WE NEED YOU! Yes, you. You could be the Tekforums F1 Champion!
We currently have 4 players, including myself, but we need a minimum of 10 people. This is an browser based game and takes next to no time to play. There are only two things to this game. Moving some sliders and choosing your strategy. You dont need to manage any budgets, worry about how crap your pit crew are at changing wheels or refueling your car. Its just you setting up and racing your F1 car to victory!
Once the game starts, the game ticks along in 24 hour intervals. Initially you start with practice to allow you to tinker with your setup to try and get it Spot on. Also, people can copy their teammates setup which can give a head start. However, I think it may only be of great use if both of you have chosen the same character traits since one setup wont necessarily work for others.
There is a
Quickstart Guide (http://batracer.com/-ph?read&1) available on the games website and will be useful in showing you the way. The game also allws you to speak to your Engineer to get some advice. You can see the pearls of wisdom they give in the picture below.
Setting up
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1-1.png) (http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1-2.png)
I had hear you screaming, "HOW DO I JOIN???" Well, its very easy.
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&215
Alternativly, you can select "private games" from the menu and enter the number "215" into the box. The game password is "tekforums". Take care not to accidentally join a public game by mistake.
http://batracer.com
If there is enough interest we can have a quick game. Its based upon F1 2006 carsets. The aim of the game is to setup your car so you get the most points and become F1 World Champion. It wont go on for months, its just a matter of days once the game is started.
Who is up for it?
I would but the forums take up too much time :P
A daily 5 minute web game, is that it? (A good thing)
Sounds allright, but looks boring tbh. :?
You could just log on to www.fantasyleaguef1.com, pay Ã,£10 and potentially win Ã,£10k. Ive had a go for the last 3 years and come out with a mouse mat....wahoo! :-s But my mate won Ã,£100 and a crate of Fosters for been the first to get the highest score for a single race. You can develop your own friends and enemies leagues as well...
Its all a good laugh. Get joining :-)
L8rs
Yes, its a couple of minutes per day.
And its not a full fantasy league. You set up your car for practice and then qualifying and then the race. Lots of factors come into play...
There is no budget, no team management its just your setting yo and driving your F1 car to victory! You can choose 2 characteristics for your driver. eg Head strong and smooth. You can set Front/Rear wing, gear ratio, stiffness of suspension, ride height. Its all done through sliders so its very straight forward to do. :)
We need a minimum of 10 drivers. It doesnt take alot of time to do so... And it doesnt cost a penny!
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&215
Alternativly, you can select "private games" from the menu and enter the number "215" into the box. The game password is "tekforums". Take care not to accidentally join a public game by mistake.
Im in 8) :twisted:
How do you know when all the events take place, e.g Qualifying?
Same here.
How do you get the race to start though?! Its just saying "soon" on my screen.
Oh and nige..
Take a look at the practice results. I kicked your ass :D lol. Only thing is now that 2 of my tire sets are "heavy wear" so cant really use them for risk of them going BANG! on the track :D lol.
Quote from: M3ta7h3adOh and nige..
Take a look at the practice results. I kicked your ass :D lol. Only thing is now that 2 of my tire sets are "heavy wear" so cant really use them for risk of them going BANG! on the track :D lol.
Bah, my tweaking all happens outside of the practice, its a rouse :lol:
Plus my driver had a mad skillz mistake and lost time on the last lap.
I have no idea what Im doing :lol:
lol me neither!! :D
Will take a look at it tonight :)
Ah its like the real thing.
1 session per 24hrs.
So practice on day 1, qualifying on day 2, race on day 3... rinse and repeat ad infinitium.
Huh, I guess Ill have to take a look at that later on tonight.
Joined.
We need a minimum of 6 more people to join before we can kick off the season. :)
Basically follow the instructions, if something doesnt give advise ie increase? or decrease? then I *think* it means you are nearly there. What you aim to achieve is *spot on*.
This would probably have been helpful. Quickstart Guide (http://batracer.com/-ph?read&1). :)
Also, people can copy their teammates setup which can give a head start. However, I think it may only be of great use if both of you have chosen the same character traits since one setup wont necessarily work for others.
Or of course you can ignore the whole team orders thing.... :-)
How do you relinquish leadership of a team? I made a team in the public game and someone joined it.
So how many different games/seasons can we take part in then, including our private season?
theres no limit. you just go to "my games" and change between them.
Oh right, cool.
We need more people to join in, this takes no more than 5 minutes of your time a day. Sign up. :)
OMG, how did this get up here with super reworked 1st post provided lots and lots of incentive for more people to join!
LOL did it really require two threads though??
Bring on the qualifying damnit.
So what time zone is this server on then???
It doesnt matter what timezone. The game will only start when there are either 22 drivers (which is the maximum) or when I tell it to start once we have the required minimum.
It requires as many threads as it needs to get the minimum number of drivers. In fact, in the time its taken you to read this thread, you could have signed up and be well into your practice period.
And now there are 5 drivers thanks to Vini. Halfway there to reaching the minimum! :)
w00t! Im in... and got confused by the chat.... spot the n00b!
Quote from: Deaths HeadIt doesnt matter what timezone. The game will only start when there are either 22 drivers (which is the maximum) or when I tell it to start once we have the required minimum.
It requires as many threads as it needs to get the minimum number of drivers. In fact, in the time its taken you to read this thread, you could have signed up and be well into your practice period.
And now there are 5 drivers thanks to Vini. Halfway there to reaching the minimum! :)
Well atleast stick it with the other one.
Ah..it all becomes clear now
Sign Up Damnit. :ptu:
Its staying here to hopefully garner more interest. :)
Brummie, istead of backseat moderating, climb in the front seat and drive your F1 car to victory! ;)
BTW, we only need 4 more people to join and we can start the race.
The analysis of the race is pretty throrough. It details change in positions in the race, major incidents. Very good.
yup already competed in the Bahrain race in the public game. Ended up 8th. Teammate finished 3rd.
Why the heck is this not a sticky :(
I cant believe its taken this long just to sign 7 people up. :? :!:
Maybe people just dont like having a bit of fun? In the two other games I am in, I am enjoying it. Its a good laugh.
And whats better to drum up a bit of competition short of restarting the UT matches?
What a race I had in my public game!
I started from pole position and I make a good start. At the end of the 1st lap I am 1.928 seconds ahead.
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image2.png)
It may have been uneventful for me, but there was plenty of action behind me!
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image3.png)
At the end of lap 14 I have built up a healthy 17.550 second lead over 2nd place.
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image4.png)
All is going well until disaster strikes! "YOURE ALL S*** AS F***!" I re-enter the race in 11th place.
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image5.png)
However, it only takes me 5 laps to regain the lead! WOOHOO!
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image6.png)
I continue to pull away from 2nd place, helped by clocking a new fastest lap.
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image7.png)
When it comes to my second and final pit stop I have increased my lead to 20.891 seconds.
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image8.png)
Wait! 25 laps of fuel? Oh no, Ive miscalculated the number of laps remaining. I have pit far too early :( DOH!
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image9.png)
With my car heavily laden with fuel I am unable to keep my position.
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image10.png)
I regain the lead when the people in front of me make their pitstops. MY error has not cost me the lead. As the race progresses my car gets lighter and I start to get faster. New fastest lap to me and its the final lap so that can only mean one thing...
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image11.png)
I WIN!
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image12.png)
There I am on the podium. You can see me in my helmet! :)
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image1.png)
I had built up a healthy lead by the end. Fantastic Race. My team mate started in 17 but managed to get up to a respectable 6th.
(http://www.fluffyfunk.net/F1/Image13.png)
You know you want to join the fun after reading that!
It says that the team is full.
Choose a different team which isnt full. There arent many teams used since there are only 7 of us so far
I started my own team, Toro Rosso.
Did you follow the instructions in the first post? You havent joined the tek private game...
done.
Great stuff. We only need 2 people and we can start this off! Come on, someone else must have been motivated to have some fun with us!
Im 2nd in the BTCC Generic Championship atm.
I am very tempted to setup two accounts just to make up the numbers and then give them very poor setups and no will to win. This will allow us to get the minimum 10 to manually start the game. What do other people think?
lol already posted in the game forums about that :) im for it. :D
Posted where mate?
Game forum at the website.
I hadnt seen that :) and I thought you mean games and consoles forum :)
Register again with a different email address. I am doing the same.
will do :)
Created so lets get it started! :D
And theyre off!
I have done a similar thing with my Renault... I have made it fast as muck but I have given him a 3 stop strategy and all stops are in the last laps :D so the car is going to be quite heavy with fuel :D
Dah!!!!!! im so close to a perfect setup :(
However I am fast running out of tyres. Already worn through one set (need replacing) and the others are on "heavy wear", I have one set thats "green".
But I have 2 bars in my setup that arent "spot on" yet I can only choose between 2 numbers... I think the site is a bit borked.
I practice on hard tyres and qualify on soft.
ahh now that would make sense :) Ive been trying to get the fastest time all the time. When all I really need to do during practice is get a decent setup. Tires can be changed.
Doh!
I think the first couple of races will be a learning experiance of how to play the game best.
w00tage, and were off, finally. :-)
Bah! No more places!
If anyone else wants to joing a team ive set one up too.
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&459
Alternativly, you can select "private games" from the menu and enter the number "459" into the box. The game password is "thebeatles". Take care not to accidentally join a public game by mistake.
More players plz!
Ive joined the 2nd one too. :D
Liam, check your team talk page before you progress. ;)
Go Tekforums Alt Team!
Brrrrrrrrmmmmmmm!