Thank you for your consideration of the Southern Superstars Racing League! We are always looking for responsible, hard racers to go racing with us. In order to race with us, you'll need to complete the following procedure, in sequential order:
SSRL RACER'S FORUM REGISTRATION:
Register on the Forum
by clicking on "Forum Registration" on the above menu bar. COMPLETE ALL REQUESTED
FIELDS, including your REAL name, location (City and State), and
Racing Experience. Failure to complete the submission of this
information will delay your forum access approval. After registration,
you will receive a welcome message from the forum administrator that
contains your username and password. Please keep this e-mail in case
you forget your login information. The league administrator will also
be immediately notified of your forum registration. If your
forum registration was completed as directed, then your forum account will
be activated by the league administrator and you will be
granted standard access to the forum.
NOTE: Forum activation may take up to 24 hours. When
your forum account has been activated you will receive an "account
activated" e-mail. You may then log back onto the forum using your
username and password, and will have standard full access to the forum.
RACE-LM RACE SERVER REGISTRATION:
Register on RaceLM with the
Southern Superstars Racing League by clicking on "SSRL Registration" on
the above menu bar.
PLEASE USE YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME AS YOUR USER NAME!
Any user name used that cannot be matched immediately with forum profile
real name will result in your server registration being deleted. Please fill out
all fields on the registration form before submitting it. All new
registrations must be approved by the SSRL administrator before you can connect to
the Southern Superstars race server. NOTE:
Your Race server account activation will not take place until
after you have completed step # 4 below, and your requested number has been
approved.
When your account has been activated, you will be advised via e-mail. Remember your registration login
and password, you'll need them when you set up your RLMArena client for the
first time (step 5 below).
SSRL CAR FILE MANAGER REGISTRATION: Register on the
SSRL Car File Manager by clicking on "Car File Manager" on the above menu
bar. After registration, you will receive
a confirmation e-mail. Read it carefully and follow directions.
Be sure to note the activation code in the e-mail that you receive, then
follow directions in the e-mail to enter the activation code on your next
visit to the Car File Manager activation screen. This will complete
your car file manager registration. All Car File Manager registrations must be
approved and activated by the league administrator.
CLICK HERE to open a new window to the SSRL Racer's Forum, and post a new message requesting that your Car
File Manager
account be activated. NOTE: Car File
Manager account activation may take up to 24 hours.
After your CFM account has been activated, the league administrator will
post a reply advising you that your CFM account has been activated.
SELECTING AN AVAILABLE DRIVER #: Look at the
current SSRL member driver list by
clicking on the "ROSTER" menu item on the MAIN MENU BAR of the
website (all the way at the top of the page), and pick an available
driver #. Then go to the SSRL Forum and visit the
Car Number
Requests board. Post a new message there, requesting the
available car # that
you wish to run in the league. Please specify your real name, city,
state and the car/truck # you wish to be assigned in the SSRL. Your
request will be reviewed by the league administrator, and unless we have
justification to deny your registration then your request will be approved
and a reply will be issued to your request on the forum. At this
point, your SSRL Race-LM account will be activated, and you will receive an
e-mail advising you of the activation. Wait on your car number approval
reply and Race-LM activation e-mail before
going to the next step.
NOTE: Driver number approval may take up to 24 hours.
If you do not request your driver number as
instructed above within 30 days of registering with the race server, then your race server registration will be deleted.
DOWNLOADING AND CONFIGURING THE RLM ARENA CLIENT: Download the
RLMArena client
application by clicking on "Download RLMArena" on the above menu bar.
Save it to your desktop, then double-click on its icon to launch the
installer. The installer will create a new Windows program folder
under All Programs called "RLM Arena
4.2". In this program folder will be an icon that resembles a racing
tire, named "RLMArena". Double-click this icon to launch the RLM Arena
application. You will be prompted to enter your username and password
combination that you defined in step # 2 above.
NOTE: IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR E-MAIL ADVISING
THAT YOUR SSRL RACE-LM ACCOUNT HAS BEEN ACTIVATED, THEN YOU WILL NEED TO
WAIT BEFORE PROCEEDING. Enter your username
and password, and click on the LOGIN button. If all goes well, the RLMArena application will display a list of race servers. Close the
RLMArena client application.
UPLOADING YOUR CAR/TRUCK FILES TO THE CFM: Go back to the Car File
Manager and upload your car and
truck files to the Car File Manager. Before uploading them, please
check your car file names and make sure that they don't contain SPACES.
If they do, then please rename them and remove all spaces, then reselect
them in your NR2003 "Driver Info" configuration for Multiplayer use. PLEASE
USE THE CORRECT SERIES FOLDERS ON THE CFM WHEN UPLOADING YOUR CAR/TRUCK FILES!
Any files uploaded to the wrong folder of the CFM will be deleted by the
league administrator. All uploads to the CFM must be approved by the
league admins before they appear in the listings. Approvals can take
up to 24 hours. Please do not repeatedly upload a car file just
because you can't see it in the list immediately after it has been uploaded.
After you have clicked on the upload button, just wait for the page to
refresh and then note the upload status message at the top of the page.
The status message will advise you of the upload status and whether it was
successful or not.
DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING TEAMSPEAK: You'll need to get
your Teamspeak client set up to connect to our Teamspeak server.
Teamspeak is the voice communication tool that the SSRL uses for driver
communication during our race sessions. Think of it as your two-way
radio for the league. If you don't
have the TS2 client, you can download it by clicking
HERE.
After the new window opens, then click on the Download button next to the
first item in the list (Windows client) and follow the prompts to download
the TS2 installer. Save it to your desktop, then double-click on the
installer icon to launch the installer. The installer will create a
desktop icon to launch Teamspeak 2. After the installation has
completed, then launch Teamspeak by double-clicking on the Teamspeak icon.
CONFIGURING TEAMSPEAK: In order to use Teamspeak to communicate
with other SSRL drivers, you will need to configure the client. To
get the Teamspeak server IP address, port number and password, you'll need to go back to
the SSRL Forum, and go to the
League Information and Announcements board and read the Board Information panel at
the top of the forum page. Close the SSRL Forum window when finished.
The TeamSpeak Server IP and password are also sent out to all registered
members via e-mail on the morning of all race events. On the Teamspeak
main menu, click on the Connection menu item, then click on Connect.
On the Local Addressbook tab, right-click anywhere in the white space below
below the "Servers" label, then click on "Add Server" on the pop-up menu.
Type "SSRL", then press your ENTER key on the keyboard. On the
right-hand side of the "Connect To Server" window, in the "Server Address"
box enter the IP address and port number that you picked up on the News and
Announcements Board info box on the forum. It will be the number
formatted as "xx.xx.xx.xx:yyyy". In the "Nickname" box, enter your
radio callsign. Your radio callsign should be formatted as "<car#> <firstname>
<lastname>". Example: "25 Chuck Chamblee". Right above the Login
Name field, select the button next to "anonymous". In the Server
Password field enter the Teamspeak password that you picked up on the News
and Announcements Board info box on the forum. Right under the
Server Password field, click on the check box next to "Auto-Reconnect".
In the Default Channel field enter, "Race Channel" (minus the quotes).
Finally, click on the Connect button. You should now be connected to
the race channel. You will now need to configure your volume levels
for your speaker and microphone, and select a keyboard button to use as your
transmit button. For detailed instructions and suggestions, visit the
Configuring Teamspeak 2 topic on the SSRL Racer's Forum Technical
Support board. To close Teamspeak, just click on the "X" at the
top-right corner of the Teamspeak window.
DOWNLOADING NR2003 MODS: Go to the
DOWNLOADS menu
item on the main web page just under the banner, and click on Mods.
All mods that the SSRL uses are available for download on that page. Download
and install all of
the mods necessary to compete in the divisions desired to run in.
DOWNLOADING NR2003 TRACKS: Go to the
DOWNLOADS menu
item on the main web page just under the banner, and click on Tracks.
You'll need to download and install each track on the schedule that you wish to
compete on.
DOWNLOADING CAR FILES: On race nights, you'll need
to log back into the Car Files Manager and download any new car files that
have been uploaded since your last visit to the CFM. The easiest way
to do this is to login to the CFM, click on the mod that you wish to
download new car files for, then click on the little DIAMOND symbol next to
the word "Uploaded" on the blue header bar above the file listing.
Click on the symbol again until it points in the DOWNWARD direction.
The files will now be displayed in reverse chronological order, with the
newest files being at the top. This makes it easy toy recognize any
newly-added files since your last visit. Just look at the date stamp
next to each file listed, and download only the files dated on or after the
date of your last download session.
DRIVER ROSTER PHOTO: Finally, we get to the Public Relations bit. If you have a Facebook account, ADD ME as a friend. That way, I can go to your profile pics and download a suitable mug shot of you for the driver roster page of the website. Alternately, you can E-MAIL me your mug shot photo me your preferred photo.
ANY REGISTRATIONS NOT COMPLETED THROUGH STEP 4 WITHIN 30 DAYS OF STARTING THE PROCESS WILL BE DELETED!
THAT SHOULD DO IT! We'll see you at the track!