Yes T.O. I wished you hadn't missed race #2 either, but i won to help make up for your absence. I have to admit, some very fast, hard & clean racing has taken place in the first two weekends of SCRL! Not that I wasn't expecting it, but WOW some of those races were hard fought from beginning to end, 1 bad turn & you lose your place, maybe even two places!
Cool beans MusicalArtist, can't wait to see your work in this thread, post pics w/e you want to! I've had a few pics from each race myself so far, but with how busy i've been irl around the holidays & w/ my job & SCRL management, i'm afraid i'll never get around to posting pics when i would like to. It would be nice to have a full-time photographer as a racing member of SCRL, sort of like league publisher, & i would deeply appreciate all & any artistic measures taken & added by any/all SCRL members.
JoeH187, yeah, i know the feeling... I had to pit twice @ Rome & finished 6th. I was close to using the R1 S2000 @ Autumn Ring too, but the main reason i switched to the Opera S2000 right before the race was tire wear.
Like cbrown said, a shake up is in order with the new tire wear modeling post 2.02 update. Myself, i haven't tested the tires yet, but from what i hear is RS tires will last about half as long as they used to, & RH last around the same distance as before the update, with RM falling somewhere inbetween.
Personally I don't like the change for 2 reasons: #1. (& Less importantly) Because the first 4 SCRL races have been ran already w/ pre-2.02 tire modeling, & records have been set & times recorded with the old RS tires... & #2. (THE BiG ONE) Is that the new tire modeling went the wrong direction, meaning RS tires were fine the way they were; RM & RH tires basically just need more 'life' added to them, & INSTEAD P.D. went the other(WRONG) way & shortened the 'life' of RS & RM tires, meanwhile RH tires remain the way they were(give or take). I mean a set of racing tires wearing out after 10 or 20 miles driven on them is in NO way realistic. P.D. needs credit where credit is due, the modeling was wrong before 2.02, with RS tires the closest to "right", its just a shame that tire modeling is worse now than before(but @ LEAST there is a noticeable difference in wear w/ the 3 compounds, lol). Basically P.D. went & tried to fix a wrong and made it worse, & at the same time changing the "rules" after the game had already started, like a 1st grader @ recess(didn't that kid usually get beat up!?).
Speaking of changing the "rules" after the game had started/ANOTHER P.D. fixture turned epic failure is Spa... or the lack there of. l was on GTP_Earthbound, which is not the PSN name i buy my DLC on, post-2.02 & tried entering a Spa room to test a few race cars on... joined the room, no problem. BUT once in the lobby, i tried entering the track & "BOOM", NOSiREEBOBBY, you haven't bought Spa, blah-blah! Can you believe the shear audacity of Polyphony Digital. The same Polyphony Digital that once upon a not so long time ago, said they didn't like the sound of GT5 DLC because they wanted EVERYONE who purchased the GT5 disc to have the same experience w/o missing anything because they didn't buy the DLC. Omission P.D... years later, AFTER they have gotten a nice, healthy taste of the DLC moneymaking PSN store brings them(OH, WOW P.D. figures it out, ppl waste TONS of $ on DLC), they make a DLC track once play-able by the masses, locked to all, but those who have shelled out top dollar for it personally. Thanks P.D!.. i DL'd your worthless lil' family pack share thing, which is & has been in all DLC on any game, for the past 5 years anyways, & NOW i can play a track or with the cars i paid a premium for on any name i have or might create on my $350 Sony PS3, of which i've bought 3 so far.
Like i'm getting at, i have SCRL race #18 set at Spa, but unless i make my league a 'pay to play' league, i will have to so rudely adjust the schedule. Omit the race, throwing off the balance of my schedule is not what i'd perfer to do. Hoping P.D. can make their Right-turned Wrong, a Right again & allow racers to enter Spa or at least offer me, one of their best all-time customers, an honest apology & explanation for their over-cocky money move. Any suggestions for a "New" race #18 by fellow SCRL'ers will be considered, though i was looking forward to 610pp @ Spa, it wouldn't be fair for me to proceed with that race, JUST like it wasn't fair, right or justifiable for P.D. to revoke the commoners access to Spa, after initially allowing it. 👎 Lets just be thankful that this isn't a playground w/ P.D. making games & then changing the rules mid-game to suit their fancy, because i'm quite sure me & this P.D. school-yard bully would have had it out a LONG time ago(around update 1.05). Consistancy P.D. consistency, definitely a top weakness of yours.. just hope you're proud of yourself.
