Sounds good.
I think the different Lotus Evora, Exige and Elise cars would be good (not the Evora GX or GTC though).
Great idea, Wally!
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.
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.
Did you see the story about routers running out of address space or something globally?
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/the-internet-broke-yesterday-and-it-was-all-because-of-the-number-512/story-fnjwnzal-1227023949109?nk=a12314c7403ff56389c195470d016931
I made my first ever skin for this.. (took me hours to work it out)
Id post a photo of it but i dont know how to upload photos to here lol
Yeah, skinning will be difficult as like Marty says, you will be in a different car most weeks.
so how do i post an image here?
so how do i post an image here?
Then we need the official list ASAP, so we can start skinning now! :o
(I already have 3 Lotus done, so I might get lucky :D)
In fact, how will it work wally? I think there is a whole bunch of you guys that are within 10'th of a second of each other quite consistently.
how do you plan to spread the cars?
In fact, how will it work wally? I think there is a whole bunch of you guys that are within 10'th of a second of each other quite consistently.
how do you plan to spread the cars?
The cars will be allocated by your position on the season standings.
Positions 1 and 2 will get the BMW Z4 E89
Positions 3 and 4 will get the BMW Z4 E89 step 1
Positions 5 and 6 will get the Elise SC...
etc.
7 seconds may be a bit much, it may be good to have a practice race between seasons running cars in order of the last season standings. I do remember the z4 being quite a bit worse then all the other cars there but I was able to match some guys driving the lotus elise s2 having to fight very hard to hang on to the evora gte. But the lotus is very slow in straights its very good in corners, the z4 is very slow and also the worst car in corners so it may be a bit too far behind the others I think.Don't worry Marty - you'll be in the same car as Guybrush so nothing will change for you :) :)
7 seconds may be a bit much, it may be good to have a practice race between seasons running cars in order of the last season standings. I do remember the z4 being quite a bit worse then all the other cars there but I was able to match some guys driving the lotus elise s2 having to fight very hard to hang on to the evora gte. But the lotus is very slow in straights its very good in corners, the z4 is very slow and also the worst car in corners so it may be a bit too far behind the others I think.Don't worry Marty - you'll be in the same car as Guybrush so nothing will change for you :) :)
OK, the stock car may not fit.Except for guybrush..
| Car | Avg | Gap | Cumulative |
| Exige 240R s3 | 118.81 | 0.00 | |
| Evora S S2 | 119.27 | 0.46 | 0.46 |
| Exige Scura | 119.62 | 0.35 | 0.81 |
| Exige S Roadster | 119.96 | 0.34 | 1.15 |
| M3 E92 Step 1 | 120.53 | 0.58 | 1.73 |
| Evora S | 120.88 | 0.34 | 2.07 |
| Exige 240R | 121.06 | 0.19 | 2.25 |
| BMW 1M | 121.56 | 0.50 | 2.75 |
| Elise SC S2 | 122.31 | 0.75 | 3.50 |
| Elise SC S1 | 122.80 | 0.49 | 3.99 |
| Elise SC | 123.34 | 0.55 | 4.54 |
| Z4 E89 S1 | 124.83 | 1.48 | 6.02 |
| Z4 E89 | 126.49 | 1.66 | 7.68 |
| Driver | Fastest Lap | Gap to slowest | Car |
| Guybrush Threepwood [Achilles Heels] | 112.324 | 5.66 | Elise SC |
| Marty [Achilles Heels] | 113.235 | 4.75 | Elise SC |
| StanDaam [XGN] | 114.332 | 3.66 | Elise SC S2 |
| Wally [TKO Racing] | 114.469 | 3.52 | BMW 1M |
| Ysu [TKO Racing] | 114.611 | 3.38 | BMW 1M |
| Freezer [XGN] | 114.800 | 3.19 | BMW 1M |
| Rob [Team MRT] | 114.863 | 3.13 | BMW 1M |
| cramjet [CramDick Racing] | 115.277 | 2.71 | Exige 240R |
| Glen73 [Projekt Rennesport] | 115.294 | 2.69 | Exige 240R |
| Rolz [XGN] | 115.321 | 2.67 | Exige 240R |
| Bacchulum [Aleph Null Ltd] | 115.327 | 2.66 | Exige 240R |
| Gratulin [XGN] | 115.487 | 2.50 | Exige 240R |
| Crimespree [XGN] | 115.649 | 2.34 | Exige 240R |
| Grubbet [XGN] | 115.749 | 2.24 | Evora S |
| Dave O [XGN] | 115.956 | 2.03 | M3 E92 Step 1 |
| Vipergod [Team MRT] | 116.236 | 1.75 | M3 E92 Step 2 |
| Dick Forrest [CramDick Racing] | 117.784 | 0.20 | Exige 240R s3 |
| Imperious [XGN] | 117.988 | 0.00 | Exige 240R s3 |
Now I'm confused. ???
What car should I be skinning?
Tongue in cheek.
It looks like this discussion is getting us closer to what we're after, ie. close laptimes. ;D
(but I suck under pressure :( )
Candidate tracks and indicative lap times:
Gentrack 1 (1:44)
Nurburgring (2:20)
Castle Hill Long (1:13)
Imola (2:10)
Silverstone International (1:18)
Mugello (2:16)
Maybe throw in Spa, assuming we get it, even though a lap may be the other side of 3:00. I'd throw it in instead of another long lapper, such as Nurburgring.
I want to go for three sprints this season, each of about 15 mins duration, with 3 x 10 min qualifying sessions. That makes the overall night about the same length, and regroups the field more often for more action. You'd stay in the same car for all three races.
Vallelunga? We haven't had too many races there...I certainly don't remember them! ;)
Candidate tracks and indicative lap times:
Gentrack 1 (1:44)
Nurburgring (2:20)
Castle Hill Long (1:13)
Imola (2:10)
Silverstone International (1:18)
Mugello (2:16)
Maybe throw in Spa, assuming we get it, even though a lap may be the other side of 3:00. I'd throw it in instead of another long lapper, such as Nurburgring.
I want to go for three sprints this season, each of about 15 mins duration, with 3 x 10 min qualifying sessions. That makes the overall night about the same length, and regroups the field more often for more action. You'd stay in the same car for all three races.
Vallelunga? We haven't had too many races there...I certainly don't remember them! ;)
Candidate tracks and indicative lap times:
Gentrack 1 (1:44)
Nurburgring (2:20)
Castle Hill Long (1:13)
Imola (2:10)
Silverstone International (1:18)
Mugello (2:16)
Maybe throw in Spa, assuming we get it, even though a lap may be the other side of 3:00. I'd throw it in instead of another long lapper, such as Nurburgring.
I want to go for three sprints this season, each of about 15 mins duration, with 3 x 10 min qualifying sessions. That makes the overall night about the same length, and regroups the field more often for more action. You'd stay in the same car for all three races.
Just my 2 cents, can we not use the custom made maps they are just not up to scratch imo, even Castle Hill which is fairly high quality just does not have the surface variation, and turns what is a awesome simulator into more of a 'arcade' experience. I understand that playing the same maps again does not appeal to some people, but at the end of the day its the racing experience, not the layout of the circuit that's determines the enjoyment (for me anyway).
So my track requests are :- Mugello, Imola, Monza, Nurburgring, Silvestone (Int or GP) and Spa if we get it.
Shame we can't use Vallelunga as it only has 22 spot's :(
Vallelunga? We haven't had too many races there...I certainly don't remember them! ;)
It's a candidate, but the thing is it only has 22 pit boxes as opposed to the 24 of the other tracks. Magione is also ruled out by only having 18. I'd love to work these tracks in somehow.
The Vallelunga could be a short notice kind of thing if I know I'm only going to get 22 runners one week.
I'm being over critical about tracks. AC is trying to take SIM to the next level. Let's support that and push the developers and modders to push maximum effort.
And there are some that are very very close.
If I was big player at KUNOS. I'd be quite anti-mod. I can imagine someone new coming along. Unwittingly use a mod track, mod car and come away absolutely disappointed and wondering what all the fuss is about.
Perhaps in the meantime we can work a way to use Vallelunga and Magione. One way is to make those rounds single points rounds and ballot a few people to sit one of the races out.I don't know if it's worth kicking some people out, just to use a different track. And then there's the question of the points those people miss out on. I'd rather try to work those tracks in if we're down on numbers at some stage.
Is anyone else trying to skin a lotus? sounds freaky..Not to me Dick, I have a heram maid that skins my grapes. :)
Room for a SLS AMG on this list?
This one is perfect for you Mr John.
(http://www.netcarshow.com/Mercedes-Benz-SLS_AMG_GT_F1_Safety_Car-2013-wallpaper.jpg)
Can I reserve Hello Kitty for next season? I feel I have grown attached, like a protective mother of her child. A mother that also abuses her child and throws it 20 feet in the air at other children.
Dick, have you figured out how to animate rainbow tyres yet? Hurry up! ;)
I mentioned that I'm not going to be swapping skins around every week. You're right - that will blow up my SSD!
All I have to do server side is name your skin (and car model).
E.g.
MODEL=lotus_scura
SKIN=Forrest
So if you want to use a different skin for a different car each week, all you have to do is always give it the same name e.g. Forrest. That way I don't have to keep juggling who's got what skin this week.
And of course everyone will have to download all your variants.
Vallelunga? We haven't had too many races there...I certainly don't remember them! ;)
It's a candidate, but the thing is it only has 22 pit boxes as opposed to the 24 of the other tracks. Magione is also ruled out by only having 18. I'd love to work these tracks in somehow.
The Vallelunga could be a short notice kind of thing if I know I'm only going to get 22 runners one week.
Maybe we need to start another official thread team spam asking for more grid spots on those 2 tracks. After all they have much larger fields at all tracks in some races with 100+ at spa and Nurburgring so surely fitting in 24 at magione and Vallelunga wouldnt be such a stretch.
Wally, I'm away for the next 3 Tuesdays (back for Tuesday Sept 23) so will most likely miss the start of Season 3 - not sure the planned start date however?Probably looking at a couple of fun/trial runs and then kick off the season Sep 16.
Yep, if you just name all his skin folders "Guybrush", the same for each car, under that car's skins folder, that's all I'll need - that they all have the same name. Then for the whole season, his skin will just be "Guybrush", regardless of what car he's in.
So let's say Guybrush wants his Hello Kitty skin on any car he drives.
I assume I would need to make as many skins as necessary in the event he is in all different cars. Which is a lot of bloody skins but luckily Guybrushes skin is very much cut and paste. something like birds would take some time to position correctly.
anyway.. so
I'd need to make all of guybrush's skins folders, for any model say: 'Guybrush' and that will assist you Wally?
I'll keep these skins quite simple (won't worry about driver skins) to help keep size down.
Don't want to over complicate this but how do other drivers know what car a skin will be for? I realise we can look up the week's list of cars, then work out which folder to copy a particular driver's skin into, then go look for the specific skin for that driver and car combo for the week. Just saying it might get a tad messy?
Skinning the 240 and 240 s3 is pretty simple. you only have to skin one and the copy that skin folder to the other car skins. I guess its the same for the other cars that have s2 s3 etc?I'm no skin expert, but I reckon it would be.
Skinning the 240 and 240 s3 is pretty simple. you only have to skin one and the copy that skin folder to the other car skins. I guess its the same for the other cars that have s2 s3 etc?
There might be some cars I'm less likely to be in Dick, so you might not have to do all of them???Guy is most likely going to be in an Elise SC variant.
There might be some cars I'm less likely to be in Dick, so you might not have to do all of them???Guy is most likely going to be in an Elise SC variant.
No, it all just goes on fastest lap times. If you won by being faster than anyone else in your particular car, you may get a slightly slower car next week (not the slowest). It all depends how much faster you were, looking at fastest lap times.
If everyone's lap times end up being really close, then no ones car would change at all. It all balances out. Its not an exact science though, because everyone drives a bit differently of course, but it should be pretty close
Thanks Wally. i'm glad you are using your brain and not mine.
any chance of sandbagging? I know one or two let's say, morally questionable, members who might look for loopholes..
This might be over-kill Wally, but it would be good to take the average of each player's 2 fastest laps per race. This is in case someone inadvertently cuts a corner, runs wide, or gets bumped past a corner, etc. and puts in a lap a bit faster than normal.
On the two laps avg; I don't see a reason, really.It'll make it a tiny bit more accurate. Like you might get a killer lap because you got lucky with drafting or something. No harm in averaging your top two. It all then gets averaged out over the whole round (3 sprints) as well.
And the winner of the top 5 shootout has to upload his setup so that we can see how he tuned his car :)
And the winner of the top 5 shootout has to upload his setup so that we can see how he tuned his car :)
You already got that one - he's called Guybrush :)
And the winner of the top 5 shootout has to upload his setup so that we can see how he tuned his car :)
You already got that one - he's called Guybrush :)
Yeah.. But we want his REAL set up. NO MORE LAWNMOWERS
The setups in my dropbox are the exact same as what I've used during qualifying and race.
The only time I've used any different was for last weeks race 2 - I softened the front suspension a little and raised the ride height so the tyres would cope a bit better. In hind-sight I don't think it really made much of a difference though.
Not having a great deal of fun with skinning lotusesess. Too many panels! lol
I've been working on a few though. Nothing too fancy as there isn't enough room. The BMW might have big panels though.
I've got Guybrushes done though. And could do Mary's My Little Pony as well.
I'm not sure if anyone else want's me to try and duplicate their cobra skins onto Lotussues?
Not having a great deal of fun with skinning lotusesess. Too many panels! lol
I've been working on a few though. Nothing too fancy as there isn't enough room. The BMW might have big panels though.
I've got Guybrushes done though. And could do Mary's My Little Pony as well.
I'm not sure if anyone else want's me to try and duplicate their cobra skins onto Lotussues?
I dont remember asking for any skins Dick, you can drive the pony skin if you like.
I may have banged my head but I dont think Im the delusional one. To stop Dick from getting all upset I think we need to continue pretending that we asked for these skins and also that we like them. ;D
I havent ran many laps been getting an annoying headache the last few days, I will give it a crack tonight though as it should be an interesting race in the mixed cars.