This post isnt directed specfically just to you Wolf, we have quite a few new members so I'll go in depth with how practices work now.
SNAIL Official Practice is Thursdays @ 9PM EST
I decided to change up the practice format a bit, and I think everyone is pretty happy with it. Since SNAIL no longer uses qualifying which has increased our total race time (from roughly 12 minutes per race to 16 minutes), I felt like 2 16min races were not optimal for practice/recruitment. For a number of reasons:
- Longer races means the field can get thinned out pretty easily, and its not uncommon to find yourself running solo laps.
- If a random joins mid race, its highly unlikely they're going to sit still for 15 minutes waiting for the race to end, just to find out that maybe that was our final race at that combo and we are now switching to the next one.
- Shorter races = field stays tighter for longer.
So instead of doing a mock of Sunday night like we have in the past for practice (6 races total), we now do 3 sprints per combo. I try to set the amount of laps so we get a total of 8-10mins per race. Fastest first for the first race like always, and then reverse grid for the remaining 2. When I switch to the next combo I announce that the track is open for qually, and people can either use that time to set some laps or use it for a quick break.
Lobby has been filling quickly, and usually stays full for the majority of the night. If people hop on late and cant get in, they can either wait for someone inevitably to leave, or they can take it upon themselves to open a practice room. If you do end up hosting a room, you take on a certain responsibility and need to make sure the lobby settings are correct. When you're in the official practice lobby you can save the lobby settings for future hosting yourself by hitting
race settings > view event settings > save settings. Now all you have to do is 'load' them when you go to create your own lobby. And you dont even have to be physically in the race lobby in order to save or view these settings. Simply select the SNAIL Prac lobby from the online lobbies menu, hit Triangle, and there will be an option for "room info" or something similar. From there you can save it as well.
Its advised that you have some form of advertising in the lobby title that points towards us. I always use
www.snailracing.org in the lobby title of the practice lobbies. Any potential recruits are directed straight to the first post of this thread and are met with all the vital info about us.
Maybe when GT7 launches and we shoot back up to 100 members,
maybe we go back to using Blue, Red, and Yellow rooms Wolf?
See you guys tomorrow
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