Hello all:
So, I figured I'd explain the NDR Entry Fees system as it relates to GTAL. It's a recent addition we have made, and did it as OPTIONAL insofar as we'll ask (politely) for the contribution, but we will not turn down participation at all to anyone who does not contribute. But, we have selected "pricing" that seems to be, on the whole, inexpensive to an individual, but overall can be large the more participate.
Now, I could bore you with making you look at the sporting code Supplemental Doc that pertains to this, but I'll summarize what you need to know here.
First of all, we WILL NOT make public who has paid and who hasn't. This is key, we value privacy in this.
Second, all fees collected will first go to pay for services needed to support us and our events. Then, a small portion of what is left will go to reimburse those in NDR who have spent own money to do what we've purchased so far. A larger portion of what's left will be set aside into a coffer for a prize fund. The current prediction is that it will be about a year before we'd dip into this, or 6 months at best. But, the more who participate, the sooner we can implement this. Prizes would not be in the hundreds of GBP or EUR (at least not yet - maybe someday), but still a decent dent in, say, the cost of a LFS Server. Prizes would be paid out on season end to whoever we can offer it to. There will be a "Purse" for a series and the lion's share will go to the champion. we will divide the rest in a logical way to let as many people get a good share of the purse.
Now, the GTAL details.
KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS NOT A COMPULSORY FEE!
There are two "stages" for GTAL. One is application-based, the other is race-based.
The Application-based is a one-time for the season value. A Team application in and of itself is £3. Then, on top of that, the FIRST SIX drivers applied for are counted at £2 each. 7th and 8th and 9th etc are £0 for this purpose. So the maximum an application will "cost" a team is £15.
On the Round-by-Round basis, there is a "fee" of £1 per racer, for the first two. 3rd, 4th, etc are £0. This is a maximum of £2 per race, £14 per season.
Overall, a team would be contributing £29 for the entire season, a season that takes the whole of 6 or 7 months. On a round by round basis, that is no more than a fiver per round. Considering the team-based nature of the series, we do not consider that an undue difficulty, and that is why we chose the level we did.
Some figures to illustrate the "big impact" side of it:
If all 28 regular teams paid the full £29, that would be a total of £812 into NDR. Our projected expenses for the next 12 months (Consider our Fiscal Year from 1 Nov to 31 October for this) are nearing £300. That leaves the £500 to do two things: reimburse previous personal money spent by our members (about £275 so far) and the rest for a prize fund. We would tend to put a higher priority on a prize fund because we feel that that would be a higher benefit to those who participate in our events to offer some sort of prizes quickly.
Now, not all teams would be paying £29, some would be, say, £20 based on thier rosters, but anything helps, and this is why we encourage participation.
It is of course, not compulsory that you do, but if you even have the means as a team to pay anything, we would sincerely appreciate it.
Please feel free to post comments or questions here. If you are interested in finding out how we will be collecting these OR offering to make the contribution, please contact me via PM here on the forums, or send an email to [email protected]
Regards
Jonathan Palmer and the rest of New Dimension Racing
So, I figured I'd explain the NDR Entry Fees system as it relates to GTAL. It's a recent addition we have made, and did it as OPTIONAL insofar as we'll ask (politely) for the contribution, but we will not turn down participation at all to anyone who does not contribute. But, we have selected "pricing" that seems to be, on the whole, inexpensive to an individual, but overall can be large the more participate.
Now, I could bore you with making you look at the sporting code Supplemental Doc that pertains to this, but I'll summarize what you need to know here.
First of all, we WILL NOT make public who has paid and who hasn't. This is key, we value privacy in this.
Second, all fees collected will first go to pay for services needed to support us and our events. Then, a small portion of what is left will go to reimburse those in NDR who have spent own money to do what we've purchased so far. A larger portion of what's left will be set aside into a coffer for a prize fund. The current prediction is that it will be about a year before we'd dip into this, or 6 months at best. But, the more who participate, the sooner we can implement this. Prizes would not be in the hundreds of GBP or EUR (at least not yet - maybe someday), but still a decent dent in, say, the cost of a LFS Server. Prizes would be paid out on season end to whoever we can offer it to. There will be a "Purse" for a series and the lion's share will go to the champion. we will divide the rest in a logical way to let as many people get a good share of the purse.
Now, the GTAL details.
KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS NOT A COMPULSORY FEE!
There are two "stages" for GTAL. One is application-based, the other is race-based.
The Application-based is a one-time for the season value. A Team application in and of itself is £3. Then, on top of that, the FIRST SIX drivers applied for are counted at £2 each. 7th and 8th and 9th etc are £0 for this purpose. So the maximum an application will "cost" a team is £15.
On the Round-by-Round basis, there is a "fee" of £1 per racer, for the first two. 3rd, 4th, etc are £0. This is a maximum of £2 per race, £14 per season.
Overall, a team would be contributing £29 for the entire season, a season that takes the whole of 6 or 7 months. On a round by round basis, that is no more than a fiver per round. Considering the team-based nature of the series, we do not consider that an undue difficulty, and that is why we chose the level we did.
Some figures to illustrate the "big impact" side of it:
If all 28 regular teams paid the full £29, that would be a total of £812 into NDR. Our projected expenses for the next 12 months (Consider our Fiscal Year from 1 Nov to 31 October for this) are nearing £300. That leaves the £500 to do two things: reimburse previous personal money spent by our members (about £275 so far) and the rest for a prize fund. We would tend to put a higher priority on a prize fund because we feel that that would be a higher benefit to those who participate in our events to offer some sort of prizes quickly.
Now, not all teams would be paying £29, some would be, say, £20 based on thier rosters, but anything helps, and this is why we encourage participation.
It is of course, not compulsory that you do, but if you even have the means as a team to pay anything, we would sincerely appreciate it.
Please feel free to post comments or questions here. If you are interested in finding out how we will be collecting these OR offering to make the contribution, please contact me via PM here on the forums, or send an email to [email protected]
Regards
Jonathan Palmer and the rest of New Dimension Racing
+ I wouldn't pay it mostly because you can't promise that everything will go well, during the races. What if I pay the money, I drive well, but someone always crashes me and it's their fault, but all they get is penalty. Basically I would pay money to get crashed. 
That was just an example, btw. + I definitely don't have money to waste during crisis, for a game. 
