I see where you're coming from David but making all these changes when the season is supposed to start in about 3 weeks is not a good thing. Also that quote you made does sound to me like you're replacing 2 tracks and maybe rearranging the rest...not that you're changing half of the tracks.
Well, we had to change 2 traks, and we decided to change two more, so is not half the schedule, is two more tracks, because 2 had to be changed. This means 2 from 8 tracks, it's a 25%.
Ok so we have 10 races in the season of which 50% has now been changed without consulting any of the teams. I thought there was this thing called WAR...weren't the teams supposed to have a say in something.
Not for the calendar since we agreed before in remove the "home GP" to have a stable and nicer calendar.
I completely understand replacing Adria and Kyalami. I don't even care that much what the replacements are as long as they are working tracks for online racing. What I don't understand however are the 3 other replacements.
That's because you are not seeing the calendar as a whole. We had to replace two, and we looked for similar alternatives, but they weren't, so to balance the calendar again we had to convert tracks from other sims and rework them. The aim was not to mantain tracks, but to make a similar calendar in overall, considering different types of tracks and how they are positioned in the schedule.
Long Beach: You changed this because of bad gfx?? You didn't notice this when choosing the tracks in the first place, and why Trois Rivieres, who's this \"we\" who like it so much?
Paul Ricard: A very good track and quote \"had the best racing last season\". You changed this because you could get Le Mans exclusively (this magically appear?)...well exclusive is good but having good racing is just in a different league when it comes to good. I just don't see any point in this replacement.
Le Mans 2004, actual layout, was never in Evo, and honestly, I don't think Paul Ricard is even close to what Le Mans means in racing and how it fits GT racing, but this is not the reason for the change.
Paul Ricard is good track, but it uses to fail with more than 25 people inside the server as we could see in last years, so this is a change I forced for this reason, nothing to do with David or racing.
Elkhart Lake: Again a very nice track was replaced by Daytona. You forgot to meantion why this was done. I don't see any reason for this replacement and even the goal of making the roster realistic doesn't explain this.
I am sorry for sounding negative but for me this is a really negative thing.
For two main reasons:
- Balance the fast/slow tracks
- Daytona is very special track, famous for GT racing, and with unique characteristics we want to see on STC.
To be honest, we already know this changes would be unpopular as normally every change it is, but if real F1 doesn't stop changing things during all the season, and they talk about physic things, I don't know why we should when at the end leads to competition quality improvements.
I understand is not easy for you to face changes, but also is not easy for us to dedicate several hours to something you know won't be popular at all in short term, but he have to live with it
Cya!.