New League Rule - Adding A Sprint Race?

pdanev · September 29th, 2005, 10:41 PM

Here's a thought for the league races.

Inspired by A1GP (or at least when i was talking with mxm about a1gp), I got and idea. We could do the following in our league races.

Instead of the current qualify->race according to qualify results, we can do:

1st, Qualify
2nd, A "sprint race", according to qualify results. This sprint race could be a short one, say 5laps. For this race we will also award points, the same way as for the long races (10-8-6-5-4-3-2, 1 for everyone taking part and completing at least 50% of the distance)
3rd, The actual, longer race. BUT starting in reverse finishing order of the sprint race.

Now, why all this "complicated" stuff?
To make the races more intersting.
How?
The faster racers, will obviously have a good qualifying time. So if they start in the front for the long race, hardly anyone will be able to catch them, and there won't be much action on the track. Instead everyone will be lapping his lonely laps. So, with the sprint race, faster people will have an easy chance to get points, however because of this easy catch, they will start at the back for the long race, and hopefully making things more interesting, as they try to make their way through the field, while pitting etc.

And anyway, we always make a lot of 5lap races before, for warmup etc, so its not like this is gonna make things much longer or that much more complicated. (imo)

What do you guys think? Did my idea actually make any sense?

Z3R0 117 · September 30th, 2005, 01:47 AM

Sound Fun I would Race If i Had The full uncraked Verison.....*i have to installs one to screw around with with skinning and shit and one legit vierson*
but For Now I will Race In the Demo track with the rallys...

andyhui01 · September 30th, 2005, 02:18 AM

don't you have the full version Zero?... I saw some screenshots of you and the FXO GTR... and pdanev, sounds nice... and makes more action in the race images/smilies/biggrin.gif

... but won't it be too complicated after the sprint race to end the game and put everyone in order?

Z3R0 117 · September 30th, 2005, 03:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andyhui01

don't you have the full version Zero?... I saw some screenshots of you and the FXO GTR... and pdanev, sounds nice... and makes more action in the race images/smilies/biggrin.gif

... but won't it be too complicated after the sprint race to end the game and put everyone in order?

To Quote my other post:

Quote:

Sound Fun I would Race If i Had The full uncraked Verison

I don't have the money to spare right now for a full game....Come To Think Of It i haven't bought a PC game in months i been downloading them all......

images/smilies/twisted.gif

pdanev · September 30th, 2005, 10:31 AM

^ You could have just used the skin viewer to look at your skins while you work on them, much faster and better than looking at them in game.

Andy i dont think so, its not like we're 15-20people racing, so i think to put less than 10 people in order shouldnt take more than 1/2 a minute.

andyhui01 · September 30th, 2005, 11:16 AM

yea I guess... we can do that this weekend, depends on how many people we can find to race this weekend, everyone should be back from school and stuff so it should be the usual amount... btw, where's UKD, I miss dodging a pink and green car on the track images/smilies/sad.gif

September 29th, 2005, 10:41 PM	#1
pdanev Joined: Oct 4th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Netherlands Age: 25 Posts: 5,643 LFS Status: Rep Power: 24	New League Rule - Adding A Sprint Race? Here's a thought for the league races. Inspired by A1GP (or at least when i was talking with mxm about a1gp), I got and idea. We could do the following in our league races. Instead of the current qualify->race according to qualify results, we can do: 1st, Qualify 2nd, A "sprint race", according to qualify results. This sprint race could be a short one, say 5laps. For this race we will also award points, the same way as for the long races (10-8-6-5-4-3-2, 1 for everyone taking part and completing at least 50% of the distance) 3rd, The actual, longer race. BUT starting in reverse finishing order of the sprint race. Now, why all this "complicated" stuff? To make the races more intersting. How? The faster racers, will obviously have a good qualifying time. So if they start in the front for the long race, hardly anyone will be able to catch them, and there won't be much action on the track. Instead everyone will be lapping his lonely laps. So, with the sprint race, faster people will have an easy chance to get points, however because of this easy catch, they will start at the back for the long race, and hopefully making things more interesting, as they try to make their way through the field, while pitting etc. And anyway, we always make a lot of 5lap races before, for warmup etc, so its not like this is gonna make things much longer or that much more complicated. (imo) What do you guys think? Did my idea actually make any sense?

September 30th, 2005, 01:47 AM	#2
Z3R0 117 Joined: Sep 11th, 2005 Last Online: January 23rd, 2006 Location: Sideways Catch My DRIFT? Posts: 338 Rep Power: 0	Sound Fun I would Race If i Had The full uncraked Verison.....i have to installs one to screw around with with skinning and shit and one legit vierson but For Now I will Race In the Demo track with the rallys... __________________ GT-R Fan Copy And Paste This In TO Your Sig To Show That Your A GT-R Fan

September 30th, 2005, 02:18 AM	#3
andyhui01 Joined: Jun 4th, 2004 Last Online: November 27th, 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 8,511 Car: 00' Subaru Forester GT LFS Status: Rep Power: 28	don't you have the full version Zero?... I saw some screenshots of you and the FXO GTR... and pdanev, sounds nice... and makes more action in the race ... but won't it be too complicated after the sprint race to end the game and put everyone in order? __________________

September 30th, 2005, 11:16 AM	#6
andyhui01 Joined: Jun 4th, 2004 Last Online: November 27th, 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 8,511 Car: 00' Subaru Forester GT LFS Status: Rep Power: 28	yea I guess... we can do that this weekend, depends on how many people we can find to race this weekend, everyone should be back from school and stuff so it should be the usual amount... btw, where's UKD, I miss dodging a pink and green car on the track __________________

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September 30th, 2005, 10:31 AM	#5
pdanev Joined: Oct 4th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Netherlands Age: 25 Posts: 5,643 LFS Status: Rep Power: 24	^ You could have just used the skin viewer to look at your skins while you work on them, much faster and better than looking at them in game. Andy i dont think so, its not like we're 15-20people racing, so i think to put less than 10 people in order shouldnt take more than 1/2 a minute.

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