Pretty sure towards the end we had established chat had helped with room stability. In the last few seasons I ran we had chat on in the room with minimal issues (well no more than we would normally have with it off anyway) I don't think this is as big a deal as people are making it out to be in my personal opinion.
Yeah fair enough mate, personally during the Sunday races I would rather be concentrating and not have anyone on chat, during the week and practice I do like a bit of banter so I like to be in the chat, that and I can't keep my mouth shut .
Can I volunteer to test it this season? If there is mass problems due to the chat then I'll speak no more of it. Worth testing it before we ban it.
The only issue is not getting the whole field in otherwise it would be fine we all manage to play other games whilst using party chat. If only we had a ptt function.
That'll only be an issue for the first race or two going by last season's attendances in D1 and D2 lol
Sweet. I don't think it'll be a risk but if I'm proven otherwise then I wont push the subject. First round I will have a PS4 party chat open, whoever wants to come and hang out in the party chat can. I'm only meaning this to be an alternative to the terrible in-game chat, and for some racers that enjoy or want to experience a small amount of chat. It's primarily for track awareness, letting someone know track penalty go around, you've got inside, na I don't have it it's yours, who's in front/behind you. You could join and if you don't like whatever chat is going on it's easy to leave or just mute your chat volume and keep driving. Most races last HTO I've had to mute my chat volume as someone has left their mic on the whole race and I get there TV background coming through as garbage anyways.
I suspect it'll be one of those things that if we can't ALL be in chat, then no one should be, one in, all in or 8 out, all out, the idea is that we all sing from the same sheet of music, with no advantages or disadvantages to anyone on the grid, ie: if a drivers is in chat to the guy in front and can talk his way through a clean pass that's an advantage for him, if the next guy in the queue is not in chat he's unable to do the same and has to do it the hard way without warning the guy in front and has to be much more cautious and probably take more time to get the same pass done, without causing an incident, therefore he is at a disadvantage, the result is the drivers in chat have an advantage over those who aren't.
Here is a good idea, just use your headlights to warn someone your gonna attempt a pass. Just flash the crap out of them until they spin out
I can't remember who used to do that, would annoy the absolute piss out of you when he did it. Probably Jono
