How can this be useful and for whom would it be useful?
If I want to go to the pits (or have to go) then I go to the pits.
As in real life
The pit crew can tell you, you have to come in in lap 20 but when you get a problem in lap 18, you'll have to come in earlier.
With your suggestion it "can" be like this.
Driver: "I'm running out of fuel I'm comming in"
or
Driver: "I have a problem with ... (whatever)"
then
Pit crew: "No your are not granted to come in"
I totally agree with you
he just raise his fist and wasn't rip off something from his visior
at least it doesn't look like it and usually they move their hands from left to right or right to left to tear off strips from the visor.
Edit: and I have never seen someone doing it in such a short time
I bet you also have such yellow (brainless) press in Finland
Bild is in Germany like The Sun in the UK
BIG generalised Headlines for the masses.
No one with a brain would take these papers really serious.
Don't get me wrong maybe I just don't get this new rule or missunderstand you but now the MoE Admins decide if a driver of our team can race a race or not ?
That's tbh really strange.
If you want to hinder that people from one Team drive for another Team during a season then ok, that makes sense.
Anyway as in my Team the Team Managers (three_jump and me) do all the organisational stuff I have send you a mail about our new driver.
Oh great then it must be like this.
rFactor, GTR, GTR2, WTCC RACE 07 whatever was the best sim out there bla bla (lol)
If I wouldn't have heard such statements from almost every dev or company that come out with something new then maybe the concerns would be a little fewer.
But just because the devs say it's outstanding it doesn't mean it is like this.
I can't really remember a programm the could hold the promises the devs made before it was released.
But you are right we have to wait and see but I'm not surprised if it is not as good as they say.
btw:
where do the 9 euros per month come from?
They say on their website it will be like 16$ to 19$ per month over 3 years which is almost ~11 to ~13 Euros.
I forgot the time but I think after 18 minutes a lot of people disconnected because of a server problem? ISP? whatever - doesn't matter, technical failure and they are all out. Great
How many teams would then have finished the 24 hours race?
None? 2? or 4?
And how many people would watch something like that in a broadcast for the rest of the 23and a half hours. 5 or 6?
LFS should also be fun imo but your suggestion would only create much more boredom.
We all know that LFS is the exception rather than the rule but this is just crazy.
LFS costs me ~36 Euros in 5 years (including demo times + new cars + new tracks + online play + lfs world etc.)
for iRacing it would cost:
just an Example
5 new cars = $15 * 5 = 75$
5 new tracks = 20 * 5 = 100$ (~20$ per track)
5 years of online playing (if you pay for a complete year) = 13$ * 12 * 5 = 780$
All together for 5 years: 955$ = ~658 Euros
ROFL
I would say better spent that amount of money for real life track days or buy LFS another 18 times.
Their marketing analysts must live on the other side of the moon if they really think people will/can pay it or they are not really convinced by their own product and expect only a few people to pay for it.
I wrote something like that in the MoE board because there this discussion makes more sense imo:
Every shift+p is benefical for a team in the same way.
"get stuck n the gravel and don't use it - your race is over !!! ",
"engine damage and not use it - your race is over (well or better completly senseless)
"DC and not drive on - your race is over"
(there will never be a proof if someone does it on purpose or if it happend randomly - all you can do is speculate about it.)
Anyway all has the same result - "the race is not over" for no one
So why should there other or different penalties for the same thing.
If that would be treated diff. then the MoE admins also have to check in what part of the track and gravel a driver was when he shift+P to drive on etc. etc. etc.
Ayway without the MoE shift+p rule we would have 4 cars finishing a 24 hours race and hey this is a game to have fun with others and your team and not reality - because in reality their are no drivers that magically dissapear from the track and wake up at home all alone .
just install them (first XP then vista) on the HDD of your choice.
You will later have the boot loader from vista and can choose what Os you want to load. Only makes problems when you want to get rid of vista i.e then you have to perform some action (canbe googled) to not also destroy the XP installation.
If you don't want a boot loader and two complete indipendent OS installations you can unplug 1 HDD and install 1 OS on the other HDD and vice versa with the next HDD. Depends on your board sometimes it also works without unplugging the HDDs.
Depending on your Motherboard (SATA/SATA II/ Raid boards usually have that) you can then hit F8 or F11 or what your board manual tells you to open an "onboard boot-loader" and choose from which HDD /DVD/CD etc. you want to boot.
No need to go into the BIOS each time.