First of all: We should appreciate the diversity of the GPL community. This
makes it way more interesting and better in terms of longevity.
Then: F1 is pointless, unless you race with the same people every time, and
everybody fully understand how to behave on track. A lot of people don't,
causing carnage and pileups. The F1 cars are so difficult to drive with
discipline. You can't do as much damage in a F2 or particularly F3 car.
And the F2 and F3 communities seem to be more tightly knit groups of people,
knowing each other, knowing the way of driving etc...
I think we'll see more and more 'regulated' races, with password (and the same
bunch of racers every time) and excluded car classes because that is how you get
close, exciting and fast racing.
If it is called F1, F2 or F3, that doesn't matter, the point is that a regulated
race will contain guaranteed good racing action, the public races will be
pestered by people who cannot control their cars...
I am not against ovals, I think it just adds to the diversity of the game. Not
that I will race a lot on ovals, far from it. I like them from an ideal
perspective... :-)
---Asgeir---
> Tonight was a sad night. On VROC it was as hard if not harder to find a
> traditional road course F1 race than the days before dedicated servers :(
> The reason for this were that nearly all the servers were running either
> empty Oval races or F2 races.
> Most of the night only 1/9 or even 0/9 of the good servers were running
> these races. When a F1 race at an original circuit did appear, depsite
> appaling pings it filled up in just 2 minutes and there were many more
> trying to join.
> I understand the e***ment for the new ovals and the F2 crazy, put please
> don't let these races be at the expense of the traditional races that are
> the backbone of online GPL.
> I really appreciate the efforts of those who set up dedicated servers for us
> all to join, but please I ask that at least a good proportion of these
> remain F1 races at original circuits :)
> thanks again for providing us with these fantastic servers to race on
> Marc
