Online races shutting down really soon after winner has finished?

Sorry for the noob question, this is probably common knowledge.

Anyway. What happens to me often in online races is that the race gets shut down within about a minute after the winner has finished - this sometimes doesn't give me the time to finish the race even though I'm less than one lap behind the winner.
It's kind of frustrating to be e.g. 6th out of 16 cars and not even get to finish the race. I'm not very fast yet, but I do my best to drive clean races, and finishing somewhere in the middle is often an achievement for me.

I'm guessing this is a server setting? Can anybody tell me how exactly it works?

 

It's a server setting. The server admin can make the delay up to 3 mins, I believe.

 

This setting is to combat when people cross the line, and someone at the back never does, that it doesn`t leave the game open forever to give them chance to cross the line (which they will never do).

Up shot is, if you don`t cross the line in time, you aint driving quick enough!

 

In the server settings there is a line named "race over time = xxx" in there you put the amount of seconds you want to have the server running for after the winner passes the line.. I have seen it as high as 10 mins before. Im not sure what the limit is.

 

Thanks guys.

I know. But sometimes you have two really fast guys driving way ahead of the pack, and it ruins the final lap for maybe 5 people still racing each other. The only thing I wish is that these times were long enough by standard to do one more lap after the winner has crossed the finish line. 2 minutes instead of one would do that for most tracks.

 

I absolutely agree, Motorsheep. It's extremely annoying when the screen fades to black when you are still racing. One average lap duration should be enough for the majority of drivers that are still racing to get across the finishing line.

 

If kunos set the default to 200seconds it would help greatly. Im sure 80% of server admins dont even realise this option is there.

 

Thats not a issue since 90% of the servers are empty

 

The acusaworld server I think stops the race right after the 1st place hits the finishing line, which I think is pretty ridiculous. Last Saturday I was only behind the leader for 12 seconds, already around Rivazza at Imola when everything just went dark.

 

Along with race ending before crossing finish line and with the persistant move too next session or restart race folks most annoying

 

Lol

 

I think an in-lap for the first three drivers would work. It would at least give folks a chance.

 

From what I've heard, the "race overtime" setting doesn't change anything in terms of gameplay because, hold your breath, race results are determined by everyone's position at the time when the winner crosses the finish line, not by the order in which the following cars cross the line. If you overtake anyone after the winner is through, it won't count. And so it doesn't matter if the race ends one minute after the winner has finished, or two, or instantly.

And even if race overtime influenced final positions - it's a bull**** system. A race ends for each driver with the end of their current lap once the winner has finished the race. No instant end, no "over time", nothing. The finish line is the end. Period.

It's an absolutely ridiculous design flaw on Kunos' part, and I cannot comprehend how anyone ever thought it would be a good idea to release a racing simulation with this kind of mechanic.

 

Wow I didn't know that.

But even my effort be pointless, allowing me to get to the finish line would be nice.

 

I don't know who told you that but it's nonsense.

And if the person in last position is a troll who wants to do 10 minutes of donuts just to annoy everyone else??

Yes some servers have too short time but also think of the guys who finish on the podium....they might not want to hang around for 5 minutes to start the next session. Average lap time should be enough.

 

1. Good to know.
2. Then everyone who has finished the race already votes to kick him or to end the session.
3. There will be no waiting for 5 minutes. The maximum time would be the lap time of the slowest racer. If anyone is really so impatient that two or three minutes is too long for them to wait for the next session after they've crossed the finish line, they're welcome to bloody leave the server and look for a new one. Seriously. People join a race and they want to finish it. There will always somebody in the last position, and how ****ing selfish would you have to be to demand that slower racers cut their single remaining lap short and make do with a fade-out instead of properly finishing their race, just so that the winners can start their next race a minute sooner?

 

Your points would be valid in a league or organized (passworded) race. On a typical public server there are far too many idiots, trolls etc. who don't care about ruining others fun and wasting their time. And as long (hopefully until 1.2 only) as it's possible to join race when it's already started you can get to the "loop" of the last position guys.
I agree it sucks when the leader finished the race and after 15s BAM restart. On the other hand average lap time is enough IMO for most people to finish their race as long as their weren't two laps down or so.

About the kicking the troll who doesn't want to finish the race. It also might be hard thing to do, because every server has different settings on how many votes are needed to kick someone and on some of them it's impossible to do it.

 

Well, you've got a point there about the voting settings. Though I have to say, I experienced very few problems with restart votes in Live for Speed, which didn't have any sort of measures implemented to prevent trolls from stretching the race time.

 

Server admins shouldn't have a problem with a setting that allows everyone on the same lap the chance to finish a race before the "fade of doom". After all, some of them waste a lot more time than that by adding pointless practice sessions

 

This has been an issue from day 1 ... check the "whats needed for MP" thread it has a lot of good suggestions on how to improve on this ..

They have stated that 1.2 will fix SOME of the major issues regarding actual RACING in AC regarding what should be the "basic stuff" ...

the psxy part of AC is amazing ..

but ATM its not a RACING simulator ..

ya you can race but seriously , its a few steps away from perfection , I only hope they can take the steps !...