We have been racing tonight, and i must admit, the Rb4 finished in the top 2 so go figure

Obviosuly it depended on tracks, but this was Aston Club

So there is potential there, and as people have said, it depends on driver experience and control, same as XFG and XRG on Blackwood I guess

Regards

Shaun

Quote from troy :

The degrading may be a problem in 40-60min+ racing but in short public races the fxo is clearly faster on any track you put it against the xrt. The 3% are accepted by the community for as long as I can remember, balancing still isn't perfect with this but it gives the xrt a fighting chance.

Without any restrictions even with the fxo's horrible start you can get around pretty much anybody in the 10-15min of racing on public servers. I wouldn't agree on the top speed argument though as far as I can remember they are pretty even top speed wise, it's the grunt out of corners that lets the xrt stand in the dust.

I would bet a lot of money on any skilled fxo driver beating an xrt driver with equal skill 4 out of 5 times if there is no restriction for the fxo. The rb4 is another matter entirely I'm not sure if you will ever be able to get it competitive on tracks with fast corners and long straights.

Thats what I am here to test Troy

Server's up chaps if anybody wants to try this out. Please use the following in your Setup's

FXO - Unrestricted
XRT - Unrestricted
RAC - +2kg and 23% Intake
LX6 - 25% Intake
FZ50 - 17% Intake

We can tweak it as we go along, but thought I would get this out on public as that's the only way to tell

Cheers

Shaun

I must admit, somebody posted above, about an info site. All four (Here, LFS.NET and LFSWORLD and master server) went down, guess hosted all in same place, and left he with no info.

Eddy678 did post me a link to Google page than announced it, but this was at 10pm at night, so maybe a backup site, plain HTML for info or maybe one of the Beta Testers could post something somewhere as they will have contact details from the Devs? Just an idea in case this becomes a regular event? I hope not

Fordie

Quote from Jazzka :

Problem with XRT and FXO is that FXO has way faster top speed
and it corners like it goes on rails.

More top speed than the RAC/LX6/FZ50 seriously? And i would love my FXO to corner like it's on rails. Tyres degrade quicker in the FXO than all the other cars, so what might start of strong, quickly becomes a problem.

If you limit the intake on the RAC etc and get it right, then the speed should be very similar, this is what I am trying to achieve

Fordie

There is a fault at the exchange so I have been told and engineers are onsite.

They said an SNR reset will be required and I explained I am on fibre, they said, oh ok LOL

Don't need an SNR on fibre, only ADSL HA HA..Estimated time, 10pm tonight

Shaun

Sorry guys, my fibre router just rebooted for no reason. I have just looked in, and its only running at 2mb when should be 20mb?

Give a moment to do some tests and contact BT. Hoepfully just needs a reboot

Shaun

pw sent

Anybody about in 30mins, for a little more testing, before I open my server for 7:30pm GMT?

Let me know

Thank you

Shaun
AKA Fordie

Quote from Sueycide_FD :

I like the idea, but if it did turn into a server, it would be dominated by aliens in lx6's still at south city, fe gold and other tracks with lots of turns and small straights.

Why would it be dominated by LX when they are all at the same speed And it would be all sorts of tracks, as I would choose them

Fordie

Quote from three_jump :

because it's not so close when not hotlapping

Hi Jan, this was using Qualify all cars on track at the same time.

Might get it online a little later Kamo, as I fell we are very close now with the correct settings

Fordie

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

FXO wants at least 3% intake restriction.

But why when the laptimes are almost the same?

Done some more testing and have found very similar lap-times on Aston Club with the following settings. All cars had 9% fuel

FXO - Unrestricted
XRT - Unrestricted
RAC - +2kg and 23% Intake
LX6 - 25% Intake
FZ50 - 17% Intake

Tyres lasted ok, except for the FXO fronts over a 5 lap race

What do you think, worth a try?

Fordie

I thought we pretty much got it right last night, with out restricting the TBO ( as they are the slower class) The FZ50, RAC and LX was all up their on similar lap times

Basically what I was trying to acheive is a server than can competivatly host the RB4, FXO, XXR, RAC, FZ50 and LX as these are all road going cars, and gives drivers more options than just the TBO class, as some drivers don't like TBO.

If we can equal the field from the faster cars, it gives drivers more options.

I did email Scawen enquiring about adding the FXO but with slicks and downforce to the UFRGT and XFGGT (like the BTCC) gives us an extra car in that group

My thought was, instead of adding more content, just adapt things we have to give us more options while we wait for S3. The FXO is a fictional car anyway, so there is not comparison on handling and tyre modeling with its non real like counter part?
Fordie

I would like to thank Gav, Rob, Eza, Toni, Sobis and Kiyashi for helping me out.

I have hit the nail on the head, so basically, more cars for people that don;t like TBO but levelled out by adding weight and changing the intake for each car.

Cheers guys

Fordie