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You're talking about a GTP derived FIA sanctioning body.
'cause of the nature of organizing races through a forum this could be a good way of taking some of the stress off of people trying to start a new series.
In theory it should attract more people because if there's a process of approval that series need to go through to get certified. People wouldn't have to worry about bad or unknowledgeable hosts.
It would be as simple as a stamp of approval for new racing series just like USDA markings for beef, health code passing certificates for restaurants, or "FIA sanctioned racing series"
So, what would the tasks of such a group be?
In order to keep it manageable there should only be a few. The standardization should be supportive, not controlling.
And in the end it's about more, better, racing.
'cause of the nature of organizing races through a forum this could be a good way of taking some of the stress off of people trying to start a new series.
In theory it should attract more people because if there's a process of approval that series need to go through to get certified. People wouldn't have to worry about bad or unknowledgeable hosts.
It would be as simple as a stamp of approval for new racing series just like USDA markings for beef, health code passing certificates for restaurants, or "FIA sanctioned racing series"
So, what would the tasks of such a group be?
In order to keep it manageable there should only be a few. The standardization should be supportive, not controlling.
- Racing series competition level ratings -
This would be a gold standard description that will rate the competition level of each series dependant on series rules, level of detail,
They would all be factors in determining how competitive the series will be so that any one looking to join a certain type of series whether casual or not can easily see that level at a glance.
It would be as simple as a marker that people post in their thread titles, " [GTC Rating - *****] ".
And that's just a theoretical example of a series that's graded as a 5 star competitive tournament. It's serious, thoroughly detailed and regulated, has active competitors with distinguishing performance levels, proper car and track selection, advanced results tracking etc.
Another idea is a set of identifiers that easily explain to a person what the core structure and racing philosophy is behind each series. It would need to be a legend, located in the OP of the governing body's home page or thread, that describes each abbreviation in detail.
It would be things describing whether they allow bump drafting, sole qualifier or pre-race qualifiers, if they use incident penalties, racing club or quali-for-your-spot format , realistic race settings or casual, etc.
All those describers would be abbreviated into a code type of format where people could easily check and see exactly what the series races are like without having to read different people's descriptions of the same thing.
- Racing series start up kit distrubution -
A racing series start up kit will be a .rar file that includes every thing a potential race organizer needs in order to start his series easily and quickly be able to start it off with a solid standard base to grow from.
The kit would include things like graphics, templates, spreadsheet tutorials, tips tricks and hacks, track guides that detail what tracks are good and are not good for racing in certain cars, rule guides detailing exactly what each setting in GT5 gives you, connection guides for a consistence online experience, car selection guide letting you know the ins-and-outs of choosing good cars for your series, description of every successful race format and the history of race format use in GTP (like the invention of sole qualifers "4 lap live qualifying sessions" rolling starts in GT5, how best to run multi-class races etc).
Not only would it be advantageous for race organizers to read but would be an excellent source of information to anyone looking to start racing in GT5 online or those people who have been racing for a while but simply want to find out a little more.
- Incident review service -
This would be handled as an optional mainstay group of volunteers that will provide un-biased inspection into race incidents, accidents, or infractions.
It would be a pool of judges that are trusted to rule fault and prescribe penalties according to a set standard of policies described within the main thread or home of the governing body.
- GT5 player license authority and distributor -
This race sanctioning body would be responsible for handing out fake licenses to drivers on GTP that opt to have them. It would make one's level of seriousness and skill quite apparent. The only bad thing being that if someone has a bad license, why would they display it?
Take the WRS for example. I only ever see people that are in Division 2 or 1 post their ranking in their signatures. So instead of "handing" them out for them to display we would instead welcome any one to go through the application process and then we would add them to the database of licensees accordingly.
The application process would involve time trials, a side by side racing demo test and a small pop quiz. It could easily be done through GTP PM's and they could be started, finished, and told their license level in twenty minutes at the most.
Then our sanctioned series may apply a rule in their thread title, " License holders level 3 and up only" for example.
And in the end it's about more, better, racing.
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