Now before you all jump on me, I know that there is work to be done on the multi-player experience, but on Saturday I was involved in a great online race. Twenty eight of us opted to spend 6 hours, (possibly the longest online race in AMS2 so far) of our evening to race round Daytona to rase money for a grieving family this year. At the end of the 6 hours we had been whittled down to 15 races and none of those that left were due to disconnects. We did have a few issues when people let the AI drive their cars, as the AI didn't cope very well with the multi-class racing, and I think a couple of people had pit issues, but having a full day / night cycle at 5 time speed was magnificent. For those interested, here is one of the live streams; https://www.youtube.com/live/pLLbo4V8n2U?si=BGD5a7SUerz6xJWk
I've been partaking in the justrace.net Friday championship, in addition to a few Tuesday events when I can and I agree, it's pretty good. I can only assume that a major part of the upcoming gui overhall will be to replace the multiplayer section with something similar to justrace. I can't wait for that to happen as I really look forward to the possibility of organized races with multiple splits.
Would this still keep the easy session creation that we have currently? Cause setting up a session (be it practice or race or full race weekend) is so good currenty compared to any other sim.
I agree, I hope they can give us the best of both worlds. GT7 has a menu for daily races (works great) and another for user created races (which is terrible by comparison).
hopefully the mentioned more stable dedicated server experience mentioned will mean it relies less on Steam as well, that would probably help prevent a lot of disconnection issues
