BATracer general discussion (also if you're looking for a teammate)
 

anybody up for an F1-2007 season with me. I just protected the Super Aguri team with password fofc in the public game of F1-2007. It's not a super team, but it looks like it can have extreme good performances...

Password good for 30 minutes I think...

FM

I'm in, Frogz.. :D

was getting nervous :)

Welcome aboard, this should be fun.

FM

I've changed the title of the thread since I'm looking for another teammate.

The series is now the public F1 2002 series and I'm with BAR, password is good for 30 minutes and is fofc.

http://batracer.com/-cj?&D&15972

BAR is a middle of the road team and I'm only curious to see if I can do better than what Jacques Villeneuve did with that team. :)

FM

also, to get some talking going, what is your favorite series you've run in. I'm currently trying my luck as a single team driver in a V8 Supercars series and let me tell you, it's quite a challenge. We've done the two Adelaide races and we'll start having events with 3 races bundled together. The second one will always be a reverse grid start where you take the finishing position of the first race and reverse that order to give out starting position. Gonna cause some interesting interaction...

FM

I did a BTCC series and had my ass handed to me...definatly challenging.

funny, I'm currently in a BTCC production series and leading the championship after 3 races. That's where I got my first ever pole, then first ever win, in two separate races however.

The password has expired but the seat is still available if anybody is interested...

FM

I uhh...pretty much hate you

:D

So, anyone have any tips on driver settings? I've got some feel for the rest of the game but driver settings are darts on the wall at this point.

don't want to spoil it for SirFozzie, but I had to share this, the qualifying session at Bahrain...

Position Runs		Driver		Team	Time
	1 3	Steve Gougeon Super Aguri		Super Aguri Honda RA807E Bridgestone	1:30.302
	2 3	Tom Roblek BMW Sauber		BMW Sauber BMW P86/7 Bridgestone	+0.047 1:30.349
	3 3	David Yellope Super Aguri		Super Aguri Honda RA807E Bridgestone	+0.200 1:30.502

Take that you Ferraris, McLaren and others... :D

FM

I'm in 5 games right now. 2 I'm doing great in, 1 I'm doing good, and the other two, I don't want to talk about:)

id#	Game Name	Champ Pos	Status		Created
15879	Le Mans Endurance Series	P2	Mid Ohio Warmup NOW Race: 7 hr 8 min [ Edit Notes ]		01:49 Thursday
15849	A1GP	P23	Eurospeedway Sprint Warmup NOW Race: 1 hr 32 min [ Edit Notes ]		22:37 Tuesday
15743	F1 2007	P6	Monaco Practice NOW Qualifying: 19 hr 41 min [ Edit Notes ] Academy Game: Closer Performance Cars		02:57 Sun 1
15664	BTCC Generic Championship	P12	Thruxton Feature Practice NOW Qualifying: 14 hr 27 min [ Edit Notes ] Academy Game: Closer Performance Cars	Mid-Season	Wed 27 Jun
15590	FOFC Indy Car	P1	Belle Isle Park Practice NOW Qualifying: 1 hr 22 min [ Edit Notes ]	Private	Mon 25 Jun

I kept skipping the BATracer threads in my lurking. Checked out a BATracer thread tonight and just joined my first public league. Game looks interesting. Opened up the Honda team, so here goes......

Game ID is 15978 and there's no password.

If you have a Private Race open, feel free to join in. I'm on team honda

aww man, that's not nice. I've got 10 on my plate at the moment and there you are, tempting me like that... :)

I'll hold off a bit...

FM

dola, did I tell ya I'm fairly addicted to this game... :D

FM

I'm in.

I was just about to ask everyone what we are looking to do after the current Cart season is over.

I'm sure FOFCers can team up in plenty of private/public series on top of the regular FOFC series of the moment...

I'm enjoying working with SirFozzie in our Super Aguri series a whole lot at the moment.

FM

Yeah, we're doing really well as a small team (Of course, our cars seem to be made of paper mache at times).. but it proves that if you work together well, the little guys can compete

yes, and you should take a look at the "have a gloat" threads in their forums. Always impressive to see a guy win a championship with a Spyker. :eek:

FM

Yeah I joined the Williams team that Fozzie just posted. I'm sure it will be better then my last F1 series. My teammate has a lot of experience so that will either be a good thing, or it will go bad as he sours because of my playing style :).

oh, so Fozz is still all alone with his Honda then? hrm, tempting... :)

FM

one thing I learned yesterday. When you have the thinker characteristic for your driver, you can run all of your practice/warmup laps with 100 experimentation and you will never have either of the overenthusiasm message nor a crash. That's one big advantage to know about...

FM

you can stop hating me, you transfered your hatred to my car today. Had 4 bad events in a race where I was trying to come from the back line. Had a bad start, 2 driver errors, and an engine problem that left me limping back home, bleh. Maybe I overdid it on the driving strategy sliders trying to gain all those positions back...

In my V8 series, I also had some mechanical problems and again limped back home, but it was very important that I did so. It was the first race of a three race weekend. The second race is that reverse grid I mentionned, however, only cars who finished the first race get to have their starting position reversed from their finishing position in the previous race, all the non finishers start from the back of the grid. Because of that, I will start 2nd tomorrow, in front of many much faster car. Should be fun... :D

FM

Damn. That's a great one to know. I can't remember what I choose for this league...

go to season standings, then you can choose to see the driver characteristics for everyone. I need to do that for most my series, as I never remember which one has it...

FM

You feel comfortable with a total newbie as a partner, or is that something you would prefer to have a more experienced partner in.

I welcome everyone.. :)

good show on the third place Foz, right behind the two BMW Sauber, that's impressive...

Shame that my papier maché of a car had to break down, again...

FM

dola, don't know about you, but I was cheering wildly when we both ended up in 1st and 2nd in lap 4 with you registering the fastest lap at the time. Yeah, it was only lap 4, but who cares, it was awesome... :D

Go Go Aguri!!!

FM

It's still pretty much the darts thing for me too. I'm experimenting a lot. Depending on if my car is a dependable one or not, I might lower the mechanical sympathy slider. I've found that going above 80 on about any slider is sometimes a risky business.

The tyre use slider goes without saying I'd say. I base it on what my engineer says my tires will last. If he say they might last half the race and I plan only one stop, I'll lower it way down. But if he says half the race and I plan on two stops, then I'll push it to above 70, since the tires now only have to last a third of the race each.

I guess we're all pretty much trying stuff at this point...

FM

I'm getting a little more feel for the sliders. Pace and aggression seem okay set high (70-ish). Mech sympathy is very touchy, I've been setting that down to 35 and have had some clean races now. Even at 50 it was problematic.
I learned to crank the wet tire use, since they don't wear down much at all. Obvious but I missed it the first time.
Pit stops are also pretty touchy. I had problems at 60, have tried 55 which seems better. There also seems to be a trend for lower mechanic settings, but I haven't had issues leaving it at 50.
Dunno about the start.

Nice I picked thinker. And speed demon.

if anybody wants to cherry pick, an F1 2002 public series just opened, only one Ferrari taken and nothing else...

I'm never around when they open new ones, and when I am, I've got no more public game slots left, heh.

FM

No thanks,
no desire to be Mj curtis's team mate :)

dola, posting that thing reminded me of something I wanted to post. Car comparisons I've saved as cheat sheets so far for two F1 carsets...

Here's the F1 2002:


And the F1 2007:


And here's the legend explaining things:


You can find them by going under "Results", "Car Comparion" in a series. Some series don't have them, like ChampCar or A1GP (where all cars are exactly the same), but it helps when you have one, at least you know what you are getting into.

Looking at that, you can also appreciate why SirFozzie and me are happy being competitive even just a little bit while driving the Super Aguri team...

Don't mind the points and yellow backgrounds, they represent points in my series and the yellow is for the team I was driving at the moment I took the screenie...

FM

Don't know him and would probably have looked around before signing up. My point was more that a couple other very good teams were available in that series and somebody could have locked one up with a password to team up with another FOFCer... :)

FM

Yeah, the cherry-picking... is a problem. If they fixed that I'd buy KT. Well, that and the 'idiot teammate' problem.

Interesting that in your A1GP dynasty, no one chose Thinker. You'd think that'd be of the most use when you don't have a teammate.

Well, I might have my internet issue solved after a month of frustration.

Time to get back in this.

BTW, CART guys?

It's not demolition derby, you know.

Ah, I logged off just before you responded and see somebody already grabbed the spot. Will have to try harder next time :)

A1GP is KILLING me. I'm in freakin last place.

Thinker and charismatic are not available in the A1GP, or else, I would have picked it :)

FM

What the heck does charismatic do? Keep your teammate from being a tool?? :)

here are all the traits...

I'm guessing it means faster pitstops as your crew will like to work for you...

FM

Either that or you get more practice runs then your teammate

Fricken breaks!

Heh, it sounded useless to me, I was wondering if you had some inside scoop on it since you said you would have picked it...

Firing up a public ChampCar team, password protected for 30 minutes under "Dola"

nope, meant I would have picked thinker in a single driver team for sure. Don't care much about charismatic as it.s too vague for me...

FM