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depends how many races ur planning to run if u plan run pretty much entire tour then start east bay and run relistick

I'm starting to think that since there are so many tracks that need touched up I may try to touch all them up and then figure out where to start the schedule

i dont think this is a good idea , remember how long it took to do ERL's year long deal
by the end people were so sick of running for a year with points so far out of reach , it wasnt fun

if you ran mid week dates that preceeded the actual tour events , that would work better than runnin fri/sat
like most of the real races
not only do online racers have lives , but during racing season , they are attending these races

instead of pushing this idea to quickly
why not take the time and make the tracks we dont have , make them good , not just a 2 day deal
and then schedule the series to start next year when the real series starts

and i would think it would help if you broke the schedule up between teams --
say if it ran on tues nights league X runs those shows for thier own points - while points still count toward the national series
and league Z runs on thurs for thier own points - again counting toward the national series
bth series run under the same rules and everything , but i think it would split it up and make it more interesting
kinda like how doit/wfo ran their deal , but using the national tour schedule , not the same track twice

BLS_DeadBolt wrote: i dont think this is a good idea , remember how long it took to do ERL's year long deal
by the end people were so sick of running for a year with points so far out of reach , it wasnt fun

I thought of that, but I think there series was actually longer than this one would be. I think theirs went from February - December. Another thing is that there were no ERL officials there to run the show beginning that summer so it was basically ran by whoever showed up, and that's when the car counts started dropping. As long as we had someone consistently there to run the show and keep the points updated timely after each race I think car counts would be fairly consistent.

if you ran mid week dates that preceeded the actual tour events , that would work better than runnin fri/sat
like most of the real races
not only do online racers have lives , but during racing season , they are attending these races

I'm shooting for Thursday's and Friday's. I know Friday's are a little worse than Thursdays but we can't use Sunday's until after JFR ends in August.

instead of pushing this idea to quickly
why not take the time and make the tracks we dont have , make them good , not just a 2 day deal
and then schedule the series to start next year when the real series starts

To do the five or six tracks we need would take a long time if we spent as much time on them as most other tracks and probably still wouldn't be done in time for next year. We can make a track in two or three days now that's 50x better than the tracks that took two months to do just a few years ago with the programs we have and the stuff we've learned. Volusia and Five Mile Point 2k12 were both made in less than a week and they both race great.

And of course any track I make in a two day span I can update it later on and add more visual stuff to it since we'll at least have a base laid out. Even with making the two day tracks I still trace them in Google Earth so the shape and size are right which still give you a realistic feel and makes every track unique.

There's a good 10 or so tracks that would need touched up just to be good and raceable so that would take more time too but not as much as making a new track from scratch

and i would think it would help if you broke the schedule up between teams --
say if it ran on tues nights league X runs those shows for thier own points - while points still count toward the national series
and league Z runs on thurs for thier own points - again counting toward the national series
bth series run under the same rules and everything , but i think it would split it up and make it more interesting
kinda like how doit/wfo ran their deal , but using the national tour schedule , not the same track twice

Yeah that would work but only if we could get some leagues willing to do it

i live like 15 miles from the real I-80 they race at... its a really fun track in real life i can prob get some pictures of the track an such

I-80 Speedway Track Facts:
Surface: Dirt
Distance: 4/10 mile semi-banked oval

Id say eathier start at Ocala, or Eastbay for winter nationals, then hit up maybe brownstown

brownstown for the icebreaker

Are you outta sakool brad? And that I-80 looks 0.04% like the one we raced. That track looks like fun, maybe a harrison style track but oval shaped

yres, lol, my last day was monday

This is easy start where ever they are running - That is the only way it would be truely simulated!

vlr plex looks close as far racing service u can add inside wall and other things but its a best start

And i would also suggest that no one acts like fools that are running under this banner, this could just keep going if monitered correctly and just wipeing out all derogative remarks from some of our competitors as im sure they(LUCAS OIL) will be monitoring this site .

Hooversracing4h wrote: vlr plex looks close as far racing service u can add inside wall and other things but its a best start

Not really. I think Harrison would make a good base but reshaped to match an oval shape, since it already has inside walls it would be easier than VLR Plex

make the inside gruardrail like we did for antioch out of alp and it would look way cleaner

i agree with f1 shock plex be easer edit and track shap already like real i 80 speedway just my opion u guys can do what u feel be beter

No it wouldnt because it would be crazy adding the inside walls and I don't think Plex looks much like it

ok just idea all im doing is sharing but here a thought the 1 80 track sucks the 1 we have now so anything thats remotly closer would be even bit beter than trying to race that p.o.s track here another idea for a series 50 tracks 50 states ???

if anyone is interested in makin a new I80 i am all for it and can help out gettin stuff from the track.. i know its a lot of work to make tracks but if anyone is gunna tackle this me know.. i can help

Hooversracing4h wrote: ok just idea all im doing is sharing but here a thought the 1 80 track sucks the 1 we have now so anything thats remotly closer would be even bit beter than trying to race that p.o.s track here another idea for a series 50 tracks 50 states ???

Another reason I wouldn't use VLR Plex for it is because we have learned a lot since then and so that track was rough around the edges, like the walls aren't perfectly straight although they could be fixed now, and I just like starting from a straight up default track so you have more objects to move around and stuff. And if I do the track KP I would do it fairly quickly but it'd still look really close