So, what your guys' opinion on the club so far? Any ideas on things I can do better or differently? The last couple weeks had lower than normal turnouts, I know both those weekends happened to have a lot of real motorsports on the telly and also saw the return of nice weather (check local listings) and I presume those were contributing factors, but I want to make sure everyone is having fun and wants to continue participating. Overall the turnout has been as good or better than I hoped for, I know we don't have the largest pool of AC drivers here on GTP so to get 10+ people for the first several events was fantastic and I thank everyone for making it happen.
Of course there could be other factors involved, like unappealing car/track combos or the having same people at the front all the time. But my main goal with the club is just to make it a place where GTP AC forum lurkers can get together for a laugh every now and then, for now I don't intend for it to be too serious. The aim is just to have fun with our virtual toys, even if it's not your favorite car/track or you know you'll be in the mid-pack all night.
But I'm certainly open to any ideas of how to make things as fun as possible. Of course we don't have a lot of options in AC so it may require some out of the box thinking. Leveling the playing field and keeping the pack closer together would be one way to increase enjoyment. The only easy way to do that is add ballast to the fast guys, but I don't want them to be offended at being slowed down and as a result decide not to participate anymore. Or I could have two cars for each event, a faster one and a slower one (maybe 1-1.5 seconds difference between the two) and the fast guys take the slow cars and everyone else takes the faster car, create a bit of parity. Might be hard to do that with our limited number of cars though. Really wish we had reverse grids to make the second race more fun.
Also, do you guys like having a different car each race or would you rather stick with one car for multiple events? I kinda prefer to stick with one for a few events, you get to really know the car that way and in theory get a bit better at driving/tuning it each time you take it out. It makes it easier to just pick up and go too, if you didn't have much time to practice at least you already have a base feeling for the car since you've raced it before. Since we're kind of limited in car selection (I stay away from the super fast cars) it would make things a bit easier to stick with one car for multiple events. We could even pair up some of the cars to make a few different mini-series that we rotate through, just have each group listed in the OP and say "This time around we're racing the Group 2 Series", everyone grabs their favorite from the group.
Just tossing things out there. I'm fine with how things are but I'm open to changing things up a bit too if it keeps interest up.
