Ok for me, as usual. Couple reports of me position warping/winking out and I
did have a couple latency spikes, but I'm sure that's my end.
Jan.
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Ok for me, as usual. Couple reports of me position warping/winking out and I
did have a couple latency spikes, but I'm sure that's my end.
Jan.
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> >> 1) I think everyone but Eldred showed up. That's pretty impressive.
> >Yeah, a good turn out, i hope one day we can fill the server :-)
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> > Before I start - Eldred, on the server you should select the #299 car
> > (it's in the carset). Someone else is using #86. :)
> > Well, that was an interesting race - the following points of
> > interest:
> > 1) I think everyone but Eldred showed up. That's pretty impressive.
> > 2) 13 cautions for 49 laps (more than 1/3 of the race). It took us
> > until about lap 60 to find a rythm, but after we did, I think only
> > three of the cautions occurred after that point.
> > 3) I led the most laps, and was in the lead on the last caution (I
> > snookered Brian and Ginger by only getting two tires on the pitstop),
> > but the motor went out just as we crossed the s/f line to form up for
> > the re-start (with only 14 laps to go).
> > 4) There were 18 penalties handed out by the sim. ZZ Busch and Pete
> > Reston appeared to be the recipients of the bulk of these penalties.
> > 5) Brian Oster won the race.
> > 6) There were 15 lead changes among nine different drivers.
> > Most of the accidents appeared to be solos with subsequent incidents
> > happening as a result of the solo spin. Other than my motor crappng
> > out while I was in the lead, it was a fairly good race for me.
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I think this is the biggest problem we have. The darn race was 170+
laps, with a mandatory pit stop. Plus we already knew the setup was a
tricky one. I'll write it off as first race e***ment, but this is
the second "season", we should know better.
pass, I'll watch and wait to pick a time and place that's safe. At
least I hope it's safe.
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(The race was 158 laps - grin).
This is for everyone, not just Jan and ZZ...
I personally think it's a matter of practice and a lack of
concentration, compounded by the fear of taking someone out ("driving
the mirror").
If you're uncomfortable with someone being right on your ass lap
after lap, give them room and let them by. If you're getting
frustrated by having to follow someone that's "obviously slower" than
you are, be patient and wait for an opportunity to pass safely.
Another big problem is that the setup acts differently online than it
does offline. Some folks appeared to be surprised by this, but after
similar discoveries last year, I don't know why this continues to be
unexpected.
Just because you don't have to actually build a setup does NOT mean
that you can ignore any opportunity to put in a few (hundred)
practice laps and become familiar with the setup that we're using.
Ginger put all of us to shame by installing the game for the first
time just before the race, and I don't recall him getting out of
shape AT ALL during the race.
Cowboy up, stop complaining, practice till your eyes bleed, and build
up some confidence in your ability to drive the damn car. We will
not be fielding any more complaints about the <fast> setups.
The Rock is hard to handle on ANY setup...<g>
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That's ok Grub, it was an accident. No hard feelings.
Yep, you were a passenger the second you hit it. Pretty *** stuff.
The trick is to run "medium" on new tyres so you stay on the road with _old_
tyres. Trust me, I practised this one quite a bit. If you "go" on the green
you're never going to see lap 65 on that set of socks.
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I think the new guys did a pretty good job considering how tough the race
was!
Larry
It seemed to me that if you could get up to speed, and stay there, the setup
wasn't that bad.
But if you were running slow to be careful, or even worse trying to slow to
avoid traffic bottlenecks or incidents, or even much worse having to touch
the brakes in the corner to avoid something, you were in trouble fast and
the rear end would come around.
I think this is because the setup was designed in TESTING mode with no
traffic, and it does not take into consideration low-speed handling or
traffic avoidance. The rear downforce, to me, felt like basically NIL at
slower speeds and the brake bias was not set for avoidance situations.
Just my theory :)
Larry
> One more thing - Ginger Fletcher (#7 car) had only installed the game
> mere minutes before the race, and still managed to finish 2nd. Maybe
> the setup wasn't reaslly as terrible as everyone was saying - he sure
> made the whiners look fairly stupid. :)
Larry
> >> 1) I think everyone but Eldred showed up. That's pretty impressive.
> >Yeah, a good turn out, i hope one day we can fill the server :-)
> How was the connection, guys?
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