After seeing the responses above, mostly with interest and ideas, I, as the humble initiator of this experiment, feel obliged to take some real action.
Using the Genuine Racing generous offer I have created a server with some INITIAL configuration that will be hopefully sufficiently suitable for majority of interested people and the racing public as well. Note the word "initial", nothing is fixed, but we have to start somewhere.
The server is, FOR NOW, called
MultiOpen GT Racing. Multi for the multi-team effort and also for the multi-class, which it will probably have to be, though limited. Open for the fact that it will be available to everyone. GT for the fact that I believe we should stick to GT cars for now, as the name of this thread suggests. Of course anything is open for discussion among the participating teams. The Racing part of the server name is obvious. I think we want to race and not to fool around.
I have created a new Airio PROS license for the virtual MultiOpen racing community and connected a clean and separate version (no stats) of the latest Airio version there. I also took the courage to prepare complete INITIAL Airio configuration, using many of the above proposed things. I believe the configuration is sufficiently simplistic, yet suitable for the intended purpose.
The configuration contains safety levels, set initially by LFS Experience Index and then updated based on performance on track, as you all probably know. The initial rating will be for any real experienced people set quite high, for example to 62.50% for experience above 300 and to 77.50% for LFSEI above 600 with many other steps.
For now I would propose to stick with 3 slower GT categories. Please remember that we are in a kind of testing phase. We test primarily the ability to reach some consensus considering server setup acceptable to the general racing community. Please note that everyone of us must make some compromises, or this whole idea will be a complete failure right from the start (as some are already suggesting).
For now I have made available the following cars: XFG, XRG, XFR, UFR. They are FOR NOW separated into 3 categores (classes): GTI (XFG+XRG), GTJ (Junior GT, XFR+UFR with air restriction something over 20%), GTL (Light GT, XFR+UFR). GTI cars are always available. For GTJ people need SR of 55%, for GTL a SR of 65% or above. I would hope these ratings will be available to many right from the start and for other they are not so far away.
The safety ratings are grouped and in effect say what highest category may the people use. Examples are GTI Open and GTL Open. There are no points for anything and no ranks. I wonder if this will be an acceptable deviation from the now-widely-accepted standard. Again, your opinions are most welcome and changes certainly possible. There are 6 levels of licenses for good average lap (several continuous laps) times prepared, but again, we may remove this in case the majority considers the feature useless. Personally, I like licenses based on average lap time.
Track rotation is defined, with basically all LFS tracks except the shortest ones. Track voting is available, for now without limiting recently used tracks, which would require Airio update. Laps are set so that the races are somewhere around 10 minutes long. Again, please note that any updates are possible if desired, nobody is trying to force anything upon anyone. But there are things that will work, might work, probably won't work, and certainly won't work. Compromises are necessary.
OK, last thing concerning the server config. All the team leaders expressing here the willingness to try this experiment have virtual admin rights on the server. (Others may be easily added.) That means they can use in essence all LFS commands, just via their Airio equivalents (instead of /msg it is !msg, with slight variations). But this is in fact the major test. Will we all be able to use the power for the good of the project? Good server administrator never solves personal disputes by these powers, exhibits restraints, shows generosity and friendliness, accepts racing incidents, does not escalate disputes, is willing to be an impartial negotiator for others, etc. Also please do not use the available commands for ad-hoc changes to server/Airio config. These need to be discussed first.
Well, OK. Maybe we could give it a try! When you feel good, just jump over to the
MultiOpen GT Racing server, take a look around, read what is written, see if it makes sense, make notes about what you like and what you don't. Any constructive comment that takes into account what is in the current state of LFS possible is welcome.
See you there!