Unfortunately were not going to please everyone, however the restrictions in place are to provide more exciting racing. This wont sit happy with everyone, but we cant please everyone. FXO drivers, don’t treat this as the end of the world, the FXO is still as capable of winning a race, it was just very slightly overpowered against the other turbo cars.

If your someone looking to take part in the league, visit the forum and let people know your availability. You will find the right section when you register.

A note to teams, were looking for many more, with 9 slots still available. Please apply!

Our website is 90% finished, and were now open to serious teams who wish to participate in championship.

Please apply on our forum, for further details.


www.btccracing.co.uk

At the mo, this still is a public server, so for role-play sakes, think of it as an open day. (anyone can race and get banned)

The real racing will come from the league, with proper drivers and teams. It wont be long.

We are tolerant with drivers who make light contact, rub doors, and small bumps. However this is not suggesting that drivers should treat this as a crash server, however tempting that might be.

TOCA style driving is exactly like this, providing that its not going to put another driver out of the race or the track, as you will be banned for dangerous driving. Were trying to be strict, but at the same time we want everyone to have fun, and having a scrap with someone is fantastic.

Dangerous driving will not be tolerated, and will result with a ban.

Take a look at some you tube vids and you will see the rules were trying to put in place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsKE2Nh614

This is the style of racing; some drivers might have to adapt their style.

Last edited by Sirsmiley, Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:03.

Thanks for the idea. Im pleased to tell you that this feature was going to be part of the website, im glad people are thinking along the same lines.

We would like racers to at least make an effort to use toca related skins, either made by us, pubic download, or one of their own. It just helps with the atmosphere rather than having red, blue and yellow cars.

Were looking at making people join the BTCC league as a manufacture team, rather than an individual team. Simple league, it should make things more interesting.

Nick

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I was talking about FZ5 not FZR...we have enough GTR servers :P

Glad things are working out.
Expect to see me there.
What global time is the server ussualy visited?

Thanks

Sorry i misread read what you said and automatically typed fzr. For me most people connect after 19:00GMT and goes on well up to 12:00 + when i left last night.

I will add the car tonight, and see how things go, providing it’s in the same speed class i cant see it being a problem. Im not really looking to make races a 1/2 man battle at the front, and then everyone spaced out 500 meters down the track.

Last night we had 5-6 cars battling for first in a pack. As for the pits, i agree it needs to have a purpose and larger laps will be a result of that. However i don’t think getting rid of the pit is a good idea, because it makes you have to think a lot more, rather than just sit in pole and wait for the flag.

I will also try and sort out the LFS lapper to make it slow a lot less information, as it can be very distracting. I just need to work out where and how I do this.

Hope to see some of you tonight!

We can try the FZR, but so far there has been over 25 connections and some quite spectacular racing going on. Thanks for all the positive feedback, im glad its something new to explore.

On a side note, if anyone has any experience with editing server cfgs and the lapper system please get in contact, as we are stuck with some issues that need to be tweaked.

Thanks

Thanks for the feedback. I’m in no way looking to do something major as of this moment, the idea of a league is a fantastic idea, however I just wanted to see how things go.

This is aimed at casual/semi pro racers, who want to race turbo’s and have that touring car feeling. Agreed with the LX4 and having other tracks, I found that a lot of people were commenting about a server that had the LX4 to race with. Apparently there’s not many if none at all.

The server will be upgraded to the maximum race slots available, as we did have the server full two or three times yesterday.

I was playing about with some restrictions, and the xfr fits very well into the tbo class providing it’s restricted. Generally speaking in "toca" you have a mixed class within a race. (i could be wrong)

Me and someone called “dev” were testing out the two, with him in a FB4 and me with the restricted XFR, and it was really quite exciting, he was always getting me on the straights, and I was getting him in the corner. Its nice knowing that you hold an advantage and it went right down to the line.

I think it will be quite exciting seeing a restricted mixed pack, with various advantages over each other, but ultimately balanced non the left.

Track rotation is being worked on, and I’m working out how to work the insim pack.

If anyone has any experience and fancies helping in anwayway, your more than welcome.

Nick

* I hope so to!

Threes a few guys on, and the turbo class seems to be well suited to this style of racing.

I also added an LX4 just to mix the pack up a bit, however we believe it’s slightly overpowered regardless that its in-fact slower than the others.

Does anyone know a way to implement the restriction setting to all players who select this car?

Thanks

Thanks for the comments everyone.

I have setup the server now, named "BTCC Touring 2008", you should find it under the turbo class.

Hope to see you there

Thanks for the reply. I will edit my server to have those cars. A few more questions if I may.


1.) Is there a method to change the server colour text, so it stands out a bit more, i cant see anything in the cfg that would allow a colour change.

2.) Any recommended tracks that would suit this style; I was thinking Westfield Internation, as it’s big, open and has plenty of room for over taking?

3.) Im a bit of a n00b when it comes to configs, and I was trying to find how to track rotate so it’s more varied.

Thanks, any feedback is welcome.

Hi Everyone

I have just purchased a server from 500 servers, and I must add a very good purchase. Anyway, back to the point.

I’m a huge fan of Touring cars (TOCA), bumper to bumper equal car racing and I wanted to try and simulate this in LFS. I’m really after some feedback to see what people really want when it comes to a race, understandably I’m not going to cater for everyone, but I see some of the more popular servers always having numbers on them.

Are there any "top tips" to have a successful server, while trying to step away from the GTR's and single seaters.

I would like to try and get qualifying sessions, safety cars and leader boards started, to get the whole race feeling.

Is there anyone out there who would be interested in a joint setup, or willing to give someone some advice about this sort of thing?
I have been racing in LFS for over a year, but only now decided to try and setup my own dedi server.

Thanks everyone

Damn!

Quote from sshhaabb :

Its Here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you order from gameseek?

Has anyone got their G25 from gameseek yet? I have yet to receive a knock at the door, yet it was dispatched last night, any other members who orderd from gameseek got theirs yet? And if so, could you prehaps give a breif location on your location?

I am down south, in the area of Berkshire

G25 from gameseek is now in stock, and is shipping today!

Cant wait!

Nick