AC SURPRISE TIERDROP EVENT, Tue 3rd January 2023

[abecede]

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[Jimlaad43]

The only thing going through my head tonight is going to be this

 

[abecede]

To eliminate any download problems... here's the track we are racing today:

AC Silverstone 32 Gridslots

Increased gridslots version of Silverstone, install as any other track mod.

www.racedepartment.com

 

[Gerben Kelly]

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[abecede]

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okay, you're in! starts in 2 minutes. come to discord pls

 

[Cooked Grenade]

Sign me up

 

[Cooked Grenade]

Can I still join?

 

[RasmusP]

Well that was some non-fun evening, sadly.
Put up my wheel etc. joined discord, connected to the server etc but then got a call.
Thought I'd miss half of Race 1 and then have fun with you all for the rest of the event but Content Manager decided to have his Fanatec mapping bug so I had to re-connect.

Sadly this automated scripting stuff for today's event doesn't allow for re-joining after Race 1 started so that was it for me

Hope you're all having a lot of fun! I was really looking forward to this one. Always love some crazy ideas

 

[Shed 17]

Thanks Markus for organizing, I didn't have a clue what was going on but I can die a happy man................. I overtook Fulvio AND Enzo on the same lap! Sweet!

 

[abecede]

Hope you're all having a lot of fun! I was really looking forward to this one. Always love some crazy ideas

Yeah, I think we can do something like this again. Different track, different cars of course! (And everyone please post wishes, suggestions etc here, so I can collect them and put them to good use.)

Thanks for joining everyone, I had a blast avoiding most crashes in front of me :-D

 

[Kek700]

I really enjoyed that, I have in my dreams! never seemed to over take Enzo or Fulvio, so three times in three races, is just too much.
I thought it needed a bit of sorting, the cars need to be closer, so on the last race Fulvio and Enzo have a chance.
I suppose they now know what it is like to be an earthling.
Race went smoothly, even an idiot like me had no problems to speak off, so well done all that organised this interesting and different event.

 

[Boukâh]

Kinda heavy for a rookie on both track and car (gladly I just could stick to one) .

Made it quite difficult for myself and some others. In the last two races almost managed to stay in one piece...

I learned braking diffrences between the variety of cars on the go, managed to avoid most, could pass a few, enjoyed that.

Last race I kept my foot off the throttle a lot of times, not to ruin other peoples fights and positions.

So, it was fun, kinda... I enjoyed being next to other cars at speed, tried to learn my position on the track, ralative to cars, lines and braking points.. For me as a somewhat slow learner, I had to use all my hands and feet just to stay on track, so apart from one or two corners/laps fighting with others, it was staying alive.

Tips from the rookie side:

- do this with rookies
- or give rookies a little more time in advance (day or so) just to learn the track. I'm new to simracing on Assetto (came from KartKraft, addicted), so I have to memorise before I can do some usefull things. Same for cars. Without some proper racekraft this is kanda hard. Fun, but hard. I guess it's most fun when one is a little further with race kraft. So, warn rookies

I'd definitely do this again, but I'd learn all tracks and cars by head first

It was nicely organized Markus! (apart from your mic that is ).

Thanks again for letting me join!

 

[Jimlaad43]

- or give rookies a little more time in advance (day or so) just to learn the track. I'm new to simracing on Assetto (came from KartKraft, addicted), so I have to memorise before I can do some usefull things. Same for cars. Without some proper racekraft this is kanda hard. Fun, but hard. I guess it's most fun when one is a little further with race kraft. So, warn rookies

Taking this point further, my only feedback from this race is that maybe a 2 minute practice session before each race would be useful. Heading into the first few corners in a pack in a car we haven't driven is not that fun because everyone is having to guess the braking zones. Even just getting out there and having two laps allows people to get an idea of what the car is capable of, so you aren't splitting the grid on that first lap down into "people who have driven the car before" and "people who havent". That Praga was awful and having never driven it or had a chance to do 2 laps, I never knew what the quirks of it were in the safety of a practice session where spinning because of an extra downshift was losing 6 places rather than just a ruined lap time.

That said, it was an amazing script to get the whole car swapping system working and going! It was a truly seamless night, with some crazy racing. Being in the faster cars did mean that I knew what the faster cars were capable of. The Audi was so quick in the straights but needed to slow the most for T1 for example, so I knew that it was always going to be easy to just sweep around the outside if an Audi poked its nose in there.

Special events are good fun so keep this up, maybe with a few tiny tweaks.

 

[Enzo Fazzi]

Taking this point further, my only feedback from this race is that maybe a 2 minute practice session before each race would be useful.

I think a 10 minute race with 5 minute practice would work quite well.

 

[abecede]

I think a 10 minute race with 5 minute practice would work quite well.

The problem with this is, that the starting grid can only be forced by going into a race session directly. As soon as anyone completes a lap, the starting grid gets reset.
Maybe posting the various cars and track 30 minutes or so before the event would be a feasible? So people know what they get. Probably with some kind of preset for Content Manager for those who use CM. So people can try out the cars on the track beforehand. Stuff to think about and discuss, yep.

 

[Alfred Wayne]

I think having a little practice session available just before the race could nice. Not enough time to tweak set ups, but enough time to get an idea of the different braking points between the cars. Wouldn't take away from the "fun" either I think. Still have to grind it out to get the slower cars .

That said, I had fun today! Good fights along the way. I never realized how big the GT3 cars were until I almost got flattened by one in the F3 car

Forgot how fun that praga can be when you get it right, and how frustrating it can be when you're just a tad too hard on the brakes and the back breaks free

Thanks for putting this together Markus! And everyone else for showing up

 

[gearwhine]

I think all the above ideas would improve what was an interesting format. Especially the chance to drive around the block for a while in the surprise car. Of course there is a big chance of someone having a good setup saved for a car and then they have an advantage. Maybe default setup would be a help as long as the cars don't drive like pigs to start with. All told, it was a lot of fun and the large margin of power between the cars was great fun and challenging both ways. In every race i had a bad first lap and had to fight from last to mid pack apart from race 5 when that Praga kept killing me and i finished near the back. Who cares, it was good fun and maybe with a few tweaks could be a regular event. Well done Markus

 

[JamKart22]

I enjoyed the format, made a nice change. The difference in car sizes was a bit of a challenge. The F3 was tiny next to the Audi!

As a car alternative you could select a series of say old BTCC cars and adjust the BOP on the next car to ensure an accurate performance hit. The cars would all be fairly similar to drive (so not such a steep learning curve) and the field should bunch up nicely.

You could also potentially advertise the cars beforehand but disallow any setup (sorry Ernie) to avoid people getting an undue advantage.

One final point - It would be nice if everyone had a chance of winning in the last round but I don't know how you'd organise it. One bad race meant you were out of contention - not that I was ever in contention!

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to think up and organise the event.

 

[Boukâh]

You could also potentially advertise the cars beforehand but disallow any setup (sorry Ernie) to avoid people getting an undue advantage

or, have a setup specialist make one ‘suits most’-setup in advance, in case the standard one is not that good. Like supplied spiced up mazda setting for the rookie events.

 

[Kek700]

Well, you know where I stand with setups being fixed. The Audi needed one the Praga needed one and the F3 car did not need one neither did the Porsche.
Tyre temps on the F3 were for me about 3psi over-inflated by the end of the race.
I appreciate the idea of a fixed setup. but I get this with AMS2, it just does not work, looks good on paper but you end up with a pig of a car to drive.
in the future I can imagine there are going to be cars like the Abarth, virtually undrivable in fixed setup, I am okay with it now, but considering the amount of practice I have had, not exactly unexpected for this is car.
You could supply a donated setup for the Abarth, that would work, and work well.
I have spent ages trying other people's ideas of a setup, but they seem to make it go like STINK for themselves, where most find it far more undrivable than the standard setup.