Virtual Skipper

Camster · Posted: 05 Sep 2008 11:42 Post subject: Using the Guest List

The Guest List is a way of allowing your mates to join a race you are hosting, even if the race is full. This can be helpful but there are some problems:
* If the total number of boats in the fleet is more than the spawn points available at the start line, some boats will spawn on the same place.
* Radar Bug. Some boats (usually towards the back of the fleet) do not appear on the radar of other boats. This may occur in fleets which contain more than the spawn points in the race, but I'm not certain.
* The total fleet can be much bigger than the course is designed for, depending on how many guest-listed friends join. You have to allow for this when you decide how many boats to create a race for.

Making a Guest List:
* Find the guestlist.txt file in My documents/32nd America's Cup/Config
* Open it with Wordpad (NOT Notepad).
* Make a copy for insurance.
* Change or replace the text in the file & save.

To help you start, here is an example of a fictional guestlist.txt file. You can just replace the fictional skippers with the names of your mates. Just add new boats as needed - a new line for each. Dont forget to use Wordpad because Notepad will not work; at least that is the case for me. You need to use the players' login names for this (these are the ones that can be seen on the 'report abuse' & 'kick' lists in the game).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <guestlist>
<player> <login>skipper1</login> </player>
<player> <login>skipper2</login> </player>
<player> <login>skipper3</login> </player>

</guestlist>
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euphoria · Vieux loup de mer Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 565

Thanks for the tip, Sandy. Finally after 1.5 years, we know how to use the guestlist. You'll be on everybody's list now... Sourire

Harald
euphoria
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Very Crankie Yankee · Posted: 03 Nov 2009 5:09 Post subject:

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najevi · Posted: 03 Nov 2009 9:45 Post subject:

Very Crankie Yankee · Posted: 03 Nov 2009 15:20 Post subject:

admiral · Amiral Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 334 Location: Nederland

The alternative for "password protected" races is to
have like 50 spawn points, 1-2 competitors and your guestlist.

(a map can't have too many spawn points)

It 'll make pretty sure only your guests can enter your race without,
the need for them to know the password.

It works well accept for the part where you need all the logins...
but any system that can collect result files should also be able to
produce a guest list. If you need help on the latter feel free to contact me.

There are already various tools that create xls, xml or html from result files at the various community websites.....

najevi · Posted: 03 Nov 2009 17:21 Post subject:

sort and gawk are unix commands so to use the above script (users.awk) you'll need a shell/command window that is able to interpret gawk and sort. If you google gnuWin32 then you ought to find such a shell which you can launch from within windows.

There are many ways of skinning this cat. If you aren't familiar with awk then I daresay VBA or some windows script could do the same job in as few lines.

<copied from wiki>
If the above command line does not work for you then it simply means that the unzip and gawk commands have not yet been installed on your windows box. To install them:

1. Paste the following URLs into your browser address input field:
* http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/gawk.php
* http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/unzip.php
2. then, allow the download of
* gawk-3.1.6-1-setup.exe
* unzip-5.51-1.exe
3. then, run those two install files (as administrator)
4. After this initial setup retry the DOS command line given above.

Very Crankie Yankee · Posted: 03 Nov 2009 17:47 Post subject:

admiral · Amiral Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 334 Location: Nederland

somehow i think using my RandR or Mattai's excel macro's are a little more doable..

Just grab any list containing vsk-ids in a column. Import the html, xls, xml, table column with the vsk-id in to excel add '<player><login>' in a field before the id's and in a field after the id '</login></player>' use the copy down to do this for all rows. Export the 3 columns with <player><login>, vsk-id, </login></player> as txt. Cut and paste from the txt into the guestlist between <guestlist> and </guestlist>

Done.

BTW 1: same method works for any decent spreadsheet software.
BTW 2: in the spreeadsheet you could combine various lists, order, delete sort rowwise etc.

For an example of a html table:
http://www.vivarace.de/randr/externallist.php?LNR=67
(be warned the vsk-login is only the first part of the ID field)

Very Crankie Yankee · Posted: 03 Nov 2009 18:05 Post subject:

admiral · Amiral Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 334 Location: Nederland

i dare say it's not the script your asking about but more like what can you do with a unix console Sourire

basically you can find, sort, filter and manipulate any data wherever it is (as long as you have access and rights).

What can you do with a shell script? Answer anything you could do with any series of shell commands being basically, anything and everything.

Cheers Sourire

@mike read on here, and take it from there Sourire

http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php

Very Crankie Yankee · Posted: 03 Nov 2009 18:33 Post subject:

Very Crankie Yankee · Posted: 03 Nov 2009 20:36 Post subject:

admiral · Amiral Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 334 Location: Nederland

actually you could make a shell script or in windows terms a batch file 'something.bat' which would take some self made guest list with the empty player tags, strip those, replace the guestlist in your vsk directory do whatever you want and then launch vsk, and when when you close vsk run through your resultfiles and add those vsk-id's that you did not have in your guestlist yet then, and do what ever else you want....like producing a html file upload that to a webserver, send your grandmother a fax. that you be there for diner 30 minutes after the last race resultfile was saved etc. etc.