Skins
Personally, myself and team-mates have not had an issue with swapping skins and issues with mismatches. I see no issues with changing schemes throughout the season.
I would however like to see the skin packs released a set time ahead of the test race and not just a couple of days before the actually race.
Regarding the format of these. I would like to see a set colour/number scheme akin to real endurance/sports car (alms, le man cup etc) racing. As in, the release of set plaques with correct background colours, a full 0-9 font pack and class labels to make it a bit more professional looking. This idea was put in place when the service pack was released but I think now would be a good time to get it right and have the most professional looking league around!
I also like the STC idea of a competition on RD to vote the favourite skins as this would also help with advertising and promotion of the league.
Tracks
The choice of tracks has been questionable in the past and with a lack of reasoning and transparency has left a bitter taste for quite a few drivers. The Monza disaster for example and the continual late release of final tracks.
I think the league would benefit from a discussion with a choice of tracks chosen by the organisers and then a voting system to allow the teams/drivers to have the final say on the tracks used.
I would also like to see a few more real racing locations for the above mentioned series used in the next season to mirror and hopefully increase interest with the league/real endurance series. Examples; Algarve, Silverstone, Road Atlanta etc. I do however appreciate there will always be legality/availability/suitability issues.
Most importantly though drivers must like the tracks they race at to increase willingness to set time aside to practice and let’s be frank actually turn up and race…
Start Procedure
I have no issues with the final revision of the start procedure, this worked very well at La Sarthe!
Promotion
Having had the pleasure of a few seasons in various championships with various sites and organisers I applaud the effort and time required to sort out the league, often leaving little time/motivation to promote the events to their fullest.
From racing in FPWS I saw that constant interviews, timely promotion and reminders ahead of events and reporting on milestones (skin pack releases, rendered team presentations, promotional videos (the intro video released was amazing and I have watched it a few times when booting the game up but there was sooo little announcement and mention of it that it just got buried), upcoming race insights and interviews with teams/drivers) had the most effect on raising the awareness of the events. Just another form of social marketing in essence.
Additions to informational posts
Maybe a note asking for a clean rfactor-lite install in bold (copy your .exe from the original install if your using a disk to avoid being asked for another key code) and just the track/skin pack only!
Release dates and closing dates
I really, really think a lot of issues can be nipped in the bud before they become problems by having a full track pack done before the start of the season and running a few sessions with the invited teams to make sure we don’t have unusable or bugged tracks. Maybe even asking other leagues and community members to help with assistance (like with the borrowing of Monza from FSR and the great work Ryan and others have done)
Disconnections
Now personally I have not had an issue here, but the hot-swapping feature was brought to my attention, basically for those unaware like myself it’s a loss free swap system that seems to be more consistent. The only drawback is that you should not use it in the pit stop so this is something worth looking at? Example scenario player 1 takes pit stop then switches to player 2 on the pit lane on the way out, instead of switching in the pit stop and risking a disconnect?
I found some good info on this here and discussing it with team-mates
http://www.race2play.com/homepage/show_posts/289
Simsync
Finally, a clean install and mod files only as mentioned above should cause 0 problems but if this feature is available why not implement it if it is not too much trouble as it takes a major cause of issues away
My views are my own for the most part and I welcome discussions via pm or steam/msn etc. If you have an issue or disagree vehemently please contact me via pm to discuss
PS @ Klo-che as said before amazing mod, amazing amount of detail and immersion, fantastic! Your group should be very proud.