Aloha GeneRally Community!
Before I say much, I recommend you to check out our website at http://www.formulagr.tk
Our website is mainly optimized for modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, ... Internet Explorer should work too, but we dont guarantee that everything works smoothly there.
Please head over and read our "Vision" for the league. In the next days and maybe some weeks, we want to put together the rules as well as a calendar. The reason why those things are not available yet is simply, that we want to involve the community in the process of evaluating the best ways.
Prizes: As you might have read already on the website ( http://www.formulagr.tk ), there's a price available to be won. A high gloss booklet, telling the story of the winner over the races in the season, including graphics. We plan to give away at least 2 additional prices (superflat keyboard/gamepad). If you have ideas what would be other good prices let us know. We plan to get tiny sponsors (fits to the game, doesnt it ) to support the league with small prizes and will establish integration of sponsor logos onto the tracks.
Tracks: As mentioned in our "Vision", we want small (not meaning tiny) to medium sized tracks in our calendar. Also we want to establish "Standards" which should be met in the future to qualify a track as a FormulaGR track, such as:
- At least 4 pit teams,
- At least 2 grand stands to offer place for visitors
- Pitlane must be separated from the track by a wall
- Pitlane speed limiter
But as we want to evolve over the future we might not take these points so serious from the beginning on. We kinda want to simulate the real F1 in the sense of having tracks that stay on the calendar for future seasons if they are working well for the league. Big real life circuits with very small cars is what we dont want.
We want to mention which trackmakers made a very positive impression on us when we screened a big bunch of tracks. We would be happy if those trackmakers would let us know if they would like to allow us to use their tracks (and in some cases make minimal changes such as pit limiter, sponsor-logo in grass):
-Tuomoh
-MASA
-XYY
-Trigger Happy
Everyone is invited to suggest tracks. We will collect the suggestions, select favorites and open a poll on our website as to which tracks should make it into the calendar.
Names: For a more stylish and e-sportish way we would love to use real names instead of nicknames. To still offer anonymity, we would like to make it in this format: "John D." (first name and first letter of last name). We think this would be a step forward.
Teamnames: Please think of creative names instead of using F1 or other real life teamnames. I remember amazing teams in Soltys F1 such as "Motorama". We will very soon introduce a small community system which will allow every team to have their own little teamsite on FormulaGR, featuring their logo, car livery, drivers, ...
Cars: We would love to collaborate with MASA. We love his 2012 F1 Set and would be very happy if we could get allowance to use those cars (only thing we would like to edit are colors, so teams can have their own livery).
PS: We are very happy for every feedback on this idea, that we can get. Please note: Signups are not yet open, but on the website, when you click signup, you can get yourself onto our mailing-list to get informed about the progress
Last, but not least: We want this to become an amazing league for all sorts of players. I will personally invest a lot of time into this. Depending on how this will turnout, we might make a Karting Class and a GP2 class as well, but one thing after another