Post by David on Mar 19, 2012 15:32:58 GMT -5
This thread is the explain the situation regards this team and the first race of the season.
As you may know teams get an extra £3M for every race they miss as a form of handicap, so that by the end of the 2011 season, new teams were given £157M if they signed up after the final race of the season, ie £100M plus (19*3) for the 19 races.
I realised this would cause a problem as any team that had entered the game after the first race of 2011 and not picked a team would have much more than the £100M allowed so I amended the registration script so new teams got the usual £100M and ran another script to reduce all teams to £100M budget and removed their driver and constructor line-up.
However, by coincidence as I was doing this the team above registered and slipped through the net without me realising it until now.
There's no hint of foul play here, the user in question simply registered and spent the money available to them, I know the timings of this as the events table has me doing testing around the same time.
I have emailed the team owner in question and advised them to pick another team and reset their team and given them £101M to spend (£100M plus £1M for the first race, all teams get an extra £1M per race).
I am not proposing to deduct any points from them as this is my error and nobody is playing for anything other than enjoyment, this team is not in the prize fund competition.
I apologise to everyone for this oversight on my part and hope it doesn't detract from anyone's enjoyment of the game.
Please let me know if you spot any other issues like this.
Thanks.
As you may know teams get an extra £3M for every race they miss as a form of handicap, so that by the end of the 2011 season, new teams were given £157M if they signed up after the final race of the season, ie £100M plus (19*3) for the 19 races.
I realised this would cause a problem as any team that had entered the game after the first race of 2011 and not picked a team would have much more than the £100M allowed so I amended the registration script so new teams got the usual £100M and ran another script to reduce all teams to £100M budget and removed their driver and constructor line-up.
However, by coincidence as I was doing this the team above registered and slipped through the net without me realising it until now.
There's no hint of foul play here, the user in question simply registered and spent the money available to them, I know the timings of this as the events table has me doing testing around the same time.
I have emailed the team owner in question and advised them to pick another team and reset their team and given them £101M to spend (£100M plus £1M for the first race, all teams get an extra £1M per race).
I am not proposing to deduct any points from them as this is my error and nobody is playing for anything other than enjoyment, this team is not in the prize fund competition.
I apologise to everyone for this oversight on my part and hope it doesn't detract from anyone's enjoyment of the game.
Please let me know if you spot any other issues like this.
Thanks.