download ZCT152 from the tracks page http://zak.stunts.hu/tracks but you will be only able to send replayes from the 4th of March.
That being the case, would you consider adding a third state to the current race header, in which it would point to the new track and state, instead of "Time is up", something like "Preview - Race starts in..."? It won't make that much of a difference, as the interval won't be more than three days long, but it would clearly tell casual visitors that there is activity going on during said interval.
The site looks good and behaves so by now. :) But the "Chat" link at the "Info" section gives me an error:
QuoteStrict Standards: Non-static method AJAXChatFileSystem::getFileContents() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/virtual-ftp/stunts/forum/chat/lib/class/AJAXChatTemplate.php on line 37 ^
Everything else works, well done. 8)
Quote from: RacerBG on March 16, 2014, 05:25:48 PMBut the "Chat" link at the "Info" section gives me an error:
I had forgot about that ::) Should be working now!
Quote from: Duplode on March 02, 2014, 06:12:44 PM
That being the case, would you consider adding a third state to the current race header, in which it would point to the new track and state, instead of "Time is up", something like "Preview - Race starts in..."? It won't make that much of a difference, as the interval won't be more than three days long, but it would clearly tell casual visitors that there is activity going on during said interval.
How it works now:
- "Time's up" appears on the 1st of the month, after a deadline, and the home page points to the results of the race just over
- the new track appears on the home page when it's ready, but not earlier than the 2nd day of the month; once the track is visible, replays can be sent
- leading time calculations start on the 4th of the month (cfr. rules (http://zak.stunts.hu/rules))
Quote from: dreadnaut on March 17, 2014, 01:38:25 PM
How it works now:
- "Time's up" appears on the 1st of the month, after a deadline, and the home page points to the results of the race just over
- the new track appears on the home page when it's ready, but not earlier than the 2nd day of the month; once the track is visible, replays can be sent
- leading time calculations start on the 4th of the month (cfr. rules (http://zak.stunts.hu/rules))
That is perfectly fine. Please ignore my suggestion - when I made it I had not realized that the temporary hiccup in the latest update was, well, temporary :)
Quote from: dreadnaut on March 16, 2014, 05:38:14 PM
Quote from: RacerBG on March 16, 2014, 05:25:48 PMBut the "Chat" link at the "Info" section gives me an error:
I had forgot about that ::) Should be working now!
Now it's fine and goes to AJAX Chat. :) That's why someone is needed to test all the links on the site. 8) But I guess that further improvments will be far, far away...
EDITED: "Hide Guide Menu" does nothing (when you are not logged in). I think that this button is useless anyway, you can remove it if you wish.
Anyway the new design looks amazing compared to version 8.0.
After so many useless site 'developments', the most useful one should also be done. It would be good to see the times sent in the quiet days automatically appearing on the scoreboard after the deadline...
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 01, 2014, 08:34:32 AM
After so many useless site 'developments', the most useful one should also be done. It would be good to see the times sent in the quiet days automatically appearing on the scoreboard after the deadline...
Dreadnaut could you please trigger this based on the timer? I think it should be simple. The only reason it was not yet implemented because I had nothing I could trigger it with :)
UPDATE `stunts`.`results` SET `quiet` = '0' WHERE `results`.`quiet` =1;
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 01, 2014, 08:34:32 AM
After so many useless site 'developments', the most useful one should also be done. It would be good to see the times sent in the quiet days automatically appearing on the scoreboard after the deadline...
I won't complain if Zak and you all agree with this proposal. However, given that we will have to wait for Zak to confirm the scoreboard and publish the new track, the choice seems to be waiting while bored due to knowing the unconfirmed results and waiting while dying of curiosity about hidden times. I lean towards the second option :)
Quote from: Duplode on April 01, 2014, 06:15:02 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 01, 2014, 08:34:32 AM
After so many useless site 'developments', the most useful one should also be done. It would be good to see the times sent in the quiet days automatically appearing on the scoreboard after the deadline...
I won't complain if Zak and you all agree with this proposal. However, given that we will have to wait for Zak to confirm the scoreboard and publish the new track, the choice seems to be waiting while bored due to knowing the unconfirmed results and waiting while dying of curiosity about hidden times. I lean towards the second option :)
Unconfirmed results are almost always the final results. I vote for the first option.
Quote from: alanrotoi on January 31, 2014, 05:26:54 PM
Is it possible to bring back the car bonuses table sorted by %?
Alan, I brought it back, but directly on the track page. Does it work the same way? :)
It works perfect! It is better now, thank you! :-* :-* :-*
So... I've fixed the newbie checks which failed with certain dates. This however has brought some changes to the scoreboards as, for example, I was apparently a newbie until last month!
From the code that was already there, and that now behaves as expected, newbies are pipsqueaks that have joined less than 18 months before.
Is this fine? Should we reduce the number of months? (scoreboards are changing anyway :|) Should we add the option to un-newbie-fy oneself? Or change the rule to something like "a whole season"?
As for me, newbie scoreboard is a bit useless with such a low number of new pipsqueaks (could have been great in the first 6-8 years of ZakStunts). But if I have to choose, I would say the "whole season" option.
Quote from: CTG on January 31, 2014, 10:10:24 AM
Although the newbie scoreboard did not work properly, here are the results of 2013:
12+12+12+11+12+12+11+12+12+12+12+12= 142 pts for dreadnaut
00+00+00+12+11+00+12+00+00+00+00+00= 35 pts for Miro
00+00+00+10+10+00+00+00+00+00+00+00= 20 pts for Mr. P.C.
11+00+00+00+00+00+00+00+00+00+00+00= 11 pts for Goyo
00+00+00+00+00+00+00+00+00+00+00+11= 11 pts for Kalifa
I guess from now dreadnaut shouldn't be considered as newbie. And a suggestion: newbie status should be based on the number of races ever completed - if somebody has less than 8/10/12 completed races at the beginning of the season, he should be included in the newbie scoreboard for the whole year.
While I try to make the newbie thingy properly, here's something for you to think about:
? if I were to reorder the side menu, and optionally move it, what structure would make sense?
What could be hidden in a sub-menu, what should be always visible? And what about this (http://zak.stunts.hu/menu-test.php)? :)
I guess Forum should have a preference status in the menu after current/this year stats on zakstunts.
What do you think about this: Every replay submitted on zak's it will instantly posted on an official stunts or zakstunts twitter account.
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 16, 2014, 06:15:14 PMWhat do you think about this: Every replay submitted on zak's it will instantly posted on an official stunts or zakstunts twitter account.
I'm not a twitter-person, but if people are interested and Zak creates an account, automated tweets can probably be done (http://www.pontikis.net/blog/auto_post_on_twitter_with_php).
I mean, the most important we need in this community is advertising. If 4dsl had more than one hundred of pipsqueaks every season was because the big advertising.
If we advertise in the popular social networks like twitter, facebook, etc., we will reach more people.
I created last year Stunts Community group in facebook. I'll give it to you if you want to make these "autoposts" or use it a way to advertise our community.
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 16, 2014, 09:36:27 PM
I created last year Stunts Community group in facebook. I'll give it to you if you want to make these "autoposts" or use it a way to advertise our community.
Doing stuff with Facebook is more complicated, I'll avoid that :P
edit:
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 16, 2014, 06:15:14 PM
I guess Forum should have a preference status in the menu after current/this year stats on zakstunts
What if the right column of the page gained a 'Forum' section, a bit like the mobile forum page (http://zak.stunts.hu/mobile/forum.php)?
Quote from: dreadnaut on April 16, 2014, 05:33:07 PM
While I try to make the newbie thingy properly, here's something for you to think about:
? if I were to reorder the side menu, and optionally move it, what structure would make sense?
What could be hidden in a sub-menu, what should be always visible? And what about this (http://zak.stunts.hu/menu-test.php)? :)
Menu on the left side as always is the better option if you ask me. About what should be visible/hidden I already stated my opinion above. New design for the menu will be welcome! :)
I have enabled gzip compression on the website pages, which should make stuff load faster on slow networks (hello Zak!).
It might have some negative side-effects, so keep your eyes open :P
I recognized that at my profile I can see a list of the previous contesttracks built by me, but ZCT46 is missing there. It was my track, but Zak gave it the name since he hadn't remembered/noticed that I had sent him a track name, too.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 08, 2014, 07:23:37 PM
I recognized that at my profile I can see a list of the previous contesttracks built by me, but ZCT46 is missing there.
I've added your name as author!
Well, I saw some mistakes too. For example in point system (I don't remember the year) a missing leading time point I should have.
For season 2012, the final rankings changed somehow (for my favour :D): the table shows me at second place, while Friker is only 3rd.
Probably the change in "worst X results don't count"...
LT graph is using truncated time results (now 49.00). ::)
Quote from: CTG on May 17, 2014, 05:44:15 PM
LT graph is using truncated time results (now 49.00). ::)
Yup, fixed!
News spamming analysis is not working for late 2013 and 2014.
Quote from: ZakStunts stats
Showing stats from 20130901 to 20141231.
Total news posted in this period: 0.
Quote from: CTG on June 04, 2014, 11:08:29 AM
News spamming analysis is not working for late 2013 and 2014.
Uhm, that page is a bit broken, it wasn't even using the right table. I patched it roughly, it should work sufficiently now.
Quote from: dreadnaut on June 04, 2014, 12:43:04 PM
Quote from: CTG on June 04, 2014, 11:08:29 AM
News spamming analysis is not working for late 2013 and 2014.
Uhm, that page is a bit broken, it wasn't even using the right table. I patched it roughly, it should work sufficiently now.
Thanks, it's working!
Experimental layout! :o
I'm ready to switch back to the original one, but let me know if there's stuff you like (or not) in this one.
I like it. However, there are some display problems (bug1: only on the replay sending page; bug2: pipsqueak avatars seem to be broken)
time to update to 10.0 .)
header under Bernie still states 8.0 :o
Quote from: zaqrack on June 13, 2014, 04:17:30 PM
time to update to 10.0 .)
header under Bernie still states 8.0 :o
And on the tab it says 9.0. :D
The new site look is very good by the way.
But now you have 2 Login boxes...
It's still 9.0 for me, but I never got around to change the "8.0" in the pictures.
Two login boxes, yes. The idea is to have one always visible, and the menu collapses first on smaller screens.
The 'Season's standings' and 'Team Standings' table does not show the correct status of the current scoreboard.
ZakStunts 10.0 is a blank white page at the moment. ::)
Quote from: CTG on June 23, 2014, 08:20:24 AM
ZakStunts 10.0 is a blank white page at the moment. ::)
Er... Zak? Your hosting just downgraded from php-5.4 back to php-5.3 :o
Quote from: dreadnaut on June 23, 2014, 10:37:32 AM
Quote from: CTG on June 23, 2014, 08:20:24 AM
ZakStunts 10.0 is a blank white page at the moment. ::)
Er... Zak? Your hosting just downgraded from php-5.4 back to php-5.3 :o
strange... reported to the hosting company, hopefully they will check and correct today.
Quote from: zaqrack on June 24, 2014, 04:08:19 AM
they will check and correct today
Good work needs time. Bad work needs even more. :D
Well... something should happen...
Should we send our replays to Zak?
Should we send an email to all pipsqueaks to do so (for those who's not reading forum)?
Should we postpone deadline?
What to do with the leading time and the quiet days?
I was about to ask some of these questions. Regarding the deadline, one suggestion, in case the issue is solved within the next few days but not this Saturday, would be to declare quiet days on the first midnight after the site resumes working, so that the race can at least have a proper finish. In fact, I wouldn't mind an extra week either, as long as it does not affect the season calendar too much.
I 'backported' some of the code to php 5.3, enough to get pages rendering again and —I hope— replay submissions to work.
Don't trust any other page :P
Zak, if you want to move the deadline, just edit the track information —quiet days and all the rest should* follow.
* might or might not follow, screens might explode, diarreah and earthquakes are not likely but cannot be excluded.
It works now! ;)
side menu is unavailable
Is it possible to give access to your own sent replays (or at least you last replay)? This is not the first time when I overwrote my best lap with a "just started" replay - on the very last day. It's damned annoying. (At least the section times were registered...)
hmmm
Quote from: CTG on July 01, 2014, 07:56:38 AMIs it possible to give access to your own sent replays (or at least you last replay)?
When you submit a replay, it goes straight into Zak's special mailbox. Nothing is stored on the website, so no-one can see your files.
Quote from: Usrin on July 30, 2014, 01:03:03 AM
Quote from: CTG on June 29, 2014, 09:03:08 AM
side menu is unavailable
again ???
yep... ::) shall we send the quite days replays to zak's e-mail address?
Until then...
Login: http://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=login
Post news: http://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=postnews
Send replay: http://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=mailer
yes, please use these links. Not sure what is the problem, hope it will be fixed quickly :(
Quote from: zaqrack on July 30, 2014, 09:16:49 AM
yes, please use these links. Not sure what is the problem, hope it will be fixed quickly :(
I think it would be useful to put these links (what CTG wrote) as latest news to make it available for those who don't visit the forum. The latest news are still reachable on the site.
done
This is weird :o
I've been on boats and strange places for the last few days, and I haven't touched the website in weeks, but somehow three pieces of code reading "format" became "formay", suddenly —and of course stuff stopped working.
Fixed now!
Any new stuff / rule / improvement / car for 2015?
cars: maybe.
anything else: not likely. I will be moving back home, so no time.
What about 15 days tracks? There are thousands of tracks in the archives.
Quote from: alanrotoi on September 29, 2014, 03:22:44 PM
What about 15 days tracks? There are thousands of tracks in the archives.
I wasn't around for the original discussion (http://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=3026.msg62009#msg62009), so here are my 2¢: While two week gaps (http://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=statreplay&season=2014&track=C158&pipsqueak=&list=on) without replays are annoying, I am not confident that the shorter deadlines would meaningfully increase activity. My forecast is that some races would be great while others would be very poor, with the number of pipsqueaks in the single digits. Then again, I have no crystal ball, and the only way of finding out what would happen is trying it.
(A weird idea, maybe too complicated to work well: what about having both long and short races - say, eight month-long races and eight 14-day races? Points could be weighed with a bit of coding, and the calendar could be adjusted to fit the seasonal activity patterns.)
Why not? Both tracks should be in the same zip, if not nobody will download/race one of them :D
Sounds weird, but I don't really care.
Quote from: CTG on October 01, 2014, 07:56:07 AM
Sounds weird, but I don't really care.
Quote from: alanrotoi on October 01, 2014, 02:54:58 AM
Why not? Both tracks should be in the same zip, if not nobody will download/race one of them :D
With the races being simultaneous it does sound weird :) I had rather thought about short races from May to August (or during any other set of four months) and regular races through the rest of the year.
So, what kind of timetable will be in ZSC 2015?
Quote from: zaqrack on September 29, 2014, 02:47:37 PM
cars: maybe.
anything else: not likely. I will be moving back home, so no time.
We have some cool stock cars: Toyota Corolla, Toyota Sprinter Trueno, Porsche 911 Turbo, Xylocaine XF...
LTB suggestion: Akoss Poo mentioned a few months ago that rolling leading time bonus could help a bit against addicts. If you don't have enough hours in the pocket to earn an LTB point (less than 48 hours), you should carry it to the next month.
Something is wrong with the 2014 seasonal scoring, I have 8 pts less for both the sum and real scores (123, 97) than the originally collected values (131, 105).
CTG says that his score is wrong, too.
No answer or action found on the board (it was my post earlier there), so I'm now trying to post here in the forum.
Let me re-run the point summarizing script...
Quote from: zaqrack on January 08, 2015, 08:37:41 PM
Let me re-run the point summarizing script...
should be ok now.
Site is not working, only the header appears. (And yes, I've pressed refresh button several times.)
Quote from: CTG on January 10, 2015, 09:23:24 AM
Site is not working, only the header appears. (And yes, I've pressed refresh button several times.)
Sorry, I'm touching stuff here and there :P
An "after race" interview page would be nice, where participants could comment about the results and impressions. ::)
E.g.: http://www.stunts.hu/irc/news03.htm
Good idea. I guess it would not be hard to modify the admin news interface to let others submit comments.
Funny error in bonus calculation - see 'Latest results'. ;D
It reminds me on a very-very stupid schoolmate chick in the early 90s. Somebody asked her "what's the time?" and she said it's 10:60. :D
Quote from: CTG on February 20, 2015, 07:16:51 AM
Funny error in bonus calculation - see 'Latest results'. ;D
It reminds me on a very-very stupid schoolmate chick in the early 90s. Somebody asked her "what's the time?" and she said it's 10:60. :D
Remembered the brazilian version of Bozo clows: - What time is it, now? - 5:60, saw "Papai Papudo"
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nUNfW-zjOVY/TEIpZgG4BYI/AAAAAAAABCg/o37j2y5JETQ/s400/Bozo.jpg)
This year, we will have a leap second, which means that June 30th, 2015, 23:59:60 will be an official point in time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 20, 2015, 05:38:47 PM
This year, we will have a leap second, which means that June 30th, 2015, 23:59:60 will be an official point in time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
This will be in honour of my 32th aniversary
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 20, 2015, 05:38:47 PM
This year, we will have a leap second, which means that June 30th, 2015, 23:59:60 will be an official point in time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
It's quite weird to know that days are getting longer and longer... ::)
Actually it would be weird if every day has exactly the same duration. It's the nature :)
Quote from: alanrotoi on February 20, 2015, 06:50:46 PM
Actually it would be weird if every day has exactly the same duration. It's the nature :)
I mean the astronomic meaning, not the summer-winter thing (which is also an astronomic thing, bah).
Yes I mean every day nave not exactly exactly the same duration if you use a more precise system than the calendar or a watch.
Is it possible to add when the public days ends in the main page graph?
Quote from: alanrotoi on March 01, 2015, 11:29:35 PM
Is it possible to add when the public days ends in the main page graph?
It is there (the >> pattern in the background of the bar indicates the length of public days), though it is easy to miss (it took me several days during the second half of Z162 to notice the >> didn't move with the purple bar :)).
I know but before it ends it's impossible to know when.
It's not that hard to calculate the first two weeks... ::)
Quote from: alanrotoi on March 02, 2015, 02:24:53 AM
I know but before it ends it's impossible to know when.
Good point though, I'll try to add more dates!
Alan is not a smartass, is he?
Well, I think we should change the small Z icon of the main website... it's quite ambiguous.
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 08, 2022, 03:53:25 PM
Well, I think we should change the small Z icon of the main website... it's quite ambiguous.
Oh my, YES :o
Yes, please! :-[
Quote from: JTK on March 11, 2022, 07:18:28 AM
Yes, please! :-[
Should be gone. If you still see it, you might need a hard refresh (
Ctrl-F5) or to clear the browser cache.
Quote from: dreadnaut on March 12, 2022, 11:10:34 AM
Quote from: JTK on March 11, 2022, 07:18:28 AM
Yes, please! :-[
Should be gone. If you still see it, you might need a hard refresh (Ctrl-F5) or to clear the browser cache.
Works. Thanks.
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 08, 2022, 03:53:25 PM
Well, I think we should change the small Z icon of the main website... it's quite ambiguous.
Zorro? ;D