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Offline Wally

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Season 3 thoughts
« on: August 15, 2014, 08:14:05 PM »
I've been tossing an idea around in my head for season 3, and I'll put it out there to see what people think. I'm thinking road cars, for less setup options, with a built-in field-levelling. I'm thinking of using the vast fleet of Lotus variants, with a car type assigned to each position on the season leader board, with the slowest Lotus for #1 etc, getting faster as you go down the current season standings (using RSR times to rank the cars).

It should lead to interesting races, and be a bit of a change from the cars we've already used.
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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2014, 08:22:51 PM »
I've heard complaints elsewhere about the amount of Lotus in the game, but it does help for this purpose.
I think it'll work, if you can sort them all out (and if peoples CPU's can take all the car models).
Let's try. ;)

2+2=√16

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2014, 08:47:58 PM »
Sounds good.

I think the different Lotus Evora, Exige and Elise cars would be good (not the Evora GX or GTC though).

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2014, 09:21:30 PM »
Sounds interesting, I will take the T125 s1  ;D

Using RSR times should be a way of leveling things out and generally most of them are fairly close with some of the slower ones having a little more top speed then the faster ones if that makes any sense lol.

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2014, 09:22:35 PM »
Sounds good.

I think the different Lotus Evora, Exige and Elise cars would be good (not the Evora GX or GTC though).

Yeah, I've asked the RSR guys if they'll provide a list of indicative lap times for all the car models based on their database. I wouldn't add cars that were dramatically heaps faster all of a sudden.
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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2014, 11:19:09 PM »
Sounds good. Perhaps most of the field gets a Lotus and the fast guys get the Abarth 500 ;)

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2014, 12:58:57 AM »
Im a fan of this idea :) I think it will keep things interesting.

Later on we could try a fixed setup series? Like everyone must use the same setup on the same car.

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2014, 08:40:45 AM »
Great idea, Wally!

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2014, 10:44:11 AM »
Great idea, Wally!

You could also look into some beamers the m3 e92 is quite close and maybe z4 but this one is orobabky the slowes also 1m standard is quite close to the performance of these cars.

On most tracks there is only a couple seconds between most of the street cars with a little adjustment for the s versions which mostly just have better suspension not any more power. Only the s3 1M is a bit more extreme with its higher boost levels.

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2014, 01:54:52 PM »
I just went through RSR and noted all Pro mode WR's in most if not all the street cars at Vallelunga.

Vallelunga WR's Pro Mode

BMW

1M 1:51.006
1M S3 1:49.472
M3 E92 1:50.885
M3 E92 S1 1:50.103
M3 e92 Drift 1:51.540
Z4 E89 1:55.532
Z4 E89 S1 1:54.188
Z4 e89 Drift 1:49.182
M3 e30 1:55.092
M3 e30 S1 1:55.512


Lotus
Elise SC 1:52.723
Elise SC S1 1:51.679
Elise SC S2 1:51.515
Evora GTC 1:32.457
Evora GTE 1:48.262
Evora GX 1:33.339
Evora S 1:50.932
Evora S S2 1:48.830
Exige 240R 1:50.496
Exige 240R s3 1:48.597
Exige S Roadster 1:49.859
Exige Scurra 1:48.994
Lotus 2 Eleven 1:44.684

KTM

X-Bow 1:43.926
Ferrari

F40 1:44.394
458 1:44.290

Mclaren
Mp4 12C 1:43.169

Fiat
Abarth 500 2:01.409
Abarth 500 S1 1:58.909

This may be of some help to see what cars are a good match up and I will try a few on my server today to see how they stack up ones that are within a couple seconds of each other.

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2014, 02:13:53 PM »
Let's say I'm a good 6 seconds off you guys.

so wanna try:
Evora GTE 1:48.262
v's
Z4 E89 S1 1:54.188

I'm ready to race, got a couple of hours to kill either way Marty if you about.

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2014, 03:05:27 PM »
Let's say I'm a good 6 seconds off you guys.

so wanna try:
Evora GTE 1:48.262
v's
Z4 E89 S1 1:54.188

I'm ready to race, got a couple of hours to kill either way Marty if you about.

Yea id like to race but Dodo has completly gone down so I have no ping atm. I will set up a few cars if I get back online at some point.

At least this confirms if it was ac or Dodo that has been causing the issues with my connection the last week or so. I am under contract with them still but will be looking to switch as its been giving me the chits recently if it doesnt improve over the next week.

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2014, 04:03:21 PM »
Thanks Marty, I'll probably go most of the Lotuses, augmenting gaps in laptimes with some BMW's.
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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2014, 04:23:05 PM »
I'm with Dodo too Marty, just got back online now... been a shit couple of days apparently the missus has said, I haven't been online much myself... otherwise the connection is rock solid. Plenty of whinging going on the whirlpool forums.

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Re: Season 3 thoughts
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2014, 04:30:07 PM »
I'm with Dodo too Marty, just got back online now... been a shit couple of days apparently the missus has said, I haven't been online much myself... otherwise the connection is rock solid. Plenty of whinging going on the whirlpool forums.

Well its been real solid for about a year but the last 2 weeks have been going bad to worse. I think they may be overselling their bandwidth a bit but I will see if it gets better. I used to get solid 35 to 37 pings in all local servers but now its been floating from 45 to 100+ and then the odd complete freak out. Seems mostly peak hours that it gets worse.

I will chuck a few lotuses and a couple beamers on my server either tonight or tomorrow nite as my connection is still dead as a dodo.  ;D

 

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