Hi guys! My name is Dannes, and I am the XO for the racing division of ClanAOD.net . We currently have Project Cars and iRacing as our main sponsored games, but with all AMS has to offer we are taking a good look at this game as a third supported game, or possibly as a replacement for PCars. I have several questions though: 1.) Is there any plan on using Steam Workshop in the future? Or possibly an official plugin for mod support? It's very cool that there is mod support, but the current iteration isn't too user friendly. If you had Steam Workshop that allowed mods to be downloaded as someone tries to join a server, it would make things so much easier. 2.) Is there any plan to make it clearer if mods are being used on a Server? Right now you need an eagle eye and a firm knowledge of what is currently official in a server to know if you need to download an external mod or not. 3.) Is there any plan to make hosting a server from in-game easier? After I jumped through many hoops, I can successfully host a server without any problem, but your casual player will not know that they have to do those things, and probably wouldn't be able to. 4.) Is there a way to see actual relative track place in comparison to you? I.E. See who's around you and how many seconds ahead or behind they are, regardless of their actual position. 5.) Can we please turn off "Vote to restart race"? Or at least, make it so that only the room creator / host can initiate it? I just had a race where I tried to race clean (I.E. not wreck my car) only to have the majority of the room who treated their ride like bumper cars vote to restart after they got DQ's / DNF's. Or possibly make it so that people who are actively racing get a vote, and those that wreck do not? 6.) Can we get better alerts for important information? For example, it's very hard to tell what's happening on a rolling start. Only in the lower left corner can you see anything, and it's tiny, and it means you take your eyes off of the road. We need big flashing letters, and possibly an announcer / race spotter to tell you what's happening, and the countdown... Another example would be Pit Lane Speed. That should flash pretty big on the screen, and not go away til you're out of the pits. 7.) Can we get more options on the Pit Stop Requests "LCD" screen? Most specifically an option to quickly turn on or off more fuel, and the same for all tires? 8.) Can we have a forum for posting Leagues that we are running? I probably have more questions, but can't remember them all. Will post them as I think of them. Thanks! -Dannes
Reiza deal with ISI does not let them support mods so they aren't doing it. This should answer all the questions about it. They aren't creating obstacles to modding tho, this is good. Hope they'll keep it like this in their next sim. You can post leagues here Fan Sites & Community Events
I would vote against such a thing if it came to a poll. I moved forward to outsorcing all the data off screen. Getting some colorful "in your face" flashing stuff added in would kill immersion completely. Install Crew Chief and everything should be fine. (Hope we'll see a spotter built in at least for Reiza17)
Once you're used to it, you could turn it off. But even as a relative racing sim veteran, most of these things were hard to see and perceive, and only after being in a few races do I understand what is happening. And that's not something good for a beginner / someone new to your game. Also, the community section is nice, but unless the leagues get split off, that forum will get flooded. For example, we'd post a "Join Clan AOD" thread, and one for each open league. And every other clan / team will do the same.
You know they could do it and add an in game option to turn it on/off or to choose where you want it....
Next question: Can we have a button for the Server Admins in the top right that shows the server settings like it does for everyone else?
