(For a TL;DR version scroll all the way to the bottom of this post :nod
Okay so we here at NDR are coming closer to our 4th complete year of existence (jesus christ its been that long ? :schwitz and I feel it's high time to sort some stuff out to make things easier on myself, and everyone else.
I can tell you know, to expect but don't be frightened if there's a bit more downtime than usual here over the next few months. Usually the only big downtime is in the spring, but there may be one here. It's partly down to the current state of LFS, and the current state of NDR.
What I'm looking for here is a working discussion of what you feel NDR needs, in any respect. Here is a list of what is intended to be worked on; your input and additional ideas are welcomed. Other threads may be spun off from this one if necessary.
We'd like your ideas on which of our assortment of leagues (listed below) you think should never take an extended hiatus (aka longer than a regular off-season), those you think could run with a small off-season (two seasons a year, for instance), or series you think should be made dormant or kept dormant until such time LFS community returns to at or near its "former glory"
We thank you in advance for your input - it'll be considered. Expect this to be a slow process for everything, but of course some things quicker than others.
Oh and if you think this is all overthink and not necessary and being too hard on ourselves, tell us that too
List of NDR Sanctioned Leagues and their status:
LFS Beginner's Cup - Dormant
NDR Challenge (older brother more or less to LFSBC) - Dormant to Dead
Grand Touring Amateur League - Off-Season (currently under internal consideration for a brief dormancy period)
LFSCART - Final processing of Season 2011
LFSCART Light - Dormant
MiniFBM - Offseason, likely to return late Oct 2011
GT2 World Series - Active Season 2011
TBO Challenge - Dormant
Kyoto 250 & 500 - Off-season
Special events - Temporary dormancy
TL;DR: If you skipped all that, you probably actually should read it. Simply put, we're trying to improve NDR and the above is explaining things. But if you want to throw in a suggestion, do it anyway and we'll tell you off (politely) if it's wrong or out of touch with what we're doing, or compliment you for knowing what we want to do without reading us say it
Okay so we here at NDR are coming closer to our 4th complete year of existence (jesus christ its been that long ? :schwitz
and I feel it's high time to sort some stuff out to make things easier on myself, and everyone else.I can tell you know, to expect but don't be frightened if there's a bit more downtime than usual here over the next few months. Usually the only big downtime is in the spring, but there may be one here. It's partly down to the current state of LFS, and the current state of NDR.
What I'm looking for here is a working discussion of what you feel NDR needs, in any respect. Here is a list of what is intended to be worked on; your input and additional ideas are welcomed. Other threads may be spun off from this one if necessary.
- NDR initially started to be a joint governing body and racing team. This was part of the reason that the iCON + NDR merger happened. However, it's become glaringly apparent that there cannot or will not be any racing arm to NDR, so as such, does NDR really need to be a "Team" or more should it be an "Organization". It's likely that we'll change to an organization and act as such. This would change how "membership in NDR" would flow. No longer would anyone need to have an NDR, except perhaps a few "Core NDR Members"
- Sporting Code + Series Rulebooks will be rearranged. Procedures such as Safety Cars, red flags and similar that are shared across series will be in the Sporting Code, and the series rulebook will simply contain things that can only be specific to that series, as well as any modifications/non-applicible references to the Sporting Code
- This idea had been discussed during the middle of the summer. It's incredibly hard to have people doing active race administration AND Stewarding roles at the same time. This is why lately you've seen us waiting until after the race to review any protests, and not initiate much. The plan will be to soon have a "team" of "Race Stewards" - those we trust to review incidents impartially and be a working group to ensure consistent rule enforcement. This would go hand-in-hand with the "organization" mode of NDR, meaning that stewards can maintain their racing team membership, but also be an "administrative" member of NDR, and participate on the stewarding panel.
- Expansion into other software titles. rFactor, netkar Pro, iRacing, what have you. The only one semi-active is I am working to help JJ Wang (lizardfolk) and Thilo start a version of LFSCART in rFactor, but with some things in the last weeks I've stalled a bit, but will get on with that soon.
We'd like your ideas on which of our assortment of leagues (listed below) you think should never take an extended hiatus (aka longer than a regular off-season), those you think could run with a small off-season (two seasons a year, for instance), or series you think should be made dormant or kept dormant until such time LFS community returns to at or near its "former glory"
We thank you in advance for your input - it'll be considered. Expect this to be a slow process for everything, but of course some things quicker than others.
Oh and if you think this is all overthink and not necessary and being too hard on ourselves, tell us that too
List of NDR Sanctioned Leagues and their status:
LFS Beginner's Cup - Dormant
NDR Challenge (older brother more or less to LFSBC) - Dormant to Dead
Grand Touring Amateur League - Off-Season (currently under internal consideration for a brief dormancy period)
LFSCART - Final processing of Season 2011
LFSCART Light - Dormant
MiniFBM - Offseason, likely to return late Oct 2011
GT2 World Series - Active Season 2011
TBO Challenge - Dormant
Kyoto 250 & 500 - Off-season
Special events - Temporary dormancy
TL;DR: If you skipped all that, you probably actually should read it. Simply put, we're trying to improve NDR and the above is explaining things. But if you want to throw in a suggestion, do it anyway and we'll tell you off (politely) if it's wrong or out of touch with what we're doing, or compliment you for knowing what we want to do without reading us say it
) in season 1, seb66, tomhah (that was already one of the best in season 1), torpp1s in season 2 and sca-f1, isaacprice, drunk guys, drifter only i nseason 3 and lot of others. 
For Christs sake, we had full Apex Cup grids! And don't you think that finishing for example 7th in this ultra competitive league would mean a lot more than finishing 3rd in some "fun league" or making it to the podium finish in kind of grand prix race compared to rev grid win?
