Little survey on online simracing

Anyone have the link to the results? Dont want to fill it out again...

 

Engineering excitement into the race can be done quite easily by using ballast, reverse grids, handicaps of sorts etc. I dont race just to win as I find running out front and winning easily as boring as hot-lapping. Regular races with qualy and a race quite often just end up everyone having ever increasing margins to the cars around them, Our current league has a shorter regular race then revers grid for the top 10 in a race twice as long with a forced pitstop. Race one is regularly quite boring but battling back from the pack is hardly ever a boring race. For some I think winning is all they care about but if your racing purely for fun then for me its more fun actually racing then hot-lapping on your own.

In the cars option I clicked them all as I will race anything from a lawnmower to f1, I dont care what it is they can all be raced. In terms of fun racing the cars simpler to drive tend to bring the field in closer so again the more good racing, sure its great having an epic race long battle in faster trickier to drive cars but I can't say Ive had too many of those. In more basic cars especially in revers grid racing Ive had some of the most fun.

 

I guess you can engineer more fun into a race, some more options for doing so wouldnt go a miss though. even trying to force a pitstop doesnt really work atm with multi car using fuel usage.

I should have worded differently. point being, who doesnt want excitement

 

Wow guys, amazing feedback! More than 150 replies so far Thanks a lot.
You can check the results here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1itrsN_0f1T0Mj6KyrRYeJkfOv587LmcFxJRAjb2o9-0/viewanalytics
But of course you can still vote. I added some of your feedback into the poll so if you want to re-reply to some questions, feel free to do so.

What a perfect league would look like?
Assetto Corsa, GT cars, about 10 races per season, 1 hour long, each week, on Sundays, on renowned circuits, free of costs ( ). And you care quite a lot about quality of the management/administration.

Interesting insights for all of us I guess, keep 'em coming!

 

I'm in the boat...

 

for me by far the most important thing is that the game will handle everything for me, I log into the game , I will see "my leagues" tab, see upcoming races/calender and can go to testing, load setups recommended/restricted to league, can register my car to race/upload livery , league tab will count my points, show my and my team standings etc.

unfortunately this means that most of these has to be directly in game , or have a way to mod it.

 

Done too

 

Ironically, this already exists. People could check out the League section of the forum, or check here for SDG: http://stopdropgaming.com/Forum/index.php?/forum/205-race-hub/

I'd be interested to see (not sure if you'd like to update the survey for it) why people who are interested in league racing aren't joining the ones that already exist, or whether they are aware they exist.

 

That's quite a big topic in itself so I probably won't out that in. But it's definitely an interesting aspect! I guess, most people don't see the effort behind the organization and think they can do it on their own. I still remember the time 5 years ago, when virtually everyone had their own league with max. 10 drivers each..

 

for the record, im much more into group racing than league racing. I thought there would be some questions about MP racing in general. I like to race all day sometimes on the weekend not for 1 race a week, and in multiple cars and or tracks each day. tried to set my own group up but it didnt work out due to poor attendance.

 

This is why I liked the Gamers Crib TC65+ GT Legends server. 10 minute qualifying sessions and 5 lap races at every track in the game, one by one. It was great fun, and we got through loads of races in an afternoon. Miles better than this 30 minutes practice/30 minutes qualifying/10 lap race lark that we have online at the moment. It almost seems at times like people don't actually want to race As for leagues, I was all for them when I first started racing online, but then I suffered a strange back problem (almost certainly caused by too much long distance racing) that forced me to stop racing altogether for around three months. I am pretty sure that I damaged some muscles in my back, and they needed time to heal. Whatever it was, it resulted in some very unpleasant feelings that I don't want to experience ever again. Ever since then, I have only really been interested in short, quick races.

 

Did you do any phsyio etc do sort out your back? it can make a massive difference. Bad backs are the devil, but not all bad backs are debilitating doomsayers, they can sometimes just need a few workouts to ease off twanged muscle groups etc.

@andy-riches I was the same as you, i thought there wouldbe a few more general multiplayer q's. I dont really do league racing, or even scheduled events, my life is too sporadic for that, and i dont like letting people down, esp. if they put in effort and time to organise events. I get a little free time to myself to indulge as i like, and then i do what the boss tells me (within reason ofc(that hoover thing still terrifies me, and i dont see the value in "ironing"))

I have sat in a lobby and raced all day and enjoyed myself immensely other times, i just log on for a quick race or two, and then back to reality.

 

I think it needed rest more than anything. It was a really strange problem though. The main effect occurred about twenty minutes after eating, when my back muscles literally felt like they were on fire. It was extremely unpleasant, and very unnerving. I have suffered from anxiety and nervous tension in the past, and it reminded me a lot of that.