I already talked about it at the admin area more than a month ago, but let me share this IDEA / SUGGESTION with you guys now too...
I suggested the admins we could use the mod FSONE 2009 - yes, the mod we already used here in the league in the seasons 3 and 4 - and let me explain WHY I think this could be a good idea:
First about the technical aspects:
- The mod has a very good, nice and easy file structure to work with (me and Tom dominate it completely, so it's easy to config, adjust and customize)
- We could easily config the teams to have 3 cars per team
- We could easily paint all the helmets and this was the mod where they looked better so far (all using the Arai 3D model, except for the Ferrari ones, I guess, but even those looked good enough too)
- The only issue with the mod WAS the 'Tire Wear Rate' (the speed with which the tire grip decreases) which would make the tires completely shitty at 50% of their total life, but now me and Tom also know how to solve that and it's pretty easy - we could even use the values for that single line (which would alter NOTHING at the tires and mod physics) that we have right now in WCP 2013, which seem to be pretty good and fair
- We already have VERY nice skins to it, like Jaguar, Jordan, Black Lotus and McLaren Marlboro
- We could probably find more skins to it if we want - maybe even 2014/2015 skins - or we could even try to make them ourselves, since it's easy to paint skins in this mod (Photoshop files are easier to work with), like a Williams 2014 Martini skin, for example...
Long story short:
We can customize the mod as much as we want (name of the mod, loading screens, car skins, helmets, tire fix, etc) - which also mean we could even use it for future seasons, only making small adjustments here and there and avoiding all of this pain in the ass process of looking for, finding, testing, adjusting and agreeing about a whole new mod every 2 seasons...FSR is the biggest and most famous rF league and that's pretty much what they do... They always use the same mod, except for very small changes and adjustments in the physics, car models and skins and it works perfectly well for them, the drivers love everything and... did I already mention they're the biggest and most famous rF league?!..
Anyway...
Lots of you guys in the league right now were not here in seasons 3 and 4 (the ones we used FSONE09), so the mod would be 'new' to these guys.
And even most of the guys who were and are still here also loved the mod and we had 2 great seasons with it, with lots of different drivers winning races and we had 2 seasons with lots of guys with real chances to be the Champions at the last races of the seasons!
So.. without further adieu... I present you guys a BETA version with the changes I made to fix the tire wear problem and also adding 3 cars per team - keep in mind this is just a BETA version and IF we use this mod, the loading screens will be replaced by better ones (probably by Tom) and also some car SKINS would be edited/changed too, like that 2014 Williams skin I mentioned above, for example...
Anyway... if you guys want to give it a go.. here it is!
Let me know what you guys think of this SUGGESTION and also of the mod itself after you guys TEST it:
SEASON 8 - FSONE 2009 - BETA (TEST) VERSION:http://www.mediafire.com/download/j9wu927hrj1f821/FSONE09+-+S8+BETA.rarSneak peaks: