RD Le Mans Series Season 2 (rFactor)

[Lee Palmer]

Please define what you mean by "legal" , because i have browsed the download section here, and am not sure what you are getting at ?

Its a term thats been used for Sim Racing mods for years. Some people call these filles "leeched". Basicly how it works is say you have a track you've made in rFactor if I then take your track, add my own textures and slightly modify one corner and then re-release it that file is then know as non legal. In situations like this there are no real legal issues with using that track its just that alot of people like to show respect to the original author and thus boycott these leeched files. As Ben says though, there are also sometimes where the situation is inflicting copyright (this comes when converting tracks between games).

 

[Chris Heller]

Anyone agree Laguna Seca should be in the calendar? The corkscrew is a hell of a turn, also Laguna got a great layout and is quite fun to race at I also suggest Nürburgring (not the Green Hell as P1's and P2's wouldn't have a chance to keep on track lol)

 

[Kyle Pearson]

Laguna wouldn't be bad, but still a pretty small track for 4 classes. I hope there is some "out of the box" thinking for tracks for the upcoming season. Some "out of the box" thinking brought in Old Ring in S1 which turned out to be a very good track for 4-class endurance racing. I'm sure there are many other diamonds in the rough if there is just a little investigating.

 

[Yoeri Gijsen]

I would like to point out that this thread's onlu purpose is for the asking and answering of questions. Please use the Paddock for chats and discussions. As for those who are bothered with the question what circuit will host round one, I can only say that we are looking at some tracks to make sure we pick a good one. You may put up suggestions, but ultimately the decision will be the staff's, no matter how many people agree or object.

Please Q&A here and chat elsewhere.

 

[Philip Oakley]

@Yoeri When will the team owners find out if their teams got a licence?

 

[Yoeri Gijsen]

First week of October at the latest. That's when the sign-ups close. Possibly sooner though, depending on the speed with which tem sign in.

 

[Kyle Pearson]

RDLMS S2 - Old briefing threads (merged)

The track selections seem to be limited on what can support 30+ cars "out of the box" for pit spaces. I know there are several track modders out there who can address the pit space AIW editing fairly quickly, but getting them to do it is another problem.

What if team owners paid $2 USD per car entry and that money is used to pay a track modder to adjust tracks for the endurance races? The money should be minor and that would help open up the track selection for the races.

 

[Xosé Estrada]

I think the problem is more about connection issues, there won't be need to pay to have the tracks modified, I'm almost sure, RD has some of the best modders involved and they are always willing to help.

I'm curious about what the league staff says.

 

[Kyle Pearson]

There were several tracks ruled not viable last season due to pit spots (as well as Road America having problems which were not addressed). I would think, if the modders were available those wouldn't have been an issue.

 

[Yoeri Gijsen]

The choice of tracks we make is influenced by the amount of spots it has without touching it, but it's not the choking point. We look at several aspects:
- looks/textures
- capacity/spots
- legality
- lenght/width (number of possible lines, passing oppertunities, etc)
- day/night skies (in case of night races)

Some things are fixable, some are not. We do tend to choose the easy way, but if we have a good track in our hands and pit spots are the only drawback, then surely we will find someone to fix that for us.

 

[Kyle Pearson]

If that's the case, then why not exclude the easy way out and make this series unique by picking good tracks that other endurance series cannot use (because of lack of modders)? IMO, picking the same tracks that are always run just because it's easy may ultimately hurt participation. Running good/different tracks is a good way to differentiate this series from others and keep driver interest levels high.

 

[Mtommi Tam]

Today,we complete our P2 New skin
We will show on here

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

tracks:

le mans
NORDS' (nordschliefe) green heel
sebring
Spa
Bathurst
would like them

 

[Christopher Aponte]

just out of curiosity
any chance of knowing names of the modders that will help out quickly?

 

[Magnus Dahlgren]

Hi I dont know where to ask exactly but I guess its fitting here since I RDLMS S2 is the reason I started a team. I registered the team a little more than a week ago and Ive gotten the activation-mail but the team havent been validated yet. How long does it take for validation?

(edit: oh I thought I was in the Q&A-thread, sorry! :frown: )

 

[Remco de Wildt]

The registration and validation of the teams in GPCOS will start when the teams signups are posted and GPCOS is setup properly for S2.

 

[Kyle Pearson]

just out of curiosity
any chance of knowing names of the modders that will help out quickly?

Is that directed at Yoeri or me?

 

[Chris Heller]

tracks:

le mans
NORDS' (nordschliefe) green heel
sebring
Spa
Bathurst
would like them

Agree with everything except Bathurst, would like to race at Laguna Seca instead. Also, I'm sceptic about the Green Hell, even though it's my favourite track, as it's not designed for races with P1s and P2s, all GT1 and GT2 teams would be happy about that though

 

[Adam Eggbeer]

Nordschleife is far too narrow to allow cars to overtake and the closeness of the walls will see a lot of cars failing to make it to the end.

 

[Esben Tipple]

Maybe a non-points event sometime? I'd truly love to race at the Nordschleife with you guys.

Edit: Oh, and Fuji needs to be axed.