ACC RaceOnOz ACC [PC] Season 5 Round 9 [Brands Hatch] Sprint

RaceOnOz Monday Night ACC League Season 5 - GT Challenge
Admin team: @Flamebadger, @krunch, @SteveDrivingSlowly, @nanlatt

Round 9 - SPRINT - Brands Hatch 2020

29th March 2021 at 8:15pm
(AEDT - click for time zone info)​

REMINDER: NO CUSTOM PAINTED SKINS ALLOWED DUE TO JOIN LAG! PENALTIES MAY APPLY
We recommend completely uninstalling custom painted skins from your ACC folders to avoid the excessive join lag issue.​

DRIVER BRIEFING NOTES

• Redressing is a thing - It's important to redress when you have caused another car to lose position. This may reduce any potential post race penalty but more importantly it is a sign of respect to the other driver which means far more than a simple apology. This league prides itself on respectful, enjoyable race events and most drivers get more out of that than pure results. We suggest that after your apology you announce that you are redressing in case the other driver decides to let you continue without redressing. We ask that drivers read "The Rooz Guide to Courteous Driving" again to be sure of understanding the ROOZ racing philosophies (if you haven't read it yet then you've been naughty!)

• Start Formation - Please respect other drivers and stay in your grid position. Do not stay 'ghosted' within any other car especially in the final phase of the formation lap. It is not acceptable to take another car's position before the start. If ACC fails to give a penalty for being out of position then the Admin team will issue a post race penalty. Driver's need to be side by side with their row partner and must maintain a reasonable gap to the cars ahead prior to the lights going green. The Kunos start system isn't perfect and still allows cars to be a fair way out of place by the time the lights go green so we will continue to review starts as a matter of procedure. We will issue warnings or penalties to drivers that we believe are gaining an unfair advantage or disadvantaging other drivers by being out of position. We'd also like drivers to stop all weaving and brake warming as soon as the double file segment begins. These sorts of sloppy grid formations can lead to major crashes in the first few corners so we'd like to clean that up.

• Avoiding Lap 0 and Lap 1 Carnage! - Take extra care as the lights go green as all cars will be in a tight, accelerating pack:
  • Expect cars to be much closer to you and varying in speed due to all the others around so try to leave a tad more space.
  • Assume there are cars in your blind spots and and on the other side of visible cars until the pack spreads out more.
  • In braking zones you must brake SIGNIFICANTLY earlier than you would in general racing.
  • Avoid sudden direction changes unless you are sure you are well clear.
  • If on a straight section don't drift - stay straight.
  • Approach each situation with caution but execute your driving with intelligence.
  • If you need to redress in this tight pack situation keep going until you can move out of the traffic safely before slowing down

GENERAL INFO

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• Discord voice chat rules and etiquette:
  • if you intend to chat you MUST use push-to-talk. No-none wants to hear your gear clicks, heavy breathing or barking dog in the background.
  • non-excessive chat and banter is OK in Practice sessions.
  • There should be minimal chat in Qualifying sessions - essential questions, statements, apologies etc. only.
  • There should be minimal chat in Race sessions - essential questions, statements, apologies etc. only.
  • If you become frustrated or angry at yourself or another driver DO NOT PUSH YOUR TALK BUTTON. Keep it private!
  • DO NOT CONDUCT ARGUMENTS OVER VOICE CHAT. Sort it out later!
  • ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. There's no place for that stuff at Rooz!
  • Please wait until ALL drivers have completed the final lap of a race before discussing your race.
  • Admins may speak at any time in any session for obvious reasons.

• Optional use of indicators - Should drivers wish to use indicators to assist with managing lapped traffic, they are to be used as they are used on the road - i.e. you should indicate which way you are going - if you indicate left, you go left. REMEMBER TO TURN THEM OFF AGAIN.

• All drivers should read the "Rooz Etiquette guide' and "Rules & Regs" linked below before the start of Round 1.

• Enjoy the battles with others and yourself

SERVER INFO

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Race Server Name: "RaceOnOz.com 01 ROOZ [AUS:AEDT] PRAC/RACE SERVER S5 Rnd9 60min of Brands Hatch"

• The race server will kick over to official practice at 8:15pm on the Monday night
• The server has a locked entry list and will only allow those who have signed up for the event to join it.
• Qualifying and Practice sessions are open for joining but the race sessions will be locked.
• The server won't show in the multiplayer lobby so you will need to search for "raceonoz" or "rooz"
• PASSWORD: season5

Practice Server Name: "RaceOnOz.com 01 ROOZ [AUS:AEDT] PRAC/RACE SERVER S5 Rnd9 60min of Brands Hatch"

• The server has a locked entry list and will only allow those who have signed up for the season to join it.
• All sessions are open for joining.
• The server won't show in the multiplayer lobby so you will need to search for "raceonoz" or "rooz".
• All conditions are set to match those that will be used for the race server.
• PASSWORD: season5

NOTE: Wacky Wednesday League Practice - Every Wednesday night we host a semi-closed race practice evening ahead of the upcoming Season 5 championship round. These are very informal and chilled out practice sessions where you can come in and try out set-ups, chat and have some fun racing without worrying about your championship points (this is separate to the 24/7 practice server which is always available). Importantly you can practice close racing moves with far less pressure and less consequence than Monday nights and we particularly encourage those newer to sim racing to join in. There are often excellent tips from some of our top pro drivers too.
Whacky Wednesday Forum Thread

RACE & SESSION INFO

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This round is a SPRINT:

• 1 x 60 min race.
• 1 Mandatory pitstop for tyres.
• Fuel optional, fill time not fixed.
• Full formation lap with UI gizmo and car ghosting on. Getting too far out of position can result in being auto-sent to the pits for the start.
• Server time scale multiplier set at 2x for this round.
  
• SESSIONS:
  • Official Practice, 45 mins (in game Friday 3pm) - OPEN for joining
  • Qualifying, 15 mins (in game Saturday 3pm) - OPEN for joining
  • Race, 60 mins (in game Sunday 3pm) - LOCKED no joining
• Weather: "ambientTemp": *20, "cloudLevel": 0.1, "rain": 0.1, "weatherRandomness": 4
  * base temp has been changed from 24

CAR CHOICE
Season 5 is a fixed car per driver championship. Whichever car you start your first official round in will be the car you use for the rest of the season.

MORE INFO

• Rules & Regs
• The Rooz Guide to Courteous Driving
• Lodging protests post race

DISCORD & VOICE

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All important information for racing is available on our forums, however we strongly advise drivers to join our Discord server for for voice and text chat. Sometimes critical information such as server issues, race delays, last minute race format changes, instructions to a specific driver, etc. will be relayed only through the Discord voice channel and text chat. There is also a healthy dose of banter that just makes the round more fun . Once you sign up for any Season at Rooz you'll be given extra Discord permissions for text chat.

Discord voice chat rules and etiquette:

• if you intend to chat you MUST use push-to-talk. No-none wants to hear your gear clicks, heavy breathing or barking dog in the background.
• non-excessive chat and banter is OK in Practice sessions.
• There should be minimal chat in Qualifying sessions - essential questions, statements, apologies etc. only.
• There should be minimal chat in Race sessions - essential questions, statements, apologies etc. only.
• If you become frustrated or angry at yourself or another driver DO NOT PUSH YOUR TALK BUTTON. Keep it private!
• DO NOT CONDUCT ARGUMENTS OVER VOICE CHAT. Sort it out later!
• ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. There's no place for that stuff at Rooz!
• Please wait until ALL drivers have completed the final lap of a race before discussing your race.
• Admins may speak at any time in any session for obvious reasons.
• Feel free to hang around in chat after the race. Many of us like to have a laugh about things that may have happened in the race and it can be a nice wind-down

• ROOZ Discord Server

CUSTOM PAINTED SKINS

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Unfortunately due to the serious "join freeze" or "join lag" issue we are currently not allowing the use of custom painted skins for Season 5. Specifically we are talking about skins painted externally and saved as PNG files that are added to ACC.

We love the idea of custom painted skins and would dearly love to add this rich feature to our league but ultimately the quality of the racing must come first. We have discussed at length a number of ideas and methodologies to try to overcome the problem but these involve arrangements which add complexity for the admin team as well as all drivers involved in the season and still may not result in overcoming the problem. If the situation improves significantly either through better support within ACC or through the community arriving at workable solutions then we will certainly look at allowing custom painted skins into our Monday night league racing.

If you also love custom painted skins then please help us out by searching high and low for real solutions, and by all means feel free to do some testing on our servers including during our Wednesday fun practice nights.

At this stage we are not restricting the use of the in-game editor for creating custom colour schemes. This may change if we find that even that system causes serious join lag issues.

NOTE: As we cannot block the use of skins at the server level we strongly suggest all drivers who sign up to Season 4 remove all custom painted skins from their game installation folders as a precaution. If a custom painted skin has been accidentally left selected on a driver's car when they enter the S4 server during a qualifying session causing join lag they will be immediately disqualified from the round. Any driver that has a copy of that joining driver's selected skin will experience a large join lag as that image is loaded into memory. Every other driver on the server may experience some level of 'join lag' even if they have zero customs skins in their game.

Thanks for racing at RaceOnOz
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Yeah I’ve never raced here either. British tracks are weird.

Do I even have the track medals?

Knockhill was my favourite on TOCA on PS1! Crazy track but I’ve never tried it on a PC sim.

Hey all. We've made a change to the temperature settings for this race:
Weather: "ambientTemp": *20, "cloudLevel": 0.1, "rain": 0.1, "weatherRandomness": 4
* base temp has been changed from 24
We were seeing very high ambient and track temperatures on the previous setting.

Absolutely a fair question and apologies to those who have spent time setting up the car for the previous conditions.

The simple answer is that the setting of 24c did not yield anything close the intended conditions.

When making the calendar for the season we set all the intended temps for each round in order to hopefully create a good balance. The spanner in the works is that there have been at least a couple of updates to the weather system since then and a setting of 24c is creating much higher temps than expected. We never intended Brands Hatch to be a hot race so decided to bring it back to something more reasonable.

RIP Silver.
Bad race for me, started very very well. Then went very very bad. List of formal apologies:
@krunch
@killagorilla
@gominiman
@HondaRacing
@My Parents
@All of humankind