First of all, those drivers that have not raced with us (Europe) before, you are ofcourse welcome to join us next season (like Reik above and others who have expressed this wish).
Second of all, it seems obvious by now that we'll be racing the F1 mod next season as it seems to be the wish of the vast majority.
Lastly, even though we wish to simulate the real f1 races as closely as possible, there are some core differences that we need to adjust for to make our racing as good as possible. A few examples are:
- We do not race during European summer because for us this is a hobby and we wish to spend some time in the sun when it is summer time while the real f1 drivers do this for a living and race when they are told to.
- We are less skilled than real f1 drivers which means we need bigger safety margins when we race.
- We do not get any injury/lose money when we crash which affects the way we drive as apposed to real racing
- We don't do full length races as the whole event takes too long and the chance of lost connection increases.
- The pit stops takes too long compered to RL which force us to change the way we deal with race strategy (pitting as few times as possible is almost always a winning strategy.
Our main aim last season and also in the time to come is to have high attendance from
all racers and improve the safety in the races. Both these goals needs to be reached with a minimum of maintenance from the admins during the season. This is one of the reasons why I/we are not a big fan of penalties as a remedy for incidents. The problem needs to be dealt with at an earlier stage so that there will be no need to look through races to look for bad behavior.
As Reik mentioned above, the solution is to make sure that
all our racers are thinking in the same manner when it comes to staying out of trouble on the track and making finishing a race without incidents their top priority. We (admins) on our side needs to make it clearer what is expected by the drivers in different situations so that all are one the same "wave length".
Looking through the incidents last season most of them could be avoided if we all followed the same set of guidelines. We are in the process of making a pdf documents with guidelines on how to behave in a race and in different situations. Our hope is to make all the necessary changes before season 5 so that the quality of this season dramatically improves.
So to sum up (and add some stuff), next season we'll:
...be racing the F1 mod
...change the way new drivers can join our league
...improve communication with the drivers
...have less acceptance for drivers with low attendance
...release the "how to race in PrestoGP" document
..."soften" the general competition between drivers
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consider changing the qualify format
...be as much in sync with the f1 calendar as possible