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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jun 21, 2018 10:25:59 GMT
Can I suggest that we make the start date for this season the 18th July rather than the 11th. As myself and Y22 are unavailable due to vacations for the next 2 weeks it would give us an extra week in which to 1) do some testing with all of us and 2) drum up some more interest.
I am happy to do the longer distance races for the new season as long as we can agree to the earlier start time.
A short practice session followed by 20 minutes qualifying seems good to me with the race. You mentioned races of an hour in the chat thread which seems good with maybe the option to increase that (maybe 90 minutes) if things are going well after a couple of races? I would also prefer a predetermined number of laps rather than the races being timed... F1 has always been set for a specific number of laps rather than time other than the maximum 2 hour limit.
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Post by niblips on Jun 21, 2018 13:18:36 GMT
I don't think they did a uniform distance for races in the 60s, some were longer than others, but i do think if we set a race distance that might be better than a timed race. Monaco is always shorter in the F1 season, but the rest could be set by distance maybe?
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Post by Shneeb108 on Jun 21, 2018 13:41:21 GMT
Spa Historic is fast!
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jun 21, 2018 19:29:08 GMT
I don't think they did a uniform distance for races in the 60s, some were longer than others, but i do think if we set a race distance that might be better than a timed race. Monaco is always shorter in the F1 season, but the rest could be set by distance maybe? Correct, I didn't mean the same laps for each race just that it was a specific number of predetermined laps for each race rather than a timed race.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jun 21, 2018 19:58:45 GMT
I still feel that it is incorrect that you can have an engine at 99% damage and have no performance loss at all so I hope the devs do look into it now that it has been highlighted and proved. Same here, it should be smoking and hardly working by EDIT: 1%. EDIT: I also think older engines (and new but much less common) should just randomly blowout depending on how you drive it or by random (an engineer could have made a mistake) regardless of what the % is at. I think they should change it and call it wear instead of damage. Once the engine gets down to maybe 60 or 50% 'wear' then your engine is even more prone to blowouts. I'm good with whatever everyone agrees on! So far it looks like most of us want a 2 hour earlier starting time, first race on the 18th, practice and qualifying like the IndyCar series, (15 then 20 mins), pre-determined lap amounts, and possibly longer races at 1 1/2 hours long
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jun 22, 2018 22:54:39 GMT
Here's a preview I made for our season. I hope this will attract more people:
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 4, 2018 20:11:49 GMT
I hope everyone has a good Independence Day! Next Wednesday the 11th is our first official session (Round 1 on the 18th). Once I finish the Video for our IndyCar race last Saturday I'll be on more often.
We've got a lot of testing to do as far as Vanilla Xboxers are concerned, we might have to move everything back a week if we don't get enough done if that's ok? It'll be up to you Peter to make sure we stay on track (no pun intended). I can give everyone the gear ratios that i'm using for each track so that should speed things up a bit!
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 5, 2018 7:37:35 GMT
Here's a preview I made for our season. I hope this will attract more people: Sorry for the late response to this.. as you know i've been really busy relaxing and enjoying the Italian and Swiss sunshine. Love that video.. especially the way you make it look like you are right there in the cockpit.. great job
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 5, 2018 8:01:03 GMT
I hope everyone has a good Independence Day! Next Wednesday the 11th is our first official session (Round 1 on the 18th). Once I finish the Video for our IndyCar race last Saturday I'll be on more often. We've got a lot of testing to do as far as Vanilla Xboxers are concerned, we might have to move everything back a week if we don't get enough done if that's ok? It'll be up to you Peter to make sure we stay on track (no pun intended). I can give everyone the gear ratios that i'm using for each track so that should speed things up a bit! I agree we really should look at testing as much as possible now. I think we should definitely aim for everyone to be on for a decent test next week so we can get a full idea of how we can go forward in terms of what we can realistically include for each race. I do have some concerns around the full use of weather in so far as in these vintage cars in particular it seems it gets pretty much undividable at times (see Rouen for instance) and as a result is not enjoyable at all. I don’t think that’s just limited to the Original Xbox either I just think the game has no limit whereby the weather is kept to a level that remains something that would be driven in real life. The answers I have seen on various threads in the forums is that on those occasions we should treat it as they would in real life and abandon it but none of us really want that as it would just be a waste of our practice to prepare for a race only to then have it abandoned. What we really need to do is set out a plan of testing so we don’t just turn up on the night and throw things at the game randomly. For example we start with a race using our league parameters but nothing added (ie clear weather, no time progression, weather progression, etc) and just run say 5 or so laps under those conditions to get a baseline performance. Then we reform the lobby and add one extra parameter.. say light cloud and then try another 5 laps to see whether that has any adverse effect, then go to medium cloud and another 5 laps, etc. We go through all the possibilities and see if there is any degradation in the gameplay to try to see if any one of those is a particular problem. Next we add a second weather effect where rain comes into the equation.. run another 5 laps and see what happens. We go through the various rain effects to see whether there is any that are just not viable for us to use. Maybe we should run longer with the rain effects just to see whether that problem we had at Rouen arises again where the puddles just form lakes across the track. Next we try the various progression rules and then anything else that we feel may possibly be an issue. I know this sounds really arduous and time consuming but at least we would gain some knowledge of what is possible for us to run and what is likely to cause a problem. Also, whether those on the original box have more problems than those of us on the X. I agree with Tyler that it would be better to delay until we have this sort of testing done rather than go ahead blind and comes across problems on the date of our races. Just a suggestion so shoot it down if you wish lol.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 5, 2018 8:15:47 GMT
What time shall we look at starting next weeks test?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 14:35:30 GMT
Im free anytime except friday/saturday & sundays Had a quick drive about Monaco in it shall be fun are we using the chicane out the tunnel couldn't see if was a decision on that.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 5, 2018 14:48:45 GMT
Im free anytime except friday/saturday & sundays Had a quick drive about Monaco in it shall be fun are we using the chicane out the tunnel couldn't see if was a decision on that. Nope we are ignoring the chicane.. going old school
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 15:19:47 GMT
Nice i was around the 1.47-1.50 mark straight lining it Should be good fun provided no one tries to go 2 wide into it
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 5, 2018 19:39:06 GMT
Im for sure good with 4pm central/5pm est/10pm UK time on Wednesday. Once I finish the IndyCar Vid hopefully in the next couple days i'll try and hop on late this weekend or Monday/Tuesday as well.
Excellent way to go about the testing, that's why we need you Peter for this! Who's going to host? I feel like my internet isn't good enough, Karl's connection seemed better last test as Shneeb could connect to his and couldn't connect to mine.
That's one thing I came across on the forums awhile back was sometimes the Host can go faster if they're laggy. It definitely explains some things for me but it also disappoints me that my Season win was pretty much an unintentional cheat, if that's the case. We could always alternate between the best hosts to even it out slightly?
I have to agree with Peter, it's probably going to be more work than fun, but it's so we can have fun all 10 races! I think we should begin with the big tracks like Nordschleife or Rouen for our testing.
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Post by niblips on Jul 9, 2018 19:11:14 GMT
I'm ok with a 5pm start for the most part, but i work till 4:30 and am usually just getting in the door at that time. If i'm hosting it could be a problem. If someone else is hosting I can jump in during practice or quali.
I should be able to make it work most times.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 10, 2018 3:59:23 GMT
I'm ok with a 5pm start for the most part, but i work till 4:30 and am usually just getting in the door at that time. If i'm hosting it could be a problem. If someone else is hosting I can jump in during practice or quali. I should be able to make it work most times. What time zone are you in?
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 10, 2018 10:37:15 GMT
How about if we make it 10:30pm my time does that make it easier Karl? Gives you time to get in and do whatever before kick-off.
It's probably best to have someone from over that side of the pod as host seeing as it's just me and Boothy over here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2018 15:56:59 GMT
I don't mind what time we start as long as it's a reasonable finishing time
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 10, 2018 19:26:20 GMT
Same here
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 11, 2018 9:08:25 GMT
I don't mind what time we start as long as it's a reasonable finishing time What do you mean by reasonable Boothy. The season just passed we were finishing around 1:30am our time lol. But I think we are looking to make it a bit more time friendly for us limeys
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