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Welcome to the forum I'm sure you will like it here.

Thanks Speed_Freak for helping out as I was offline last night. +rep ;) As tonight is a special event the first 8 to show up will get to go. You need to be in the same session tonight as me. I will make sure I'm there before 8pm UK time. I will ask other people to leave the session so we can try and get all 8 slots filled with just us. I'm sorry if you can't join the session but you can always go on a cruise if a few turn up and can't join in. We will all lock together and then go into isolate mode @ 8:30pm. Make sure you are there before because you will not be able to join the session after this. Please make sure you know how the isolate works but I can explain if needed. I will be the one to send the isolate request so be ready to accept or you will be kicked out of the session. Once we get to destination B if you have lost me (if I loose connection to you) you will need to un-isolate so I can join and start the second part of the race also so you can add A to your Sat-Nav. You will all have to join to me again so we are all in the same session. Remember if this happens I will be watching the winner in map mode. But lets hope we don't have these problems. Also remember because of the connection problems we still have it could be you will not connect to me fully. Sorry if this happens but if after a few try's you are still not connected fully then please leave the session to see if others can join. Very sorry if this has to happen and lets hope the connection problems are fixed very soon. I hope you have all painted your cars. ;)

Yes sorry there was a problem before the patch that would randomly add people to the club house that were on my friends list. I had to kick a few people so I could get the group correct to the list here in the forum. Sorry for any confusion caused but I could not fix the problem until after the patch. Please read the rules on the first page, this shows how you can join.

Just a reminder for the Gumball challenge for Thursday night as I am not online tomorrow night. Here are the details again:

The points are carried forward to the next race day just like a championship. At the end of all the races the person at the top of group A is the champion. Then the next season will start with the points set to zero. Also the last person in group A goes down to group B, the winner of group B moves to A. There are lots of possibilities this is just one idea. I would like to see how many people are interested in racing competitively. Then I can look at the best way it can be done.

Is anyone interested in racing in a league? I have this idea from my experience of racing in a sim racing league. I am interested in seeing if this could work in TDU. I can see the possibility of 8 tracks using the race track and Ford Island. There will be 6 people in total for each race day. Here is a example of how it would work: 2 spotters are positioned at the trackside to look for cheating and are barriers for different track combinations at Ford Island. The starter/finisher starts and stops the race using their brake lights and takes note of who's 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Day 1 Race 1 - Race track forward Group A will have 3 racers - Group B will be 2 spotters and 1 starter/finisher Group B will have 3 racers - Group A will be 2 spotters and 1 starter/finisher Race 2 - Race track backwards Group A will have 3 racers - Group B will be 2 spotters and 1 starter/finisher Group B will have 3 racers - Group A will be 2 spotters and 1 starter/finisher There would be a Qualifying day to see who is in Group A or B. This will be a one shot timed lap. All racers will have the same car all tuned to stage 3 and each car will be in your league colour you are given at the start of the league. e.g. racer 1 = red racer 2 = yellow racer 3 = blue racer 4 = green racer 5 = white racer 6 = black The cars can be the same type for all the race days or a different type each day. The points system: 1st = 3 pts 2nd = 2 pts 3rd = 1 pt At the end of all the races the winner of group A will be champ the loser will to down to group B. The winner of group B will move to group A. Race day can be 1 day a week or month etc. I was thinking of 3 laps for the race track and 4 laps for Ford Island each race day. So what do you think and would you be interested?

Thanks for all the pics, sounds like you had lots of fun. :D I will add them to the club album later. @ Carboy you don't need to keep deleting your posts if you make a mistake just edit them. Then we don't get lots of deleted posts. There is a edit button at the bottom of the post click this. You can also go in advance edit mode if you want to add attachments etc. The button for this is at the bottom of the edit window.

I will not be going to the cruise tonight but there should be some others there to cruise with. Tomorrow I will be on later about 9pm Wednesday I will not be online again. The rest of the week I will be online.

Yes that is how it will work. I will post info a few days before so there is time for everyone to see the event(s) for the week. Don't forget if you or any club members have ideas for events you would like us to do then let me know.

There will be one special event each week minimum this can be any special event that's different to the daily cruises. These are a mix of custom cruises, games and challenges. At this time the events will be random dates so we are not tied to every Wednesday is this, Thursday is that etc. This is better so you don't get bored with a set routine each week.

Yes sorry you will not be there but this will be one of the regular events so there will be other times. :)

TDU Central club announcement Every week now there will be a special event. This weeks special event - Mini Gumball challenge - 02/08/07 @ 8pm UK time No not a Gumball with Mini's ;) The event will be a race from point A - B and then back again. You get 1 point for best car colour. You get 1 point for getting to B first, here we stop and have a rest. You get 3 points for getting back to A first. This is the end of the Gumball. The winner of the Gumball is the person with the most points. The Gumball champion is the person with 4 or more points if you get them. The Gumball champion gets to pick the route for the next Mini Gumball challenge. Also you can put Gumball Champion as part of your avatar if you want to. If there is no champion this time I will pick the route for the next one. Route: Start at meeting place E (destination A) Stop at the most southern lighthouse (destination B) Rest stop. Here you can go to the map and put destination A in the Sat-Nav. Then reconnect to the group. Start at the most southern lighthouse (destination B) Stop at meeting place E (destination A) Gumball ends. If needed I can show destination B on the map. Rules: Any car is allowed, try and pick the most outrageous colour scheme as we will be voting for the best colour. Once you turn up with your car you can't go back and pick another one. As it's a Gumball you can get to the destination any way you like but you can't use bookmarks. You can "B" back to the road that is ok. Also if you go in the water and the car gets put back on the road you can carry on. The winner at each destination is announced by the second car to make it. You must type the persons name you see at the destination. As there are still connection problems and there is a lot of luck in a Gumball if you lose connection you are out like the car has broken down. If I am out like this which is almost guaranteed I will follow you on the map and jump to you at each destination. I will be a there as a organiser to keep the event running.

I've had this discussion about running out of fuel will a lot of people. The best solution we have found is to include fuel as part of hardcore mode or a option in the games settings. This way you have fuel usage if you want a more realistic drive or off if you want to have some fun. This way everyone will be happy I think.

Thanks for the video, the best one you have done so far. :D

I've now updated the club photo album, see my sig for the link. Tonight's cruise will be a normal one so bring any car you like. We will meet at meeting place A same time as normal.

We had lots of fun last night thanks to all that could make it. Nice video Speed thanks for recording it. Yes you do get GB's of unwanted videos for a 5 min video. :D I will now spend some time and update the TDU Central club album with all the pics over the last few days.

Ok then we meet at meeting place C Saturday @ 8pm UK time. Full road rules so we can drop down a few gears and hear the raw engine sounds as we overtake the traffic. :D

A update on the problems I have had so far after the new patch. All the mid engine cars I have driven so far have the sound cut-out when driving faster than 100MPH in any onboard view. Outside view is ok no problems with the sound. Connections to others in free ride mode is very bad sometimes. I drove around the Island for over 1 hour yesterday and did not see any others driving around. But when I went to map mode I could see the others players in my area. In the end I restarted TDU and then the connection was better. But about 50% of the players that showed up had the broken connection icon so I was not fully connected to all of them. When the connection is bad the globe icon on the sat-nav where the number of players in the session are shown always stays orange. I guess this means it's searching for a session. Another new problem I've had is getting disconnected from the session even when all the players are locked together. There is no connection lost message I just end up out of the session. When the connection is good TDU works very well you click on the players name and you are in the session first time. Last one is TDU runs very laggy where you drive fast and TDU can lock-up for as long as 2 seconds sometimes. It's a lot worse than before the patch sometimes.

I will not be on TDU tonight but I will be on Saturday and Sunday. How dose Ferrari day Saturday night sound? We can cruise around the Island and then end up at the race track and do a few laps to finish off. You can bring any class of Ferrari new or old.

I use a controller because my MOMO is broken from too much sim racing. Also the game was designed to work with a controller so it's impossible to get a good setup for the MOMO. But I know the G25 works well so I may have to save up for one. ;)

Thanks for all your feedback and help yesterday. We will do the next test probably not next week but the week after. There is a balance issue and we will try some different ways until we get the balance right. Also TDU needs smoothing out a bit more because 1 second lag means you are a good few yards behind but it's the same for everyone. So sometimes you loose sometimes you gain. To help find the best balance the next test we will all have the same cars. Not the same class of car but the same car. We will see how this works and it will be easier to see what needs to be changed so everyone is having the most fun possible. I think everything else works well so if we can get the balance fair it will work very well.

Have a good time and I hope you see some great cars. If you go to Park Lane in London I'm sure you will. ;) I'm sure you will take lots of pics so I hope the weather is better. Have fun!!

I got some photo's and I will upload them to the album later.