A Remote Race Experience

[doctorrg]

Sometimes, when I get up early in the morning on the weekends 'cause the little one doesn't want to sleep anymore, I quite like to make myself a coffee, and sit down on the lounge to watch some remote races while slowly waking up. What I do mostly in races is select the driver of mine who's furthest back on the grid but does have a car one could win with and watch him progress through the field, as I did this morning. Had one of my drivers start dead last, and watched him taking spot after spot. On lap 5, two of my drivers were way ahead of the field, but that driver of mine had made his way to 4th, and he was closing in on one of the drivers from someone in my friends list (it's just so much better if he's closing in on drivers which aren't yours). Finally, on that last bit of straight just before the last two chicanes, he was sitting right behind him, waiting for the breaking zone, and then the attack, moving out to the left to overtake on the second last chicane, "YES!!! He's got him!!", I thought to myself, getting a little bit of excitement looking forward to my 1 to 3 finish, and then bang, the screen went all dark. WTF? What just happened? I actually wanted to see this! So I won't even get to see my 3rd place finish, I'm not going to actually see the conclusion to what I've been following all this race? But surely, he did finish 3rd, right? He was right beside him (even though still registered as 4th) and had the better line. So I exited out of server standby mode as soon as I could, and went to see the race results, and what can I say? 4th. Only the first two drivers registered a time, all the other drivers didn't have a time and seemingly were placed according to the placings they held when the screen went dark. Needless to say, that was an extremely unexciting conclusion.

Did anyone else ever come across this? That the race just ends at a particular point, even though cars are still driving, and then they get no time, but simply the placing they had at the time the race was (prematurely) ended? If that's meant to be a feature, I'm so not for it.

 

[kieest1987]

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[kieest1987]

i dont save my bspec replays though, but wen watching live race is running behind standings screen after 1st place crosses finishline. but the race is still running i guess

 

[kieest1987]

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[doctorrg]

i dont save my bspec replays though, but wen watching live race is running behind standings screen after 1st place crosses finishline. but the race is still running i guess

Yes, the race is still running, and looking at the standings you can still see positions change, which means positions do change in the back of the field after 1st place has finished the race. Sometimes, however, it doesn't even let the majority of cars across the finish line. And what seems to happen then is that it takes the positions the cars were in at that point as final placings, as opposed to finish the race, irrespective of the missing visuals.

As for the rest of your posts, these are a little off-topic, and I believe these are equally in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.

 

[1Fast335i]

Yes, the race is still running, and looking at the standings you can still see positions change, which means positions do change in the back of the field after 1st place has finished the race. Sometimes, however, it doesn't even let the majority of cars across the finish line. And what seems to happen then is that it takes the positions the cars were in at that point as final placings, as opposed to finish the race, irrespective of the missing visuals.

As for the rest of your posts, these are a little off-topic, and I believe these are equally in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.

I've found about the same results. They just seem to get whatever spot they were in. It usually waits a little while, something like 15 to 30 seconds after the winner crosses but I haven't been able to nail down a specific time the race just quits.



PSN: gearloos

 

[doctorrg]

I've found about the same results. They just seem to get whatever spot they were in. It usually waits a little while, something like 15 to 30 seconds after the winner crosses but I haven't been able to nail down a specific time the race just quits.

I don't think there's a specific time, as I've seen it exit out no more than 10 seconds after 1st place had made it across the line, but I've also seen 16th place come across the line more than a minute back. I wonder whether there's some polling going on in frequent intervals, and it breaks on the first poll after 1st place has made it across the line. Can't explain why else it would appear so random.