hi rod, I got your (multiple again
) PMs about voting the track. I have to admit I'm not understanding anything of this league. I must totally agree with drafi, you are jumping here and there without a linear path. Too much confusion and too many topics with nothing clearly explained.
I had a look to the entry list, first of all who are they? Are all those brazilians from orkut? Are they active here too? I know some of them but all the others? Put the nicknames they use in this forum between brakets near their names so it will be clear for all. Also, is that Paul Edmonds the Smoking Pen? Is he really joining the league? In the way things are actually, sounds some of them have been included without agreement.
I'd like a community league if it will create some funny time and interaction between members otherwise it will die young if nobody is really interested in it. I joined only 1 offline league but seems it died even before the first race dunno why. So instead of voting tracks I'll put a couple of basic ideas. Maybe this can attract other people here to help to give a body to the project.
First of all you have to decide the technical rules directly related to you as owner of the league: style (f1 style, generic, all kind of tracks...), game version, physic file, points table, bonus assigment, number of sessions...
By consequence you have to choose the sporting rules. The way you set the league should encourage people to join, supposing in this forum there are enough active users...
First of all, remember that you play the league on your pc so tecnhically you are the only one involved. You want to use names from the forum but you could use as well George Bush or Brad Pitt. So exactly what the users involed should do? Only watch big screenshots? I have a slow modem so I can't assure I'll follow the thing. Consider also that results would be massively random. You must organize a lot to make it work and keep the interest high just after the first session. You can also decide to play-and-report or let the people take part actively in the season.
A possible way, if people like the idea, is to give the drivers some managing chances. The races would be separated by days so there is the time for all to have a look, examinate the track used, post a comment and take turn by choosing the better performance setting. Also this would bring a bunch of strategy and everyone would be the owner of their destiny in the league. If you want I can give a beta example. At least it's different than a carset with all at the same values. It's all about to play with numbers.
About tracks, if you want to use Gp3_2000 you need to be prepared about setting them for the game. Remember the troubles about what MD2 files were? A minimal tweaking is needed to make a linear season and not as they come from the rar files by every author. Expecially for race distance, carsetup, pit strategy, and several finetunings.
One more thing, why don't you let people to team up freely with who they want? I see 22 drivers and 22 teams. This kills the constructors championship, while tweaking with bonuses, teams can even attempt to some kind of tactic.
yuk! I made a long poem but it's my 2cents opinion. Maybe more and better opinions will make a path.
Good luck
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Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/2007 08:14AM by R_Scandura.