Welcome to the 29th season of Race Department Forum Racing! Once again the reigning champion isn't around to defend the title, but fear not, for there are plenty of competitors hungry for success!
Joining
Joining is quick and simple. If you see a vacant spot at a team you like, just make a post stating your interest to join. Two drivers per team, first come first served!
The Races
The most important part of the game. A race consists of the moderator making a post containing the words GOGOGO. After this, you must make specific posts in a certain order and time span as quickly as possible, depending on the type of race. A race will end when every contender finishes, or when 24 hours (or more, depending on availability of the moderator) have passed since the last finisher.
Sprint Race
As soon as a sprint race has started, you have to post "Finish". The one to post first wins.
Feature Race
When a feature race has started, you have to post "Start", then you have to wait 1h1min before posting "Pit", and after another 1h1min you must post "Finish". If you pit early, the hour and a minute is counted from the pitting, but penalties will still be applied. Times are based on the time stamp of your post (top left in the blue post-ribbon, hover your cursor over it to see the time).
Points
1st - 25
2nd - 20
3rd - 18
4th - 15
5th - 12
6th - 11
7th - 10
8th - 9
9th - 8
10th - 7
11th - 6
12th - 5
13th - 4
14th - 3
15th - 2
All others who finish - 1
DNF - 0
Pole - 3 (only in Feature races, for the first one to post "Start")
Start times
Races will no longer have their unique starting hour for each one, starts can now happen anytime. The start times will still be spread somewhat equally, so that no timezone has a clear advantage/disadvantage. As previously mentioned, there most likely will be no starts between 22-5 GMT (21-4 GMT during DST). I don't want to rule it out completely, but especially on weekdays it's unlikely to happen due to work and I wanting to have a good night's sleep.
Gentleman's rule
In order to keep the game fun and interesting for everyone, you shouldn't set up email alerts for new replies in this thread. Past events have shown that it isn't healthy for the game itself, and that's it's more enjoyable for all participants if they're not used.
Penalties
You can't get a penalty for timing infringements in a sprint race. In the feature race, each minute you post a section of the race early will earn you a 30 minute penalty to your race time.
Tagging your team mate/other drivers during the race to get them to finish sooner isn't allowed. If you do tag your team mate if they haven’t yet finished, the person who tagged will get a 1 hour penalty, and the person tagged will get a 30 minute penalty, just in case it did help them finish earlier. If anyone tags someone not in their team who has not finished, you will get a 2 hour penalty, the person tagged will get no penalty. This does not stop you from contacting your team mate through the means of Private Messages.
After you post, you are not allowed to edit that post for 5 minutes. If you post early, you cannot re-post that same order, you must carry on from there and accept the penalty. This also applies to posting the wrong thing, where you must wait 5 minutes and post the correct thing. Your time will be counted from the correction onwards. After posting one of the components of a race (Start, Pit, Finish), if the same one is posted soon after, it will be classed as a correction. This means that times will be counted from that post. Penalties can still be given out for double posting within 5 minutes.
Inactivity
If you don't finish several races in succession, you will no longer be waited for regarding results. Furthermore, your seat can be taken by a new sign-up. If you finish again after having lost your seat, you'll have to join a new team.
Feel free to make suggestions, or ask if anything's unclear.
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