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ajp71
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Quote from Technique :I find the damage isn't really accurate at times. As I mentioned in a previous post, driving into the back of someone at the start will total the Solstice completely. I had to hold the wheel 45 degrees to the left to go straight after a 15-20mph (however fast I may be going in a couple of feet?) impact.

The amount of energy any car, even a low power road car get gain within a car length or two from stationary is huge. Going into the back of even the car directly in front can cause big damage to both cars and is potentially large enough to cause injuries or rupture fuel tanks.
ajp71
S2 licensed
Quote from Shotglass :well it is... especially if youre french
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QeA6Wh46iY

I love how the Mexicans give him a police escort rather than just being boring gits stopping Makinen from driving 3 wheeled and handing out speeding tickets like our lot
ajp71
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Quote from bmwe30m3 :
Made in China

How could I guess
ajp71
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I think what is going to kill them isn't the price of the subscription itself but the addon content. I think a lot of people won't have a problem with paying for the subscription, I myself am considering whether it is worth it.

The price of the extra content is ridiculous though, I was looking at paying $15 at getting the Skip Barber car, until I realised that to actually race it each week I'd have to spend a further $45 on tracks...
ajp71
S2 licensed
Quote from dawesdust_12 :ooh.. well I'm currently doing Legends, waiting for my TT session to expire before entering the next race.

AFAIK there is no penalty for withdrawing from a time trial/practice/qualifying when you've done your laps so you don't have to wait.
ajp71
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I've got to make a choice Advanced Legends or Rookie Solstice?
ajp71
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Quote from Mazz4200 :Quite frankly i'm starting to worry...

First we've got DW'yah being seduced by a load of trees. The Fins revealing they're all a bit partial to the colour pink. Tristan NOT hating it. Kev having a moment of honesty and revealing he actually sucks at all sims (except LFS). Mackie publically admitting he "likes it bumpy" . And perhaps the most distressing of all, young AJP admitting he's actually enjoying teh Oi-vals...

This thing is seriously evil, having decided I wasn't going to stay up for the midnight Solstice race I'm now considering respraying my Legends car pink and going oval racing in it
ajp71
S2 licensed
The friends thing seems to work, well at least I ended up in a race with another pink car

Unfortunately I'm having a bad day with controllers, following the sticking brake pedal my steering wheel decided to unscrew itself from its boss resulting in another early finish in the Solstice.
ajp71
S2 licensed
It doesn't look like 64 anymore...
ajp71
S2 licensed
Done another oval race and I'm worryingly starting to enjoy oval racing a bit too much, races seem the right length (unlike the Solstice) and the car is much more fun to drive, if it wasn't so expensive I'd consider going oval racing in iRacing because it is refreshingly different.

What do I have to do to get to the advanced cars/up a license level? Is it just getting the safety rating thing to 5?

Quote from Hyperactive :I first thought about making totally silly colored car with neon green, pink and purple but it did look quite awful even for me

You also see quite a few of them about driven by Americans who think they're cool
ajp71
S2 licensed
What names are people racing under? Would be nice if we could have a list of LFS forum users so we can be grouped to crash into each other
ajp71
S2 licensed
Quote from spanks :this is the second day the service is available in a minimum release...

your fault for wanting to be one of the first I suppose

All that needs to happen is add four times as many races, hardly something that couldn't be automated to meet demand.
ajp71
S2 licensed
I've just tried qualifying in the Solstice, got it into the 6s and can see where the time can be made up, beginning to like the challenge of driving it on the limit a bit more though. What is really annoying me is that the brakes (when they're not jammed on) are ridiculously strong and I'm using the 911 wheel pedals which have short travel, I'm routinely struggling not to lock up at the end of the straight and can't see anyway to reduce there strength.
ajp71
S2 licensed
I've just missed the Solstice race so I'm going to qualify instead, stupidly the sessions are put at 10 past the hour so lots of people haven't qualified because they're racing instead.

My third race ended on the second lap at the first corner where my brakes jammed on and I went straight into the wall, I'm not sure whether this is an iRacing or controller issue, but I've never had them jamming on mid session in any other sim.
ajp71
S2 licensed
Personally I'd much rather pay by the race or time in the sim, personally I'm not going to subscribe to it on a routine basis because apart from the cost of it and having to race things I don't want to race or pay for to get to the cars and tracks I'm interested in I simply don't have enough free time and there are times when I won't touch racing sims.
ajp71
S2 licensed
Quote from Crommi :There's a limit on how many times you can reset and damage model is alot more punishing than in LFS. Bumping into others seems to be very common at the start grid since not everyone gets going soon as lights go green. In last race I had to reset right at the start due to nasty pileup up ahead, tried to avoid it but left-front touched guy in front and it was bye-bye suspension for that corner.

I don't understand what it is with people starting, this isn't a difficult car to start, lots of revs and dump the clutch will see you safely off the line and you can't stall it, yet people still seem to just sit there, in the second race I did I drove straight into the back of the car in front of me on the grid and in the first I managed to bring my car to a complete stop whilst the Sunday drivers in front of me got going.

Quote :
And as a clarification, reset button is not some instant cure. You have to stop the car and then hold it for a short period to get thrown back into pits.

It still has no place in a sim.
ajp71
S2 licensed
Quote from tristancliffe :Slight change of mindset - After this weekend's racing, I've got something like 5 or 6 weeks 'free' to do as I please with. A lot will undoubtedly be taken up my real life stuff, be it fiddling with racing cars or doing laundry, but I'm hopeful that for some of the time I'll be able to get in some LFS and sim racing action again! Woot!! My G25 is starting to cry with joy and the prospect...

Anyway, I'd like to try iRacing during this time (as I won't have free time otherwise). If I can manage to find someone who has still got betatester handouts can I still get in on the first wave, or am I committed to waiting for the wholly public release now?

Quote from Dajmin :I got an access code last night but I have no intention of subscribing to the release product. Do I need to enter card details to sign up for the month's free trial? Beause I hate systems like that.

The months trial is a subscription of $20 a month, you have to choose to cancel it if you don't want to keep paying. If you don't want your invite you could try giving Tristan your code, it asks for name and e-mail in the sign up process so I think anybody can probably use any code.

Quote from DarrenMarsh :Shift-R. Hey presto, no more damaged car. I hope they take it out and replace it with working pitstops soon though

I refuse to use a reset button, if the car is undrivable it should be race over what they were thinking when they put a reset button into a serious sim is beyond me.
ajp71
S2 licensed
Quote from jaws99 :I'm actually quite glad I didn't get my invite last night as i'm struggling for cash at the moment, the subscription might have finished me off!

I'm quite suprised by the good reviews too, I thought it would get slated to bits, but am I the only one who finds the incident points stupid? Someone spins off right in front of you with 0% chance of avoiding them and you get penalised for it!? If you can't implement a feature without proper support for it, then what's the point...

It doesn't matter who is at fault for an individual incident if you get more frequently 'taken out' or in more incidents you 'can't avoid' then chances are you're half the problem, pushing too hard not backing off when things start to go wrong in front of you.

Does anybody know what the rookie rating is based on, I only seem to have one rating atm is it performance or safety or both? and do I go up a level when I get it to 5?
ajp71
S2 licensed
Quote from DarrenMarsh :I just looked at the results of that race you were in and there was a guy who got 28 incident points in 13 laps. That's the kind of guy I'm talking about

I still think the race format is very wrong, the grid is too small, the race too long and given the stats and current lack of races there is an incentive not to retire. Driving round for 20 minutes in a car that is a handful on the straights trying to avoid other equally damaged cars isn't fun. I think if it was a 10 minute, 20 car race with more frequent races most people would finish and those that don't would likely just park it rather than becoming an pain for everybody else.
ajp71
S2 licensed
I would completely disagree with you there, the starter cars are slow and easy enough to go straight into racing with a few laps testing so long as people drive sensibly, after all a lot of racers have never been on a track before there ARDS course and go straight into a race meeting after getting their license in harder cars to drive than we've got in iRacing.

I did an oval race, much better than the Solstice, the grid was still pathetically small though and I don't understand why if over 100 people are signing up for the oval race there isn't one starting at least every 30 minutes, which would mean people could get action with a few minutes of pause between.
ajp71
S2 licensed
Just done my first race, the system itself seems good, maybe I was just lucky but a short wait then short warm up is just right. The actual format of the race itself is awful, 10 cars and a 20+ minute is not what beginner racing should be about.

Off the start line I had to bring the car to a complete stop because both cars in front of me either stalled (not sure if that is possible in iRacing) or didn't bother reacting to the lights. After picking a way through, into T1 I drove straight into the back of a car driving round at pedestrian speeds, partly my fault but this guy was going ridiculously slowly. At that point it was effectively race over, damaged car (but still drivable) and lost the best part of a lap recovering.

Later on the muppet I hit seemed to be less damaged than me and caught me up with some interesting understanding of the concept of overlap took me out twice in as many laps, I think he genuinely was clueless about what is and isn't acceptable but given the ban on sorting things through chat there's little one can do to try and explain. After that it was just an exercise in limping round tripping over cars limping slower and being lapped. Only 3 cars finished the race on the lead lap, and only the front two cars seemed to have a race.

There also don't appear to be any blue flags in iRacing which leaves it a bit of a guessing game who is in your mirrors.

It also appears it is only one race every two hours
ajp71
S2 licensed
5 minutes away from a race at Lime Rock in the Solstice...

I can't find pretty basic information though like how long the race is or how many have entered, or what the pit speed limit is (despite the fact there's lots of info about not breaking it and where it starts).

Having done a few test laps I'm not really sure what to make of it, force feedback and basic physics seem alright, but the gearbox simulation is non-existent, something that I thought should have been high on the agenda from N2003.

The car seems incredibly dull to drive and I can't really make any comments on the sounds because the engine barely makes any.
ajp71
S2 licensed
It takes Debit cards for all the Europeans who were under the impression it only takes credit cards and that we'd have to mess about borrowing cards then sending e-mails to get names changed. In fact it took my details very painlessly, so it seems iRacing is good at collecting money. The license agreement is rather scary and installer is only 158mb, although I have a suspicion I'll be installing more files before I'm racing.

EDIT - after the installer the free content adds up to 590mb, downloading just the Solstice, Lime Rock and Laguna Seca for now which is 245mb.
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ajp71
S2 licensed
The old NSX was an under rated and extremely stylish car, hope the new one keeps what makes the NSX different to typical fat bloated modern sports cars.
ajp71
S2 licensed
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