RDRC Season 7 - General Discussion

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Why only 6 rounds? :o After that there will be an other 6 rounds? Hope so

We had a massive (and I mean absolutely massive) drop-off in drivers last season. So the decision was made to have shorter seasons.
Together with new internal rules for leagues at RaceDepartment, which will give us more work,- and also work with a deadline, we decided it was better to have 6 rounds this season. This instead of biting over much more than we can chew, and failing to meet RD's league-rules, and therefor have a major struggle to keep the league running

What we aim for, is to get a good rythm on everything, so we can have at least 8 rounds later on this year - in the same timeframe as this season

I agree that 6 rounds is a bit short, but it's many factors that played in for this to happen.

I can give even more specific details on PM if you (or anyone else wish)

- Ole Marius "Pinky" Myrvold

 

[Balazs Kiss]

We had a massive (and I mean absolutely massive) drop-off in drivers last season. So the decision was made to have shorter seasons.
Together with new internal rules for leagues at RaceDepartment, which will give us more work,- and also work with a deadline, we decided it was better to have 6 rounds this season. This instead of biting over much more than we can chew, and failing to meet RD's league-rules, and therefor have a major struggle to keep the league running

What we aim for, is to get a good rythm on everything, so we can have at least 8 rounds later on this year - in the same timeframe as this season

I agree that 6 rounds is a bit short, but it's many factors that played in for this to happen.

I can give even more specific details on PM if you (or anyone else wish)

- Ole Marius "Pinky" Myrvold

Thanks Ole. I think it's informative enough for me 8 rounds or maximum 10 rounds it's sounds good. Yeah the 12 rounds little bit too much.

 

[Daniel Monteiro]

Many cars to choose from in RDRC-2! The hunt has started

 

[Daniel Monteiro]

Btw, are there going to be championship stickers this season or are we free to set the Car Number as we wish?

 

[Ton van Rijn]

Just signed in. But to be prepared a bit: How long, in time and on an average, does a session last ? I ask because I can practice then to see if I can stay concentrated long enough. Until now, in single player, I did 2 or 3 stages after each other and started loosing concentration.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Btw, are there going to be championship stickers this season or are we free to set the Car Number as we wish?

Ah. No, we've never had any obligatory, but I'll find the stickers we've had when I get home again

Just signed in. But to be prepared a bit: How long, in time and on an average, does a session last ? I ask because I can practice then to see if I can stay concentrated long enough. Until now, in single player, I did 2 or 3 stages after each other and started loosing concentration.

All from 30 min to 75-80 min in actual driving time It varies from rally to rally. The 1000 Lakes rally last season, had Ouninpohja. Twice! A stage where Manuel crushed all the other drivers with well over a minute, ending up with a stage-time of over 15 minutes. That rally was long. While Rally Costa Brava, was a much shorter rally, both in the number of stages, and running time - where Manuel won (again) with a total time of 30min49 seconds. (actually Ouninpohja x 2 took longer time than the whole Costa Brava Rally)

 

[Tommi Ojala]

Intrested yes

 

[Jack Hintz]

I will be making some new championship stickers that will be available before the first round starts
I haven't been very active around here for the past couple of months as I've had some huge changes happen in my life, but hoping to change that once I'm all settled

 

[Oscar Hardwick]

I will be making some new championship stickers that will be available before the first round starts
I haven't been very active around here for the past couple of months as I've had some huge changes happen in my life, but hoping to change that once I'm all settled

Any chance of a png of the RDRC logo being used this season for a video?

Hope to see you more active soon Jack.

 

[Jack Hintz]

I'll PM you with one

 

[Ton van Rijn]

One more question arises and probably a very dumb one, but I never did a rally online:
Is it possible to pause the game while driving a stage ?

 

[Daniel Monteiro]

One more question arises and probably a very dumb one, but I never did a rally online:
Is it possible to pause the game while driving a stage ?

Yes it is, just by pressing "ESC" or whichever key you preset in the game options to pause the game.

However, don't pause the game for too long; just like in a real rally, RSRBR has a certain "max time" for each stage, so if you go over this time on a stage, you will not be able to start the next one (because you're too late).

So if you pause your game during SS1 and go away for a long time, you might find that once you finish it, save your replay, and get back to your desktop, you'll have to drive SS3 (or SS4, SS5... depending on how long you wait).

 

[Ton van Rijn]

Thanks. And I assume that the pause time is not added to your driving time ?

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Thanks. And I assume that the pause time is not added to your driving time ?

Correct.
The way it works, is that your time is automagically uploaded to the rallysim servers.
However your RBR behaves like a normal offline rally

 

[Ton van Rijn]

I saw the details for Round 1 meanwhile and also the conditions (dry, icy etc.), so I can start practicing. But what (surface) mod will be used ? Are all stages on tarmac ?

 

[Norbert Leitner]

Hello!

I have a question about the BTB track. Should i dload all of the BTB tracks or you'll tell it when we need a BTB track pack for a rally?

 

[Karl Raudsepp]

No need for all of them. I don't recommend to install all of them useless you're really going to drive them.

Packs you need will be announced when itinerary is up, which is usually(hopefully) about 1 week before rally.

 

[John Cunningham]

So as to try and level the field a bit Jack and the chaps release the details about a week ahead of the race. Keeps it kinda edgy and hectic

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

I saw the details for Round 1 meanwhile and also the conditions (dry, icy etc.), so I can start practicing. But what (surface) mod will be used ? Are all stages on tarmac ?

A more detailed list will come.
but, icy = monte carlo, snow = snow. All the rest is tarmac ;-)

Hello!

I have a question about the BTB track. Should i dload all of the BTB tracks or you'll tell it when we need a BTB track pack for a rally?

We will most likely only use btb Finland and btb Sweden ;-)

 

[Norbert Leitner]

Ok, thanks