Hi! I've been searching has these been suggested before and I haven't found anything like this being suggested before.
During practice, qualifying or race, there is not a command where you could pause that session temporarily, nor to resume it afterwards. Now, of course, you can stop the session by commands /end, /restart or /qualify, but the problem when using those commands is that it ends the session completely. In qualifying, you could extend length of qualifying, but what if you forget the time when qualifying was stopped? Or, qualifying was already 240 minutes long and you can't extend it anymore?
So, I would like to have a command, where you could pause the session temporarily. In other words, I would like to have ability to effectively red flag the session, but make sure it would be as simple as possible to use as in leagues, which use red flag, admins have returned to lobby to set the grid to restart the race and it can become quite complicated (no offence, forgive me!).
My suggestion would be very similar than pausing the game in single player, but instead of pausing the whole game, it would just stop running the clock and laps counting.
In practice sessions and races where length is in laps, any driven sectors (and therefore laps) would not be counted when session is stopped. In qualifying sessions and races where length is in hours, it would stop running the clock and naturally, any driven sectors and laps would not count when session is stopped.
Now of course there are suggestions about red flagging the session, but I understand developers may not have time to do that. My aim is to make this suggestion as simple as possible.
Probably an admin command /freeze on/off would do that. Or /stop or /pause and /resume to resume it.
During practice, qualifying or race, there is not a command where you could pause that session temporarily, nor to resume it afterwards. Now, of course, you can stop the session by commands /end, /restart or /qualify, but the problem when using those commands is that it ends the session completely. In qualifying, you could extend length of qualifying, but what if you forget the time when qualifying was stopped? Or, qualifying was already 240 minutes long and you can't extend it anymore?
So, I would like to have a command, where you could pause the session temporarily. In other words, I would like to have ability to effectively red flag the session, but make sure it would be as simple as possible to use as in leagues, which use red flag, admins have returned to lobby to set the grid to restart the race and it can become quite complicated (no offence, forgive me!).
My suggestion would be very similar than pausing the game in single player, but instead of pausing the whole game, it would just stop running the clock and laps counting.
In practice sessions and races where length is in laps, any driven sectors (and therefore laps) would not be counted when session is stopped. In qualifying sessions and races where length is in hours, it would stop running the clock and naturally, any driven sectors and laps would not count when session is stopped.
Now of course there are suggestions about red flagging the session, but I understand developers may not have time to do that. My aim is to make this suggestion as simple as possible.
Probably an admin command /freeze on/off would do that. Or /stop or /pause and /resume to resume it.