Too many servers

Too many servers and no one to race, other than that really enjoying MP had 3 races with 5 or more cars they were farken awesome, did have one toss bag ruin one.

More racers less servers.

May be there should be a limit on locked servers until alpha testing is finished.

 

10 hours ago people were complaining about not enough servers, now a complaint about too many.......sim-racers!

 

Setup your own open server, I've had 10+ people in each race I hosted with a 5minute booking period. I'm also onnly on an 800kbit upload.

 

Whenever i hosted an open session, 10/10 joined, most were actually quite clean drivrs.

 

I'm still figuring out the whole forwarding the ports thing but I've got a couple buddies that should be able to talk me through it in the next couple days...then there will be one more server...lol

 

You have pm.

 

Searching for races does feel like a bit of a chore. There seems to be a ton of locked and empty servers or ones with quite long booking periods. I'm not sold on the booking system yet to be honest, seems good for organized racing but not so great for those who just want to jump into some quick races.

 

there is filter options, use them.

 

One of the good reasons for this booking system is to eliminate any lag when a client joins the server but one of the bad things is the waiting period just to join a server. Some waiting periods are quite long depending on how many minutes were setup for the booking period and if you only use just a few minutes for the booking then you risk having fewer drivers joining your server!

 

This my first sim, so would not count me as a sim racer. Last night(in Australia) all the AC servers were full took ages to find one to race on, this morning have joined 4 only to find no one else there, but hundreds of locked servers defeats the purpose of MP in my book.

As it is my first sim and dont really know the etiquette of joining other servers have only been trying the AC servers. The way some of the hardcore simmers were carrying on about only wanting to race with friends and banning or shaming people who have accidents with them makes me cautious about joining any server but an AC one.

 

I am a 47 year old with technophobia, would not have a clue where to start, when my granddaughter comes over tomorrow will see if she can show me how to set one up.

 

I think alot of them are locked simply because they are testing things and figuring out how everything works. As long as you aren't deliberately trying to wreck everybody near you and you try to treat it as if it was a real car then you should be welcome in pretty much any unlocked server...Even though it kills the immersion a little it is a common courtesy to use the virtual mirror (F11). Scan your mirrors often and try to always know what is going on around your car.

I should have a server in a day or two and you will be welcome there.

 

Thanks will keep an eye out for your server, have raced motorbikes 30 years count myself as a tough but fair racer, thanks for the mirror tip.