Needed: Ranking on VROC

This is what we need on VROC: a ranking system like on Sierra. The problem with the current siituation is that you pay no penalty for dropping out. You start on with12 runners and end up with 4. Plus a ranking system would rev up general interest, get the competitve juices flowing, and reinvigorate GPL. I suppose, however, that the period of innovation on VROC is past and the original developers have moved on to other projects. A shame, really.

"Peter Oxford" <[email hidden]> wrote on 01 Jul 2002:

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> This is what we need on VROC: a ranking system like on Sierra. The > problem with the current siituation is that you pay no penalty for > dropping out. You start on with12 runners and end up with 4. Plus > a ranking system would rev up general interest, get the competitve > juices flowing, and reinvigorate GPL. > > I suppose, however, that the period of innovation on VROC is past > and the original developers have moved on to other projects. A > shame, really.

There was talk about a "VROC 2" in some quarters not so long ago - I don't have any info as to whether that's still a live project, though. "VROC 1" itself is (I believe) not likely to be developed further, and is not going to be open-sourced, so it really needs someone to start again from scratch - not a particularly enticing idea, I suspect. -- Cricket: England 2 Sri Lanka 0 Athletics: Gt Britain & NI European Cup winners Keep those flags up! The GPL Scrapyard: http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard

The VROC 2 release is scheduled to coincide with the WSC release...<VBG> -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash David Buttery <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > "Peter Oxford" <[email hidden]> wrote on 01 Jul 2002: > > > This is what we need on VROC: a ranking system like on Sierra. The > > problem with the current siituation is that you pay no penalty for > > dropping out. You start on with12 runners and end up with 4. Plus > > a ranking system would rev up general interest, get the competitve > > juices flowing, and reinvigorate GPL. > > > > I suppose, however, that the period of innovation on VROC is past > > and the original developers have moved on to other projects. A > > shame, really. > > There was talk about a "VROC 2" in some quarters not so long ago - I > don't have any info as to whether that's still a live project, > though. "VROC 1" itself is (I believe) not likely to be developed > further, and is not going to be open-sourced, so it really needs > someone to start again from scratch - not a particularly enticing > idea, I suspect. > > -- > Cricket: England 2 Sri Lanka 0 > Athletics: Gt Britain & NI European Cup winners > Keep those flags up! > The GPL Scrapyard: http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard

> There was talk about a "VROC 2" in some quarters Alison Hine mentioned this in her recent interview. Whether it actually is being worked on I don't know. The original vroc source is unavailable, so it would have to be a complete rewrite. rms rsquires&flash.net

On Sierra there a 4 categories which compose a ranking: short tracks, road courses, speedways and SSs. Don't know how this would be sliced up for GPL, maybe one global category. Plus an LPI rating. My preference would be separate rankings for each track plus more comprehensive stat keeping like best laps/ by chassis. I can't think of an enhancement that would gas up the community better. (Aside from GPL2, of course....).