I thought it was time i shared some feedback and opinions i have had previously and have been forming for the last couple of weeks since the new platform was introduced so here goes.
I must say i never really saw the logic in some aspects of the new format.I think if anything it's made turnout even worse.I do like the first come first serve,no sign up approach and the race log is nice but the same car and track all weak long bores me to death unless it's a car and track i really love.
Furthermore i can't understand why staff don't realize if your going to support all these different sim racing platforms and then have open races all week long for every platform you are going to severely dilute the grid size for every race.
If i can make a race on a particular day i find myself having to choose between two or three events i am interested in,but it seems like often none of them have more than a couple of people on the server at best so i find myself not bothering with it and racing elsewhere or even offline, or i go off and play battlefield 3 or something.
I think some hard choices need to be made for the good of the Race Department community.Sometimes you just can't be all things to all people and it seems like that is what is happening here.I think Race Department needs to settle on no more than three or maybe four platforms at most and schedule races so as to not have any conflicts with each other.You could and should alternate the days each week in witch you host each platform so people who cant race on a particular day will not get left out of there preferred platform all the time.
I think the platforms support should go something like this:
Asseto Corsa
rfactor 2
Rieza Studios (FT & GSC)
I know there is still a number of guys who enjoy GTL & race 07 so i would maybe try to work in something for those games to but in all honesty they are older games and I'm not sure how much longer it's prudent to continue support for these games.Support for rfactor has already been discontinued and it came out at the same time as race 07.
The main thing is just try not to overlap races.I think that's the key to drawing bigger grids. There are enough days in the week (excluding Saturdays for leagues)to run at least one or two events for each platform.And there is no reason all events have to be scheduled at the same start time.If you want to work in more races there is no reason one can't start at 19:00 and the next at 20:30 or something like that especially if they are short sprint races.For example Monday formula truck at 19:00 and stock car V8 at 21:30
I must say i never really saw the logic in some aspects of the new format.I think if anything it's made turnout even worse.I do like the first come first serve,no sign up approach and the race log is nice but the same car and track all weak long bores me to death unless it's a car and track i really love.
Furthermore i can't understand why staff don't realize if your going to support all these different sim racing platforms and then have open races all week long for every platform you are going to severely dilute the grid size for every race.
If i can make a race on a particular day i find myself having to choose between two or three events i am interested in,but it seems like often none of them have more than a couple of people on the server at best so i find myself not bothering with it and racing elsewhere or even offline, or i go off and play battlefield 3 or something.
I think some hard choices need to be made for the good of the Race Department community.Sometimes you just can't be all things to all people and it seems like that is what is happening here.I think Race Department needs to settle on no more than three or maybe four platforms at most and schedule races so as to not have any conflicts with each other.You could and should alternate the days each week in witch you host each platform so people who cant race on a particular day will not get left out of there preferred platform all the time.
I think the platforms support should go something like this:
Asseto Corsa
rfactor 2
Rieza Studios (FT & GSC)
I know there is still a number of guys who enjoy GTL & race 07 so i would maybe try to work in something for those games to but in all honesty they are older games and I'm not sure how much longer it's prudent to continue support for these games.Support for rfactor has already been discontinued and it came out at the same time as race 07.
The main thing is just try not to overlap races.I think that's the key to drawing bigger grids. There are enough days in the week (excluding Saturdays for leagues)to run at least one or two events for each platform.And there is no reason all events have to be scheduled at the same start time.If you want to work in more races there is no reason one can't start at 19:00 and the next at 20:30 or something like that especially if they are short sprint races.For example Monday formula truck at 19:00 and stock car V8 at 21:30
