You are right in as much as it is impossible for a host who wants very detailed criteria to specify those using the parameters available, so once more, surely the onus is on them to over communicate what are after all purely his wishes. It is not the responsibility of everyone in the room to continually say Will this do, Will this do. And as I said in my OP, we had just come from a race where everyone was in RM cars so it's not as if there was any precedent for sudden change that could have been anticipated.
If this thread is representative of GT players as a whole it tells us that a lot of people mute mics because they are bloody annoying. You don't seem to appreciate this at all, indeed there are several points you don't really answer.
1) Many people mute mics
2) Some people don't mute mics but the sound from some mics is muffled and inaudible so they couldn't
3) Some people don't mute mics but the host might be speaking in a foreign language they do not understand anyway.
4) While agreeing you can't set very precise parameters, surely when you decide on a PP race you are by extension certainly suggesting that anything goes as there is not necessarily an advantage to be gained from an RM car anyway. If not why not pick BHP and Weight.
5) As a number of people say on this thread, if someone picks a car that you don't want in your race then a mention or warning in the room to advise them and yes, if they ignore you then kick them.
So for the final time, as much as you insist that the onus should be on the player rather than the host I think you are really quite wrong. The host should be trying to build a solid room full of people who stay for a while and won't just drop out if a race is going badly or they don't like the criteria of a race. This comes about invariably in a room where a host communicates strongly, not like this guy or you by extension because of your willingness to defend him I'm afraid.
We are just gonna keep talking in circles it seems. You don't seem to understand that you believe its the hosts job to sit there and cater to every single player in the room as if he were paid to be there. Hes there to play just like you, and yes he should make some effort to communicate freely, but he doesn't KNOW you turned off your mic, he can't tell. I can't fathom why you can't bring it upon yourself to check whats ok, or maybe wait a minute or so to see what everyone else is driving, or ASK. You honestly are sounding spoiled at this point!
Lets answer your points
1) so what, whether or not they mute their mic is irrelevant, its their choice
2) again, so what, if you didn't hear or understand it, ASK.
3) so then AGAIN, ASK. "sorry I don't speak spanish, can you tell me what is going on in this room?"
4) have you ever played this game? RM car's shellac street cars given the same driver every time, they have more downforce, front downforce options, more suspension adjustability, aside from the game taking in the cars real life geometry and weight distribution.
5) because you choose to shut off microphones, why should the host need to go out of his way to help you. you want it off YOU ask. If you don't then face the consequences. When you were in school did you just plug your ears when the teacher gave out homework then the next day when asked why you didn't do it you said "I didn't hear it sorry".
You really need to get off your high horse in expecting a room host to be some sort of race moderating god, and realize hes just a player like you that just wants to get a race going.
Well, with that attitude you will never stop having frustrating experiences, i would kick you instantly
you mute the host because you don't want to hear him and you say he is lazy because he doesn't write so you can know if you can use race cars??? come on, you are not doing a very good job at being a player, don't mute him, see what the others are using, or just ask! 💡 or you are too lazy or too dopey to ask?
Exactly
