Vangaziland wrote:Scheduling both events at the same time might not work for a lot of people. It would take a lot of writing to be competitive in both. Or someone could just write one article for each, but that's going to add up. Especially as other sports rotate over that long time span. I get that feeder series run congruent with F1 in real life. Still, that'd take a major effort. More likely, the WGP2 might just get less attention.
Imagine having to come up with two separate story lines, two race weekends, two-four driver reactions..... Unless we put them in the same forum. That would have to mean shared RP bonus, where articles count for both regardless of which side you mention.
But that would be a lot for one host, so that likely wouldn't happen. If it has to be skipped until after next WGPC, it wouldn't be so bad.
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I think it would be totally possible to have a two-host team where one is responsible for the WGP2 and one for the WGPC, with the possibility of covering each other if required. Given that we manage to have two hosts for other competitions such as the World Cup, I don't see a reason why WGPC couldn't follow a same way. In fact, I think it should because of three reasons:
1) it keeps away the slight confusion IC'ly of either having the season for motor racing split neatly in two (which means one has to run in winter, which I guess does work if some countries don't have winter/have mild winters/have reversed seasons, but still is rather weird), or having them alternate; running them next to each other means that you can have a lot more interaction between series regarding roleplay and possibly promote/relegate drivers during seasons, which I think raises interesting possibilities for storylines.
1.5) I think this warrants its own point but is connected to 1), if someone has to drop out for a month or two OOC, like me last season, they could roleplay it as their driver being injured and have a replacement step in. That means that we get both more activity and the team doesn't get shafted in the Constructor's, and we get less pressure to RP. I felt really bad for Mattijana last season because my thesis forced me to stop RPing for a while (and when I had time again I couldn't really get back into the flow of things and quit altogether), and that would have been alleviated if we could easily have promoted a Junior MRT driver. Now, I know this is possible in SQ as well, but I think the hurdle may be higher when it's an IC resigning of an OOC unknown person, rather than "let's pull up this guy that has been RP'ing for my team already in the WGP2".
2) I think that it helps WGP2 to fulfil its role as an OOC feeder because people are more likely to be highly involved when more is at stake. That means people are more likely to be willing to take over WGP2 teams because they feel like it's a spotlight role, and because it's essentially less work. I don't wanna run SVJ Racing in the WGP2 again because I have very limited time and energy to RP, and I'd rather spend that on top-tier competition. But if the two were fused, I'd happily run an SVJ team again and only devote every other RP or so to it, while using the other half to RP Sigur driving in the WGPC.
3) With the WGP2 in there with the big boys, I feel like you get more pull with new people. I feel like there hasn't been much interest in WGP2 from the non-racing community, whereas we already tend to struggle to find drives for WGPC. I think that with the two tiers united, people would not experience not finding a ride as often, hence be more interested in racing and more likely to stick with us. Higher appeal is good, if you ask me.