And your G930's will work better too without crackle. That's what I found when I upgraded my CPU.

Awesome seems to be the word of the day.

Awesome.

How's your hardware coming along?

Thanks for the season Gratulin. Not often I get a chance to win a season. Just gotta turn up for more races than anyone else

Hey wally, if its a 30 grid race put me in, i'll take the merc, or bmw if u want to mix up the grid, not sure what people are using.
Thanks

OK, I'll put you in the Merc.

Quote from: Guybrush Threepwood on April 29, 2015, 05:49:38 PM

Why don't you "take the bull by the horn" Bird, and put together exactly how it would work - money for each position, car costs, rounds, etc?  This would make it easier for everyone to look at and would save Wally having to figure it all out.

It seems like a good idea, but just need to get it off the ground.

Few reasons.
Because there wasn't / isn't any real enthusiasm towards it.  I've set it up last time - it's still standing, minus the cars & earnings of course.  And people had a looksie and we have stopped there.
But Wally's dislike explains it I guess

Also; because the result parser has been built for GTL, works on simbin titles, it'll have to be re-written for AC.  I'm actually wondering if we could connect into stracker directly and avoid the need to donwload/upload result files. I'd also like to whip up a cfg generator for it, so the admin can simply download the grid. (because the cars for most racers will change week to week )

Especially tricky is to set up the balance (car prices and the earnings & points per position).
It's a simple & flexible system, you can do nearly any sort of balancing with it. But it has to be thought through.

All this is lot of work to throw out on the window if in the end we won't use it

I'm going to think about how/what to do with it.  I think one way about it could be to have a consortium of a few people calling the car prices and earnings. 

I'm wondering who here would like to help me out, though? (not coding, just helping out with the balanced setup)

Also the site could use a bit of design-loving and I suck at that.   Maybe we can ask Dick to help?  We'd have some lovely pink site I'm sure...

And of course I'd like to know if Wally is willing to give us a go in a season at some point

Sure, I'm all for variety. I'd like to give it a go some time. The car ranking I have developed from the top 5% RSR lap times is the best indicator of the relative performance of the cars, based on real world data. That would be the place to start to assign values to the cars.

Is anyone going to try this? It sounds vaguely promising, and the graphics look great. I haven't raced a rally sim since RBR. I might give it a look.

With the GT cars, would it not be better to base the pecking order of cars and assign the handicaps/boosts relative to where the next race is? Although the average times may lay the cars out in that order, it seems a reasonable possibility given the broad variety of cars that someone could be assigned a faster/slower car for race 2 given their results in race 1 only to find that that particular car is at an advantage/disadvantage at race 2 resulting is a boost/handicap that would, in the end, not help to promote closer racing. Just my 2 cents.

That's a possibility, to rank the cars according to the next track, and something I looked at last time we had a handicapped season. It was all a bit too hard back then, but now that I've automated ranking the cars, it's much easier.