Hi all, I am currently trying to run a multiplayer series, one thing I would like to implement is manual yellow flags or safety cars to try and make the racing a bit fairer in some situations. Currently it's just done by saying it through discord. Is there anything I can add to the server code like a .lua or a mod to allow this? I've been searching the internet for the past couple of days for an answer and the closest I've come is "justrace.net" but not much else.
Only option as far as i'm aware of is setting a random safety car/gull course yellow, this can be at 25%, 50%, 75% or random race distance which picks one of the 3 options.
Not AFAIK (though dedi server has many unexpected features). This is a nice feature to add, though, even in single player, and I find many situations were it would be nice. I used to race iRacing AI with my own rules to throw yellows. You can throw the caution with chat commands and there are some apps such as iRaceControl that implement the throws automatically, for instance when there are incidents in a short period of time, random ones, etc. With the AMS2 shared memory API it is even possible to do something much more complex, like implementing a full-featured custom auto-steward. This is the kind of thing that if allowed, it will be implemented at some point in the long run and will be an awesome Quality of Life feature. As I said, it would be nice even in single player to override Reiza's rules to trigger cautions. Reiza's cautions are ok (by the way, one of the reasons AMS2 is my main sim now, without proper rules you are not simulating a race, period), but sometimes I would like to have more control. I used to use cautions in F-Vintage races for instance (not period-correct but realistic in historic series, and adds some spice to my seasons), but I abandoned the ide since they were just too many yellows (since it is normal due to low reliability that cars end up in the side of the track triggering the caution). I would like to have a "less sensitive" full course caution trigger in that case. Another example, I would like to simulate the 4h of yellow flags Le Mans had this year (not literally of course , but I mean throwing a yellow in a long race in a period weather is out of control such as done in a real race). Another scenario, stage cautions. While it was basically added by reiza with the random yellow feature, I would like to have much more freedom.
I hope Reiza implements manual stewardship for admins in a future update, it's such a basic feature for multiplayer races that should had been added to the game years ago imo
