12-14-2022, 09:34 AM
I am one of those guys that "left" SRS in the past year and rather race on other servers. I am only racing AC and i feel very connected to SRS as it is the place where i learned to love sim racing and helped me alot. I still look on the schedules here but rarely sign in.
In my perception alot of racers moved on and a core of fast and dedicated racers is still on SRS. The level of competition is high as ever at the top level but there are not enough midfielders and backmarkers, the ones the build the backbone of every race. There is indeed very little incentive for them (among them myself) to race at SRS. One needs goals to step up but those have to be in reach in a reasonable time window.
I fully agree that one has to "step up his racing and challenge", thing is, with the lack of participation, there are no steps available but only big leaps.
Taking myself as example, i have 245 races, 187 Top 10, 68 podiums, 6 wins, inc. avg 1.23. So where do i go from here? Championship is out of reach, another win pretty hard to achieve, another podium not attractive enough. I Am a talent free guy, i train for races before i sign. Just jump in a car and race, well, that starts at 7secs off ,up to 15, that is out of question. I can do that on other "mickey mouse" servers. For me SRS was never a server where "i just sign in".
There is not enough competition for myself to cling, to rub myself on and eventually step up my racing.
IMHO we need more incentives that spark motivation to race.
Handys idea is very good: Stats for 2nd and 3rd place in a championship and maybe some digital silverware in the profile. Might sound silly but silly is what we do in the first place.
Maybe some kind of "rookie" series only for new racers (overall score, total races could be an easy criterion) to attract new sim racers. The winner could get a prize provided by the community, something like a livery or some training from a fast driver.
Maybe 1 inc per race should be "for free". The importance of the incs for the results is fundamental for SRS but has the downside, that it creates fear to go in a tough battle.
Maybe the championship point system should be changed. Take into account how many racers are in a race and/or take more than 1 result per week into account.
Maybe teams should be allowed/implemented. And with that, a team championship is possible. For example every team can only sign 2 drivers in for a race. We have many communities that can form teams and can "send" 2 drivers for a race to compete. I can imagine that would be a ton of fun.
In my perception alot of racers moved on and a core of fast and dedicated racers is still on SRS. The level of competition is high as ever at the top level but there are not enough midfielders and backmarkers, the ones the build the backbone of every race. There is indeed very little incentive for them (among them myself) to race at SRS. One needs goals to step up but those have to be in reach in a reasonable time window.
I fully agree that one has to "step up his racing and challenge", thing is, with the lack of participation, there are no steps available but only big leaps.
Taking myself as example, i have 245 races, 187 Top 10, 68 podiums, 6 wins, inc. avg 1.23. So where do i go from here? Championship is out of reach, another win pretty hard to achieve, another podium not attractive enough. I Am a talent free guy, i train for races before i sign. Just jump in a car and race, well, that starts at 7secs off ,up to 15, that is out of question. I can do that on other "mickey mouse" servers. For me SRS was never a server where "i just sign in".
There is not enough competition for myself to cling, to rub myself on and eventually step up my racing.
IMHO we need more incentives that spark motivation to race.
Handys idea is very good: Stats for 2nd and 3rd place in a championship and maybe some digital silverware in the profile. Might sound silly but silly is what we do in the first place.
Maybe some kind of "rookie" series only for new racers (overall score, total races could be an easy criterion) to attract new sim racers. The winner could get a prize provided by the community, something like a livery or some training from a fast driver.
Maybe 1 inc per race should be "for free". The importance of the incs for the results is fundamental for SRS but has the downside, that it creates fear to go in a tough battle.
Maybe the championship point system should be changed. Take into account how many racers are in a race and/or take more than 1 result per week into account.
Maybe teams should be allowed/implemented. And with that, a team championship is possible. For example every team can only sign 2 drivers in for a race. We have many communities that can form teams and can "send" 2 drivers for a race to compete. I can imagine that would be a ton of fun.
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