GTR Evolution..a way forward?

[Jamera]

Got evo and race on a few days ago, I've got to say it feels, looks and sounds much better than gtr2. If you are considering starting to use it count me in

[Legzy]

Hi Jamera, you might want to subscribe to this thread then: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=8638.msg153171#msg153171

GTR2 S14 will (I believe) include a batch of Evo races, to see how it goes down.

[Mark J]

Got evo and race on a few days ago, I've got to say it feels, looks and sounds much better than gtr2. If you are considering starting to use it count me in

I totally agree with that sentiment 

I cant believe we havent used it yet for a decent GT race using any of the 3 classes available instead of doing 'fun' races using same 'ol cars, that we arent even intending to use next season, out of GTR2...again    RD was another sell out race last night in GT class, with some unable to get in because it was oversubscribed. We blindly hang onto GTR2 with 8 drivers turning up. Doesnt make sense to me.

[purdie]

lol MJ every post I see you pushing GTR-Evo. Any races lined up with it I would be happy to participate in! 

[Jamera]

Hi Jamera, you might want to subscribe to this thread then: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=8638.msg153171#msg153171

GTR2 S14 will (I believe) include a batch of Evo races, to see how it goes down.

Well I hope it goes down well, just soooo much better than GTR2

[Legzy]

I don't currently have a preference either way, but...

We currently enjoy fairly low grids (about 12-15 usually) with GTR2.
I fear that could plumit if we insert a series of Evo into the Sunday night slot.

If we do it, hope I'm wrong. But I do support having a few Evo test races 1st, to see how everyone feels first. Just IMO of course

[goldtop]

With the way the current cats series is going, maybe we ought to consider abandoning it and using alternate Wednesdays for Evo fun races so that we can gauge the interest. If H@L wants to take this on, I would support that and have no problem with it.

Problem is, I don't think we ever had a show of hands to find out how many of us actually have Evo at present. I have it and would certainly enjoy racing it here rather than elsewhere, but at present we don't have the Evo content on our server, so running any test races are impossible.

[spanner]

Another night degenerating into an AI race. Will have to try a pitstop race next time. Need to try and understand the car groupings as well, i'd imaging its roughly horspower grouped but need to check the car stats.

Beginning of the week seems busy but shame the back end of the week seems pretty quiet for anything other than historic racing

[Mark J]

Problem is, I don't think we ever had a show of hands to find out how many of us actually have Evo at present. I have it and would certainly enjoy racing it here rather than elsewhere, but at present we don't have the Evo content on our server, so running any test races are impossible.

sounds like a poll would be useful to see who owns what! you could sub-define it also to owning Race 07, GTR Evo, Race-on as certain car sets or tracks are only allocated to each. The big dog to to me is Evo as it has the 3 GT classes as well as shed load of other classes.
End of the day it doesnt matter, nobody can force anyone else to buy or race another sim, you have to want to move forward with it and personally i do, as ive seen and felt the improvements after 5 years of GTR2. Sad thing as i mentioned in another post, is its forcing some of us to look elsewhere for our racing and this place to degenerate even further. 

Would GTR3 even tempt back good grids? half the srouk membership seems hooked on ir and the other half have dwindled to a small pack of regulars. Who knows...

[H@L9000]

With the way the current cats series is going, maybe we ought to consider abandoning it and using alternate Wednesdays for Evo fun races so that we can gauge the interest.

Sounds good to me.

If H@L wants to take this on, I would support that and have no problem with it.

I can do but, I am more of  GTR2 man so if you want to do GT then please do. I only recently purchased the game and I am still finding out about settings/mods/skins etc. I am up for racing with Evo. I would have done some of the touring car races with Race 07 but, I have been busy on Wednesdays.

[goldtop]

I just don't have the time to organise Evo events atm. Also I've only driven a handful of the cars and have never really gone into any depth with any of them.

[LEUVEN]

The big dog to to me is Evo as it has the 3 GT classes as well as shed load of other classes.

as ive seen and felt the improvements after 5 years of GTR2. 

Would GTR3 even tempt back good grids? half the srouk membership seems hooked on ir and the other half have dwindled to a small pack of regulars. Who knows...

I can do but, I am more of  GTR2 man so if you want to do GT then please do.

I came to realise recently what I miss the most and also what I think I would like most from simracing, and that is GT racing.
It's what gripped me in the very first place with GTR, and it kept me hooked for a while with GTR2, but with such a long gap between GTR2 and GTR3 and a lot of stop gap games (race07 etc) I think that is partly what could have dispersed some communities as people obviously get bored of the same thing if it doesn't have a large enough pull, so they try other things.

Plus, for me and maybe the other younger people too  , it was GTR that started it all off for any kind of serious sim racing.
The absolute best Demo I ever went on was the GTR demo. getting in that Lister Storm and blasting around Spa with the engine and transmission whine it was just heaven, things just couldn't get any better than that for me then.
Oh Happy days.

[Mark J]

The absolute best Demo I ever went on was the GTR demo. getting in that Lister Storm and blasting around Spa with the engine and transmission whine it was just heaven, things just couldn't get any better than that for me then.
Oh Happy days.

you want to try some of the GT cars in evo at full chat then mister Leuven ! They sound and look glorious in it 

[spanner]

I assume we have it on the server now? I dont think trying to run it off of one of our PC's will really work well.

I'll volunteer my services if people are willing to guide me in what needs doing. Coming up with the cars and tracks is easy!

[picnic]

GTR EVO is not on the server, because of the way Steam works the league would have to buy a copy. I'm seeing mixed opinions about EVO and have never really raced any of the cars myself. There is no point the league buying it if we run 2 or 3 races only on it. There will always be other SIMs that will attract people away & if I was making a choice now I'd be iR. I'll only do EVO if I can just pick up and race the cars like I can the WTCC cars on Wednesdays.

I could host a race here, I know my line is good for a GTR2 grid of 16 cars. Not sure of the ramifications of running a dedi server on the same PC as the client or if I'd have to host in game (I'm not buying a 2nd copy for this )