i cant wait either, back into the comms booth
Thanks for the update! Sounds really interesting with two seasons and a one off event. Really looking forward to more endurance racing this seasonIt shall not be within the coming month. We need to do some evaluation first, and see where we need to change things. Also, there is some development work we want to finish up.
I think (mind that this is ME talking, not RD!) we will have a single event race first, and then season 2 of VWEC. But, nothing has been made final about this at the moment.
In my Opinion you guys should maybe think about reducing the Field to just two categories and maybe a driver limit per car (maybe 3).
I mean some Teams had 6 Drivers up there for a 6 hours race...im not saying that this is bad but if there would be a driver limit we could get much more cars in, which results in more competition which everyone is looking for i think. In the Bahrain race there were just 6-8 cars per Group, which are effectively the only cars you're racing against. If there would be two categories with 12 cars it would be much more fun.
The big Problem in my Opionion of 12 Hour races is, if there is someone in the Team - if youre 3 guys for example, that can't take part its very hard to drive 12 hours. So for me personally 6 or 8 Hours would be more than ok. Especially when you think about a driver limit to get more cars in the field. 6 Hours for 2 guys is quite easy to handle and you get a lot of cars.
Rui F. Martins said:...for example we could have a 8 hour race, a 12 hour race, 2 500km races and a 1500km race, something along those lines, in order to increase the variety of the races.
If, as @Dennis Coufal has suggested, the software could be further improved to include weather information (and even telemetry), then this would help to make the whole experience that much more (for want of a better word) "immersive". It would certainly add to the realism and help to recreate the stresses of not only being a driver, but also an involved member of a racing team.
Looking back to the last race I think we won't have a problem of too much cars. It seemed like GT1 was getting a bit slim, but in GT2 and GT4 I guess we could get 3 additional teams each with that rule, but we will seeJust talking for myself here, as we have not discussed all reactions with each other.
In principle, I am not agains more cars per class. However, there is a but...
In case signups are massive in a specific class, I do not think it is fair to give out 2 cars to a single team, and deny entry to another. Basically, all teams should be able to have a go in each class. Although I understand your, and the other posters points, and they are indeed valid ones, I have to keep this limitation in order.
It's always a compromise. When we run 3 classes only, we have more options per class. When we run 4, or perhaps even 5 in the near future, these options become limited. And as said, in case of more signups then places, I really believe all should be limited to 1 car only.
We will put this on the agenda of 2014 season pre-staff talk.
At this point, the output of the game does not support current weather info.
That will be updates as well, so I am sure he will take this into consideration
I just took this post out of the Evaluation thread. As stated by Yoeri, please keep it to answers to the questions only. It's undoable for us to go through, if there is all kind of discussions in between.
i will be better in 2014, i promise you, but we need more guys on the team when some of us are not around and i need help when in the commentary booth (because i still dont have full rf2) but yes this year we will be stronger and much more aware of what is going on, on and off trackThe info for the broadcast.... What can I say. A missed opportunity. It was build so well, and presented in such a good way. However, our broadcast commentating team is still very unused to doing these events. They are still learning, and so are we as the broadcasters. Displaying the right info, getting to the right action on track and some other things required so much effort and time, that we did not had the full coaching to the commentators that was needed. I am convinced that this will improve in the near future, as we are slowly getting a group of dedicated, and enthousiastic guys. They will get better and better I am sure.