Tomorrow's Italian GT has been reduced from 175km to 125km to compensate for the 5 lap trial race. This makes the race 22 laps plus 1 pace lap for a total of 23 laps.
Things I expect everyone to do to reduce chances of lag:
-clear your cache in the GT options menu
-turn off other wireless devices in your house and other devices using the internet. If it's possible to have your PS3 the only device using the internet, do so.
5 lap Trial Race Info:
-Be in the race room at 3:00p.m. EST. I'll be in my lounge from roughly 1:30 til a little before 3 at which time I'll leave my lounge to create the public lobby race room
-I expect everyone in this race.
If you cannot participate I will not allow you to participate in the main event.
-Once everyone has arrived in the race room, we will have a 5 lap race
-No qualifying
-No pp/weight check ins either. We will simply enter the track and begin the race
-Please do NOT be overly aggressive. I'd like it if everyone didn't have any accidents so we all stay on track.
-If lag is an issue, overseas drivers are the first to be eliminated. Please remember this isn't something I want to do but may have to do. I'm wanting to run a lag-free series and minimize these issues so we can all do what we are here to do, which is race.
Overseas drivers will be asked to leave (I'll either ask you to leave or kick you out of the room. Either way, if you get booted, you at least know why.) based on these conditions:
-If your car is acting abnormally, jerking from side to side, etc., etc.,
-If lag is an overall problem, the overseas drivers will be eliminated starting with the last person to sign up (toyotsupra) and working our way up the sign up order.
-In the case that the lag is overwhelmingly bad, all non-U.S. drivers will be asked to leave.
Italian 125km GT Info:
Like I said, this race will be 23 laps total. I'm hoping to get qualifying started at 3:30p.m. EST and the main race going by 4p.m. EST.
QUALIFYING
-Starts at 3:30p.m. EST.
-Anyone not present for weight/pp check ins will NOT be allowed to race
-Lasts 15 minutes
-a 3-5 minute break will take place after qualifying while awr117(redrobin347) types in the grid order
-NO TYPING/CHAT WHILE awr117 LET'S US KNOW THE GRID
PACE LAP
-On the last turn, I expect EVERYONE to be 3 car lengths apart
-Pole sitter, don't slow up before the start. Drive at 60mph, the field will follow and form up themselves
-Pole sitter, you can accelerate when you cross the start/finish line
-As we did last time, don't accelerating when the car ahead of you does so.
-Penalties will be handed out for those who aren't doing as I stated above. This information is in the 2nd post already but for some reason people find these rules hard to follow.
RACE
-No passing before the first chicane
-Follow my rules listed on page 1
-Penalties will be handed out for people driving overly aggressive
-Penalties will also be handed out for people abusing runoff areas. I understand sometimes you can over drive and make a mistake and be forced to use a runoff area, but doing it 3 and 4 times per stint is abusing the track boundaries.
-Aside from my penalties, I will have short-cut penalties on.
-On the second chicane, keep 2 (two) tires on the black asphalt. No cutting it. Short-cut penalties should have this handled but my rules are, well, the rules.
-Be patient people. Don't drive like this is a 5 lap sprint, it's more the 4 times that! So don't be aggressive on lap 2 racing like it's lap 22.
I'm formulating a proper penalty system as we speak and will post everything as soon as it's finished. I may not be finished tonight or even before the race tomorrow. We don't need the penalty system in order to race tomorrow but I'm giving a fair warning; penalties points-wise will be rather harsh and other penalties may affect overall race time deductions also which may have an effect on the finishing order.
