ACC RaceOnOz ACC [PC] Season 4 - Round 1 Super Sprint MISANO!

RaceOnOz Monday Night ACC League Season 4 - GT Challenge
Admin team: @Flamebadger, @krunch, @SteveDrivingSlowly, @nanlatt

Round 1 SUPER SPRINT, MISANO 2019

5th October 2020 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 causing or suffering excessive join lag.

GT3/GT4 CAR CLASSES HAVE BEEN FINALISED!
>> More info here <<​

DRIVER BRIEFING NOTES

• This is the first race of a new season and many of us have not raced together before. All drivers should bear this in mind, and aim for a nice clean first lap. Post-race penalties may be applied for reckless driving.
• NEW RULE!! We will now be partially splitting the qualifying sessions to allow GT4 drivers to have the track exclusively for the first 5 minutes. GT3 drivers MUST NOT exit the pits during this time. GT3 drivers may only cross the pit exit line once the time remaining displays less than 10 minutes. GT4 drivers are not restricted and can use all 15 minutes:
  • First offence: GT3 driver will be teleported back to pits and warned (momentary DSQ)
  • 2nd offence: GT3 driver will be disqualified from the qualifying session.
  • 3rd offence: GT3 driver will be disqualified from the entire round (including any previous race).
• 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 indicate which way you are going - if you indicate left, you go left.
• 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
• 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

RACE SERVER INFO

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Server Name (to be confirmed):
"RaceOnOz.com 01 ROOZ [AUS:AEDT] RACE SERVER S4 Rnd1 2 x 30min of Misano [No Pit Req.] [FP 8:15pm] [Q1 9:00pm] [R1 9:15pm]"

• The race server will be available to join from approximately 7:45pm AEDT and will kick over to official practice at 8:15pm
• The server has a locked entry list and will only allow those who have signed up for the season to join it.
• Qualifying and Practice sessions are open for joining but race sessions are locked.
• The server won't show in the multiplayer lobby so you will need to search for "raceonoz"
• The weather has been set to an average of 24 degrees with a low chance of rain. This applies across all sessions so expect some variation.
• The server time scale multiplier will be set at 2x for this round.
• PASSWORD: season4

PRACTICE SERVER INFO

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Server Name (to be confirmed):
"RaceOnOz.com 01 ROOZ [AUS:AEDT] PRACTICE SERVER S4 Rnd1 2 x 30min of Misano [No Pit Req.] [FP 8:15pm] [Q1 9:00pm] [R1 9:15pm]"

• The practice server is available now and will stop at approximately 7:45pm AEDT on Monday night when it becomes the race server
• 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"
• All conditions are set to match those that will be used for the race server
• PASSWORD: season4

SESSION INFO

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The weather has been set to an average of 24 degrees with a low chance of rain. This applies across all sessions so expect some variation. The server time scale multiplier will be set at 2x for this round.

• Official Practice, 45 mins (in game Friday 3pm) - OPEN for joining
  
• Qualifying 1, *15 mins (in game Saturday 10am) - OPEN for joining
  
• Race 1, 30 mins (in game Saturday 2pm) - LOCKED no joining
  
• Practice/break, 5 mins (in game Sunday 9am) - OPEN for joining
  
• Qualifying 2, *15 mins (in game Sunday 11am) - OPEN for joining
  
• Race 2, 30 mins (in game Sunday 3pm) - LOCKED no joining

*Qualifying session times for Super Sprints have been lengthened by 5 min to allow for exclusive GT4 track time

RACE FORMAT

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• Super Sprint format of 2 x 30 min races.
• 2 x *15 min qualifying sessions - 1 for each race.
• No mandatory pitstops.
• Refueling is NOT allowed in the races. Even if you pit you will be unable to get fuel. Make sure you have enough in the tank before you go to the grid!
• 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.

*Qualifying session times for Super Sprints have been lengthened by 5 min to allow for exclusive GT4 track time

CAR CHOICE
Season 4 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

• NEW season entries Close strictly at 6:00pm AEDT on the Saturday night prior to the Monday race night.
  
• Season 4 Sign up & Info thread
  
• Season 4 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 4. 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 accidently 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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