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« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2005, 08:07:40 AM +0000 » |
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Endurance race sounds great. Will try to pop along in the Alfa.
PS. has anyone done a long enough session to have had any problems with tyrewear yet?
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« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2005, 09:12:46 AM +0000 » |
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Server is up running Spa, so if anyone who has not unlocked Spa wants to try it please report your findings  Should have said, named "SimRacing.org.uk" |
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« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2005, 07:43:00 PM +0000 » |
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« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2005, 08:05:38 PM +0000 » |
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Sounds fantastic- should be there. Just a query- is 75 mins a bit long? There may not be many of us there, not many of us have experience pitting or of the track with these cars, or of tyre wear with GTL- we could end up with 3 people running after half an hour and the rest watching! Would 2 x 40 mins (i.e. Sprint length) races be a good shout for our first longer race? Just a thought- I'm probably missing some vital point   |
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« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2005, 08:57:26 PM +0000 » |
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Endurance race sounds great. Will try to pop along in the Alfa.
PS. has anyone done a long enough session to have had any problems with tyrewear yet?
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« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2005, 10:07:24 PM +0000 » |
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Count me in.
(FWIW, I do like Paul's idea of two slightly shorter races rather than one long one.)
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« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2005, 10:32:38 PM +0000 » |
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My logic for a longer race is to ensure the replays are all complete and I wanted to run for longer than 1 hour just in case that is some magic number. I to have no knowledge of tyre wear rates / fuel consumption etc. and thus was going to use the race as a learning experience. Sadly I don't have time to run 1hr plus test sessions off line. I also can't concentrate for that long on my own, somehow I don't see AI as real competition, so I try hot lapping and crash. Do that less online! If the general consensus is that it's too early to run a long race I am happy to change that for now, but we will have to run a race of at least this length to test the system prior to an endurance season. I'll do a poll this time |
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« Reply #24 on: November 09, 2005, 10:34:32 PM +0000 » |
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I'm happy to do a long race, guess we need to at some stage.
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« Reply #25 on: November 09, 2005, 10:47:31 PM +0000 » |
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Would prefer a shorter race myself, but then I'm a wuss when it comes to endurance racing.  |
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« Reply #26 on: November 09, 2005, 10:59:52 PM +0000 » |
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Just tell everyone that turns up "no quitting, no accidently pressing ESC and no crashing so hard you kill your engines". That should do the trick. I agree with Picnic that a long race is needed to test GTL for future reference. |
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« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2005, 12:06:47 AM +0000 » |
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I've thought some more about endurance races, and wonder whether GTL is really the right platform for longer races anyway (apparently there's a game called GTR which is good for that ). The real FiA GTC series runs two 30 minute (approximately, since a race is measured in laps rather than time) races per race weekend, and to a degree the cars are set up for those race lengths (although they have run 60 minute races in past seasons which is mainly why most of the cars in GTL can be fueled up for approximately 60 minutes maximum running). Of course it's possible to run endurance races, but it's not particularly "real" in terms of the GTC series, and personally I don't think it plays to the strengths of the cars, or indeed GTL itself. |
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« Reply #28 on: November 10, 2005, 06:10:14 AM +0000 » |
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That's a valid point Andy, however my understanding is that we need to test how well GTL performs under load for an extended period in the online environment. Can you imagine if we got half way through our first racing season event and discovered a bug or imcompitability that we were not aware of?. I think that 75mins is spot on for testing the online play and also I believe "should" mean that everybody has to pit during the race, thus testing yet another feature of the online play (as we all know GTR has had some intermitent problems with pit stops). It will also give the guys an opportunity to fine tune the results extraction for the league tables too. For myself I'm really looking forward to tomorrow night |
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« Reply #29 on: November 10, 2005, 07:51:59 AM +0000 » |
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This implies the GTL league season (if there is one) will/may be endurance based then?
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