02-09-2016, 07:31 PM
Thought i'd stop hijacking other people's threads 
The subject of course does not refer to me but to iRacing.
In my opinion iRacing does lots of things really well whilst others show
some potential of improvement.
iRacing has this wonderful concept of a safety rating and a pace rating
and i can't think of a better way to achieve clean races with people who
are about as fast as you are. (high participation numbers assumed)
But the real beauty is to have the Rookie class completely ignore the
pace rating and only has to focus on safety ranking, proving that the
new member is able to keep clean in 10-15 lap races with 10+ cars.
Note: As i'm a GSCE guy, my ideas are only for Stock Car Extreme,
but are of course transferable to all other available sims.
Of course this can only work with lots of people registered, so will have
to go some major adjustments depending on the size of the community.
General server settings
* Races should last 20-30 minutes (usually 10-15 laps).
* 30 minutes prior to the race an open practice session should be available
So:
30 minutes open practice
2 laps private qualifying
2 minutes Warmup
10-15 laps race
Rookie class
* All new community members are put in the Rookie class
* It would consist of 2 series:
Formula Vee and Mini Challenge.
Maybe even pick a single easy track like Cascavel?
* Safety rating counts incidents (Don't know what's counted as incidents
but i wouldn't be as strict as iRacing. Damaging your car and especially
other cars should be recorded. Going wide or similar shouldn't be
recorded as incident as nobody was harmed except your laptime)
Roughly 4 clean races should do the trick to advance out of Rookie class.
Open class
* It would consist of several series, grids are filled with people of similar
pace rating.
* If safety rating drops too low you're downgraded to Rookie class again
* With a high safety rating you're eligible to enter the gold class (or whatever
it's called. Benefits are maybe access to high class events or similar)
* Major disregard of common race rules (Driving in wrong direction, slamming
into people on purpose...) lead to temporary bans from race action and needs
admins to check submitted replays.
* Missing a registered race gives you a warning, if you miss too many races
you registered for in x amount of time you'll get a temporary race suspension.
Unsure about how rating systems work, if frequent drivers should be getting
rewards in any way (which would be difficult without a 3rd ranking system)
or how to calculate anything, but i guess that's what experience will show anyways.
Those are of course mainly carbon copies of iRacing and ideas on very basic
level, but i think it's better to put some thought into it now than later.
The subject of course does not refer to me but to iRacing.
In my opinion iRacing does lots of things really well whilst others show
some potential of improvement.
iRacing has this wonderful concept of a safety rating and a pace rating
and i can't think of a better way to achieve clean races with people who
are about as fast as you are. (high participation numbers assumed)
But the real beauty is to have the Rookie class completely ignore the
pace rating and only has to focus on safety ranking, proving that the
new member is able to keep clean in 10-15 lap races with 10+ cars.
Note: As i'm a GSCE guy, my ideas are only for Stock Car Extreme,
but are of course transferable to all other available sims.
Of course this can only work with lots of people registered, so will have
to go some major adjustments depending on the size of the community.
General server settings
* Races should last 20-30 minutes (usually 10-15 laps).
* 30 minutes prior to the race an open practice session should be available
So:
30 minutes open practice
2 laps private qualifying
2 minutes Warmup
10-15 laps race
Rookie class
* All new community members are put in the Rookie class
* It would consist of 2 series:
Formula Vee and Mini Challenge.
Maybe even pick a single easy track like Cascavel?
* Safety rating counts incidents (Don't know what's counted as incidents
but i wouldn't be as strict as iRacing. Damaging your car and especially
other cars should be recorded. Going wide or similar shouldn't be
recorded as incident as nobody was harmed except your laptime)
Roughly 4 clean races should do the trick to advance out of Rookie class.
Open class
* It would consist of several series, grids are filled with people of similar
pace rating.
* If safety rating drops too low you're downgraded to Rookie class again
* With a high safety rating you're eligible to enter the gold class (or whatever
it's called. Benefits are maybe access to high class events or similar)
* Major disregard of common race rules (Driving in wrong direction, slamming
into people on purpose...) lead to temporary bans from race action and needs
admins to check submitted replays.
* Missing a registered race gives you a warning, if you miss too many races
you registered for in x amount of time you'll get a temporary race suspension.
Unsure about how rating systems work, if frequent drivers should be getting
rewards in any way (which would be difficult without a 3rd ranking system)
or how to calculate anything, but i guess that's what experience will show anyways.
Those are of course mainly carbon copies of iRacing and ideas on very basic
level, but i think it's better to put some thought into it now than later.