Transat AG2R

[michithesailor]

Hi world,

I joined to the virtual Transat AG2R (http://www.virtualregatta.com/index_ag2r.php) and tried to use the VRTool, but unfortunatelly I can't receive my boat position and winddata for this game.

Can somebody help me...

Thank you in advance

Michi

[Ricoo]

Hi Mitch,
You'll have to study the firefox cache importation method described here (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28) and often treated in this forum.

[Sparepresto]

Thanks for the info on Firefox Cache reading.

I "sailed" part of the VOR 2009 from VR Tool.
It was possible to control the game at Virtual Regatta from within VRTool
I don't think cache reading facilitates this.
Correct ?

I see a new option in VR Tool 1.90
Online playing and connecting to a server.
Probably the same as I meant above.

Where can I find the information to play TransAt AG2R La Mondiale?

Ernesto

[michithesailor]

Thanks for the info on Firefox Cache reading.

I "sailed" part of the VOR 2009 from VR Tool.
It was possible to control the game at Virtual Regatta from within VRTool
I don't think cache reading facilitates this.
Correct ?

I see a new option in VR Tool 1.90
Online playing and connecting to a server.
Probably the same as I meant above.

Where can I find the information to play TransAt AG2R La Mondiale?

Ernesto

Hi All!
Yes I meant the same as Ernesto - I use also the VR Tool also in the VORG sucessfully, but I can't use it currently for the TransAt AG2R La Mondiale...
And I think the Firefox-cache-import should not be the best solution - But it works ( as good workaround).

If somebody knows why we can't connect directly to the gameserver please let me know...

Thank you
Michi

[Sparepresto]

On
http://www.virtualregatta.com/forum.php
I read:

Re: TransAt 2010 in VR Tool
New postby Blastoff 16 » 19 Apr 2010, 21:16
Manyplayers (the organiser of the virtual race ES) shut down all on line nav. systems auto boat data mining as a European site hacking laws were violated.
AND it seems some one had a bot boat system that was beating/WINNING the Game BIG Time.

Could this be the case and the reason ?

ES

[omar]

It was possible to control the game at Virtual Regatta from within VRTool

A correction: It was never possible to control the boat from within VRTool...
VRTool is a calculation device. It can download data from game servers
(if allowed by game rules) but does not perform control actions.

Tech note: There is one field in http request called "User-Agent"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent
VRTool http client currently identifies as:
User-Agent: VRTool 1.7 (b1; Windows; U; Windows NT; Gecko/200809 Firefox/3.0.3)

[Sparepresto]

Hello Omar,

As a (the!) developer I think you know what you're talking about.
Anyways it gave me the FEELING I controlled the game from VRTool. Or has left that memory

Is it an idea to add a section in the How To Section of the website on How to Connect to a certain race?
I started Sunday at noon to setup for the race and thought it would be plenty of time!
But ran into quite some difficulties since then!

Is it possible / allowed to have a direct connection?
What's the server ?
The cache reading method (well explained separately; worked automatically! ) as an aternative!

Ernesto

[omar]

Is it possible / allowed to have a direct connection?

For wind downloads, there is vrtoutoulz
(see http://www.tecepe.com.br/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=79)

For boat data there is the Firefox cache method
- if this fails, there is the copy-paste method using httpFox (also for Firefox)
- if this fails, there is the manual lat/lon input method

[michithesailor]

Hi!
I use the firefox-cache methode since many days and it works really fine....
Thanks to all.
Michi