For testing the new features and the ruleset draft for the BRC 1976 season I want to host an endurance race in Hockenheim. So you can get a head start at building a car to the somewhat likely rules and get a feel for the additions to the simulation. And I can test and tweak so that we all have a better race season. The track can be found here.
Two important rules are missing on the poster:
NO OPEN/CLOSED BETA NO MODS except High-Quality Essentials
Deadline for entries: Monday, March 28
Just in case: If more than 99 cars are submitted, entries might be closed.
Please use the NEW BRCTool for selecting and setting up your entry: [BRCTool on Google Drive] Instructions can be found in the readme. If you encounter any issues please let me know. Please make sure that you don’t have any car or engine files from open or closed beta in your Automation folders.
There will be one pre-race test for this single race (on Wednesday, March 23) and a quick strategy adjustment phase after the training. Because of the expected surprises in the practise session I will open up the challenge for 2 cars per player. Use that possibility to directly compare your cars. If the two cars of each player will be entered into the race, too, still must be determined. This will depend on the total number of cars. Please enter your 2nd car with the player name and a “2” behind it (in BRCTool), i.e. Der Bayer2.
If anything remains unclear please feel free to ask in this thread. Please add comments on how you think the new rules without power/weight limit play. Have fun, I’m looking forward to your PMs!
Info chart for reference (please calculate for yourself to get exact values):
I should point out that the example image is wrong, as the that is the minimum weight if NA was chosen, and the gray boxes are actually correct, maybe you could just label them for what they are.
So ready for this, just opened up so much more room for improvement with the car I have been messing with for the next BRC… Must… win… style points…
Is the calculator backwards? Shouldn’t picking “Y” for turbo make you need a higher minimum weight, it currently shows you the lower of the 2 weights if you say yes to turbo…
I can’t select a trim with the BRCTool. I downloaded the version you linked in your post, extracted it to C:<username>\Documents\my games\Automation\BRCTool, and ran it as Administrator. But when I try to select a trim, the window just shows the path where the BRCTool is, with nothing else displayed. I’ve checked that the lua files for my car are where they should be, and they are. Any idea what the problem is? I’m running Windows 10, if that helps.
I’ll put in a car later on, to make up some numbers. It’ll be based on what displacement/weight is less popular. Personally I hope it’ll be huge engines and huge cars, because POWAAAAAAAA
The track can be found here.
