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General Chat - ZSC / Re: Statistics!

Last post by dreadnaut - Today at 06:53:14 PM

@dreadnaut leads the list. He doesn't miss a race since October 2012

Wow, I had never thought about it, but yes: in my mind one does not miss a ZakStunts race 🤣 At the minimum, I always drive a relaxed lap to have a look at the track. Then I think: oh, what about that other car? could I drive that part differently? And there you have it, a more or less competitive replay ready to upload.

Again, thanks for digging this numbers out, @alanrotoi!

[Persistence is very important, but undervalued.]

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General Chat - ZSC / Re: Statistics!

Last post by alanrotoi - Today at 12:13:31 AM

pipsqueaks sorted by consecutive races! Their best bunch of races without missing any of them. I probably missed few pipsqueaks with more than 20 consecutive races. Persistence is very important, but undervalued. Congratulations to those who achieve it!

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@Frieshansen , @Erik Barros , @Mark Nailwood, @Zapper, @Mortimer Macmire and @Spoonboy never missed a race! And @stan286xt only raced those 62 tracks period but his last race was in January 2024.
@Shoegazing Leo and @Duplode shares the same tracks! They don't miss a race since January 2015.
@dreadnaut leads the list. He doesn't miss a race since October 2012

PS: This is my 6000th post

#3

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Restunts repository - Git ...

Last post by Matei - November 11, 2025, 10:25:30 PM

programming for it in C is a very different experience from just making a C program

I didn't understand. Any explanation? What I do know is that programming in BASIC is a very different experience from programming in BASIC:

https://matei.one/games.html#emu

although almost all home computers came with BASIC interpreters, they were also different, so a program written in BASIC for one computer would generally not function without modifications on another computer.

Next:

what I try to achieve with my programs is some portability (through time, more than from platform to platform, but both are good). [...] SDL does not solve this.

Yes it does. All you have to do is make your graphical and sound functions work with all 3 versions of SDL, which is what I did.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/simple3d/

https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=4520

#4

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Restunts repository - Git ...

Last post by llm - November 11, 2025, 10:13:14 AM

I just find that SDL is in itself like a language and programming for it in C is a very different experience from just making a C program (or C++).

name a third-party library (with non trivial api and multi-domain and multi-platform) for C that does not give you these vibes

as soon as you would try to write a multi-platform wrapper (capable as SDL2-3) around input,output,sound,etc. you would see that the SDL api is really small for what its helping/keeping from you - you're just not used to it - thats all

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General Chat - ZSC / Re: ZakStunts pipsqueaks Tier ...

Last post by Frieshansen - November 10, 2025, 08:01:42 PM

Note 4 - Perhaps I made a mistake with some pipsqueak, many of the names are unfamiliar, it's nothing personal

Very nice fact-based list - I belong in Class B, though, because I've never won a ZakStunts race.

#6

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT001 25 years later

Last post by alanrotoi - November 10, 2025, 02:47:26 AM

Agree. I'm not convinced by any of both ways haha. But something else than a special track or race for zct300 we should do.

Maybe a track made by zak but for another competition? (Does it even exist? Maybe zak built a track for imsa competition or wrc or usc...

#7

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT001 25 years later

Last post by Duplode - November 10, 2025, 01:30:57 AM

Wait, the Plus races did counted in the championship! They had an average point so the three races counts as one.

Indeed; it's just that incorporating them into the season scoreboard like that nowadays could get a little awkward, or at least I feel like that (and of course I could be wrong about it!).

#8

General Chat - ZSC / Re: Statistics!

Last post by alanrotoi - November 10, 2025, 01:03:47 AM

Maybe . I prefer to race for fun and share the fun with other pipsqueaks than hide away in the shadows. That's why my numbers are so low in average


BTW, more statistics: There were 18 seasons with 12 races, 2 seasons with 13 races, 2 seasons with 11 races and 2 seasons with 9 races.

Well this is not actually true. How to catalog 2002 season? 12 races and 3 plus races that counts as 1 race in average. So season 2002 had 12, 13 or 15 races?

#9

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT001 25 years later

Last post by alanrotoi - November 10, 2025, 12:59:30 AM

Wait, the Plus races did counted in the championship! They had an average point so the three races counts as one.

#10

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT001 25 years later

Last post by Duplode - November 10, 2025, 12:39:45 AM

Either separate special race (like Plus 1-2-3 in 2002) or ZCT300, I suggest to restrict the car choice to LM002 - back to classics.

It would be cool to have non-championship "Plus" rounds in that vein, though we'd have to build the support for that on the site. I like the idea of doing it on ZCT300 as a LM002 race, too!

To ensure a LM002 race we wouldn't even need to suspend the bonus system; liberal adjustment of the coefficients for that specific race should suffice. I guess we'd also want to keep the LM002 out of the rotation between ZCT294 and ZCT299, to avoid having a spoiler race earlier in the season (that, too, can be achieved through scheduled usage of admin coefficient adjustments).