Batracer thread!

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It should be fun, wouldn't it?

Though if I'm ever gonna join, I'll need reliable teammies - and those aren't found on the other teams :p


EDIT: Hey hey hey! My BATSevens team just got a free spot open in the Mid-seasons. Darren Jean-Pierre went AWOL, and his Caterham's open! Quick... Public game No. #14043, or clicky
I'll kill if another worthless AWOLer joins. This driver is the 3rd cycle in this team.
EDIT2: Danny joined :D

Avec la chance:

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And Duncan, when are you returning? Notify me - I don't want to be accused of switching sides in the GTP battle, now that I have a Sauber seat, despite a lovely podium for the Spyker ;)
 
And I'm back in the lead, only 3 races left, that promises :cheers:

EDIT: Just checked the compare list, I'm first in everything 👍
 
Black Flags

Please play fairly - or your profile may be labelled with a permanent black flag and you will be given a temporary ban resulting in driver sacking from all public games.

They figured you out Jamez:lol:

;)
 
They figured you out Jamez:lol:

;)

They figured out my BATSevens teammie - he didn't do a thing for 5 days (just logged on 3 days ago). Now he's BlackFlagged and I've got Danny in.

But I think they mean folks like that guy, rather than Jamez' type - as long as you have KT on both accounts, it's fine and dandy. But that guy, well... He joined a team using the same user - just a different in-season nickname.
 
I don't have 2 accounts anymore. My old account is the one I gave to CCY.

What should it matter anyway. I saw a "Dave Carr Smith VI" the other day! How many damn accounts does this guy need?

Also, I vote that after S12 we move away from F1's, because they are getting boring, last season we lost Sharky, CCY, and Blake, this season one of the most reliable's, n01rc3ur left us... and now most people are complaining about newbie AWOL's. So I vote we change to a Custom Championship, whether it be LMES, BAT7's, BTCC or Champ Car, it doesn't matter.

We can just pick a couple of teamies, people that you can rely on, and get on with a fun season. We could decide teams by getting the top half of the championship (or top third if it is a 3 car team) to chose their team mates for the next season. Then we can make our own liveries as well. It would be much more fun!
 
I'll probably call it a day when we move on from F1, the series history is based on the F1 carset so you know, I guess it would be a fresh beginning and all..
 
Lee: It just seems to me that you are not willing to accept that most people are getting sick of the same thing over and over just so you can get what you want, we need to mix things up a bit to keep it interesting.

You don't want to try a replacement to the lottery, and you don't want to try a replacement to F1. It just sounds all one minded to me.

Our best bet to get a fun competitive season would be either BAT7's or Champ Car, because all the cars are so evenly matched. Of course A1 would be the perfect option, but some people don't want it because either, they're not good at it, or they want a team mate. But it's those exact same people that complain about their team mate going AWOL.

I honestly can't see GTP seasons going any further than S12 if they stay in F1. There's too many AWOL's and too many drop outs. We need to shake things up a bit.

And Ash needs to at least update the thread title from 'Season 9' to 'Season 11'.
 
I don't know exactly which one of you it is, but Jamez joined Renault in a game I'm halfway through.

For the record, I'm the one caoming last. Honda are yet to score any points ...
 
Champcar could be nice, but all my expirience there so far sucked (Reynard/Mercedes is one heckuva slow combination).

BATSevens should be fun, but the problem of AWOL'ing teammates will only increase, with three-car teams. Perhaps we could allow single-car entries only in the BATSevens? Or, we sign up teams that are trustworthy and will compete the whole season.

And I'm out if you want BTCC. My suggestion is keeping the F1 as main series, with another one constantly running alongside - Sevens, Champcar, A1GP, whatever else.


Or, which is an idea I like, take F1 '86, or the '67 when it's released.
 
If we go F1 86 you can count me out. Too many cars in that series havent a snowballs chance in hell of winning.
 
Yeah 86 we need to find another 6 drivers, only for the crappy teams. Champcar raises the AWOL issue with 3 car teams as does BATsevens. BTCC requires 32 for a full grid and V8's is totally out of the question after we had 3 seasons of around 10 people. A1GP could be a different challenge but like Metar says, why not just run it as a side championship, keeping 07 as the main one, like it has been for over a year?
 
We just need a season we equal opportunity. The lottery sucks at serving up a fair drive every season, because we always get some late entry n00b in a good team that goes AWOL within the first 3 races.

I think just let people pick their own team mates.

As I suggested, the top half of the field at the end of the season are then seperated to being the Team Leaders for each team next season. Then it's on first picked basis.

Eg. If we were to have a dummy season with 6 drivers, 3 teams.

Team 1: Driver 1 - Driver 2
Team 2: Driver 3 - Driver 4
Team 3: Driver 5 - Driver 6

If at the end of the season the drivers championship finishes in this order:

1st: Driver 6
2nd: Driver 1
3rd: Driver 4
4th: Driver 3
5th: Driver 5
6th: Driver 2

Now the team leaders are Drivers 6, 1, & 4. Those drivers then chose from Drivers 3, 5, & 2 to become their team mate for the new season.

So obviously the top half can rarely be AWOL drivers, otherwise they wouldn't be in the top half. So it is then up to those people to chose new team mates for their team, and I'm bloody well certain that if I was a team leader I wouldn't be picking "Matt Keller", or "Dylan Sksdbfvb-whatever-hwfwojnc".

So AWOL problem fixed, yeh?
 
The lottery seems to be working quite fair, apart from one thing - it doesn't stop those "catapulted" from their seat to just pick another catapulted seat. If, say, those seats would not be available for those racers, it'd increase the amount of drivers moving from car to car.

But again - why not single-car BATSevens or A1GP as a side-season?
 
I'd be up for that, but anyone without Kool Tools will be limited to only one private game and wont be able to join.
 
The lottery seems to be working quite fair, apart from one thing - it doesn't stop those "catapulted" from their seat to just pick another catapulted seat. If, say, those seats would not be available for those racers, it'd increase the amount of drivers moving from car to car.

But again - why not single-car BATSevens or A1GP as a side-season?


Until you've played a few seasons with us, you wont understand how much the lottery sucks. Is has no 'outsider' protection what-so-ever. Any idiot can join and just decide to give up, ruining his team mates season.

This season alone we've had 4, maybe 5 AWOL's already. That's the most we've ever had that I can recall since I've been here. 👎

Plain and simple, F1'07 + Lottery doesn't work. :ouch:
 
I stand by what I said. You are yet to prove your loyalty.

However, you're a Mid-Season replacement for an AWOL. That's a different story to what I'm refering to.
I'm talking about people who just show up 5 minutes before the start, who have never posted here before, 'steal' a good seat and disappear from sight.
 
I dunno, I always thought of GTP as just a nice private game between friends, yes theres an aspect of competition but in the end, it's just a way for 22 amigo's to have some fun.

Saying that your idea does seem to make a nice twist however your always gonna get the unpopular ones not getting picked, or the ones who finished near the bottom, especially in a good car.

I think with your choice, the good people are gonna get the good cars and then stay with them for seasons to come, atleast with the lottery the good people don't nessercerally run away with the championship..
 
Ok, new system suggestion for S13. Both Bee and I have been talking about it and have come to a fair agreement.

Top Half Lottery

*Each of the teams are randomly assigned a number between 1 and 11.

*At the end of the season the Top 11 players in the Drivers Standings pick a number between 1 and 11.

*Once all players have selected their numbers, the line up will be posted with each of those 11 players assigned the role of Team Leader for their respective teams.

*It is then up to each of those team leaders to chose their new team mate for the following season.

*If you are new and wish to join in, please post a request to be a team member so that you can be picked for a seat.

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What do you think?
 
i think the normal lottery its just fine.
if we can choose the teammate, it will create a lot of multi accounters i think.
i just wanna play,dont really care much about teams, but imagine that i stay out of the first 11,and no one pick me after that..will it be fair?:s
 
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