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One thing I like to do is write a short summary at the end of a race, to remind people of the cool stuff that happened during the past week, and celebrate not only the winners, but any good performance. However, it takes time, and I'm missing quite a few months. I even missed the closing post for last year! But, hey, I can only do a limited amount of things

So, who wants to write race summary posts?   Just choose a track, keep an eye on the race for that month, and send a short and informal post about once it's over. No marks! A friendly editor!

• ZCT224 (starts Mar) - afullo
  
• ZCT225 (starts Apr) - Cas
  
• ZCT226 (starts May) - Stingray86
  
• ZCT227 (starts Jun) - Duplode
  
• ZCT228 (starts late Jun) -
  
• ZCT229 (starts Jul) - dreadnaut
  
• ZCT230 (starts Ago) - ??
  
• ZCT231 (starts Sep) - ??
  
• ZCT232 (starts Oct) - Overdrijf
  
• ZCT233 (starts Nov) - ??
  

Fill at least 6 months, and I'll make time to write the others. Fill 10, and I'll have more time to work on website features!

Here's an experimental calendar that should work with whatever calendar application you use.

For example:
- in Google Calendar, under "Other calendars", choose "Add by URL" - http://zak.stunts.hu/track.ical
- on Mac / iOS, try with this link track.ical
- other calendar programs, subscribe to http://zak.stunts.hu/track.ical

The feed updates with the dates for the current track:
- the start day (no time specified)
- the end of the public days (event one hour before the end)
- the start of the quiet days
- the end of the race (event one hour before the end)

All events are in the Stunts timezone, which means your calendar application should translate them in your local time!

Opening this to have a space to discuss teams for the new season!

KaoS and Stingray86 seem interested in starting one. Anyone else?

No track thread yet? Where's everyone?

I like the fort shape, but I every shortcut I try in the pit gives me penalty. I wonder if Overdrijf is hiding something good...

New thread for the guest tracks! (see 2019)

Want to design a competition track? Book your race below.

Tracks for the competition are designed by its participants. If you have an idea for a track and would like to contribute, just choose an available month below!

• ZCT222 (starts Sunday 12 Jan) - Overdrijf
  
• ZCT223 (starts Feb) - KaoS
  
• ZCT224 (starts Mar) - dreadnaut
  
• ZCT225 (starts Apr) - GTAMan15
  
• ZCT226 (starts May) - Stingray
  
• ZCT227 (starts Jun) - Cas
  
• ZCT228 (starts late Jun) - Afullo
  
• ZCT229 (starts Jul) - Shoegazing Leo
  
• ZCT230 (starts Ago) - Duplode
  
• ZCT231 (starts Sep) - Alan Rotoi
  
• ZCT232 (starts Oct) - dreadnaut
  
• ZCT233 (starts Nov) - CTG
  

Hello everyone, and welcome to the future!
It's 2020, we all have jetpacks, and robots that serve us cocktails. But we still play Stunts, because some videogames age better than others.

While the game stays the same, the Competition is open to rules changes. This thread is here to collect and discuss suggestions, and also to decide which custom cars will be allowed for the coming season.

See also: Cars and rules for 2019

A friend of mine has been working on an online managerial game. Sort of fantasy football, but with odd monsters, and extra strategic layer which lets players barter, design weapons, use team supporters to conquer cities, and...

It's a large thing, and he has started a Kickstarter to make it a full time project, and hire someone who is not color-blind to improve the design

If you are interested, or know someone who might be, have a look and spam around!
- Beta version, already playable: https://omct.orkmanager.com/
- Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goblinsama/ork-manager-coal-and-top-hats

Yes, it was a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLgPTJWAysY

And that's why I don't like racing GAR

I have sorted the forum section to bring "Team Talk" and "Life beside Stunts" closer to the top, and the archived competitions at the bottom. If you can't find stuff, left me know

Uh, such an exciting race, and not even a thread?

I have a question, now that it's over. How do you get that !&*£ "inner loop-cut jump" to work? The kind where the car starts climbing on the inner edge of the loop, and then suddenly points down and continues ahead?

I can't find a good example right now, but I remember seeing it in some ZCT139 replays during the race.

[Sunday 17th]

So here we are, the first Live Race of 2019!

We meet this evening, Sunday 17th, at 17:00 Buenos Aires / 17:00 Brasilia / 20:00 London / 21:00 Rome and Budapest. pipsqueaks should be on the forum chat at that time.

Two tracks are attached, we'll start with "Sunrise" and see if there is time and interested for "Sundown" —or another track!
The car for both is the Porsche P962, and there is an extra rule: "The loop must be looped".

A mildly obscure feature of ZakStunts are the RSS feeds, which list recent messages and replays.

In a long term plan to make them more useful, I have renamed the existing two, and moved them under /feeds. You can now find a full list at http://zak.stunts.hu/feeds

The old addresses redirect to the new feeds and still work, but I will eventually remove them. If you are following them, please switch to the new ones

Because there are never enough ideas mid-flight! It's all because I re-discovered this old post by Duplode:

Thanks God, I don't have to make that "Vehicle data" section.

I wonder about which data to include. For the purposes I have in mind it would be nice to summarize the key features in a way that wouldn't take half a screen per car. For instance, one unoriginal idea would be a NFS-style bar chart with acceleration, handling and so on, plus a few icons for things like PG...

The first thought was of course "that would be cool!", because in my mind I was looking at actual printed cards, like collectable ones, with the Stunts cars!

Now, actually printing them might be going too far, but let's say we had the space of a playing card, back and front, how would you showcase a car? What would the bars on the chart be? Let's say there's space for five. Maximum speed? Performance on different terrains? Magic-carpet-ness? Which icons do we need? Anti-, flexible-, powergear?

How do you see these cards? how about your Paint skills?

Does anyone have a table with all the track tiles, with id, dimensions and possibly the name?
I was about to start compiling one, but with all the editors and tools around, there's bound to be one already

Any format is fine!

Time to get one organised again
For those who are new, read about the "Le Stunts" format that we usually follow.

I was thinking about live races while having breakfast, and this came to my mind. I'll dump it here, not to forget.

Uploading a replay for a race is a multi-step operation, nothing too long, but seconds! are really important at the end of a live race. So what if there was a little program that looks at the Stunts directory, and every time a .RPL file is created or modified, it uploads it to ZakStunts?

The website should have an endpoint to allow automated uploads, and keep only the most recent 15-20 replays to save space. pipsqueaks would have a new page with a list of their uploaded replays, and the option to Publish, Download, or Delete each.

Bonus, a "Team mode" where the list is shared among the members of the team.

Teams are better than great! Join a team

The best way to race in ZakStunts is as part of a racing team! Share tricks, strategies and frustration with your teammates. Mostly frustration. Up to four pipsqueaks to a team, see the rules for more details.

Write here if you are looking for a team to join, if you want to start a new team, or simply to confirm an existing team!

The map for ZCT209 made me think of GTA Vice City, which is one of my favourite "driving games" in terms of car feeling. That, the original Carmageddons, and Nitronic Rush. And then I realised I don't think I've ever mentioned the latter.

Nitronic Rush is very arcade-y, highly maddening, and difficult. There is a recent sequel called The Distance which I have not tried, but have a drive on the original!

[dreadnaut+]

While Zak is relaxing on a tropical island, lying under the sun with a drink with a small umbrella in it, he has given me and Duplode administration rights to the forum

This means we can now access a bunch of pages full of new buttons, and no idea on how to use them. However, we can now see all the private boards, which is quite terrifying to be honest    I thought it would be easy to ignore them, but yesterday I ended up replying to a team thread, just because its title was too similar to one in the public sections.

To avoid further mistakes, and for a clean conscience, I have demoted my account back to normal user, and created dreadnaut+ as an admin. I will only log in with that account if any of the scary buttons need pressing.