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

[vex]

I think what I hate the most, is the series where there aren't ANY pitstops. Takes all strategy away and it all comes down to qualifying.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by vex

I think what I hate the most, is the series where there aren't ANY pitstops. Takes all strategy away and it all comes down to qualifying.

Thats what bugs me about the A1GP

[FrogMan]

the V8 has some races like that, but it's also got some reverse grid starts and these can be craaaaazy. And let's not forget starts with total mayhem. Those are great...

Was talking about adding a Le Mans, well, it's done. I just took over a funky looking Audi LMP1 in a series with still 5 races to go. Just looked at the race strat screen a little and woah, this will need some getting used to. Quali is done and there's still 18 hours before race time, so I got some time...

FM

[Alan T]

Nice first race in the PRC Breedlove wins!

I was all over the place, I think my settings were a bit too agressive

[SirFozzie]

I've posted a race recap in the FOR dynasty thread.

[FrogMan]

for those who had not seen it, the world records page has been reinstated, at least in a basic stats keeping format...

FM

[FrogMan]

Not sure if that link has ever been posted here, but some very interesting stuff if you wanna get a sneak peek at future carsets, BATracer Workshops.

The one they seem the closest to have finished is the FIAGT. They seemed to have something going toward a NASCAR carset at one point, but it looks to have cooled off...

FM

[Neon_Chaos]

Just got into this. Pretty neat.

What's the usual wait time for Public games?

And are there any FOFC Private games around? (other than the one that just started)

[MikeVic]

Whoo! My second public BTCC race, and I got 2nd in the Touring class. Race Brands Hatch GP Circuit Feature.

[MikeVic]

Dola,

I started 10th... and only had the 10th fastest lap. A lot of luck to get this finish.

[FrogMan]

cool! I'm in one BTCC public series, in production and doing pretty good. currently P2 in the series after winning 2 races already.

FM

[FrogMan]

dola, my only 2 wins in my career so far...

[Mr. Wednesday]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I have them. They are handy if you like the game enough to play it alot. Its not like it costs much money. It lets you play in more games at once (instead of just 1 public and 1 private at a time) which is nice. Has some other features, most of which isn't a big deal unless your teammate doesn't cooperate.

Being able to see your teammates' setup is a huge help, even when they are cooperating, as is not having to type up the current setup for posting to teamtalk.

The best tool it comes with is for wet -> dry weather conversion, but once again its nothing that you couldn't do the math for without it if you wanted.

Yup. And actually, the wet/dry tool is slightly more limited because you can only change wetness in increments of 2%, whereas you could go with any percentage you wanted with a spreadsheet calc.

One other thing I use is, at the start of each series I save a copy of my setup with all 50s for the settings. I find it easier to change from that to the engineer's advice than to start from my setting for the previous race.

[Mr. Wednesday]

Also, if anyone wants to hop into the ongoing FOFC Champcar private game, I think Dutch (for one) has disappeared. I believe it would take up a midseason slot. The gameid is 15590 and if I remember right, the password was Vroom.

[Mr. Wednesday]

Double dola, I've hopped into a midseason V8 ride where I'm sitting in 30th, and my driver characteristic is control freak (OK, but not great, especially in a one-characteristic series). Gonna be a challenge to see whether I can pick it up into, say, the mid-teens by season's end.

[kingfc22]

Originally Posted by Mr. Wednesday

Also, if anyone wants to hop into the ongoing FOFC Champcar private game, I think Dutch (for one) has disappeared. I believe it would take up a midseason slot. The gameid is 15590 and if I remember right, the password was Vroom.

I'm in.

[MikeVic]

So is the Engineer's Advice just a rough guide? He'll say something like "medium," and the ending setting ends up being like an 80.

[Mr. Wednesday]

The Engineer's advice tells you what the range of the average setting value is (for ones with front and rear) or the specific setting value is (for singular stuff).

Other than brake bias, low is 0 to 33, medium is 33 to 67, high is 67 to 100. Rarely, you'll get an average one or two points beyond that range. You can take advantage of this to cut down on the possible values for a front/rear setting when you already know the rear/front setting, e.g. if you have front wings at 34 with engineer's advice of "medium", then you know that rear wings won't be lower than 32. (If you've got, say, 0 to 38 range, then you don't even bother testing at 30, you maybe test next at 34 or 36.)

For brake bias, safe is 0 to ~45 (typically 40 or lower), medium is 40 to 60, and loose is ~55 to 100.

[Mr. Wednesday]

Dola, there may be more slots open in the Champcar game. kingfc bounced Jesse Leimkuehler (one of the single-car teams, good luck with that...).

[FrogMan]

if you go to "join midseason game" and enter our game number, it will tell you if there are any drives available. Jesse was the only one available when I checked after you posted the number.

open midseason slots in private games need to be advertised, they don'T show up in the regular "join midseason game" page. Because of that, anybody who would want to join our game should simply enter the game number in the midseason page and see if any drives are available and join at will...

FM

[SnDvls]

Has anyone seen Dutch in a while? He's on my team, but hasn't been around in a while.

I'd hate to sack him, but we could really use a 3rd driver.

[Mr. Wednesday]

See, now I was figuring that Dutch had been gone long enough that he would be eligible for midseason replacement.

Maybe we should try messaging him in-game.

Edit: I sent him an in-game PM. If there's no response tomorrow, I'll initiate a sacking.

[Emiliano]

Tasman Motorsport rules.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Emiliano

Tasman Motorsport rules.

man, that race was awesome! To give everyone some insight, it's in a V8 Supercars series in which Emiliano and I are teammates. It's the second race of the season, the second of the twin races at Adelaide. Starting order for that second race is the finishing order of the first race so Emiliano started 6th and I started 11th.

As I said, that race was awesome! We were so much faster than the other cars, it was scary. I ended up running up the pack all the way to 1st while Emiliano stayed close and despite a driver error that pushed him back from 6th to 16th in the first lap, he finished right behind me, giving Tasman Motorsports the 1-2!!!

FM

[kingfc22]

Originally Posted by Emiliano

Tasman Motorsport rules.

Indeed. Mr. W and I are also on a Tasman Motorsport team. He had a poor start to the season, but now we are rocking!

[Mr. Wednesday]

You're rocking, I'm kinda muddling along.

[vex]

Umm, Voo, did you sleep in and miss the qualifying or what?

[MikeVic]

Oh geez... so I'm 3rd in the series after the two races (with one me being 2nd place), and I had a decent warmup/qualifying, so I'm expecting big things this race.

Here's the start:
There is a collision as Posavec attempts to pass Peter Farish for P7! Posavec is out of the race! Peter Farish is out of the race!

Farish won the first two races..... his comment:
Peter Farish: "for christs sake"


What a game. haha.

[DanGarion]

Hey Leafs, why is your teammate trying to sack you in the 2006 F1 series?

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by dangarion

Hey Leafs, why is your teammate trying to sack you in the 2006 F1 series?

who is Leafs?

FM

[SirFozzie]

Probably my partner

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Probably my partner

Yes I meant you. Not leafs Sorry it was an early morning mistake.

[Mr. Wednesday]

So I signed up for one of the academy races as an "instructor", and landed on the same team with another instructor. Oops.

(Yeah, we can still do instruction in driver chat, but I think it'd work better if we were to mentor a teammate.)

[Lonnie]

Got my first win in a BTCC sprint. My third race in the series, after finishing 13th and 9th the previous two outings. Guess I'll have to donate soon....

[FrogMan]

Here's a neat little I came accross the other day, it's called the BATracer race exporter. Basically what it does is allow you to save one of your race for reference, or simply future replay.

For example, here's that V8 win I was talking about earlier:
http://frogbatracer.googlepages.com/tasmanwin.htm

The race exporter is simply a website in which you copy/paste the source of your race page and it will spit out a page of code which you can then simply copy/paste in notepad and save with the htm extention, veyr easy to use.

you can find it at this link:
http://www.playstation-racing.co.uk/batracer/export/

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Mr. Wednesday

Also, if anyone wants to hop into the ongoing FOFC Champcar private game, I think Dutch (for one) has disappeared. I believe it would take up a midseason slot. The gameid is 15590 and if I remember right, the password was Vroom.

Dutch's seat is indeed now showing as an available drive if anybody wants to step in to help Mr W and SnDvls.

As Mr W said, series number is 15590, password is Vroom.

FM

[SnDvls]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

Dutch's seat is indeed now showing as an available drive if anybody wants to step in to help Mr W and SnDvls.

As Mr W said, series number is 15590, password is Vroom.

FM

and we have a race shortly too

[kingfc22]

GameID: 16060

One of my teammates hasn't been around for a couple days so if you are looking to join a midseason game his spot might be available soon.

This is a Champcar series.

[Lonnie]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

Dutch's seat is indeed now showing as an available drive if anybody wants to step in to help Mr W and SnDvls.

As Mr W said, series number is 15590, password is Vroom.

FM

I took that spot.

[Lonnie]

A1GP Private game with a lot of spots open.

16387
pw: vroom

[FrogMan]

if anybody wanna come and help me, SirFozzie has had to put himself on holiday and is out of my Super Aguri team. The game is a public one, but you can enter this number, 15832, in the midseason game page. Driver to replace is David Yellope.

It's not an easy task, but we did challenge the big teams early on, when both of us were doing setups. Now by myself, it was a bit tougher, but still is fun...

FM

[FrogMan]

dola, as it's a public game, there's no password...

FM

[DanGarion]

So is Batracer starting to die down? I made a clan for FOFC. If you go under WR, and do a Clan Search for FOFC you'll find it.

[FrogMan]

Dan, I think you need to send us some invite if you want us to join the clan. And yes, it seems to have died down quite a bit. Last I checked, 5 seats were available in the FOFC ChampCar series, although this might also be because of Summer vacations...

FM

[Scoobz0202]

I'm just waiting for the new FOFC series to start. Still active in my current series.

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

Dan, I think you need to send us some invite if you want us to join the clan. And yes, it seems to have died down quite a bit. Last I checked, 5 seats were available in the FOFC ChampCar series, although this might also be because of Summer vacations...

FM

Yeah I wasn't sure if people could request to join or if it was invite only.

[kingfc22]

Was just about to ask if anybody made a clan? And of course we did.

[Mr. Wednesday]

Wow, does the new WR system like me better than the old one! I went from somewhere in the low 400's to the top 50.

[Mr. Wednesday]

Dola, it may help that not a single one of my series titles comes from cherry-picking, although only one of them (V8s) is from the post-midseason-replacement era.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

I'm just waiting for the new FOFC series to start. Still active in my current series.

you can join us midseason, the gameid is 15590 and the password is Vroom. You simply have to click on a player to replace among the available drives...

FM