Oh really? Open letter to the community, this time from a dev...?!

that's exactly what I've been trying to get on this forum with league threads (https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/league-threads-on-the-ac-forum.10887/). It was a great first step that was put in, but you can't discuss racign or anything atm on there, which is indeed exactly what this community needs, discussing racing and driving!

I do think that if you want people to talk about that stuff, you need to give them an area to talk about it

 

Actually, I was wondering that also - having not tried any sims seriously for nearly a decade I'd forgotten a a lot of detail, and I'm still wondering where to find more time ( or even how fast I am now - I don't trust myself to be fast *and* clean enough for MP yet ), and well, there is a dearth of tips threads. Then again there's no setups & techniques forum here, which might help a lot - neither are a natural fit for the focus of the existing subforums.

 

Nice post, you know we all love to hear from you guys I think maybe part of the reason for lack of discussion is that this is set up as a support forum, and the subforums arent really setup up for these kind of discussions, particularly setups - i think people use RD for this subject as there are good subforums for it, its probably not worth opening a similar section here at this stage as it will just create fragmentation of setups across the forums rather than having them all at one source as it is now (RSR too for hotlap hunters)

on this subject, and i think it may have been discussed in one of stefanos streams, suggested by albert if i recall, it would be nice if each tyre compound had its own default pressure, rather than all compounds sharing the same one. the average gamer (probably a large chunk of the playerbase) wouldnt know to do this, and noticing the pressures change as they cycle through the compounds would lead them to think "why is this happening" and maybe lead them to get interested in learning about setups etc. and of course it would just make for a better experience for everyone not having to adjust the pressures quite so much - probably good for pitstops too when switching to a completely different compound that would work best at a different pressure

i think (maybe wrong) the current setup of just one default pressure conflicts slightly with your awesome oem setups philosophy, as cars default to the optimal racing tyre (e.g semislicks on a road car) but the default setup will have a high default tyre pressure which was probably based on the oem tyre pressure for street tyres

 

What about a car setup sub forum?

I think that would help bring the discussion back to cars and way from wishlists (at least for a little while )

 

Maybe we need a subforum, "Track Magic" or something. I love to discuss driving techniques, secret and not-so-secret perks of circuits. There was a question or two pertaining to driving performance that I have asked and have been answered by the community and discussed, but discussions like these don't seem to have a dedicated place, as a lot of GOOD questions and discussions tend to drown in the random baloney that floods the "Chit Chat". I see that Chit Chat was designated for that exact purpose, but people tend to not understand/obey the subforum rules. We have some VERY good simracers, some with real track experience, that I'm always happy to take advice from.

Edit: People already beat be to the punch

 

The last time I gave any kind of input on driving techniques or how a certain corner type or car should be driven, I got flamed and told that I know nothing about driving.

I haven't talked about driving on these forums since.

 

That is exactly what stops me from asking such stuff. A sub-forum would be beneficial.

 

I kinda miss those discussions too. With the risk of sounding like an old fart, but back in the Grand Prix Legend days there were threads several pages long discussing nothing but the best line to hit the apex of a particular corner.

 

Not much of a racer myself, but doing the Nords is awesome in AC. Especially the road cars make up for a great experience, and it it quite different every time you take a corner, because of a little difference in the tire loads, hitting a slight bump or something "small" like that.

I recently found out, that I use AC mainly as I used FSX for years, flying on my own, with addons that feature the most complex and realistic physics I could get my hands on. In AC I mainly do hotlapping, for various reasons, one being my slow notebook which I drive on, but for a main part my limited driving skills. I want to master it first, before I think about going on a track with others. And there, I often feel, that I just scraped the surface. Doing a good lap on the 'Ring with the GT86 or GT-R is so rewarding, parking the car without a scratch and having improved the laptime for a couple of seconds.
As I life in Aachen, about 120km from the Nords, I like to get to know every turn, bump, leaf on the road, squirrel in the trees etc., because I will drive it from day to day after I finished my studies. And I hope AC as a sim will prepare me for it, even without feeling accelerations when sitting in front of my desk.

There is grattitude. I really appreciate the venture you started with AC, and the thousands of hours of work and frustration and (hopefully) joy you put into this.

I still look forward to new content, as it keeps bringing new experiences in. For example the GT-R made me look at the M3 E92 and 458 again, comparing those, looking at how you can take the corners in comparision etc.

Edit: I just remembered the GT-R thread, where such a discussion partly took place, but it got derailled by people not liking / being used to the updates in the physics. I didn´t get that car at all, when I drove it the first times, but I can take it around a track halfway by now, and that is with a wide smile!

 

I think there really needs to be a subforum for this stuff, it all gets discussed within other forums and amongst leagues or within servers its just not done here due to it not really having a dedicated place on the forum. There have been a few threads in chit chat but they get lost quickly amongst all the other threads. AC is a great driving simulator but for many the mp section is a key part of that, even though I really don't think setup sharing is all that helpful as its better to learn to do it yourself. If it was possible ingame (it is with the great stracker/ptracker apps) then at least people struggling could be given a setup. They can then see how it differs to what they ran and can ask about why you do things a certain way, in terms of street cars its really not much you can do and so in the end most will run a similar setup.

 

Yes! He could live stream for fun and drive the cars and tracks, talk about car setup and track tricks, some differences/benefits between using this and that particular setting or steering/pedals input to the car. Stefano's videos are more technical about the game, so in case Aris wants and has some time some day, he could get more technical about driving and setuping cars from the game

 

This is also something where I'm very very careful to talk about... Because no real life racing experience, plastic toy equipment, only around 10% knowledge how setups work... So if there is a thread I limit myself talking about the real obvious things where I can't be wrong ^^ But on the other hand I'm fast with some cars, no alien level but just decent fast. So I also made some videos with hints for the league in which I participate. But posting them here? No because I saw the results.

 

Aristotelis, I understand the points you're making and I too feel that many of those discussions are still missing. But, I'm sure they will come. AC is still in its cradle and there is simply too much candy to test and enjoy at the moment, so much to be exited about, so unless you stop releasing new goodies, we wont have time to thoroughly evaluate all the sim features. In other words, it's all your fault !

 

I like racing cars. That's why I bought Assetto Corsa "YOUR RACING SIMULATOR". You can't just go back now and say that it's just a driving simulator.

 

Agree, that could be awesome indeed! Few racers know the full effects of various setup option, I think, after reading here for some time, and maybe if shown the advantages/possibilities to set the car to suit their style, it would start to attract more people.

 

Lower tire pressure on ST tires and more lower on SM? i'm going to try it NOW

 

Aliens dont give hints they give bogus setups just to confuse even more