HomeEdit Messages & Buddies My World RankingWR Table My GamesJoin Public GameJoin Mid SeasonPrivate GamesInterested TeamsUpload Helmet [ About | BR2 to BR4 Changes ] BATracer v2 to BATracer v4 changes are shown here. This page is a static file and does not show updates since 9th March 2006, these should be listed elsewhere on the site at some point. WORLD RECORDS IMPLEMENTED A comprehensive world record analysis system has been implemented... for each non-private game you play your profile will be updated and eventually with enough data a global world ranking can be calculated for each parameter and also the calculation of an overall ranking. At the time of writing (9th March 2006) this feature is still under development so some elements may be missing. LAP BY LAP DRIVER COMMENTS! It is now possible to annotate a race with your own comments for each lap! This is intended as a fun feature, but not really a reliable means to communicate in-game - use Drivers Chat instead. NEW RACE ANALYSIS FEATURE You can now view an individual drivers race incidents on their own (appended to the lap analysis page). I found this quite useful if you want to see how much bad luck you really had to deal with in a race, for example. NEW SEASON ANALYSIS FUNCTION On the season standings page, you can now view a table listing of laps led, pits, passes, points at that stage in the championship and quali positions (originally you could see just the final position). DRIVER CHARACTERISTICS IMPLEMENTED These were never properly working before! Now, they are - and may swing a championship in your favour! Each drivers characteristics can (at the time of writing) be shown from the driver standings page. PODIUM A podium display is now shown at the end of the race. You can also access it from the race results session list. If there are multiple classes in a championship there will be separate podiums for each class. END OF SEASON PAGE When a championship is over, all of the car garages now default to an end of season page showing the championship winners (driver and team/constructor). If there are multiple classes in a championship these are shown too. DONATE / SPONSOR BATRACER / PERMANANTLY ADVERTISE ON BATRACER It is now possible to buy permanent advertising in limited space either side of the game pages using the new Pixel Advertising model. This is an alternative to either game fees or plain donations, and in doing so you can contribuite to the running cost of the game and continued development whilst getting something back! Because there is limited advertising space, it's permanent and also very cheap - it makes it highly appealing if you're just looking for somewhere to advertise. The smallest space you can buy is a PERMANANT 10x10 pixel square @ 19 GBP. BROWSER SUPPORT IE6, Firefox and Opera are now all supported (before it was IE-only). Opera requires you to change the slider bar setting to use Flash sliders. CHAMPIONSHIP ORDER REVISED Rather than settle on points alone, driver and team championship orders are now defined by points, then wins, podiums, poles, fastest laps and finally average qualifying position... this means there is no longer the risk of joint (or random!) champions in the event of a draw. GAME ADVANCE TWEAK Games will now advance at their prescribed times, previously a player from a particular game would have to be online for it to advance. NAME CHECKING Driver name and team names are now checked and changed if they are considered "bad". Reasons for name changes include names which are too long without spaces, bad characters, offensive words, random letters or numbers and codes. Names are a key part of race commentary and so each player must have a regular driver name and team name. HOME RACE NOTIFICATION Drivers competing in their home race are now listed at the start of a race, as well as in the timesheets. SLIDER BARS Because JAVA is no longer bundled with many default browser installs (e.g. Windows XP) The JAVA slider bars have been dropped in favour of a DHTML one. The functionality is much the same. Opera users will need to change their slider settings to Flash sliders as the regular mode is not compaitable. GAMES LIST DISPLAY IMPROVED Neat sorted selection list now shows your champ position for each game entered into, game status, etc. COSMETIC IMPROVEMENTS Some basic cosmetic improvements have been made... we havn't laboured on this too much though as gameplay is what drives us most! GRAPHS ENHANCED The post-race and championship graphs have been improved to make them more readable. MORE RACE PLAYBACK ENHANCEMENTS TEAM MATE PIT STOPS NOW VISIBLE Shown on the race strategy page, below your own strategy options. MORE COMPLEX OVERTAKING MODEL Relative speed between two cars and the type of circuit is now more important. No longer will a car which is 2 seconds a lap faster around Monza struggle to pass another car. On the flipside, a massivly quicker car around Monaco won't make a huge difference. The difficulty of passing at different circuits was modelled previously, but did not take into account relative speed difference. SPECIAL PLAYERS INDICATED Special players (sponsors or devs) are now indicated in game. MAXIMUM GAME LIMIT IMPOSED ABOUT PAGE ADDED General game information, history, and browser compaitability details.
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