That's right Soro, this is something i've always missed on these official races when we get some problem and need to rebuild the grid.
And with the new grid rule of our league, I really think that this would be a HELPFUL feature on LFS, I think that this isn't something very hard to be implemented, sorry if I'm wrong
Well... I hope the devs consider this suggestion, I think it's excellent
I think that make a car pit more times isn't the way to have a balanced category. On sprint races (where the FZR have more advantages than on a long race) the things would be kept as they are.
I really don't know a "better way" to balance it, but I think that the devs could think on a way do it.
Last weekend, took place the first races of the GTR Championship of the Brazilian League.
There were 2 races, cause there are 2 categories.
Someone wanna guess which car won on both?
well... you are talkin about setups, right...
I got sets from inferno for both FZR and FXR... (let me explain first of all that FXR suits my style best, but I can drive the FZR on a fast way too, not fast as the WR, but just 1 or 2 seconds of it)
I was testing on an AS track, don't remember which layout... I was faster with the FZR by 2 or 3 seconds than the FXR (remember that I said the FXR suits my style better?!)
On the champ. race, I did a time of 1:37.xx on the qualify, using a setup that i did with the maximum knowledge that I have about setting a car, It was a very quicky set, although the car wouldnt resist on a Long Race with that settings...
I was the best FXR driver on the grid, all drivers ahead me were using FZR (wow!)... and the WORST FZR driver had an advantage of more than 1 second to me... and you wanna talk about setups?!
Why to have a "GTR class" if the cars can't race together with each other?
Now I say "Just to have different cars on the grid screenshot?"
No one wants equal cars, this is bull****, we just want cars to be balanced.
A car will always be faster on some track? Yeah sure, there is always a faster car on each track, but it could at least be different cars on different tracks.
The problem is that actually the FZR is always the best on almost every track... just go around and see some online GTR races (with skilled drivers on both cars) and you'll understand what i'm talking about.
Well, you can look at my example that i posted here, Carlos is one of the top drivers of our league, when he used the FZR and I was with the FXR, i couldn't do it.
When he got the FXR and I picked up the FZR, I won EASILY...
We did some races both using FZR, but he is faster, damn...
I could beat a driver that was faster than me on that track, just using the FZR when he was using the FXR.
I'm not going to tell technical details, I'll just tell a short resume of one of my experiences with these cars...
Some days ago I was racing with Carlos on Aston National, the server was using the GTR category.
Carlos was on the lead almost all the races, using the FZR... and going real hard with it, lap time close to WR.
So, I picked up the FXR and entered the next race, passed all the drivers, and went to second place with Carlos in first place, as you may already know, I never made it, Carlos was doing laps almost 2 (yes... TWO!) seconds below my time.
On another race, we changed cars. He got the FXR and I picked up the FZR and wow, guess what? I won by some considerable distance.
2 Seconds per lap may looks like nothing for one lap, but imagine a race with 20 or 30 laps... It will become impossible to beat the FZR's...
What can we think of this? On the GTR class, if you don't use the "best car", you don't stand a chance.
I know that the cars would never be totally evened, the cars need to have some pros and cons, but they could race in a way that we could at least race together.
jscorrea is correct
guess you guys shouldn't lose your time with this kind of guy
He is always making trouble inside Brazilian Sim Communities, cause he thinks LFS is worse than everything.
Well, don't mind, he does it all the time.
But, now that i'm here, posting... I want to say that LFS is simply the best racing sim i ever played (with GPL too hehe). I think that the game is growing on the right way and we should thank the devs by giving us the finest simulator on the word. Even the sims from big companies aren't match for LFS.
LFS got some bugs? yeah, like almost every game/program that exists, but I'm sure that the DEVs are going to make an excellent work to solve then when it's possible
nice... but this skin really looks like a skin of mine...
dunno if someone made it too or if someone just stealed parts of my XF GTI skin... but, it's ok... i hope someone really made this skin, and didn't steal it...