Welcome to the 39th season of Race Department Forum Racing!
Joining
Joining is quick and simple. Just make a post stating your interest to join. You can form a team with another driver, or just sign up as independent driver. You don't have to commit for the whole season, if you just want to snatch a win or two go ahead.
The Races
The most important part of the game. A race consists of the moderator making a post containing the words GOGOGO (most times, occasionally the moderator forgets to include these words). After this, you must make specific posts in a certain order and time span as quickly as possible, depending on the type of race. A race will end when every contender finishes, or when 24 hours (or more, depending on availability of the moderator) have passed since the last finisher.
Sprint Race
As soon as a sprint race has started, you have to post "Finish". The one to post first wins.
Feature Race
As soon as a feature race has started, you have to post "Start". Two hours later, you have to post "Finish". For example the time stamp of your start post is 10:25, then the earliest you're allowed to finish is 12:25.
Rally Race
A rally race consists of 2 stages. As soon as a stage has started, you have to post "Finish". The delta between stage post and finish will be added up for the 2 stages, the lowest combined time wins.
Points
9-6-4-3-2-1
Start times
The start times will still be spread somewhat equally, so that no timezone has a clear advantage/disadvantage. However, there most likely will be no starts between 23-6 GMT (22-5 GMT during DST). I don't want to rule it out completely, but especially on weekdays it's unlikely to happen due to work and I wanting to have a good night's sleep.
Gentleman's rule
In order to keep the game fun and interesting for everyone, you shouldn't set up email alerts for new replies in this thread. Past events have shown that it isn't healthy for the game itself, and that's it's more enjoyable for all participants if they're not used.
Penalties
You can't get a penalty for timing infringements in a sprint race. In the feature race, each minute you post a section of the race early will earn you a 30 minute penalty to your race time.
Tagging your team mate/other drivers during the race to get them to finish sooner is allowed.
After you post, you are not allowed to edit that post for 5 minutes. If you post early, you cannot re-post that same order, you must carry on from there and accept the penalty. This also applies to posting the wrong thing, where you must wait 5 minutes and post the correct thing. Your time will be counted from the correction onwards. After posting one of the components of a race (Start, Pit, Finish), if the same one is posted soon after, it will be classed as a correction. This means that times will be counted from that post. Penalties can still be given out for double posting within 5 minutes.
Inactivity
If you don't finish several races in succession, you will no longer be waited for regarding results. Furthermore, your seat can be taken by a new sign-up. If you finish again after having lost your seat, you'll have to join a new team.
Feel free to make suggestions, or ask if anything's unclear.
Calendar
Standings
Drivers
McLaren
@oldwolf
Ferrari
@Tim.E
Independent
@Benutzername
@Jimlaad43
@rubaru
Joining
Joining is quick and simple. Just make a post stating your interest to join. You can form a team with another driver, or just sign up as independent driver. You don't have to commit for the whole season, if you just want to snatch a win or two go ahead.
The Races
The most important part of the game. A race consists of the moderator making a post containing the words GOGOGO (most times, occasionally the moderator forgets to include these words). After this, you must make specific posts in a certain order and time span as quickly as possible, depending on the type of race. A race will end when every contender finishes, or when 24 hours (or more, depending on availability of the moderator) have passed since the last finisher.
Sprint Race
As soon as a sprint race has started, you have to post "Finish". The one to post first wins.
Feature Race
As soon as a feature race has started, you have to post "Start". Two hours later, you have to post "Finish". For example the time stamp of your start post is 10:25, then the earliest you're allowed to finish is 12:25.
Rally Race
A rally race consists of 2 stages. As soon as a stage has started, you have to post "Finish". The delta between stage post and finish will be added up for the 2 stages, the lowest combined time wins.
Points
9-6-4-3-2-1
Start times
The start times will still be spread somewhat equally, so that no timezone has a clear advantage/disadvantage. However, there most likely will be no starts between 23-6 GMT (22-5 GMT during DST). I don't want to rule it out completely, but especially on weekdays it's unlikely to happen due to work and I wanting to have a good night's sleep.
Gentleman's rule
In order to keep the game fun and interesting for everyone, you shouldn't set up email alerts for new replies in this thread. Past events have shown that it isn't healthy for the game itself, and that's it's more enjoyable for all participants if they're not used.
Penalties
You can't get a penalty for timing infringements in a sprint race. In the feature race, each minute you post a section of the race early will earn you a 30 minute penalty to your race time.
Tagging your team mate/other drivers during the race to get them to finish sooner is allowed.
After you post, you are not allowed to edit that post for 5 minutes. If you post early, you cannot re-post that same order, you must carry on from there and accept the penalty. This also applies to posting the wrong thing, where you must wait 5 minutes and post the correct thing. Your time will be counted from the correction onwards. After posting one of the components of a race (Start, Pit, Finish), if the same one is posted soon after, it will be classed as a correction. This means that times will be counted from that post. Penalties can still be given out for double posting within 5 minutes.
Inactivity
If you don't finish several races in succession, you will no longer be waited for regarding results. Furthermore, your seat can be taken by a new sign-up. If you finish again after having lost your seat, you'll have to join a new team.
Feel free to make suggestions, or ask if anything's unclear.
Calendar
Standings
Drivers
McLaren
@oldwolf
Ferrari
@Tim.E
Independent
@Benutzername
@Jimlaad43
@rubaru
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