Setting up a League. Community effort.

im in but casual, i mean, if there's time for me to race i will go if not i will have to work so if the grid isnt full i will participate.
cheers

EU times around 19:00 /20:00 gmt ?

 

That’s 2200h here, my neighbors downstairs will go berserk if we’d use a manual shift car...

 

Use some "life hacks" hahaha. Put something to damp the shock underneath the pedals, or where the forces meets the floor.

 

Fri/Sat evenings (EU time) would work great for me! Something like 20min qualifying and 2x 20-30min races.
Lets do this! Got my skin ready and everythang.


Maybe we can let everyone select 1 track then vote on those available, or all agree on some ideas for track selection (like all from Europe or 1 from each country or no fictional tracks or historic and modern or modern only etc etc.)

 

Already tried that, but my floor construction itself is a big resonator. Wooden planks over 5 cm of empty space above the concrete.... Who builts such a thing?

 

@andy-riches Same here Saturdays or Fridays, well Thursdays would also be fine for me.

@Ace Pumpkin I think that a layer or double layer of some particular material should do the trick anyways, unless you are really mashing those pedals like mad.

 

I went to crazy lengths to isolate my rig when I was on a second floor, ask @TDS . Well, 200 bucks later, it was better, but I still could wake up the childrens sleeping downstairs (with FFB turned down)...

Back on topic, 19-20 GMT would be too soon for me. What worked great for me was the time at which the nordschleife events TDS and V8 used to run on sundays. But then again, I'll repeat myself, I'm a minority in his ****ty timezone so whatever works for you guys.

 

On Fridays and Saturdays I'm pretty flexible. Anytime in the evening on Friday and mid-late afternoon to late evening Saturday would be fine. I live in a flat as well so I dont race beyond about 11pm UK time. If I was going to race on Sundays it would be much earlier for me like late afternoon at the latest.

 

I don't have time on Friday evenings. Saturday depends on what is going on.
But then, it's not required that I'm there. I'll just join if there is an empty slot and I have free time.

 

As @Berniyh has kindly offered to provide a server I will offer to admin a BTCC style league if people are interested. Saturday seems like the best option based on responses so far. What is the earliest time you could race Mathieu?

If I do it, it will be 20min Q 2x 25-30 min races with a 5-10 min results screen time (inbetween Q-R1 & R1-R2.)

I dont mind about teams, FWD vs RWD or traditional teams would be fine.

Tracks im not that fussed but I would vote for real world circuits. If I was to vote for one it would be NJMP Lightning or Thruxton.

Maybe 6-10 events 1 a week or every 2 weeks.

If someone else wants to do it thats fine by me but the offer is there.

 

MR [AB] or [ABC] required would be good

 

Yeah AB atleast, ABC might aswell be an open server

With full reverse grid we really need competent drivers only or it will be chaos in race 2.

Could do cold tyre start with an outlap and then rolling start?

 

I really like that idea, but you need even more competent drivers for that.

 

Possibly yeah, I dont think it would be too bad though with simple rules.

. No overtaking until you cross the line

. Pole man controls pace (must be fairly slow.)

. Pole can make a break if he wants any time after 2nd to last corner and cant slow after he makes a break for it.

 

Thanks for the initiative!

I'd be interested in joining the league but have a probably stupid question. I've never participated in a league before because I understood it was not possible to miss an event. Is it really the case?

I have the type of job that implies I can never guarantee I can attend all races. What happens if you can join maybe 70 or 80% of races? Can you still participate? Is there any system that gives you a license to miss a race once in a while and only penalize you after a certain number of missed events?

For what it's worth, I really like the ballast idea but find slow cars like the Abarth very boring. How about (much) more powerful cars?

 

Hmm so do I go ahead and create a league thread? Im not sure we have enough interest yet. Anyone know of any leagues/teams that might be intetested in joining in?

 

From my experience, asking for feedback on interest just doesn't work such that you'd be satisfied.
Just go for it and give it a try and see if it works out.

Regarding the formation lap, maybe we could abuse the stracker message broadcast functionality to signal the formation lap and green light.
(e.g. you as admin could use hotkeys and chat apps to broadcast server messages.)

In fact I'm going to ask neys if he could implement auto-message support for that.

 

Great effort here. I'd like to join the league but I'll wait with what time you guys come up with.

 

that's a nice idea. a rolling start and even standing start plugin would be amazing. if it can know who is on pole and where they are on track it could release the pole man when he is nearing the end of an out lap. It could count everyone down for a standing start there are issues with the standing start idea though, like knowing when everyone is ready and people missing their box

 

I have a felling that we'd see lots of 'out of position at start' penalties

That would be awesome though! Warm up laps would add so much to the immersion factor (which would then need to be a setting in one of the ini files I guess, 'immersion_value': 11 ).

I believe one of the russian leagues have developed this kind of plugin, OSRW I think it is. But they probably have a dedicated admin (who is not racing).