TBL Racing Competition Season 2

Post by **joehelmer** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:52 pm

I think that those who's interested to join write it here and then we can see if there's 10 or more users who wants to join.

Post by **B. Stinson** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:29 pm

I'm in.

Post by **Minstrel** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:32 pm

Joe are you and you bro going to play again?

I'm def in so the Bull is Back!

at that brings us to 3 or 4...

Post by **joehelmer** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:56 am

Minstrel wrote:Joe are you and you bro going to play again?

I'm def in so the Bull is Back! at that brings us to 3 or 4...

Of course we are.

Post by **Minstrel** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:43 pm

Great so that's four then... if we get the Brothers in that's 6.

Post by **archibalduk** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:43 pm

You know I'm up for some more Bat Action

I'm sure my bro will be up for it too. I'm not going anywhere for the next three weeks so I can always find some time to play this in between work.

Post by **Minstrel** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:55 pm

Cool. So we have a good shot at this one then...

Anyone else?

oxenhoper · Post by **oxenhoper** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:50 am

Yeah me.......... I was in before but thought it had died a death.

Post by **Calv** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:10 am

yeah I'd be up for it

flea · Post by **flea** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:58 pm

Sorry guys Iam late....but if its possible I would like to join again....had a good time the first season!!!

Post by **Minstrel** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:59 pm

Players will need to be registered and logged in before they can enter the private game. When logged in, clicking the following URL will take you to the join game page:

http://batracer.com/-cj?&D&11397

Alternativly, you can select "private games" from the menu and enter the number "11397" into the box. The game password is "getiton". Take care not to accidentally join a public game by mistake.

Johnny Zippo's Team Bull is in; who will join me?

flea · Post by **flea** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:05 pm

Yesssss!!!

Just joined with the Renault RS26!!!

Looking for a team-mate!!!

Post by **Calv** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:07 pm

Team Honda's been set up

Post by **B. Stinson** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:09 pm

If you don't mind Minty, I could team up with you.

Though, we might have to take it easy to avoid beating everyone too badly.

Post by **Minstrel** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:13 pm

B. Stinson wrote:If you don't mind Minty, I could team up with you.

Though, we might have to take it easy to avoid beating everyone too badly.

You bet... I figured I'd make Team Bull an open invite this go 'round so other Season 1 guys can team up with new players etc. so just join in if ya want

oxenhoper · Post by **oxenhoper** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:17 am

Just joined you flea in the renault team.

flea · Post by **flea** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:08 am

oxenhoper wrote:Just joined you flea in the renault team.

Cool!!! Nice to have a partner!!!

Lets get'em!!!

Post by **archibalduk** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:15 am

The Bros are back together for Team Honda

Just some quick pointers for perfecting your car setup:

The key to finding the best setup possible for your car is to cooperate with your teammate; share your data with him and he can share his data with you.

To go to your car setup, go to the Garage menu and click on Car Setup. This will take you to the Car Setup screen where you can experiment with different setups. Before you go out on your first test lap, you might want to look at your engineer's advice (there's a link in the top right corner of the screen, just above the lap times table and just below the Results menu). The engineer's advice will give you a vague idea to start off with.

You'll see at the top of the car setup screen a slider called 'Experimentation'. This slider sets how hard your driver will push to get more data. The harder you push, the more data you will get to improve your settings. However, push him too hard and he'll crash and you could lose a couple of practice laps whilst the car is recovered. The BatRacer Hints Page suggests setting Experimentation to 72 is a good balance between getting lots of data and crashing. Also, on your final test lap you may as well set your Experimentation to 100 (or something very high) because even if you crash you will receive lots of data and you have no laps to lose.

You can choose your tyres just below the Experimentation slider. To get the best performance, you need to choose the best tyres for the current weather conditions. You will find the weather conditions mentioned just above the Experimentation slider and just to the left of the lap times table. It will say something like "You need a setup suitable for bone dry conditions." There is also a weather report at the very top right of the screen.

To send your car out on a test lap, click on the Test button at the very bottom of the screen. Each time comes back from the test lap, you will hopefully receive more data to fine-tune all of your settings. You will see below each slider whether more data has been received for that setting. The ideal setting will be a number somewhere between the "hi" and "lo" mentioned below each setting. As you get more and more data, you will be able to narrow down the high and low until you find the perfect (or "Spot On") setting.

Sharing data with your teammate means that all of the perfect settings can be found. When you have finished testing, click on the Save button located at the bottom of the screen. Your teammate can then load these settings by using the Load button (also located at the bottom of the screen:

Also, use the Team Talk page to share what you have found out from testing (e.g. that the front wings should be set somewhere between 60 and 75). To go to the Team Talk page, go to the Office menu and click on Team Talk.

Use the Team Talk to list what you have found out for each setting. Basically, you list the high and low you have found for each setting. An example message in Team Talk could be:

Wings
F 80 - 100
R 50 - 60

Suspension
F 0 - 40
R 22 - 34

ARB
F 18- 40
R 44 - 50

Ride H
F 60
R 65 - 68

Tyres
F 31
R 50 - 90

Gears
36 - 50

Brakes
15 - 20

Your teammate can then load your settings and try to narrow down the high and low for each setting based on your message in Team Talk. When your teammate has finished, he can save his settings and post a new list of improved settings in Team Talk for you to use.

Post by **Minstrel** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:28 am

archibalduk wrote:The Bros are back together for Team Honda

Oh it is SO on...

Very nice work on the info there as well

Post by **archibalduk** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:06 am

Minstrel wrote:Oh it is SO on...

Hells yeah!

I couldn't find the smilie I wanted, but imagine a giant foot squishing your Bat Car ala Monty Python:

Post by **Minstrel** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:54 am

Suuure Archi... I'll just stay back and wait 'til ya drive into the wall

Post by **E5150_ca** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:42 am

Ah, the champion has decide to return for yet another season (hopefully). Bow down to my greatness.

Now accepting applications to join team Torro Rosso, who funny enough in real life split off from team Red Bull, which was my former team in BatRacer. Weird how those things work out.

Should you think your up to the task of being my teammate, shoot me a PM, as I will be picking the lucky candidate myself.

Post by **Minstrel** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:41 am

I've already made my suggestion

BTW whendja switch to a Devils logo?

Post by **E5150_ca** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:32 pm

I already told you I'd rather race alone

Which is why I have to go with this screening process in the first place.

Only hockey I've been able to watch lately is sunday afternoon games on NBC, and the Devils have been impressing me. So I'm offcially rooting for them this Play-offs.

Post by **joehelmer** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:27 am

Team Ferrari is up.