Gekkibi
11th April 2008, 15:19
Ok, here is my plan: I'm going to make BL1 FBM competition for demo-users only. The race will be pretty long, say, 40 laps, so just about anything can happen. You guessed it right: The first prize would be S2 voucher!
It would make it much more interesting if I would use safety car if required. Sure, I could use it without any kind of logic, but it would require too many admins to monitor if someone is overtaking while safery car is on track etc. I made a rough list for the features I would like to have:
When safety car joins track (Not just exiting garage, but to leave pit-lane also), it will automatically activate these features:
- Every racer gets a message on upper corner of his screen. Something like "Safety car on track".
- When you are near the safety car and you are not the leading driver, message "You are allowed to overtake the safety car" will replace the "Safety car on track" message. When the leading driver is behind the safety car (And there are no cars between), no more overtaking is allowed.
Quoting wikipedia:
The F1 Safety Car (SC) has both yellow and green lights mounted on its roof in the form of a light bar; the green light allows the driver just behind the SC to pass. Once the race leader is right behind the SC, the yellow lights go on
When the leading driver is behind safety car, it receives message (Only the safety car receives the message) "Leading driver behind the safety car", so he knows that he should initialize the lights (By using LFSstrobe, for example).
- After this have happened and someone overtakes the safety car, he will get a black flag (Instant disqualification for a driver), and thus gets a message "You are disqualified for overtaking the safety car". He will then enter the pits within next lap or he will be instantly specced. After he makes a pit-stop, he gets specced. I just hate suddently disappearing cars...
- If someone overtakes any other car, he will get a "stop & go" penalty. However, if he overtakes someone who initilizes yellow flag, he don't get that penalty.
- When safety car enters the pit-lane, message "Safety car on track" will disappear and race continues.
These features would also be nice. However, these requires more work. Quoting wikipedia:
the pit entrance, and the message "pit lane open" is given. A ten second stop/go penalty is imposed on any driver who enters the pit lane and whose car is refuelled before the pit lane open message is given. However, any car which was in the pit entry or pit lane when the safety car was deployed will not incur a penalty. When the safety car and the drivers behind it are on the start/finish straight, there is a red light at the exit of the pit lane. Drivers who go past the red light are disqualified from the race. This has happened to several drivers during the years.
When the circuit has been cleared of the incident that caused the safety car to be deployed, the message "lapped cars may now overtake" is given. Any lapped cars which are between the cars running on the lead lap at the time the safety car was deployed are required to pass the cars on the lead lap and the safety car. They must then proceed around the track at an appropriate speed, without overtaking, and take up position at the back of the line of cars behind the safety car.
Questions: When safety car is on the track, is it allowed to overtake other cars, even the leading driver is not yet behind a safety car? If yes, make it so that when the message "Safety car on track" appears, it is not allowed to overtake. I'm not sure how it goes, I am not a big fan of F1...
It would make it much more interesting if I would use safety car if required. Sure, I could use it without any kind of logic, but it would require too many admins to monitor if someone is overtaking while safery car is on track etc. I made a rough list for the features I would like to have:
When safety car joins track (Not just exiting garage, but to leave pit-lane also), it will automatically activate these features:
- Every racer gets a message on upper corner of his screen. Something like "Safety car on track".
- When you are near the safety car and you are not the leading driver, message "You are allowed to overtake the safety car" will replace the "Safety car on track" message. When the leading driver is behind the safety car (And there are no cars between), no more overtaking is allowed.
Quoting wikipedia:
The F1 Safety Car (SC) has both yellow and green lights mounted on its roof in the form of a light bar; the green light allows the driver just behind the SC to pass. Once the race leader is right behind the SC, the yellow lights go on
When the leading driver is behind safety car, it receives message (Only the safety car receives the message) "Leading driver behind the safety car", so he knows that he should initialize the lights (By using LFSstrobe, for example).
- After this have happened and someone overtakes the safety car, he will get a black flag (Instant disqualification for a driver), and thus gets a message "You are disqualified for overtaking the safety car". He will then enter the pits within next lap or he will be instantly specced. After he makes a pit-stop, he gets specced. I just hate suddently disappearing cars...
- If someone overtakes any other car, he will get a "stop & go" penalty. However, if he overtakes someone who initilizes yellow flag, he don't get that penalty.
- When safety car enters the pit-lane, message "Safety car on track" will disappear and race continues.
These features would also be nice. However, these requires more work. Quoting wikipedia:
the pit entrance, and the message "pit lane open" is given. A ten second stop/go penalty is imposed on any driver who enters the pit lane and whose car is refuelled before the pit lane open message is given. However, any car which was in the pit entry or pit lane when the safety car was deployed will not incur a penalty. When the safety car and the drivers behind it are on the start/finish straight, there is a red light at the exit of the pit lane. Drivers who go past the red light are disqualified from the race. This has happened to several drivers during the years.
When the circuit has been cleared of the incident that caused the safety car to be deployed, the message "lapped cars may now overtake" is given. Any lapped cars which are between the cars running on the lead lap at the time the safety car was deployed are required to pass the cars on the lead lap and the safety car. They must then proceed around the track at an appropriate speed, without overtaking, and take up position at the back of the line of cars behind the safety car.
Questions: When safety car is on the track, is it allowed to overtake other cars, even the leading driver is not yet behind a safety car? If yes, make it so that when the message "Safety car on track" appears, it is not allowed to overtake. I'm not sure how it goes, I am not a big fan of F1...