Well from what I understand RaO banned you for finishing a race impossibly fast, beating previous toptimes by 20 seconds or so.
For now I am trusting RaO's judgement but I will look into the time to confirm whether or not it is truly impossible.

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Post Merge: September 09, 2009, 08:59:09 PM

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Ok RaO claims you admitted to cheating, looking at the logs you did not do any such thing, but your commend "2nd best to speedhacker" probably was misunderstood.

A decent application thus far 

With what you have given I see no reason why I should say no, however I won't yet say yes until I've seen you in action on the server a little more.
Undoubtedly I have raced you plenty before but given the numbers we have often I probably haven't noticed.

Once the server is successfully moved to a linux based host and is up and running I hope I will see you in game

But preliminarily I would say most likely yes.

Well good day to you sir

A graphic designer you say, thats pretty cool

Very glad you've taken a liking to our server! Hope to see you on the server sometime soon.
(Once we have sorted out our little scripts issue, tis quite the headscratcher)

I raced with Blacky for quite some time of late, I can certainly vouch for his skill (though everyone here knows it anyway). And I very much enjoyed racing him.

So I say yes.

I don't intend on putting any new images overlaying the screen.

Just wanted to put some form of constant reminder as to what server people are on. I think I've done that now.
So now its more refining the images we have, and ofcourse customising scripts etc.

I always felt that black and green were our "Trademark" colours so to speak.
Feels more SiK

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Post Merge: August 24, 2009, 11:44:10 PM

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Also now permenantly displayed during races is this image



Its attatched to the timer at the top of the screen.

Just a little competition if you so please.
Basically the server has a bunch of images displayed for different purposes and rather than just customise them myself I thought I'd open it up for everyone to make a contribution and we can decide whose we think will look the best.

So here are the images currently on there.


sik_logo.png - This image is displayed in the welcome window when a user joins the server.


countdown_3.png - This image is the first of a series of 4 images displayed in the race start countdown.


countdown_2.png - This image is the second in a series of 4 images displayed in the race start countdown.


countdown_1.png - This image is the third in a series of 4 images displayed in the race start countdown.


countdown_0.png - This image is the last in a series of 4 images displayed in the race start countdown.

One quick not regarding the four countdown images. I would recommend applying transparency so that the images are not displayed as raw rectangles on screen.


hurry.png - This image is displayed in the final moments of a race to remind players the race is about to end.


specnext.png and specnext_hi.png respectively - specnext is the image displayed indicating you can press right to spectate the next player, specnext_hi is simply the image displayed instead during key press.


specprev.png and specprev_hi.png respectively - Simply the same as specnext and specnext_hi


progress_health_bg.png and progress_health.png respectively - progress_health_bg is the background for the health bar displayed in the top right, must be this width. progress_health.png is a 1 pixel wide image replicated according to the players health to fill the background bar.


progress_speed_bg.png and progress_speed.png respectively - Similar to progress_health_bg and progress_health except represent the players speed


title.png - Displayed at the start of the race gamemode, usually on join. Simply represents the race gamemode.


travelling.png - Shown during map change. Can have a black background as the background during this time is black.





Thats all the images for now. Good luck to anyone feeling up to making something, I shall be adding my submissions upon completion. I suggest a 2 day period before you designs should be completed. (You do not have to design something for all of the images)
Make em all SiK!