Quote from: grat on October 28, 2015, 09:40:40 AM

Tough night, but with some good news.

I could never find a fast pace, so I went for consistency. As a result, my quali was...well, I started last. Race started with quite some mess in the first few corners, but I managed to be careful enough to avoid any contact. From then on, it was all about consistent laps and good exists, to keep Bafs---who was clearly faster---behind. All worked pretty well for 6 laps, while advancing a few positions thanks to the predictable crashes. At the end of the 6th lap I have found Christopher recovering from a spin and a bit of a misunderstanding ended up in the classic unfortunate contact (I move right, he moves right, crash). At this point my front wing was damaged. I could still keep Bafs behind, but now every corner was a bit of a struggle, and after another 2 laps I finally lost it a bit and he passed me. All in all: a solid 8 place starting 18th. Can't complain.

My slow pace in race 1 also meant I was rewarded with a sizeable loss in weight for race 2. I could not capitalize on it fully, as my setup was probably wrong for it and I am not good enough to change my braking points so fast. In any case, I managed a decent 12th position on the grid. I knew I could be quite faster with the race progressing, so I decided to start with max prudence and then see how it goes. I managed to avoid any contact for the first few corners and then settled behind Wally. Unfortunately Skaife behind me was a bit more on the charging mode and probably did not expect me to be as conservative as I was, and ended up against my gearbox. Bad luck. Managed---very slowly---to reach the pits for repairs to my rear wing and messed it up a bit. I ended up being lapped by half the field, but I was committed to try to stay alive as the race was long. I was behind Christopher for 2 or 3 laps, but I realized I was faster and it was probably better to try to un-lap from him. I was pretty sure he knew I was lapped, as I rejoined from the pits letting him pass in turn 2. But I realize in AC there is nothing confirming that the guy you passed is a lapped one, and so he could not really know (I made a suggestion about it in the forum, but I do not think anybody will follow on that). Anyway: I got a much better exit out of the last turn and thought I passed him easily by turn 1. As I thought he knew I was lapped, I did not brake very late and did not expect him to try to defend the position. But as I said: he probably did not know I was lapped and fought for dear life for the position and we ended up having a double-contact. At this point I was on the gravel, damaged, and lapped by more than half of the field. I would have probably been more of an obstacle for everybody than anything else. So I left, drunk a glass of water, and then join the server to just watch you guys racing. Good job to all: it was a decently entertaining race and full access to radio communications was a nice plus.

In any case: I should apologize for my reaction to the crash. I hope you understand I was a bit frustrated by then.

Apologies dude. What's got me bothered is I didn't hear a peep out you until we had made contact. If you had said something beforehand I would have been much more accommodating as I thought we were on for position. For some reason most of my apps disappeared after the last build. I will rectify it before next race so I'm a little more aware of the overall race.

Pretty disappointed in my night. I got damage by turn three in both races. One was my fault the other was someone else's. Carrying that through both races ruined my night. You don't see many real races here where there isn't some sort of melee going through the first few corners so it's probably to be expected. See you all next week.

Regarding netcode I must say its greatly improved, even in large crashes I noticed cars not warp around anywhere near as much as they were in the past. With solid connection people its been very stable since the latest patch, still guys that are a bit up and down ping wise issues happen but even amongst the league guys not too many have been having big spikes around me.

Running 64bit now has replay fixed so it will record 1GB assuming you have enough free Ram, probably not recommended for guys running on 4GB systems but people with 8GB or more should easily be able to get larger replays. I don't know why really there needs to be a limit as for example I have 32GB of ram and it should be able to use much more. The other thing is that I don't know why replays are so large in the first place plus I think replay quality levels going by the ini files is this.

[QUALITY]
LEVEL=4 ; 0=~7Hz , 1=~10Hz, 2=~15Hz 3=~30Hz 4=~60Hz

So not sure what the server hz rate is on the race server but I assume 20hz as default, Ive dropped my servers down to 15hz as bandwidth was getting a little high at times and this just drops the extra cost per month with no real noticeable quality loss now. 3rd quality level saves at 15hz and 4th at 30hz, the only difference you will noticed there is your car will be smoother at Ultra but all other cars will be pretty much as you see them from the mid setting up.