I just started online racing yesterday and it's going to take a while to understand the politics of it all. One option I don't understand is the vote for restart. In one race I and two others were taken out in the first curve and a number of people voted for a restart which was overruled. I continued on in last place though enjoyed the challenge of trying to catch up to the person in front of me.

What bothered me was when a similar accident occurred in another race where a couple of the top drivers were involved in a pile up and I and one other managed to maneuver through the mess. As we were racing down the first straightaway for first place, a restart happened. Geez, it would have been fun to try and hang on to first place for a short time even though I knew I would eventually be overtaken.

If you're going to drive like wild banshees into the first curve at least try and accept the responsibility for it once in a while. I'm not a paying member at the moment but if this behavior is more widespread I doubt I'll be racing much.

That's how it is on public servers - people are agressive,mess up and vote for a new chance and majority votes count. Restart is triggered when at least half of drivers currently on track vote it. What I would suggest is to pick another server if one is too messy for you. There are few for sure who are usually well admined,can't tell you any names though as I don't race on public servers,just leagues latelly,which are better admined - check out leagues section for more info,but without S2 licence there's a small chance to find something though.

The demo servers tend to have somewhat strange rules or politics.
On non-demo server like the "B2R gti" and I have not noticed such constant restart-voting.
For leagues/events there is usually some notes about "no restarts"

Newbies allmost never finish a race on demo they always vote for restart

At evenings it's much better when most are adults

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Restart is triggered when at least half of drivers currently on track vote it.

Thanks for the explanation.

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What I would suggest is to pick another server if one is too messy for you. There are few for sure who are usually well admined,can't tell you any names though as I don't race on public servers,just leagues latelly,which are better admined - check out leagues section for more info,but without S2 licence there's a small chance to find something though.

It's good to hear the behavior is better on private servers. I guess that's a good incentive to purchase an S3 license.

BTW, what is with the [FBM]Formula Blackwood public server? I get the lowest ping time there (60-70ms) yet I never see anyone racing.

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Newbies allmost never finish a race on demo they always vote for restart

At evenings it's much better when most are adults

Do you have any universal time and server recommendations for BMW formula racing?

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BTW, what is with the [FBM]Formula Blackwood public server? I get the lowest ping time there (60-70ms) yet I never see anyone racing.

You can try to switch between UDP and TCP in connections list - press N until you get the list in lower right corner,besides host name there is either from those,clicking on it will do the switch. Does help for many with similar problems.