Longest sim-race record?

[axus]

I was wondering what is the record for the longest sim-race in the world in terms of time. (No driver swaps). Perhaps if we can get some psychos like me to do 48 or 72hrs and get it recognised by guiness we could boost LFS popularity. Plus it would be an experience to tell your children about and brag about. :D

[bLaCk VaMpIrE]

my mother would kill me if i did like 48 hours :pillepall
24 ok in a way...

[axus]

my mother would kill me if i did like 48 hours :pillepall
24 ok in a way...

24 is not gonna be enough - surely someone has done that before. And it won't be quite as impressive.

[(FIN)Eza]

IF you get it recognised by guiness, I'm in whatever it takes :smileypul





Eza

[KiDCoDEa]

if you die, plz make sure "lfs" and its url gets on the papers. thx in advance

[(FIN)Eza]

if you die, plz make sure "lfs" and its url gets on the papers. thx in advance

haha :D





Eza

[tpa]

After 24 hours, my dsl disconnects :x

Could be done on LAN, though ...

[WGooden]

axus you ARE insane. :thumb:

[Blackout]

I think it should be done in LAN so it could be monitored that there isnt just computers driving around, but 72h is insane without driver changes :D

[Theafro]

yeah, a 24hour LAN makes much more sense. might be worth organizing a lan party next summer. the weekend after le mans or sumtin'. we've got plenty of time to organise that, but what about international entries?

could tag-on to one of multiplay's big'uns. means a LOT less hassle with actually organising the venue etc,
+plenty of room for ACTUAL driver changes (although there's always gonna be at least one, 1 stint hero)

either way, bring it on!

72 hours of newbury here we come!:pillepall

[axus]

If we get guiness to recognise it i'm sure sponsorship would be little problem. Red Bull would sponsor us for one I'm sure :D. We could arrange plane tickets with sponsors and caffeene pills, coffee stuffed sandwiches and Red Bull :smileypul.

[(FIN)Eza]

What?? only 72 hours?? :bigeyes2: :weeping: :cry: :worried:





Eza

[Blackout]

Make it a week..thats 168 hours :D

[axus]

We will see the guiness minimum to count it and then double that :tilt:

[Stellios]

dont know whether this would work, but.

12 hours then in pits and driver change

another 12 hours then do the same again.

Then you could make the races years long if you wanted.

[Cue-Ball]

Well, this guy played WoW for over 50 hours before he died of exhaustion and dehydration, so you'll have to do at least two straight days to be impressive. :)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/consumer/gamers/la-fg-games29aug29,1,1332873.story?coll=la-business-games

[axus]

dont know whether this would work, but.

12 hours then in pits and driver change

another 12 hours then do the same again.

Then you could make the races years long if you wanted.

Which is why it wouldn't work - it would be nothing special. But we would have to have caffine and piss breaks somewhere...:scratchch

[Stellios]

Bucket on one side you for toilet breaks with some bog roll incase you need a one out the back end. Fridge full of drinks and food on the other side to sustain your living.

:)

[Tweaker]

I think for a record to show up in the books, you'd have to race no longer than a week straight :) I'm just guessing, but, make it a record that is hard to beat. :p

[eindewege]

Well, this guy played WoW for over 50 hours before he died of exhaustion and dehydration, so you'll have to do at least two straight days to be impressive. :)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/consumer/gamers/la-fg-games29aug29,1,1332873.story?coll=la-business-games

Isnt the record playing computer games something like 70 hours? I'd think the record simracing should be somewhere around that.

(Hell, im not gonna drive that long :pillepall)

[axus]

The main problem is other games have pauses.

[Hyperactive]

The main problem is other games have pauses.

Oval and XF GTi ;)

[axus]

No stupid oval shit - I'll fall asleep :x

[P5YcHoM4N]

You have a pitstop. Make use of it :p

Hmm, I might order in some Mountain Dew (24 tins) and go for 24 hours, see how hard it is.

[Tweaker]

I read about this in my recent car magazine, try and emulate it and you will certaintly be in the news and record books :thumb:

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=105899

You should see the pictures after each stint. Cars are covered with thousands of bugs and they hit quite a few birds too :)

[P5YcHoM4N]

How cool. They should have a video of the whole stunt on the interweb :D

But that'd be a great record to breack in a sim :p who's up for 30 days of none stop racing :p

[W1LLSD4D]

Does GBoR recognise time based records for computer games? iirc they stopped recording (purely) time based sporting records a long time ago?

Anyway - count me out - I can't stay awake 24 hours never mind any longer :(

[Blackout]

If they dont like time based stuff, make it distance based, like 10000km or something, but how to prove that distance is same in real world..hmm

[Shotglass]

does anybody know that parti in the h2g2 ? the one thats been going on and on for generations ? how about we try to start the same thing in lfs ?

[Blackout]

Ye...lets start something like that!
Theres a problem thou, if it goes forever they cant put it to books before its not finished and has gone forever, and if its stopped it hasnt gone forever and its not worth of mentioning :scratchch

[Vendetta]

It can be done obviously, lets just hope no one dies doing it :faint:

[BlueLine]

Make it a contest. Last person driving is the winner. And you get to dodge people who pass out for an added challenge! :D

[ATHome]

I read about this in my recent car magazine, try and emulate it and you will certaintly be in the news and record books :thumb:

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=105899

You should see the pictures after each stint. Cars are covered with thousands of bugs and they hit quite a few birds too :)

I saw one of these cars at the IAA in Frankfurt, they were covered about 3-4 mm thick with insects. And to save the look of it, the whole car was sprayed over with clear coat. :pillepall:shrug::tilt:

[Scawen]

It's bad for you to do anything for so long and not get a break or sleep.

You will shorten your life (!) or take a hit to your health, even if you survive the occasion. Much better do do a driver swapping thing, so you can get sleep and keep your health.

[joshdifabio]

lol wtf you can't drive non-stop for 24 hours, you would have to do driver changes. Even 5 hours would be too much imo.

[Lola Popeye]

yea, scawen has a very good point here, many of you dont realise how dangerous sum of the guiness WR stunts are, ofcourse they never actually publish all the failed attempts, including these which are perhaps fatal. I think it is possible for a long long race, in a LAN (no d/c's), ie 10 drivers doing it non-stop for 1 whole month, or 1 week :P

[Lola Popeye]

from Guiness WR site Is it a Record? Unfortunately because video game manufacturers themselves advise against playing games for extended periods, we are unwilling to consider any records for computer game playing ‘marathons’ (i.e. records based on playing for the longest time non-stop).

[P5YcHoM4N]

Pish, I knew that had it for single players, but does it count for lots of people o_O But they had to bring it out to stop people playing games nonestop >.<

[NotAnIllusion]

Yea as long as each individual person keeps the time on the PC 'reasonable', I don't see why this advisory would hamper the attempt! :D

[Lola Popeye]

Yea as long as each individual person keeps the time on the PC 'reasonable', I don't see why this advisory would hamper the attempt! :D i think 2 hours is safe, and not dangerous, but will require alot of organisation and i think this could be publicized very well, for being 'smart' gaming, ie set an example on how you can enjoy a game for long periods of time without risking your health etc, we can even make the news :D

[5th Earth]

In general, the GBoR won't consider any record that involves serious sleep deprivation. That's been their policy for a while now.

That said, with regular driver swaps (ideally every hour or two), I think it wouldn't be a health risk. Organizing enough time to do it would be hard, as well as ensuring the computers don't crash or something. Even the current crop of endurance races have a notable attrition rate due to computer failures of various kinds.

[Lola Popeye]

thats why its best to use a LAN

[P5YcHoM4N]

Or just make sure your PC is stable. No OC's, and close anything you can. I've left my PC running for a week, ran a 12 AI car race with all cars having 100% fuel until the tanks ran dry, closed it and left it running for another week. The major online problem is if ISP's go down.

Which brings it to a LAN, but also cuts down on the ammount of people who can take part (as it costs money to get lots of people in one place).

[Blackout]

I agree that it would be stypid to do without driver changes. And LAN would be the only option because I think that they want monitor the WR tryers, so they cant use some cheat and let computer do the driving. And there is allways someone from GBoR to monitor and make it official, and thats why LAN would be easier, or everyone would need someone to monitor them at home :)

[Astro [ BJRL ]]

After 24 hours, my dsl disconnects :x


Is Jan Ulrich to blame ? :smileypul

[JJ72]

Oval and XF GTi ;)

Either the driver is bored to death or the throttle pedal will die.:Looking_a

[Renku]

My record "uptime" is close to 40h :Kick_Can_, but I was kinda :zombie: at the end, so a 30h race should be ok. I'm 99,99% sure that my PC and internet connection would be stable. The car - LX6?

So Eza, are you in or what?

[Lible]

Watching the replay would be cool :smileypul

[joshdifabio]

It doesn't matter if your dsl disconnects every 20 hours or 30 hours, you wouldn't be driving that long non-stop, there would be driver changes.

[inCogNito]

there were some guys in the german forum who did 17 hours iirc.

I think they were allowed to have a 5min break every hour.

[axus]

With driver changes it would be... nothing difficult. But if we can get GBoR to recognise it like that, I'm in. :tilt:

[inCogNito]

the 17hours were without drivers changes of course