ZakStunts

News posted in April 2016

2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

January February March April May June July August September October November December

Apr 1

• Renato Biker
  It has the LTB error again. dreadnaut?
• Friker
  Wow.. Owoot norh is a pretty much strange format. Can I jump over slalom blocks?
• dreadnaut
  I think so: after all, you are still above the road, can't help if you are flying. I wonder what the answer would be when a jump sends you above a cork l/r though. Should one slow down, not fly, and go through?

Apr 2

• Duplode
  dreadnaut: "[...] when a jump sends you above a cork l/r [...] should one slow down, not fly, and go through?" -- Most definitely yes. Flying over slalom blocks, though, has always been OK as far as I'm aware of.

Apr 5

• dreadnaut
  Home with the flu, it's the best time to write some code --> Leading time table - feedback!

Apr 9

• Duplode
  No improvement for me. I collapsed asleep before I had a chance to race last night, and couldn't do anything meaningful in the 15 minutes I had today...
• Duplode
  I wonder if anyone will disrupt Renato's position. All I can say is that I expect a tunnel roof to play a part in the winning replay...

Apr 10

• 

  It started out as a nice slow Vette race, and what did it become?

  Maxing out can mean a lot of things. Maxing out a season was shown by Ayrton when he won all tracks in the 2008 season. What does maxing out a track mean? Well, I think ZCT176 is a good example for that.

  Take one racer - Renato Biker - beating everyone else and not leaving even a single LTB point to be picked up by others. And take the team of this racer - Yellow Fleas - securing the entire podium for themselves by surprising all others with an unexpected car choice. That's maxing out a track by thinking out of the box. Nice tactics, well played!

  I hope you had your fun with the Indy last year, because thanks to this surprise podium now it is literally off the charts with -48 "bonus" coefficient :)

  Off we go to ZCT177 - guest designer is Dreadnaut, car bonuses were tweaked a bit and judging by the map we are on to some exciting fun this month. Car? Well, I would not bet on the Indy. :) Other than that, feel free to choose anything!

• Friker
  I have to say that I have not seen the Renato's Vette replay yet. O:-)
• Alan Rotoi
  Damn these erratics race ends confuses me I miss the monthly tracks...
• dreadnaut
  Alan, would it help to have the deadlines appear on a calendar? Or maybe receiving email reminders?
• Renato Biker
  Can I tell the surprise?
• Renato Biker
  1:08:40 with Vette.
• dreadnaut
  Quiet replays now public. Wait for Zak to confirm the scoreboard though!
• Duplode
  Well, it had been a while since we last had a secret car masquerade -- and a full podium one at that! No tunnel roofs involved in the 1:08.40 BTW, though the extra hill bump is used to comparable effect.
• Zak McKracken
  surprise Indys. Lets update
• Zak McKracken
  and update done! Enjoy!
• dreadnaut
  Whops, the car coefficients No more Indy races for about a year?

Apr 11

• Duplode
  For a year *at least*
• dreadnaut
  Well, guest track authors can also add bonus points to a car, so it could happen earlier.
• Duplode
  Indeed, I forgot about the adjustments -- that might well be a fine use case for them.
• Renato Biker
  Fleas podium!!!
• Duplode
  Here is a first day RH shot for a change...
• Shoegazing Leo
  A lot of different cars are suitable for this track

Apr 13

• afullo
  First shot

Apr 14

• dreadnaut
  I wonder if I made a track that's too difficult for myself...
• Shoegazing Leo
  Maybe, it's easier than ZCT179 will be.

Apr 18

• dreadnaut
  P967 is probably the fun car for a NoRH race
• dreadnaut
  Let's try with RH as well.

Apr 19

• Duplode
  How much is 1.80 worth? Where can I find the current trading price of the centisecond?

Apr 20

• Zak McKracken
  not an easy one...

Apr 21

• FinRok
• FinRok
  Hi is it ok to shortcut the cork at the beginning for OWOOT? video below. The car was in air while jumping off cork to the road! What do you guys think?
• Duplode
  FinRok: Under the "strict" OWOOT rules we are using for the alternative scoreboard here, the problem with that replay is that you didn't follow the yellow line around the cork (i.e. you have to go upside down and come back on the other side of the red wall). The little jump at the exit of the cork isn't in itself a problem if you do it when leaving the cork through the left side (while there is a triangular patch of grass that cuts across the track by the cork exit, we overlook that as a graphical artefact and use the regular track width to check OWOOT compliance there).
• dreadnaut
  Where is Marco? I call a challenge on NoRH and OWOOT

Apr 24

• Akoss Poo
  Boring championship... hackers, 'newbies'... was it worthy to banish CTG from here? Wasn't it more enjoyable to beat him?
• Alan Rotoi
  What do you mean with "hackers" and "'newbies'"?

Apr 26

• Duplode
  I am absolutely fine with newbies (or even "newbies"), though I would enjoy it very much if it became less rare to see them troubling the leader As for "hackers", like Alan I have absolutely no clue about the rerefent.

Apr 27

• Marco
  Hi my friends, sorry i was very busy what is the situation ? Dread what are you meaning ?
• Marco
  So is the OWOOT scoreboard now officially NORH or you are racing OWOOT RH ?

Apr 28

• Marco
  Strict OWOOT NORH without using strange walls speedup as Dread did
• Marco
  On my facebook page Marco Plays Dos Games, you can find the real time record (no replay) from DosBox

Apr 30

• dreadnaut
  Wooo, Marco is back! now I have to try and drive faster OWOOT and NoRH are still two separate scoreboards, but you can submit the same replay in both.

Jump to a different month

2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

January February March April May June July August September October November December