Pretty brutal

Website won't load for me, too many people trying to get in at the same time probably haha.

You can't test it if the site is down though?

Picking on of these up on Thursday.

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So you're saying that you might have to pay £400(a full month's rent I'm guessing) for 11 days in June? Over here if you're only staying for part of a month the landlord will normally prorate the rent based on the amount of time you'll be there for that month, so for you it would be £140 or so if I calculated that correctly. I'm not sure if there is any legal precedence but from my experiences and what I've gotten from talking to friends landlords are usually pretty easy to work with and aren't going to try to rip you off if you aren't staying somewhere the full month. Have you talked to your landlord about how much you need to pay for June?

Yeah I wish they'd open that up so everyone could check out the stats, don't see why you'd need to hide that. Not sure if that's been suggested in the forums over there or not.

Quote from SilverArrows77 :

yep, the more i look at the details of iRacing the more i see little flaws like this that make me question whether i will go down that route...

That said, im still keen on the system/format and can see its benefits and am keen to give it a shot once my new hardware and wheel get here, but it does make me wonder how successful its going to be in the future if it gets diluted with too much content for a minimal userbase

With all the effort that they've put in so far I can't see iRacing failing, but I think they're going to have to make some changes at some people to get more people to sign up. I'd love to see some numbers showing their subscription rate.

Quote from SilverArrows77 :

and also not running seasons with certain cars people have paid for will just annoy and anger those people.

This is exactly what happened with the new schedule. John Henry admitted that they have about twice as many series as they should, they killed a couple off and now people can't race with the content they paid for. They need to increase their users not kill off series that people signed up to race in.

And by increase users, I'm thinking lower prices. Its pretty much the only solution I see.

They've got all this great content in the works, the problem they're going to run in to is that they don't have enough subscribers to race in all these series because the price is still keeping too many people away. The only way they can open up space for new series is to kill off old ones(that people still race), which is just going to piss people off. Their system works pretty well I'd say, but I don't think it has enough people to support it, and the problem is probably only going to get worse.

Quote from StableX :

end of season tomorrow mate... could be why?

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Next season they were changing the SK's from a daily series to a one day a week series, seems like a lot of people are against this though so hopefully iRacing sorts it out.

Quote from Crommi :

UncleBenny: They probably saw that participation numbers weren't high enough over the course of full season. What I'd suggest is run have season feature only one weekly series and change/rotate it for every season. Although in my opinion 12 weeks is little long for these series, so another solution would be to have weekly series run on 6 weeks schedule which would work better for testing out new series and/or multi-class racing.

I guess, I just don't see the point of making it only one day a week though, so now if I am busy on the weekend, I can't race the modified at all that week, if they gave a weekday too like Wednesday it might not be as bad.

Also I don't see why participation numbers matter, the 3 US night time slots had enough guys for a race every night from what I saw, even if participation is low, obviously some people enjoy racing it. If people want to race that series then why stop them? So now we have 4 full fendered oval series and the only open wheel one left is one day a week. Oh well, guess I'll buy the late model and move on, its not really a big deal just annoys me because when I signed up for iRacing the modifieds are the car I wanted to race the most, and now they get the shaft 2 weeks into my subscription.

Garbage, new schedule is out and modified races are only once a week again, I never even got to do a full season. They had official races every night in that division...I don't get why they killed it off.

What are you guys going to race next season? I'm going to go with the Mazda for road racing, and I'll probably stick to the SK modified for ovals because its so much fun to drive. I haven't gotten a chance to try out the trucks online yet, so maybe I'll do those instead of the modifieds but I doubt it. Just wish they would release the schedule and Nationwide car so I can buy more crap.

Do it again maybe? Only took them about a day to respond to mine.

http://www.radicalextremesport ... com/racing/virtual-racing

Yes you can do that, have to buy the Mazda though.

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Can you go online with the trials? Whats the most popular combo? I wouldn't mind trying the mazda or radical, i applied for radical at silverstone from radical website, still not got back to me, last time i tried from someone on here i still had to pay £10 or someting.

You can go online in the trial, but won't be able to race with either of those cars as they require higher licenses. You can use them offline for practice though. You'll start off with the Solstice and Legends car for online, and you could make it to the Skippy and Late Model during the trial period I think, you'd have to buy those(plus tracks) though.

Finally did some Skippy racing to get my SR up for end of season promotions. Didn't like the car at first but it is a lot of fun once you get the hang of it. I'm looking forward to racing the Mazda next season.

S3R won't be at this round.

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Quote from CSU1 :

You are taking the piss, right?

"A lot of money"...Each of the stages are as cheap as chips compared to others, so what do you want?

If Scavier were to release a blog people would inevitably bitch and moan when the blog is not updated and would also argue on the content being worked on and at what times etc. Bottom line it really isn't any of our business what and when Scavier do, you've read the agreement when you bought S2 and if you don't understand the design process by now you never will.

Asking for a blog and asking for Scavier to divulge when they are on extended breaks is asking for yet another problem that will only result in the whole process grinding to a halt whilst the community bickers about tit-for-tat pieces of the design process which doesn't belong in the public domain in the first place, so, -1 here.

Actually, people invest a lot more money than just the cost of the game. You have wheels, monitors, computers, racing seats, in some cases all just bought to play LFS for the time being. I realize this is not the devs responsibility since the person chooses to buy these things, but the cost of an LFS license is hardly the amount people invest in racing. People with this kind of an investment would obviously appreciate a developer blog to know what's going on.

I agree with you on the second point though, people would complain about things constantly if things don't move along as fast as they want. But people complain now anyway, I can't see it being much worse with a blog. I give it a +1, I'd love to know what they're working on while we wait for the next patch. I realize the devs are damned if they do, damned if they don't in regards to giving out news on the development of LFS, I say just give us an update everyone once and a while so we know what's going on. Just my opinion though.

Would be interesting, IGTC is that day though.

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

Dangerous thinking... The programs used in 'Arcade' mode allow more wins, where as the ones with real money you will inveterately win less.

Before anyone thinks about it....can I recommend anyone thinking about using online roulette to think seriously again. There is NO system to win, there is NO betting structure to follow. The house ALWAYS wins

I have seen many loss £100's online using such systems, and seen one poor sod lose £1,000's in the Casino. My advice, stick to Poker, theres a lot which the player can do to influence the outcome.

The house always wins overall, but a single person can get lucky and beat the house. You can put down a ton of money on black and you COULD double your money then walk away. You could also lose though. They house doesn't always win in the short term, but in the long term they will.

Story of getting lucky with roulette. Last year at a friend's bachelor party we all threw in 10 bucks for him to go put down on the roulette table. I think we started with $120 or something. He bet it on black(or maybe it was red, whatever) and won. We told him take half off and go again, doubled up again. We told him to do the same, and he won for a third time. We walked out of there with almost $500, which we then said could ONLY be spent on lap dances, for the bachelor, at the strip club. He was in the back room almost the entire night. If he kept playing roulette he would have lost eventually, but it is possible to get really lucky in the short term.

I prefer blackjack when I go to casinos, which is rarely.

I didn't even know Ambrose played iRacing, looks like he does modified races every once and a while though so maybe I'll see him on there. Last week I did the 6:15 and 10:15 on Wednesday, he did the 8:15, doh!

I just keep telling myself "well, you know you're going to buy it eventually anyway...so why not right now...."

Quote from Slartibartfast :

LFS, race when you want, not every two hours to empty servers. Every time I enter a server in LFS I get what I am looking for. A race and a result. And then I know where I stand. And I can join a server with people I choose to race. (I use the term 'race' lightly in most cases.) Also, every time I look for a server with a race on it, I find one. I spend far too much of my day staring at the iRacing session schedule wishing for a race that aint gonna happen. (What the F#&@ am I paying for?)

This is highly dependent on what time you are online. I actually feel the exact opposite here, when I'm on LFS at night there are rarely any fully populated servers, so most of my time is spent looking for a race, waiting for the current race to end, etc. With iRacing on the other hand, I know exactly when a race is and I think there had only been one case so far where there weren't enough people to make it a points paying race for me. I can freely do other things around the apartment with iRacing, and I know that I can go over to my computer at 8:10 and there will be people ready to race at 8:15, no time spent sitting around waiting. I guess its just a personal thing, I used to do pickup race after pickup race but don't do that so much any more, I find iRacing's schedules work better for me.