PC2 Project Cars 2 Racing Club (merged)

Bram Hengeveld · May 7, 2015

Welcome to RaceDepartment's Racing Club for Project CARS! Project CARS can be played on various platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and we'd like to facilitate and encourage our members to post challenging casual events for members by members.

Platform Prefixes
We now use Prefixes (which you will be required to select when creating a new race (thread).

Setting up a race
First of all start with a plan. Post a thread not at the final moment before you want to race but open it a couple of days in advance. Official RD events are always scheduled a week in advance for the highest change on success.

Secondly order your threads properly and try to make it as simple as possible. Not everybody wants to read a wall of text with requirements. Keep it simple, easy and friend.

Contents of a racing club thread

Select a prefix for your platform of choice.
Thread Title: Car Class @ Track - Date
Thread Content: Use the template that will be posted soon.

Good luck and have tons of fun racing and we hope to see you on track soon!

Rivanov · May 10, 2015

Nice! Thinking about getting a premium account just for the online leagues here.

Need to buy a chat adapter though for my Turtlebeach PX4 so I can communicate via Teamspeak.

Frank · May 10, 2015

@Bram Hengeveld Sign me out :-(.

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

We have one vacant position in the LMP2 class: Alpine A450

Galin Dimov · May 10, 2015

Sorry guys, I will not make it

Roy Magnes · May 10, 2015

Really looking forward to this race now, especially since the ones I did this morning went straight south

John Broadmeadow · May 10, 2015

Sign me up for that Alpine please

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

And now we have an Audi LMP1 vacancy

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

Boys and Girl make sure to read the first post (part in red) how to join the server tonight as this system pcars is using isn't exactly user friendly

Also make sure to have teamspeak installed if you can

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

Oh and to get you in the right mindset for tonight

Justin · May 10, 2015

I'm intrigued to see how this goes. I'm of the opinion pCARS isn't league ready yet, but I'm always happy to be proven wrong.

Shame I can't participate, would have been OK to wake up for this as I love WEC races, but the region lock on server listings means I'd have to change my Steam region to even see the RD server, similar to how the F1 games handled online lobbies. This basically makes the RD servers for European players only, probably to hide the issues this game has with high ping players.

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

Justin said:
I'm of the opinion pCARS isn't league ready yet

I absolutely share that opinion. Lot of work to be done still by SMS

Possibility to setup the dedicated servers with a GUI from the server itself and not this P2P-deluxe they are now offering
Netcode stability
Missing driver swaps (will rule out any races longer than 2 hours as it is now)
Proper spectator mode
And too silly many small bugs to mention. Unbelievable that 80,000 testers didn't spot these to be honest. If they have, shame on SMS for not addressing them as there are quite a few showstoppers that shouldn't be in a gold release.

But thankfully we have the casual racing club running and this game totally fits that

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

Justin said:
I'd have to change my Steam region to even see the RD server

No you don't. See first post how to look for the server

We had Canadians, Americans and Brazilians racing yesterday without a problem.

Rivanov · May 10, 2015

Is Teamspeak required? Because I don't have a chat adapter just yet for my Turtlebeach PX4. Otherwise I can join tonight I think. That will be 20:15 here in The Netherlands?

Justin · May 10, 2015

Bram Hengeveld said:
No you don't. See first post how to look for the server

This only works if you're located in Europe. Searching for it now leads me to 0 results sadly.

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

Practice starts at 18:00 GMT and the NL is located in GMT+2 so in your (and my) timezone the practice starts at 20:00 central european time@Rivanov

Teamspeak is advised, even just in listening mode its always handy to hear latest instructions and maybe changes in case things don't work out.

But we'll use the chat in game as well if needed.

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

Justin said:
This only works if you're located in Europe. Searching for it now leads me to 0 results sadly.

Like I posted it works perfectly fine for people on the other side of the ocean. You can't find a server that is currently not running though

Tonight it will be up, running and reachable, don't worry

Justin · May 10, 2015

Bram Hengeveld said:
Like I posted it works perfectly fine for people on the other side of the ocean. You can't find a server that is currently not running though Tonight it will be up, running and reachable, don't worry

I'm located in Australia so I'm more like 3 oceans away rather than 1, but hopefully you are right.

Considering I'm not busy until tomorrow afternoon my time, sign me in with the final spot. I can be the high ping test player or something like that.

Of course if I warp very badly during practice due to my ping I'm happy to give up my spot to a reserve, as anyone can join during a practice session with pCARS yeah?

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

Justin said:
I can be the high ping test player or something like that.

Perfect, there will probably 1000 and 1 things going wrong tonight so adding one is perfectly fine. Not expecting a flawless race at our first outing

Ill add you in the Audi

Danny · May 10, 2015

So 18:00 GMT means 19:00 in the UK right? Allowing for the fact we're currently in BST.

Bram Hengeveld · May 10, 2015

You are totally correct @Danny

18:00 GMT / 19:00 BST / 20:00 is all the same. We use GMT as that timezone never changes and people can calculate their timezone pretty easy from it.