"pickup race" servers incoming....no booking

I think that joining mid-race will be just a consequence of the early state of the new system. Probably at one point we will have server options to block this function

 

I hope in the future you will be able to join midrace, but only watch till the race is finished.

And when the race is finished the next session starts withouth kicking all drivers and you can then join in qualification.

 

Understood

Yeah, it would be a welcome feature if the server didnt kick all drivers. Sometimes I've found myself racing some really nice people, hoping we all could stay on the server instead of being kicked and dispersed!

 

The major reason for joining mid-race is for driver swaps.

Another reason is to join and get a lap or 2 of practice in before the next race starts.
If the servers function like those in LFS, then they would normally be set up for one race after another with no practice or qualifying sessions.
Positions for the next race can be taken from finishing positions or fastest lap in the previous race.

 

*cough* Endurance race driver swaps! *cough*
Sure, you may be 147 laps behind, but your team will be right on the leader lap (hopefully).
~Bailey

 

That'd be a really clever way of doing it, but you really need 'marshals' at that point to officially keep track of everything. Or else it'll be your word against someone else's.

 

not with V1.0. Weather is maybe on the plan for later Revisions, but who knows.
Anyway dynamic track grip is cool, i think rF2 calls it Real Road or something...

 

As far as I know the places in AC, where the grip changes are always the same, while in rF2 it depends where the cars in the race actually drove.

 

Does it really makes a lot of differences considering that cars are usually driving on the same line?

 

IT ISNT REALISTIC! THIS IS A SIM! GO INTO YOUR CONSOLE-HOLE YOU FILTHY ARCADE-BUM! SHOULD IT RANDOMLY BE DROWN LIKE FROM A WIZARD? IS THIS LORD OF THE RING? NO! AND IT ISNT SPARTA EITHER! WHILE 300 IS A COMIC-BOOK-ADEPTION AAaand... no realistic approach of showing it in a historicly correct...AAAH!!!








Seriously: I dont care.

 

Actually, it makes the difference. You just can't use the same racing line with every car. Or you can.. ..but you can't be fast that way.

 

Well the lines are maybe not the exactly the same but you are more or less on the same path, then if the dynamic line is not made as a rail it's still don't make a lot of difference. And we always have to see how it's make. Right now there are many titles (also not sims) that have this feature and it works quite well, then I'm quite confident that it will be a nice thing that can improves the driving experience in AC

 

The 'joining during mid race' thing would only be a stepping stone.
When there are about 120 people in a race (24hrs of Lemans for example) if something fishy happens on the circuit, everyone knows
I just really like this forward movement to possibly get driver swaps before either 'NoNameSim1' dies out, or before 'NoNameSim2' gets them first!
~Bailey

 

Ape shall not kill Ape.

 

Great news. If I could choose one functionality from rFactor to be present in AC, it would be how the rF handles MP sessions, joining and spectating.

Sometimes trying to be innovative just bites you in the ***. Needless to say the whole booking thing was IMO a big failure and should be eliminated before 1.0.

 

This

This would be perfect.