Hawaii and qualifying process

A question to the Papyrus tech people: Is it possible to modify the current Nascar Racing engine to allow more than 30-odd drivers into the qualifying round of a race? I know you can't have more than 36 cars racing around Dega (for example) at one time, but is it not possible to allow more than this number into the qualifying round? After all, there's only 1 car on the track during qualifying, and only the 30-odd fastest qualifying times need be posted. The way the game is currently designed weakens to an extent the potential of series races. If any series wants to simulate a full NASCAR schedule, then it would have to limit its membership to whatever the lowest car limit is (28 for Richmond I think). While currently there aren't any series that I know of that has even 28 people regularly participating, Hawaii is still young and under beta. And with NASCAR getting on the MP bandwagon, I'm sure whatever series they offer will quickly grow in popularity. I'd like to see large series with 50+ members forming. This would place so much more importance on qualifying, since you'll never know if you will even get to start the race. My guess is that NASCAR, and everyone else, would welcome this added realism. Bill.

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> A question to the Papyrus tech people: > Is it possible to modify the current Nascar Racing engine to allow > more than 30-odd drivers into the qualifying round of a race? I know > you can't have more than 36 cars racing around Dega (for example) at > one time, but is it not possible to allow more than this number into > the qualifying round? After all, there's only 1 car on the track > during qualifying, and only the 30-odd fastest qualifying times need > be posted. > The way the game is currently designed weakens to an extent the > potential of series races. If any series wants to simulate a full > NASCAR schedule, then it would have to limit its membership to > whatever the lowest car limit is (28 for Richmond I think). While > currently there aren't any series that I know of that has even 28 > people regularly participating, Hawaii is still young and under beta. > And with NASCAR getting on the MP bandwagon, I'm sure whatever series > they offer will quickly grow in popularity. I'd like to see large > series with 50+ members forming. This would place so much more > importance on qualifying, since you'll never know if you will even get > to start the race. My guess is that NASCAR, and everyone else, would > welcome this added realism. > Bill.

I agree. As it is now, if you have more than 36 drivers interested in qualifying for Talladega, only the first 36 who join the race can attempt to qualify. There should be an unlimited number of drivers who can attempt to qualify. The top 36 make the race. The rest are booted out to the chat room. After all, if 36 drivers race, you want them to be the best 36 that showed up. The problem will be the practice session. Clearly the first 36 will be allowed to practice, but what about the rest. Maybe that's appropriate though. The first one's in get to practice (early bird type thing). Also, the assignment of cars would have to be postponed till after the qualifying round is over. All in all, this seems to be more complicated every minute. David Martin IVL Series Director dgm26sam #26 Samuel Adams Chevy