GP Season

sosteve · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: GP Season

This will not affect the format of the forthcoming GP season but it will be interesting to know the overall opinion of the players.
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Dantski · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 463

Voted yes, but not too bothered as long as the changes don't ruin the fun.
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HotSWAT · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject:

interesting..
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Moldo · Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject:

Maybe interesting to see who votes yes and who votes no Wink

If all the so called elites vote no and the rest votes yes, maybe something needs changes after all ^^

I didn't vote btw
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McInSanE · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 357 Location: Germany

i voted "No" and I don't consider myself an "elite" since I can't make it into the top Ten on the a2b-track on the challenge server =PPPP
i don't like a2b's anyway-.-

Dale Earnhardt · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 189 Location: Belchertown, MA

. . . I voted yes.

Good Homer · Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 55 Location: North West Lancs

Presuming we are voting on weather there should be a handicap loop. I have voted NO as myself and deanio found it degrading and distracting to are game knowing we had been placed in the noob category (no handicap loops)…..as we both consider ourselves as good as most of the players who had to do three loops e.g. evil, thug belial…..

McInSanE · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 357 Location: Germany

looks to me like it's going to be a pretty close race...

Little Deanio · Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 16 Location: North West England

I've voted NO we should all drive the same course...

I'aint no NOOB!! Mad

evil_homer · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject:

JawZ · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1991 Location: Bedfordshire

i voted no, but a point change wouldnt be bad down the lower end....everyone scoring 1 from 12th or soo downward is abit Sad

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McInSanE · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 357 Location: Germany

evil_homer · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:01 pm Post subject:

oooooooooh sorry it does highlight the fact that doing the handiloops/group placement upsets people even if its presumed its in their favour and the difficulties in organising the gp's this way.

mad · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:23 pm Post subject:

OK, so the groups weren't that accurate, but if you realised that without the handicap loop you were going to fail to finish 8 out of 10 races how would you answer then.....

Lots of people keep ignoring the fact that 50% of the racers will fail to finish each race because they are not fast enough when compared to the top racers. That to me is totally demoralising and unacceptable.

msquires · Spam King Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 803

Could you increase the time for finishing after the first finisher?

HotSWAT · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:

ya, couldn't you just validate it for longer?
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DanTheMan · Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 1668

msquires · Spam King Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 803

Making people start later also does this though.

mad · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

no.... Times used to be calculated on the length of time taken to validate a track which meant we had to validate a track for the length of a race in time or laps.. one long lap or 25 regular ones. In forever, that has changed and validation does not appear to effect the finish time outs. I believe it's possibly even calculated from the time taken by the winner to finish......

Bea · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 55

A possible solution to the problem with the slower people not finishing on time with no handicap would be to set it up as a time-limited race rather than a laps-limited race?

I'm not sure how popular this would be but it's just an idea I had. I don't know the server options exactly but is there a way to set the lap limit at something silly like 100 laps but have the time limit set at 15-20 minutes? That way everyone is running the full length of the race (whatever the time-limit is) and the end-result is determined by the number of checkpoints passed when the time runs out?

(edit: this is probably in the wrong topic, sorry)
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