MM GRcade Cup - New Sign Ups, pg8!

PostRe: MM GRcade Cup - Round 4 by **Roonmastor** » Sat Aug 13, 2022 7:40 pm

I've put 250hrs into this game which puts it in the Football Manager / Civ tier of time sinks.

Normally the cars run in a more conistent order a bit like a normal F1 grid, but I've tweaked this database so the cars are a bit more balanced in terms of performance, so the grids might get a bit more mixed up and so it isn't the same old every race. In my normal game it's taken me 8 years to get Archer BMR from League 3 to top of the mid pack in the top league, and I'm probably two seasons from closing that gap.

You have to balance infrastructure spend against part investment against next year's car investment, spending money on drivers, race mechanics, pit crew and chief engineers, all with their own independent stats and costs, so it can be really involved and you genuinely have to make calls about when to spend and when to scrap a year. You do have to choose how you design your upgrades, so you can develop rule bending parts that are much better but may get picked up in scrutineering, and you can only further improve the parts you have already made so much.

In race, I'm normally much more closely monitoring my driver's and tweaking their engine and tyre usage. I've set it up so I litetally can't do this which means the AI will self manage as I wanted to focus on the whole grid, rather than my two drivers. Normally, the drivers have to lose faith in the team before this trait kicks in. So the blasé strategy stuff I'm doing isn't even close to how much you can impact the game. For a start, Round 4 was the first race I didn't simulate Practice (I was worried I was going to get fired if we did badly) and the set up performance was near perfect Vs the 85% or so I could achieve from simulating. And so the underlying performance jumped up. I'll go back to simulating going forward for fairness.

Totally worth getting if you want a Football Manager-esque game for F1

PostRe: MM GRcade Cup - Round 4 by **Roonmastor** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:03 pm

Asia Pacific SuperCup - Round 6

European Racing League - Round 6

Asia Pacific SuperCup - Round 7

GRcade Cup - Round 5 - Qualifying

Half a second faster than the competition :datass:

PostRe: MM GRcade Cup - Round 4 by **Roonmastor** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 6:13 pm

GRcade Cup - Round 5 - Race

Results screens etc tonight / tomorrow. We'll do Race 6 live streamed on Thurs Eve and the season finale on Sunday Eve, both planned for 8.30pm. Just a slightly slowed down pace to let people catch back up.

Where the strawberry float is my first win! :evil:

2 races left to bring it home though. :datass:

Got my mojo back! :datass:

Overtaking Mori on the final corner. :datass:

Absolutely savage block on the exit of my second pit.

GRcade Cup - Round 5 - Results

Things are set up really well for an exciting final run in to the end of the season. Four teams in the running for the Constructors, 3 Drivers fighting for the Driver's title. Mathematically, anyone in the top 10 could still be champion, so there is even still time for a massive upset.

Story so far:

I’m doing so poorly compared to my teammate, truly the Bottas to Ad’s Hamilton :lol:

this is a sick joke

ROTS gives us all hope. :shifty:

Can I be set to torpedo mode for the next two races to help bring Falsey back into contention? :shifty:

Asia-Pacific Supercup - Round 8 of 11

European Racing League - Round 8 of 10

I'm really looking forward to seeing how these leagues pan out. APS race 9 and Quali for the GRcade Cup tomorrow.

Other news:
Cuttooth is hinting at retirement! Move to Van Dort thought to be his swansong.
Neo Cortex is expected to announce his retirement! Sources say he checked out weeks ago.

Cuttooth wrote:Overtaking Mori on the final corner.

I need a new team. Overperfoming my trash car every race.

Asia Pacific SuperCup - Round 9 of 11

GRcade Cup - Round 6 of 7 - Qualifying

I'm not good enough for the top league, am I :lol:

Not the greatest quali, but hopefully i can move forward.

very close quali, im seeing my hopes of a top finishing season slip away

Half a second up on the rest of the field.

Shame about those early botched strategy calls and starting with a cruddy car, could have fought for the title. Still have to give it to the team in how they’ve improved the car with limited resources and switching to focus on next season early.

MM GRcade Cup - New Sign Ups, pg8!

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