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Yuri you dont understand his sentence at all. 2 Yers equal experience and experience means it's easier to do things compare to those with no experience.
Anyhow I will seriously not give any further comments.
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Here's my 2 cents, as someone who has run a league and also who has raced in leagues.
If you have never run a league, then please keep your comments to yourself about how things must be done and who's to blame for what. Cause you have absolutely no idea how much work goes into this. True, some things could of been done differently, but get off your high horses for a second. In a sick and twisted manner, hopefully alot of you learn from this. You know those races you sign up for, and then just dont pitch for it(especially towards the end of the season). This is what it feels like to all those admin that put in many hours of work just for you to say you will be there and then you just dont arrive. But do you see them throwing their toys out the cot like some of you are doing. If running a league or championship was so easy, i guess RD and Ross would not be struggling to get committed people to help.
Rather accept the decision and thank the NGP team and RD for at least making the effort, and putting in the time to get this up and running.
Everyone has a personal life that takes president sometimes. And yes, admin and organisers are also people with families and responsibility. They dont just sit infront of their computers waiting to help us out 24/7
Bullet proof jacket on, Feel free to throw all your comments in my direction now.
So, from my side. Thanks to Ross and his team and thanks to RD for the oppurtunity to have taken part in this. I was always and will always be proud to have race for my country.
Wtf - if it doesn't work but has so many people behind it, surley the answer is to recruit helpers from the drivers and possibly move back to cars and tracks that ship with the game - or limit to only tracks that are loaded on RD and are KNOWN not to cause problems and conflict.
I have seen problems elsewhere with other leagues using mods that cause headaches and conflicts resulting in people having to do fresh installs and delete all other mods.
I am no league genius and speak from a position of INExperience - but it seems sometimes the additional work (on top of all the skin files and server setting up) by having a league with all the whistles and bells (mods) overwhelms the individuals in the league (wether thats admin, servers, drivers, whatever) and this is when it starts to fall apart.
Please though guys don't resort to mud slinging and personal attacks like a few pages back - its pointless, its counter productive, it leaves a bad taste and above all else I and many others are here at RD in part because thats not the RD way.
I haven't read every thread here maybe 30 or 40 pages at both ends - but theres 273 pages all together (just for season 3) and that says to me its something that should NOT be killed on a whim by people angry and frustrated at each other. When all that really went wrong is a (catastrophic) glitch in getting the files to work on the server correctly. Sure it also looks as though there was a (fairly major) breakdown in communication, leading to the FAILiue to get a server up and running.
I have to say as an outsider my gut feeling on this is that somewhere someone has a hidden agenda and is happy that this has been cancelled - now before you all jump up n down and flame me - stop and think in your hearts you will know where responsibility for this failiure lies - that may be a someone who has agreed to do more than they can, but does not want to loose face by admitting its too much, it could be someone seeiing the potential success of the league as a threat to their own, it could be someone with a dislike for the league or the people running it, (and don't think only the 'staff' involved as it would not be the first time in history that a gaming server and its files were compromised by the competition (note - I do NOT know of this happening to RD - but even Government Servers have been attacked so it is possible) - or it could just be my overactive gut and brain reading too much into it - if thats the case sorry - if not and there is even the slightest suspicion of deliberate sabbotage of this league then it needs looking into.
Rant over.. - grown up objective - non emotional replies only please..
There I go again... - lighting at arms length and standing well back...
Craig ....Well said my friend and i am sure your comment holds a lot of water.BUT having said that i think Ross prolly did his part to the hilt.We all seem to be missing the point here........ its not Ross but the person whom has not been named that i think did TWO simple stuff UPS. Firstly that person failed to setup the server. Secondly if he failed or could not make it then why didnt he call someone of authority to assist with the problem.
I dont know much about setting up servers to race on but it cant be such a big issue specially when everything is in place and all it really needs (I think) is the appointed person to make sure the server is up and running.And if that person has a problem on the day then i am sure there are quiet a few other RD members that could ensure that all goes off smoothly.
Twice in a row doesnt sound like Ross or the organisers .................... The guilty party is the one that was appointed to do monitoring of that specific RACE.