A brave post there from
auch_enne, I too do not drive in MOE (well not yet anyway - but maybe soon), I agree with the content of auch_enne's post though.
After all the promotion from the forum, I decided to watch as much of the race as I could, I have said before, how impressed I was never having spectated at this type of event before - even a real one (24hrs).
I thought that I would soon get fed up and do something else - maybe get some track time in myself, but no.
- I found the event most entertaining, - I was impresssed with everything, from the standard of Racing/driving, to the commentary, the tactics, and especially stuff like driver swaps, - it all just seemed to go like clockwork.
I watched the race and listened to Mika's exellent commentary, on one PC - and had live viewer set up on another. - Its a pity that both settups were 30 seconds out of synch, but both settups worked flawlessly - and I could see exactly what was happening at any time.
I think it was Mika, that said that all but five cars had had disco's, and I thought at the time that "wow that seems a lot" and then I thought to myself, "well I just look at it as if it was some major car problem that needed to be sorted in the pits", which happens IRL - so as a spectator it works for me.
I even noticed one or two of cars that went into the gravel - and then just warped back to the pits, I thought it strange at the time - but not being very experienced with LFS I did not realise what these guys were up to.
Something
has to be done about this.
Even if it means less realism (until the next patch?), cheating and cheats have to be weeded out to leave nothing but a fair playing field where everyone feels confident in the results.
Because without confidence in the results, the results mean absolutely nothing. - to me, to you, to the admins, the drivers, and the six thousand spectators on livestream.
- Therefore simracing in general suffers because of the perception of cheating being rife in serious events.
Look at what is happening in real event like the Tour de France, - the fanbase is falling like a brick because of drugtaking winners, - i.e. cheating louses.
We all want to win ideally, thats why we are here, people like myself have to accept that we will never be that good at high levels, so we take what results we can and enjoy racing against guys of the same ability whilst we get lapped by the fast guys that find the rails that get them round corners quicker
.
But I don't like to think I've been beaten by a cheat, and I dare say that the 6 grand that saw your race don't like the idea either, and having found the extent to the possibilities of over 80% of the grid may have done so - leaves me with a bad feeling, because now I'm not sure of what I saw anymore.
So is it worth watching again, - well maybe, but I don't feel the same as I did when watching you guys at Aston, and no doub't a lot of others feel the same way.
Whatever you do - you have to do something, and it has to be fair to all.
Some of you may not like the final decision, but if its the best you can do - and if it is fair and can be seen to be fair, then i feel you have no other choice.
At least until Scawen has made the neccessary changes, - which may take some time, as like me, he may only just become aware of the problem here.