Season 12 - Division 2

Damage only really works if you can ensure lag free racing. If not all you do is disadvantage innocent parties.

Penalties on/off causes ghosted cars and people overtaking by driving through ghosted cars, as well as being unghosting at unfortunate times.
It also puts you at GT's whim of what a track limit is or isn't so you'd have to abolish regular track limits otherwise there would still be work policing places the game doesn't enforce track limits, which somewhat defeats the purpose.

We have a group of intelligent individuals who can distinguish right from wrong, nanny-ing them with in race penalties gives the same result of over-penalising post race, it makes racing intimidating and un-enjoyable which causes mass dissatisfaction. I like the balance achieved whereby racing incidents are deemed as such, and not all contact is avoidable and everyone gets penalised for every minor scrape.
If the steward workload is such an issue that we'd have the game do it for us, I'd rather volunteer as a steward than see in race penalties in play. I trust us as experienced racers to determine fault and intent with all the replay angles better than the game can.

Our F1 2016 league has been an interesting experiment when it comes to this topic, drivers had no choice but to start being more cautions around other traffic because if they didn't there was a good chance of getting front wing damage that would quickly put them out of contention. We still get the occasional incident, but for the most part the racing has been very clean.

Fortunately it doesn't suffer the same lag punt issues as GT6.

But it also showed that to begin with drivers were very used to taking risks in other games because they could get away with it, and I have to say that my own racecraft has improved as a result.

@Beau_Albert might disagree...

By the same I mean, it doesn't happen very often, I don't recall any reported incidences in the last 7+ races. I suspect the PS3 vs PS4 would be a large part of that, PS4 being a vastly superior platform in general (and probably has 100 times the PSN server resources)

Lol it was a joke referring to the spectacular lag-splosion at Red Bull Ring with Zharvs.
GT6 and the PS3 are notorious for lag but it appears reduced on PS4 titles such as pCARS and notably the F12016 season you guys hosted.

Yeah lol that was funny. He was running on wifi and turned his fans on lol. Interrupted the wifi signal id assume.

So he, very briefly, had more fans that the rest of us?

BOOM BOOM!!

I'm sitting the rest of the season out Gents, sorry to deprive you of another competitor but it's the right thing to do.
I haven't exactly covered myself in glory this season, so not such a big loss.

I'll be back somewhere, sometime, somehow. I refuse to let my day last week crawling around the roof space, suffocating in dust to run CAT-6 be in vain.

Hope Y'all enjoy the rest of the season and good luck.

On a side note, anyone running the new PS4 slim or pro? Would be interesting to see how well the WiFi works on those consoles since it is now 5ghz 802.11ac (Not shared with things like bluetooth, cordless phones and microwaves) and is capable of running at least Gigabit speeds if your ISP supports that speed.

To anyone that is out there.
Pit service on season cars.
Obviously the oil change does something but what EXACTLY does the body rigidity do.

you've never had a (f)rigid girlfriend/boyfriend knux??

i raised this issue in the RZR team convo & no-one went near it....i was curious about everyone's preference after first jumping in at spa with rigidity on a 100% wet track & I sucked so badly..... i figured everyone had just worked it out & was going to let me do the same

remember the setups @apex2691 gave us for the ford v8 series..... thats what with rigidity feels like to me (aggressive setup) v no rigidity (smooth setup)

alternatively, you get gussets in your racing suit so you can stick your elbows out a little easier when you need to (no rigidity)
or
they weld your upper crutch together so you can heel & toe just that little bit easier

I havnt run it on any season car. Albeit that's only 3. Because of the weather rounds. Does it effect tyre wear?

i think tyre wear is better without it. i was running with rigidity on Wed night & have now switched back & found a few more tenths to get closer to your 46.8 laptime

Found it quick early on. But tyres were 2s before lap 28