RDRC S8 Round 0 - Test Rally (9th - 15th January 2017)

[Aaron DeMarre]

Career engineers is set to off on this event, so the level of your engineers should not have an impact on the league rallies.

 

[BruceD]

Hi guys, new to the series this season although I've been in many leagues for other rally games in the past, even organised a few.

Anyway, new to Dirt as well so really happy with my run on the event. Monte and Germany went way better than expected and too many mistakes cost lots of time everywhere else. I was only seeing the Sweden and Germany stages for the first time on this event. This event showed how the grip levels changed between events too.

Looking forward to the season ahead, hoping to run inside the top 100 given the huge entries.

 

[Rallycameraman]

So I finished the test rally. Leading after the first 2 stages, then dropped some time in Sweden unsurprisingly as I don't like it that much, but I have a really good setup for the Fiesta which helps.

1st Greece stage went well, 2nd one I ended up facing backwards and down one of the cliff sides but managed to get back up. Finland I have absolutely no confidence in, first stage went cleanly, second stage was a disaster.

Onto Germany where I could claw some time back, fastest 2010 car through there, no surprise to be slower than a Group B car, they will dominate in Germany, and then on to Wales where I had 2 clean and tidy runs to finish 3rd overall and less than 30seconds off first, which I'm happy with after my offs!

Here's one pictures from my event, have posted a few more in the rally world thread.

 

[Neilski]

Yes. This is a choice we've made. No career engineers and no career cars. This makes it more equal. I don't feel that offline driving should impact an online league

Oh, I absolutely agree. It's just a shock that the default team are so weak.
But yes, the more level the playing field the better. Experience on the stages will already give people a huge advantage, but it took me quite a bit of driving to get a fully maxed-out set of engineers (including the chief, who seems to be purely mileage-based, whereas you can just buy the others).

[Edit:] Question: will there be (at least for the real events if not this one) a web page showing the stage-by-stage times etc.? I have considered - but not yet attempted - searching for or writing some code to scrape the times from the the game server pages and do the calculations, but perhaps Michael is already doing exactly this?

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

Oh, I absolutely agree. It's just a shock that the default team are so weak.
But yes, the more level the playing field the better. Experience on the stages will already give people a huge advantage, but it took me quite a bit of driving to get a fully maxed-out set of engineers (including the chief, who seems to be purely mileage-based, whereas you can just buy the others).

[Edit:] Question: will there be (at least for the real events if not this one) a web page showing the stage-by-stage times etc.? I have considered - but not yet attempted - searching for or writing some code to scrape the times from the the game server pages and do the calculations, but perhaps Michael is already doing exactly this?

pls someone do that, I worked all day on an online excell sheet, but I have to add manually the times and such, and since I am to eager to wait allready did some maths, witch I hate

 

[Thomas While]

Great test rally. Would love to say that I've got all the crashing out of my system but if I'm being honest the crashfest has only just begun. Nice workd guys, I'm looking forward to round 1.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

[Edit:] Question: will there be (at least for the real events if not this one) a web page showing the stage-by-stage times etc.? I have considered - but not yet attempted - searching for or writing some code to scrape the times from the the game server pages and do the calculations, but perhaps Michael is already doing exactly this?

We will not post them day-by-day, but Michael are scripting something that translates racenet-names into real names automagically, and does some other fancy stuff as well (which is why we need racenet-names to be correct ). And Aaron DeMarre have made the program that takes the times from the dirtgame.com site, for all three platforms. So we use his brilliant program (with permission of course) for that, and Michael are putting it all together.
There will be full results from every event, and unless Michael hit a major bug, this will also be the case from this round!

 

[Aaron DeMarre]

My intentions with the code the tool uses was to eventually make a webpage with live-ish stage times and separate car/class results for multi-class rallies, but I haven't spent the time on that part of it since admining web tools is a bit more ongoing work than just throwing some code up on githib.

But the ultimate goal was a full championship manager that lives on the web, which it sounds like Michael is doing a lot of that type of processing to fill in the stuff needed to automate a championship season.

 

[Toni]

My intentions with the code the tool uses was to eventually make a webpage with live-ish stage times and separate car/class results for multi-class rallies, but I haven't spent the time on that part of it since admining web tools is a bit more ongoing work than just throwing some code up on githib.

But the ultimate goal was a full championship manager that lives on the web, which it sounds like Michael is doing a lot of that type of processing to fill in the stuff needed to automate a championship season.

That would be great!!
Thanks for your work!

 

[Martin Larsen]

I signed up for the league like 2days ago, and sendt request to join the RDRC league on racenet today. So just wonder if there is a chance to make it to this test round?

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

I signed up for the league like 2days ago, and sendt request to join the RDRC league on racenet today. So just wonder if there is a chance to make it to this test round?

I'll accept the request in 10 min

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

But the ultimate goal was a full championship manager that lives on the web, which it sounds like Michael is doing a lot of that type of processing to fill in the stuff needed to automate a championship season.

I can't answer for @Michael Nelson and I am awful at programming myself, but as far as I've understood things, Michael is creating a manager program where you have control over entries, results, points and so on. Also, afaik, he'll take the data given from your program, enter it in to his, and it just magically works it out. How it will look, idk, but he also did the results for the last couple of seasons, so maybe something like that.

 

[Warren Schembri]

well i managed to do all 12 stages which is the only real positive that I can come up with
Monaco, Sweden and Germany were good.
Greece, Finland and Wales are were a complete disaster.

At least I crossed the line

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

@Martin Larsen You are in. Sorry for not accepting earlier today, I didn't spot your name on the entry list. My mistake

 

[Martin Larsen]

@Martin Larsen You are in. Sorry for not accepting earlier today, I didn't spot your name on the entry list. My mistake

No problem, not had time earlyer today to race anyway so no problems. Now time to wreck att Monte Carlo...and sweden....and wales...

 

[Michael Nelson]

I'm going to pre-emptively post a list of RaceNet names that are different from those people have signed up with. If you see this name on the list, can you let us know who you are.

The following are RaceNet names:

• kostasrallyman1
• Mattysc
• Maverick
• othonas
• Toikkari_37
• Trev65

Thanks.

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

RaceNet name - 35. K Johansson, don't know who you are but you just destroyed my feelings, that Kadett time is crazy unbelievable, I want your FFB settings and your car setups, if you say it's stock I DON"T BELIEVE YOU!!!, anyway great time, really hope your not in 2wd-, go beat some of the 4WD+ guy;s

 

[Andy Oakley]

Just done my entry in the MK2 Escort, pretty happy with it apart from 3 big off's in the first Finland stage which put me on the back foot service wise for the rest of it and some silly spins in Sweden and Monte Carlo. Thankfully, the Welsh stages were last so I could make some time back!

 

[Viesturs Priede]

Long story short - I've become from bad to worse in this rallying thing

 

[bogani]

So I finished the test rally. Leading after the first 2 stages, then dropped some time in Sweden unsurprisingly as I don't like it that much, but I have a really good setup for the Fiesta which helps.

1st Greece stage went well, 2nd one I ended up facing backwards and down one of the cliff sides but managed to get back up. Finland I have absolutely no confidence in, first stage went cleanly, second stage was a disaster.

Onto Germany where I could claw some time back, fastest 2010 car through there, no surprise to be slower than a Group B car, they will dominate in Germany, and then on to Wales where I had 2 clean and tidy runs to finish 3rd overall and less than 30seconds off first, which I'm happy with after my offs!

Here's one pictures from my event, have posted a few more in the rally world thread.

Yes, Finland is a real pain. The weakest location of DR thanks to the over exagerated jumps. I feel like I basically bounce around the stage one jump to another.

I really do hate the first stage in Greece. Lots of dangerous places and the last part of the stage downhill I'm just keeping the car rolling avoiding to crash. Can't believe how people can push that hard and survive that stage.