Rfactor2 Test Season : Calender and General Discussion

Nicolai Nicholson · Mar 12, 2014

I am afraid I will be a no-show tonight as I have not raced enough with rf2 to be anywhere near comfortable. I will do my best to pick up my act and be ready for the next one.

I hope you all have a great race tonight

Richard Hill · Mar 12, 2014

I've literally done 5 laps a few days ago so don't really feel comfortable to do any reasonable time at the mo so unfortunately will have to miss this one but at Melbourne for the main race and the test one for sure

Been looking forward to this as well just had no time sorry

David Turnbull · Mar 12, 2014

sorry to hear all these call offs, if they had been a day or two earlier we couldve postponed this but too short notice for anthony and tim.

awe well, hopefully its enjoyable anyhoo.

Anthony Ishak · Mar 12, 2014

the server is not allowing me to join..the
"join " button is not highlighted , do ineed to reinstall the track?

Tim McIver · Mar 12, 2014

Same issue here...

Dino Paolini · Mar 12, 2014

yup I have the greyed out join button too now

Dino Paolini · Mar 12, 2014

@David Turnbull if the server gets restarted than everyone should be able to join for a while until the problem comes back;

unfortunatly the new build which fixes that bug wasn't here fast enough for that race

Tim McIver · Mar 12, 2014

Would it be simple for everyone who is participating to join Steam chat so we can communicate?

David Turnbull · Mar 12, 2014

sorry april just mentioned and id just read forum, ill restrat now

sorry!!

Valter Ostman · Mar 12, 2014

Sorry for those who lost contact and stuff.

I did a very careful entry to the pit. I had worse tires than I thought. Slided in to the wall and lost left front wheel. Game over.

Thanks for the (half) race guys

I should have practiced heavy car more.

Dino Paolini · Mar 12, 2014

Thanks for doing the race guys and to David for setting it up.
I'm glad we got the thing started even with the join problems; this thing should be fixed very soon.

This became really fun throughout the race for me. Car felt better and better with more rubber on track. My setup was maybe a bit to slippery in general, but not that far off it seems

Next one is hopefully with a couple more guys so it doesn't get boring for some during the race.

btw if some of you had tireproblems at the end of the stints today, you should foremost look at your braking if you are locking up tires multiple times, especially at medium-speed corners, as that kills them much faster than any kind of pushing can really do.

half of a 65min race should be no problem on any track, since this tires are actually made for no pitstop-races.

Maybe I can do the next one too; see you guys

David Turnbull · Mar 12, 2014

thanks for turning up guys, was good fun, a few problems with the server to sort out but on the whole it was good, good racing with dino within a couple of secs for so long until i fluffed it a few times pushing too hard, looking forward to the next one

Tim McIver · Mar 13, 2014

Thanks for the race all. I think we could end up really enjoying RF2. I'm also convinced this Beta season is a good idea simply to iron out all the bugs and sort out issues that you really only discover when you're racing. The more people that join the races the more issues we will get sorted out. Almost all of those issues are not dependent on you having done any practice at all, it's just about getting cars on the grid, running some laps and seeing what can go wrong.

My race was pretty uneventful. I ended up going for a two stopper due to rapid degradation on my front right. It was definitely the wrong strategy but I was happy for some extra pit stop practice. It's worth noting for all who would like to have a go in the beta season, that the formula Renault is not meant to be able to refuel. However ISI seem to have forgotten to disable some of the refueling options. This will mean you will be tempted to try and refuel during the race, don't do it!!!! Though it kind of works on your first stop, if for any reason you need to stop more than once, you will keep receiving fuel and there's nothing you can do about it! I think its also just unreliable as to how much fuel you will receive. This isn't the case for other cars which are intended to be able to be refueled. As Dino has stated before, having to start the race with a full tank is actually quite good for the racing, it forces you to drive with a setup that's full of compromises and prevents the race being three straight sprints.

So many little features will also help presto greatly. Being able to exit and rejoin during Qual and warmup without losing your grid spot is very good. Giving the server operator the ability to modify the grid as required is also very helpful.

Thanks to David for pushing us forward with this Beta season.

Whenever I am running on the RF2 Presto server, I make sure I'm logged onto Steam chat as well to maximise my chances of running into other presto members. It also gives us a chance to stay intouch when there are server issues.

See you all on the track.

Richard Hill · Mar 13, 2014

This race seams to have gone great will definitely be at the next one. Just got a question or too.
Do you think we will be able to do the whole race on one tank Tim?
Did the race have the pit limiter? Or can you disable it?

Nicolas Rouge · Mar 13, 2014

It was a nice event, very useful to learn what can go wrong in the future. We should decide about Parc Fermé (I'm totally for it) and pit lane speed limit (I'm against it, but I understand that it could be dangerous because we're no longer ghosts in the pit lane). Having a formation lap is really cool. With more people there would have been more fight and we probably could have seen if there's something wrong with collisions or wheel to wheel contacts.

About refuel there's definitively something wrong with this car, since there's an option for refueling that is not really useful, so we can decide not to refuel and start with a full tank : 110l is enough for a 65min race. I started with that and was left with about 10l at the end of the race if I remember.

Valter Ostman · Mar 13, 2014

Richard Hill said:
This race seams to have gone great will definitely be at the next one. Just got a question or too.
Do you think we will be able to do the whole race on one tank Tim?
Did the race have the pit limiter? Or can you disable it?

I had to engage and disingage the pit speed limiter.

Richard Hill · Mar 13, 2014

To be honest I think I would prefer to use the limiter

April Dillon · Mar 13, 2014

I prefer using the limiter too. The pit lane's a very slippery place in rF2, since it's concrete and has very little rubber. Plus, pit stops for tires were only 7-8 seconds, so they're very fast. Which is a fix to the problem that lead to Presto dropping pit lane speed limits in the first place.

I guess we need to look into the Parc Ferme stuff a little more, as just setting it in the PLR file evidently wasn't enough. Does it have a setting in multiplayer.ini perhaps? Not sure. But apart from that, this has been a success in my mind.

Thanks David for making this happen

Frederic Schornstein · Mar 13, 2014

Nicolas Rouge said:
It was a nice event, very useful to learn what can go wrong in the future. We should decide about Parc Fermé (I'm totally for it) and pit lane speed limit (I'm against it, but I understand that it could be dangerous because we're no longer ghosts in the pit lane). Having a formation lap is really cool. With more people there would have been more fight and we probably could have seen if there's something wrong with collisions or wheel to wheel contacts.

About refuel there's definitively something wrong with this car, since there's an option for refueling that is not really useful, so we can decide not to refuel and start with a full tank : 110l is enough for a 65min race. I started with that and was left with about 10l at the end of the race if I remember.

Have to agree with the others. Pit speed limiter is really important, because you should loose some time in a pit stop and as @April Dillon said the pit lane is damn slippery. Wheb I do offline testing I havr the rules deactivated and dont use the limiter leaing the pit when it is a long way just to save time, but on the real world and with several cars pitting at the same time it would be mental. I can see at least 4 dnfs due to pit stop accidents.

David Turnbull · Mar 13, 2014

regards parc ferme settings, i think thats a problem at my end, ive just noticed that all the changes i saved have been defaulted in the plr, it wont save at all for some reason, ive even changed setting then set it to read only yet as soon as i start the game it changes back to normal and defaults the settings, its quite funny because for the last few weeks my graphics settings need reset everytime i go on the game so thats a problem i need to sort out, once i have parc ferme should be easy to turn off

what id like is that all the real life things that are available to us in rf2 get used, i.e formation lap, parc ferme, speed limiter, all these things would add a great deal of realism and im all for that, as others have said these tests are a good way to get everyone used to that.

like tim i think we will have loads of fun with rf2 in future, but for now its back to melbourne practise for race07