Grats lads! Saw him being quasi n00bie yesterday so already expected things to look a bit different than they seem. Good luck in the self-proclaimed retirement home called Mercury
The latest episode (episode 18) of InsideSimRacing includes a full season review of the Masters of Endurance season 07/08. The review covers both classes and their podium finishers.
To be honest I do have the feeling you guys throw in the towel much too early. For it to be spring/summer it is natural that motivation drops and other things get more priority (close to the end of school year = busy, same for work, outside sports, parties, upcoming holidays etc). This behavior is natural and happens within all teams.
Nah, that's nonsense (the bold part - I agree with rest). Maintaining a consistent quick speed may even be harder in the FXR than it is in the XRR or the FZR. The FXR is much harder on tires, allowing you to have a limited amount of decent temperature in the tires in a short period of time. Yes, it's easier to recover, that part is true, but its a constant struggle during a stint to control the tire temperature while maintaining a competitive speed.
Speaking for myself, I find the FZR most difficult to drive of all 3. I am mainly a FXR driver (yes, I wear a diaper, bib and am crying for mammy's boob while driving ...), with the weight distribution of the XRR being close to similar to the FXR I find the transition from FXR to XRR much easier than the transition to the FZR. In my experience I have to drive totally different with the FZR than with the FXR or XRR, making the FZR zeh car-le-crap for me.
Adding to DWB's explantion: each of your teammembers assigned for this race was sent a PM, asking for clarification. After 1hr20m there was no response, nor were we able to contact a driver on IRC or ICQ to ask for a clarification.
Include the following in your protest
• The correct lap,
• The cars (/teams) involved
• The lap/sector/time
• And a short description from your point of view.
Include a video with 10s before and 10s after the event for which you protest (link) OR include a .mpr of the incident using mprEdit – courtesy of MikeB.
Movies can be made by using fraps (demo at www.fraps.com). Afterwards load the movie in windows movie maker (to make the file size smaller), which is included in your windows installation, and save and upload it . Free sites to upload movies are: http://www.mediafire.com and http://www.rapidshare.com
Thanks for next season suggestions. As for the misquoting, sorry, tho since you guys are teammates my quotes are not out of context.
Constructive feedback is appreciated as said multiple times, and even processed or being dealt with. However we expect some workable arguments and not arguments only leading one way.
Now there is a difference between making a diplomatic reply, or constantly having to repeat to similar responses which in the end only can be described as as the w-word. And yes, I will say that out loud.
As Paul said, help us, we help you. Constructive feedback is helping, nonconstructive replies don't and they do lead to, again as Paul mentioned already, an admin vs userbase discussion - which we both should prevent at all times as it's the most nonconstructive form of discussion.
We fully understand that we cannot satisfy every racer, we can only hope that each racer can also understand that decisions are made not to pleasure a single racer, but for the overall league, and therefore you may disagree, it is something you just have to accept.
@3J The fact that you have arranged it in time, proofs that there was time enough (There is even ~2 days left). I'm not saying that things in the past were done that great and timely, but slowly we try to improve, but of course you can choose to not see that part.
And your comment about a joke: same can be said about the whining of some people over the forums, would you care putting a lot of time in a league for such kind of people? Apparently we still care a lot to put such amounts of time in the league regardless of all the crap we get to endure. As said before, we understand and agree that we need to improve in certain areas, but it requires some time, especially since the admin team has changed during the season.
Constructive feedback, yes please, whining: please go to your mommy.
@Paul
I see we're basically talking about the same. I can understand your issue with the DT given the time frame, however it is an extra push to have it done. We're willing to listen to teams who cannot make or update the skins in time, provided they come up with good arguments.
Whether its a can or will, the outcome is the same. I described the goal earlier: 'However, at this point in time we have new graphics and we want to enforce the use of these graphics, so the we end the old era of graphics and enter the new one.'
Now you can discuss whether is a can or a will, the rule still stands.
About the rushed in and no efforts to inform people: Rushed is quite out of context as described (even by you) how long we've work on it. The (lack of) informing people: we have these forums, the website - it is not (only) our responsibility to remain updated with the latest information.
Besides ~3 days ahead is still enough time to get the new skins done, as you and 3J already provided proof of that.
We've made some internal changes which should lead to a timely start and timely prepared tracker.