Hi Guys and Gals
So this message is only addressed to the confirmed '
Pro Teams' that will be competing in the N24 in February. It does not apply to the 'Am Teams' that are competing in the VLN series ONLY.
In February, all teams competing will need all of there drivers to be gathered together in one location in order to share a single driving rig/PS3 and PSN ID. In the previous 2 years what has tended to happen is the PSN ID used for the race has been the Team Managers account (or that of the driver hosting the team gathering), so for instance last February Team Motion Blur used my 'Gadget334' account.
Next year we are working hard to promote this event and have an audience beyond the participating teams, even beyond the GTP community, out into the public domain of real life racing enthusiasts. We plan to have 2 live streams running, the first with live camera action footage, and the second showing the 'Timing Screen' with race positions and split times etc.
It would be quite confusing for casual or first time viewers that don't know that (for example) 'memto89' is the Team Car for 'Concrete Climax Racing', or 'Play117' is the Team Car for 'Team Octane Racing' to follow the action. So we are requesting that
just for the N24 race itself all Pro teams create a
special PSN ID for team use.
I have just created "Team_Motion_Blur" as a new account and when GT6 is released I will use that account enough to buy the team car we decide on for the race in February. This will mean that in in the Timing screens our car will correctly show as our team name, and not my personal name.
In order to create a new Account, on the main PS3 XMB menu go to 'Create Account'. You will need an email address different to the one your main PSN account is tied to, but if you don't have this then just create one in Google or hotmail. You don't need to add credit card details as this will just be a second account.
There are some restrictions on PSN ID's. The name cannot exceed 16 characters, and must consist only of upper/lower case letters, numbers, hyphens and underscores. No other
special characters are allowed. Purely by luck (I swear!!) my team name is exactly 16 characters but some of the other Team Names will need abbreviating. Below is my suggestion of Pro Team names that would work in this format.
I suggest you register these names as soon as possible, but everyone can carry on using our regular names for the whole VLN series because it doesn't need any sharing of accounts. Then sometime after the final GT6 cars have been selected as your team car for February, teams will need to ensure that the Team Account is played a bit in order to earn/buy that team car ready for 23rd February.
Please confirm when this 'housekeeping' task is completed. If any teams want to modify the abbreviation of their team then fine (just let me know), but the above would all work and to my eye look OK. We will obviously need to get all of these accounts Added as PSN Friends at some stage too, but that can be done in February.
Thank you!!
