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Couldn't get any racing done this month yet, but I'll try and get a lap in at some point between Thursday and Sunday!

On the track 

A quick rules reminder from the parallel thread, just in case:

you do need to drive through it [the fifth tunnel on the eastern edge of the track, after the second bridge] twice. And no, you can't use the tunnel roofs -- following the usual CCC rules, you have to drive under the roofs as well as the finish banner for the checkpoints to count.

I have a question about the first route right away. The rules state that all tunnels are checkpoints. But tunnel number 6 is passed through twice. Is it possible to pass it only once and take a shortcut the second time? Also, is it possible to drive on the roofs of the tunnels?

Well spotted. I suppose you mean the fifth tunnel, after the second bridge in the eastern edge of the track, between arrows 4 and 1 of the map on the site. Let's say you do need to drive through it twice. And no, you can't use the tunnel roofs -- following the usual CCC rules, you have to drive under the roofs as well as the finish banner for the checkpoints to count.

Do you remember USC X-Mas Cup?

I sure do  One pipsqueak picking the track and the other the car was a fun rule!

@stanceboyCZ 's Christmas Special is on!

The first track, Rally Square, is open for racing at the usual CCC address, https://ccc.mystunts.net/ . Its deadline is 2025-12-27 (the Saturday after Christmas) at 23:59 UTC. Since this is a longer track, we'll race it for ~2 weeks; the later rounds may well be single-week ones.

The rules for this first race are the usual CCC ones, though note that driving through the inside of all tunnels means there will be some path-finding to do! The track map on the site includes navigation hints. As for cars, the pack for this round includes four of them:

• @alanrotoi 's Lada Niva 4x4
• Ryoma's Lancia Stratos Gr5 (competition debut!)
• @Zapper 's Audi Quattro Sport Tuned For Real (competition debut!)
• Zapper's Toyota Sprinter Trueno

You can download the cars from the site, or from this post, to make sure you get the correct versions of them. Fasten your seat belts, and enjoy the ride!

[A special 2025 Christmas Season at CCC]

It's confirmed: 🎄 A special 2025 Christmas Season at CCC 🎄 will be held, with @stanceboyCZ 's concept and @Daniel3D 's blessing! The event will be made of short races with rally cars and wintry tracks, held during the four-week window in between ZakStunts seasons. That means the launch will be this Sunday, December 14th! Watch this space for further news!

Couldn't get any racing done this month yet, but I'll try and get a lap in at some point between Thursday and Sunday!

Hello @Foxpup , welcome to this little corner of the Internet! 

On ride height: Repldump reports the height of the car (i.e. the vertical carstate coordinate) as a constant 8 in 3D shape units. If we make the straightforward assumption that the carstate position is the origin for rendering the 3D shape, your estimation is exactly right!

On wheels: Indeed, your description is right, and the Wiki was wrong. Though that's something we stumble at every so often, actually correcting the text somehow had always fallen through the cracks. That being so, I've just plastered a band-aid on the article (it still needs a replacement picture at least).

Looking forward to see your vehicle, do keep us updated! 

Taking a leaf out of Looping's book and changing my avatar to the Osasco logo for the length of the Club World Championship!

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Which version of xMOn@D do you have? I have 0.18.0.

0.18.0 here as well.

Anyway, I found a reasonable workaround for me on the XMonad side: remove the borders of Simcar windows upon window creation. If I were to insist on having the borders, it would also have been possible to fix it by growing the window to account for the border, along the lines of what's described in this issue tracker comment.

It will be an impressive feat if McLaren manages to fumble the driver's title -- it's surely not beyond them!

"McLaren apologise to Norris, Piastri and fans for Las Vegas GP disqualification" 👀

It's time for the ZCT292 update of the rankings!

Before we get to the update proper, I should note the rankings have been revised to account for the scoreboard changes triggered by the replay cloning incident. You can gauge what changed by looking at the before and after of the ranking at ZCT291. The changes have revealed a few individual achievements from the past several races: Frieshansen reached the 2000 points milestone at ZCT285, Zapper got a personal best of 1855 points at ZCT287, and KyLiE had a joint personal best of 2076 points at ZCT291.

As for ZCT292, it saw HerrNove, KyLiE, MiDiaN and Spoonboy reaching personal best ratings, as well as stanceboyCZ joining the rankings. Below is the updated (and revised!) evolution graph:

@Argammon That is a reasonable test; in particular, it follows the precedent we set at ZCT280: a dual-way switch is a line that wouldn't work without the dual-way bug. For doing such a test on this track, I'd suggest breaking the path you aren't using removing a single element at the beginning the track, near the split.

I am not aware of the current car (bonus) rules, but it seems to be a perfect Audi Quattro circuit.

The Audi is not far off, though I guess it is a couple bonus points away from really fighting at the top -- the margins are narrow these days!

Btw: please suggest optimal DOSBox settings for Win11!

The basics remain the same, I think. 20k cycles keeps being a sensible default, though a relatively recent computer should handle cycles well about that with no problems. While preferred DOSBox version these days is DOSBox Staging, plain old vanilla DOSBox 0.74 is still good enough. For vanilla DOSBox 0.74 on Windows, I'd use something like this as a base for dosbox.conf (some of these are not necessary with Staging due to better defaults. Also, I prefer windowed to full screen, but YMMV of course):

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[cpu]
cpu_cycles=20000
core=dynamic

[render]
aspect=true

[sdl]
output=overlay
fullscreen=false
windowresolution=960x720
priority=higher

Alternatively, for a ready-made setup on Windows you can try the R4K Stunts installer.

Quite a dilemma... shall I come back for "only one race"?

Only you can answer that... but you don't liking your earlier goals means there's a window to change or reframe them

Starting with a poll! And with an amusing tidbit from Wednesday's PTB update 

The PTB tables now have been recalculated. There have been some changes to them starting from ZCT288 (cf. the page as it was yesterday). Overall, 127:03 of PTB time has been redistributed. No one got additional points from those hours as of now (it might still happen in ZCT293), though some half-points have been earned earlier than we thought: Alan Rotoi on ZCT292 rather than ZCT293; KyLiE on ZCT289 rather than ZCT292; Zapper on ZCT290 rather than ZCT292.