$4000,- per square foot of office space, that's nice

Quote from J.B. :

Name on the credit card? My full name isn't even on my credit card (too long) and the Umlauts are written with extra "e"s inserted.

So apart from the fact that I don't see a valid reason for displaying my real life identity publicly on the internet, the credit card name would look pretty ugly as well.

I'm sure the bank that gives out your credit card requires it to be registered to your full lawful name. It might not be possible to literally write your name on the card, but the name to which it's registered ought to be your real, full name?

Quote from spanks :

A bit sad that my first race with an irating I feel the need to destroy it, but one bad race never killed anyone :P Just need to suck it up and race some more (with less incidents D: )

Bad races happen, sometimes several in a row! Trust me, as you drive more you'll reach new lows, but also new highs

Currently I've become allergic to VIR, I hate the track with every fiber of my being and I would love to see it bombed so far to !@#$ that noone would be able to drive on it ever again.

I'll get over it though :>

Quote from J.B. :

Quick question: do you really have to use your real name to race? Or is a name that sounds real good enough?

The name on your Credit Card is used, so unless you're committing somekind of credit fraud and have your CC registered under a false identity you'll be in the system with your real name

Perhaps if there is a major privacy issue the iRacing team would be willing to allow an alias? It's a very far-fetched idea and I hadn't thought of it really, but they are able to change names, and if you can argue your point it might work

That's a bigass list!

Quote from spankmeyer :

Got wrecked out in T1. Video to follow for evidence of complete iDiots on track.

EDIT: Wow, my SR took a nicedive thanks to this dummie (video still processing).

please make a formal report of that sort of behaviour, because I don't ever want to meet such people.

I think Road America and Silverstone are currently the most demanding tracks for a lot of machines. I personally don't notice any performance dips anywhere, so I guess I'm lucky

I think the advanced solstice is roughly a second faster on LRP, but I could be wrong as I only did 2 races with it, and hardly any practice.

Edit: George thanks for that program, I've always been looking for something like that

Last edited by Jertje, Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:51.

That might work for you, but I absolutely can't drive the Skippy that smoothly. To get into that style would take me too much additional time by now, and I know that in the end it ends up being slower for me personally on the limit.

My 2.13.3 is absolutely horrendously ugly compared to your lap, but I know that I can still make huge improvements to knock seconds off that. That speed should come with consistency, and right now I don't have any of that since I haven't done more than 20 laps around any VIR layout

I'm still in the stage of learning the track where improvements come in 'bursts' - if you know what I mean. Before I drove my PB, my old PB was 1.5 seconds slower, and so on. However, since the Olympics were on and I royally hate VIR, I haven't taken much time to practice yet ;p
I'm even strongly considering putting most of my focus on the Mazda around Silverstone, but I need to learn VIR at some point...

Either way I think the next week is going to hurt my SR quite a bit and likewise, the grass in VIR will never quite look the same again :>

Alright, VIR Long practice is a go mission.
2.13.3 after ~15 laps and from watching our magical sideways-friend Huttu and adding that to my own limited magical abilities I can deduct that taking another 1.5-2 seconds off will be possible. The only factor still missing in that equation is that I haven't raced on VIR yet before, so I don't know the limits of the track all that well.

Edit: I hate this track so damn much... either I complete a lap and it's a good 2.13, or I slide off into the sunset over the grass as soon as a blade of said grass sneaks its way under one of the wheels.

Last edited by Jertje, Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:55.

Quote from Crommi :

Just be aware of that most of the guys in Skippy series have atleast a month of iRacing experience advantage over you. No one is giving away positions or holding back and you should be well prepared by doing solo practise before joining a race.

Translation:

Avast landlubber! ye be sailing OUR seas now! Arrrrrrr!

Quote from farcar :

Me too and my thoughts almost exactly. I don't know if it's because I haven't/can't tweak the views and controls to my liking.. maybe it's the 2 initial cars I find a bit uninspiring, but this just hasn't excited me like I was expecting.

I've been lapping both the Solstice and Legends around Laguna Seca and Summit Point (Short). There's certainly not much to fault with the physics model; it feels really good. But, I can't say that it feels better than LFS. Sence of weight is slighly better and colision detection is, but overall close to par I reckon. Graphics might be 'fancier' but I wouldn't judge them higher either as they're not as solid as LFS (there are some noticable clitches where the tyres meet road), and I definitely don't like the interface and displays at all, although I admit that I haven't spent hours tweaking things like I have for LFS. And I don't like the default racing view. Too much cockpit and not enough track. The sounds are better.

In the end though, I don't think iRacing provides the 'sandbox' feel LFS gives me, and I just don't have as much fun playing it. I like to shift+u to replay that moment from whatever angle I like. I like uploading people's skins and when I'm offline, I like just mucking with things. I don't think I can get the same satisfaction in these respects from iRacing.

Having said all that, I think that LFS has a really important lesson to learn from iRacing.
- A Structure.
I know that there are leagues etc, but LFS clearly needs to do more to promote competetive and clean racing for the masses. The sandbox approach leaves it aimless in many respects, with all these silly cruise and drift servers. It would benefit greatly from some sort of ranking structure to promote clean racing and so that drivers have something to aim for. CTRA achieves this to a small degree, but a structure needs to be integrated in to the game and not left to in-sim apps and leagues.

Anyway, my 2 cents are now spent...

Some good thoughts there. The structure then, I guess, is both iRacing's strong point as well as its weak point. You can't adjust your cockpit position and many other things that can be customised in LFS, but not in iRacing, because iRacing attempts to make a completely level field on the technical level. There's not really anything you can tweak at all besides your paintjob.

In the end, iRacing just aims to be something that LFS is not. Apart from that they both have solid physics, the sims are almost polar opposites I suppose.

Quote from Crommi :

Jertje, have you done any testing on VIR yet? Could do little comparison since I'm going to dedicate tomorrow and saturday for practising that track.

Well, I didn't race Grand East last time it was up so I have no real experience around VIR (and I hate the track ;p) but I think I did a 2.14.9 in the couple of 'fast' laps that I managed a couple of days back.

I think I'll dedicate Saturday to practicing hardcore.

Congratulations

Quote from Crommi :

Question: Do you feel bad when someone goes off after you've put hard pressure on him?

I do a bit, yes. It's not that it's my fault... but I just prefer clean manouvers, which happen a lot less than people spinning out due to pressure :'\

Quote from Crommi :

Edit: However, Jertje is still being stubborn and doesn't want to spin when I'm chasing him.

Hah, well I managed to make a small gap and I knew we have a similar pace, so I became confident enough when my laps were all in the 48 range.
I don't do so well under direct pressure though

I wouldn't recommend trying it on that system, because it's right on the minimum requirements as you can see a few posts up.

Quote from Bean0 :

There have been similar rumours for other games and it has never happened.
I think it has not happened yet because PC players will need to be handicapped as the mouse/keyboard is a lot quicker/more accurate than a joypad.

Not with the auto-aim system on ;p

Oh, before I forget... Samuli, what do you use to edit just your pedal movement into your videos? do you fraps the lap twice with both interfaces and then crop one of them down to just the pedal activity? I thought it looked really neat and clean

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

2nd place in my first race, but I really should have won it easily. There was a big crash because a noob spun trying to rejoin the track, I thought I avoided it but for some reason the guy who hit the spinning car swerved into the side of me. That gave me bad damage, but I got myself up to 2nd place. Then stupidly ran wide when trying to overtake the leader round the outside and spun off. I fought back to within 5 seconds of the leader at the end.

On the whole a great first race, but it could have been a lot better.

Is it working out alright with a joypad then?

Quote from SamH :

Doesn't the iR safety racing hold back Mitja? Surely if he's a danger on the track, all you have to do is progress in iR while he's still stuck in a lesser car?

This will only start having a serious effect in the later license levels. Right now he's license D, which only comes after Rookie.
The higher you get, the harsher you get punished for incidents. Most C-class drivers don't lose or gain anything in a 15 lap session with ~4-5 incidents.
This means that a single spin (2x incident points) requires you to drive roughly 6 laps to make up for it.

Right now he's still getting away with it relatively well, but if he gets promoted to C next season he'll be having some serious issues with promoting any further if he keeps his current driving style.

Quote from Crommi :

I think I'm done for tonight, frustration kicking in. Yesterday was great but today has been just horrible, on that last race I even had to retire because I spun on grass and got stuck in a ditch. I think only positive thing was that I managed to run 48.2 just before I repositioned my left-rear on top of rear wing using Mr. Bonca's nosecone.

Yeah, I noticed that display of idiocy.

You were having a good battle with Paul (we're having a debrief in skype right now actually ;d) and I was enjoying myself behind you guys, waiting to strike out of the shadows, and all I know then was that at some point Mitja was somewhere on the track derping out and he wrecked Paul's suspension, I narrowly avoided him and then I think I saw you driving into him.

The guy is so fast (Mitja) but I'm not so sure about his race-ethics.

Soooo close to a 1.47. If I can just get a little bit more control to make my exits cleaner!

Actually... I wish I did those laps in a time trial session

The season end is still a long way to go, I wouldn't worry about SR at all, but I do want to drive the Mazda next week at Silverstone

Crommi,

I think the guy in front of me at the start of the race seriously outqualified himself; he braked like 10m before the cones at the hairpin, so I had to go hard on the brakes. I was cussing a bit when I saw you having to evade me

We would have had a good battle otherwise :\
Perhaps I should be more assertive and go on the inside next time, since I had the extra brake-space... but that would feel a bit like divebombing.

What happened aroudn the middle of the race though? big pile-up after the double-apex hairpin?

Quote from Crommi :

Jerte sure beats the crap out of Skippy, but your setup is bit different than the one I'm using and I don't think I could toss it around like that without flying into a wall and that's not really good when you need to stay on track more than one lap. I tried to be little bit more aggressive in last race but it ended up badly, that bump inside T4 didn't like my sliding and threw me off the track.

I'll try your set tomorrow and see how it works. Here's the set I'm currently using, it's made for Cup layout but since it's mostly the same, I suppose it works just fine.

A Huttu-set? do you use that for that awesomely neat driving style - or did you modify it?