Hosting a lobby

[SixxgunJohnny]

ok im tired of jumping in multi player and see nothing but Spa and Monza yes ive adjusted my settings but that really didnt make a diff. Plus noone ever uses the weatherin a race.. boring so if noone will do somrthing diff i will , i just need to know how to open m y own lobby witout having to have the iq of mr. Spock. ill pay for whatever just tell me where to go thanks before o forget this is for ACC

[EF_Neo1st]

Originally posted by SixxgunJohnny:

ok im tired of jumping in multi player and see nothing but Spa and Monza yes ive adjusted my settings but that really didnt make a diff. Plus noone ever uses the weatherin a race.. boring so if noone will do somrthing diff i will , i just need to know how to open m y own lobby witout having to have the iq of mr. Spock. ill pay for whatever just tell me where to go thanks before o forget this is for ACC

You will have to host a server (rent a server or ... the not advisable option of hosting on your computer as a server) and configure server files ... what may require a pair of pointy ears.

[Dustezz]

do what he does up to 3:30:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_l4ppaC5Q

Then do what this guy does between 1:04-2:23:
https://youtu.be/N1P2_2_qnvs?si=zv8CvH_TXLm70fqN&t=63

[SixxgunJohnny]

Originally posted by EF_Neo1st:

Originally posted by SixxgunJohnny:

ok im tired of jumping in multi player and see nothing but Spa and Monza yes ive adjusted my settings but that really didnt make a diff. Plus noone ever uses the weatherin a race.. boring so if noone will do somrthing diff i will , i just need to know how to open m y own lobby witout having to have the iq of mr. Spock. ill pay for whatever just tell me where to go thanks before o forget this is for ACC

You will have to host a server (rent a server or ... the not advisable option of hosting on your computer as a server) and configure server files ... what may require a pair of pointy ears.

LOL Thats exactly what i don't want to do. . i probably could do it, but frankly im too lazy. why do they make it so hard?? and hosting on my computer is def a NO!! i would have to delete all the midget porn ive got saved. isnt there some place you could goand just rent server space ? also racedept has a download that after reading more about it would tequire 2 vulcans and mr. Data to get it running. so im not sure what to do i like yhe game , i even have a nice sim set up but if i cant figure this outi might as well go play mario kart or little big planet.

[EF_Neo1st]

Originally posted by SixxgunJohnny:

Originally posted by EF_Neo1st:

You will have to host a server (rent a server or ... the not advisable option of hosting on your computer as a server) and configure server files ... what may require a pair of pointy ears.

LOL Thats exactly what i don't want to do. . i probably could do it, but frankly im too lazy. why do they make it so hard?? and hosting on my computer is def a NO!! i would have to delete all the midget porn ive got saved. isnt there some place you could goand just rent server space ? also racedept has a download that after reading more about it would tequire 2 vulcans and mr. Data to get it running. so im not sure what to do i like yhe game , i even have a nice sim set up but if i cant figure this outi might as well go play mario kart or little big planet.

Honestly....
Now is not a very active time at ACC multiplayer but still I have 15 servers with people in it (I selected GT3 only):
Monza: 6
Spa: 3
Nurburgring: 2
Zandvoort: 1
Barcelona: 1
Suzuka: 1
Brands Hatch: 1
So it is not just Monza or Monza and Spa (but is usually half or 70% of the lobbies being Monza or Spa)

Also you can join any lobby with zero players and righ now there are over 400 servers for GT3 alone

With ALL (not only GT3) I have a list of 1311 servers, 34 lobbies with players in it already, 16 are either Monza or Spa, so you can have some selection of lobbies that are not only Monza or Spa if you configure your settings right (I have 50 for all tracks at "Matchmaking Options/ADVANCED")

[Draennon]

Originally posted by SixxgunJohnny:

Originally posted by EF_Neo1st:

You will have to host a server (rent a server or ... the not advisable option of hosting on your computer as a server) and configure server files ... what may require a pair of pointy ears.

LOL Thats exactly what i don't want to do. . i probably could do it, but frankly im too lazy. why do they make it so hard?? and hosting on my computer is def a NO!! i would have to delete all the midget porn ive got saved. isnt there some place you could goand just rent server space ? also racedept has a download that after reading more about it would tequire 2 vulcans and mr. Data to get it running. so im not sure what to do i like yhe game , i even have a nice sim set up but if i cant figure this outi might as well go play mario kart or little big planet.

You can rent servers for ACC from various providers - depending on location and acceptable price. What each provider offers as far as size of server and performance goes varies, usually depending on how much money you throw at them.

To give you an example:
renting a server from g-portal for ACC would cost 21,20€ (currently just under $23) per 30 days, for a server with 24 slots - so 24 people can be on the server at any given time.

That's just for an example, other providers will very likely offer smaller servers for less money too.

But you won't get around configuring SOMETHING, once you rented the server, since ACC needs to have a track, kind of race, duration, realism settings, etc set for a server to do what you want it to do.

At best, the provider offers you a nicely sorted and designed interface to do all these things in a more readable way, so you wouldn't need to edit the text file yourself.
Some providers MIGHT offer some help/support for setting up the server.

But as EF_Neo1st already pointed out, there's usually servers there for just about any track, just no one is racing on them. There's a good chance that SOME people might join, once you hop onto an empty server yourself.

If renting and configuring a server yourselfis absolutely not an option for you, in my opinion your options come down to:
1. use one of the available servers that may be empty
2. find someone (person, not company) that's willing to host a server to your liking for you
3. go for other games, if you wanna race but are not SUPER tied to ACC in that regard - all of the racing sims are regularly on sale on steam


Hope that helps a bit.

As for why they don't offer it: local/peer to peer hosting (which is what a lot of games do for quick "invite your friends" multiplayer) is a different thing, as far as implementation goes, than hosting via a server. So I will take a wild guess and say, that it was never their intend to let you host a peer to peer session, so they did not bother with it.