Hi AvGas,
>I am finding that today (Dec 17)
>there are some problems. I attempted to go
>into the "old" server, running Nordschlieffe
>and was told by another fellow >in there that
>my car was crashing the server (I was using
>porsche 914/blue&orange)
I guess you send the guy into an infinitive loop because he was missing a car. If server crashed who restarted it? Not me...hehe
>Then I find that in the space of an hour,
>my ranking has dropped from 18 to 27.
Quite normal. Didn't you read the base of evalution? I guess you "earned" the points on a track currently offline, so the will take into decision for ranking if the regarding tracks are online again...
>Additionally, I am experiencing quite a bit of
>lag, not from me...my >framerate is always
>fine, but from other players. To the point
>where they often blink out of existence
>entirely for 3,4,5 seconds. This does not
>bother me, unless I am right next to them.
>Then of course I have no idea what line they
>will take and where they will reappear. Is
>this due to a slow connection on their end?
>Am I not on a fast enough connection? Am I
>winking out to any of you? Can I do anything?
Hm, I do not belive servers connection is to slowly since it is located in a computer centre with 100MBit Internet-Connection

Maybe the other driver has a slowly connection or running some downloads in the background?
If you press "TAB" during gameplay you'll see the "distance" in ms to the player below the playername...
>Are we able to use the non-stock car skins
>at both servers? I have everything
>I can find.
YEP (although the "old" one has some delays in upload of new cars, since the new one has priority)
>It is frustrating for Micha and Uwe to have
>to read such a big list in English, but I
>know of no other way to communicate these
>concerns.
You're welcome as long as you accept my lousy English
>Lastly, I am not sure how anybody
>can drive that Escort.
>It's like an angry
>bee on crack.
Hehe, practice, practice, practice...
Cheers,
Uwe