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Increasing racing quality - Ilya Krivokhizhin - 05-31-2020 It feels like this season was a stepdown in terms of speed and driving skill in general from the guys across SRS. There are a lot of superfast guys but there are also those who don't practice at all or don't even know current track or car. I know it's probably never going to be implemented but I still would like to suggest a way that might make racing more competitive. It all comes down to setting a time that every driver has to beat in order to participate in races during next week. Something like a 107% rule in F1 and other series. You have to do it once and you're good to go for the whole week for that car/track combo. This suggestion is just from the top of the head and I realize it will probably lead to less people racing. But it may actually be better for SRS in the long run, increasing it's reputation and therefore luring faster guys in. Anyway you guys at SRS are doing a great job and I'm sure you can figure out something better but it feels like SRS needs something to boost racing quality. The only alternative is iRacing and it's not worth the money. I'm even willing to pay to race at SRS if it's not so expensive as iRacing, just to have better racing. RE: Increasing racing quality - Michal Ringes - 05-31-2020 Its problematic especially with some cars, in this seasson with 98 it would mean that in some races there would be like 8 people allowed to start on server 1 in some races RE: Increasing racing quality - Simon Meisinger - 05-31-2020 There needs to be a practice server for certain series where people have to do 5-10 consecutive clean laps in order to be able to register for a race. Would enhance race quality so much and would make SRS stand out in the whole sim racing community. A 107% rule would help as well, but not as much. A race with a couple of slow but decent people is much better than a race with only fast guys where many don't know the difference between hot lapping and racing. RE: Increasing racing quality - Filip Stoyanovich - 06-01-2020 Obviously all good ideas, but how do you record and then transfer/deploy this practice laptimes data in a way that it could be automated? There's a lot of drivers and series, and that's a lot of work to do each week or even each season. RE: Increasing racing quality - Dario Bucalo - 06-02-2020 I understand that for those who go fast it can be a problem but I think that in this period many new people are joining the world of sim racing for the first time. More than cutting those who go slow, I think we should put the rookies in a position to improve in order to compete with the more experienced pilots. AC is a very complex game and having a good setup is essential, in terms of speed and safety on the track. Also because there are races in which 20 participants run with a maximum of 2 seconds difference. I therefore think that the aspect of growing the community should be preferred rather than selecting only the best. In a long term perspective, it is more advantageous to have a solid community that grows and does not abandon rather than to risk that people, who cannot compete and have fun, abandon after a while. RE: Increasing racing quality - Simon Meisinger - 06-02-2020 (06-01-2020, 03:57 PM)Filip Stoyanovich Wrote: Obviously all good ideas, but how do you record and then transfer/deploy this practice laptimes data in a way that it could be automated? There's a lot of drivers and series, and that's a lot of work to do each week or even each season. This should have to work automatically of course, a certain amount of clean laps should definitely be possible; consecutive laps might be a bit trickier, yes. And not for every series of course. Only for two or three of the most demanding one of a season. It wouldn't make much sense for daily series and SRS would need 14 additions servers for that, which obviously would be stupid. RE: Increasing racing quality - Dominic ORourke - 06-02-2020 (06-02-2020, 01:46 AM)Dario Bucalo Wrote: I understand that for those who go fast it can be a problem but I think that in this period many new people are joining the world of sim racing for the first time. More than cutting those who go slow, I think we should put the rookies in a position to improve in order to compete with the more experienced pilots. AC is a very complex game and having a good setup is essential, in terms of speed and safety on the track. Also because there are races in which 20 participants run with a maximum of 2 seconds difference. I therefore think that the aspect of growing the community should be preferred rather than selecting only the best. In a long term perspective, it is more advantageous to have a solid community that grows and does not abandon rather than to risk that people, who cannot compete and have fun, abandon after a while. I completely agree with this. We need to educate people and help get them up to speed to improve racing instead of getting rid of people who are not up to speed. I think the frustration last season was that for the F1 cars Ted made great video guides and multiple fast drivers shared setups, but it seemed to make absolutely no difference. The information was there, but for whatever reason people did not get to it. If you look at real life, by the time drivers have got to difficult cars they have a had far more education than drivers do in any sim. Years in junior formulae working with engineers to understand how to drive and mostly likely getting shouted at for causing a crash a few times. Not only is it easier to learn with the help but every crash has consequences which makes the mistake stick in the mind. I have not raced online for long enough to know if the standard has dropped, but if it has I expect it is just that there are more inexperienced drivers. For open setup races I think we need to direct people to something better than the default setup and in general have better signposting to help. RE: Increasing racing quality - Dario Bucalo - 06-02-2020 (06-02-2020, 01:16 PM)Dominic ORourke Wrote: I completely agree with this. We need to educate people and help get them up to speed to improve racing instead of getting rid of people who are not up to speed. I am new to the world of simracing, I registered on SRS only 2 months ago and I can tell my experience up to here and maybe find something together to improve the community, I will explain point to point.
I think that by making some improvements, the active community will be much more, so there will be more people on the servers and thus the problem reported by Ilya Krivokhizhin is solved, because we would have 4 full servers, where the slowest ones run in 3-4 and the fastest in 1-2, thus taking advantage of the current selection via ranking without excluding anyone. thanks for reading everything and sorry my english Dominic, where are these videos and setup? RE: Increasing racing quality - Gianluca Roncaglia - 06-02-2020 Hi Dario, I just read your interesting post, since I've been sharing most of the experiencies you had here on SRS. I'm relatively new to simracing too and registered to SRS only a couple of months ago. I could say that I'm still a Forza Motorsport-like driver and I had my hard times here in the beginning (and so far). SRS may be considered a platform for skilled and experienced drivers - and in its structure, as you notice, probably is, but if you take your time for reading carefully all the instructions and rules you'll have most of your questions answered, and searching in the forum you'll probably find all others clarifications you may need. Also, as you had, I got a lot of support from other SRS members when I asked for. Up to now, my experience here is getting better day by day. Take your time and it will be the same for you, I guess. If you want to share more on the SRS experience, feel free to contact me privately - getting further here would be a little off-topic, I guess -, we could talk easily in our native language :-) Gianluca RE: Increasing racing quality - Dario Bucalo - 06-02-2020 Hi Gianluca, thanks for the reply. What I meant was that in the forum there is a bit of everything, but not in an orderly and easily usable way, you always end up asking someone, as I did with other users hahaha There was some dedicated section, curated by someone would be excellent, just to give a starting point, then the rest comes with experience. Unfortunately I don't have the skills otherwise I would do it willingly, but I make myself available if you need help in something else. |