In my opinion it's only too lenient if it ends up that ignoring the pit/tyre rule results in a faster race time despite the penalty, which is exactly what happened back when the penalty used to be 20s. There's no benefit in ignoring the rule because 1 minute adds, as you say, half a lap to your race time. I think that works.
I bet people will pay attention to the pit stops!
Also screws up the DR ranking. Not a big deal but disruptive none the less.It's more the trouble it creates at the end of the race. One minute is plenty penalty, yet you get the final lap with people on worn tires that shouldn't be in the position that they are in. PD added the mandatory stops to reduce the incidents from no stop vs stoppers. Someone pootling around on dead tires in the last lap with the pack coming up on much fresher tires creates problems.
Either remove the mandatory stops or actually enforce it for real. Or add a 60 SR deduction to fit the 1 minute penalty, 1 SR per second of penalty
I would never happen if the 'rules' weren't tucked away in a corner without any mention of a one minute penalty. Every day people still ask, why did a get a one minute penalty. If not on here, then on Reddit 😄
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It’s in the “little things you find annoying in GTS” thread. Seems a little weird to quote myself 😳
Why should you get a time penalty for crashing people out? Because those are the rules. The rules say you have to pit and that there's a penalty for not following the rules. This is how competitive games are - there are rules and not following them results in penalties.
Absolutely. In a game intended to cater to casual players who would presumably prefer to spend their limited time actually racing rather than scrutinising the rulebook, every effort should be made to make sure that all the necessary information is available and that people don't make silly mistakes purely out of ignorance. No one has more fun because someone got pinged on some rule infraction that they didn't know existed.
Oh, it was quite fun when the mandatory tires came to the daily races for the first time. 90% of the people in the room got the 30 second penalty, it was easier than ever to win from the back
It took a long time before people caught on, most just left quickly in disgust, not waiting around to find out why then got dinged again next race!
That would have been pretty funny if you were in the know, immensely frustrating if you had no idea why.Oh, it was quite fun when the mandatory tires came to the daily races for the first time. 90% of the people in the room got the 30 second penalty, it was easier than ever to win from the back
Click on race details, bottom right of lobby screen. Then scroll down to the bottom. Min no. pit stops: 1.
Got ya. So it's not in the first screen, but in a secondary menu for the race details. If they made it more obvious (like you don't need to go into a secondary menu to see it) then I think they could be harsher on the penalty.
Where you see a competitive game I see online sim racing. Where the driving strategies of ten or more drivers make a race with or without a pit stops. It’s sounds like you are very good at playing the game, I am sure you can pass someone with worn tires. If you can not tell if the driver in front or in back of you is driving on bad tires that is something to work on. The driver with bad tires has to slow down if they want to finish a race, to some that is how they learn the skills of racing.
Online sim racing is a competitive game.
Do you understand the concept of following the rules of the event? It's not about whether the event would be better or worse with different rules. The event has the rules that it has, that's what defines the event. You get a penalty when you break the rules. If there is no penalty for breaking the rule, it's not a rule.
