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  #21  
Old September 19th 05, 03:58 AM
Mitch_A
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I'm really not at all surprised at that... I laugh at you too.


"Alan Bernardo" > wrote in message
news:_uadnQgFVNvnv7PeRVn- I gave a chuckle then, too, but I was laughing at
myself.
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> Alanb
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  #22  
Old September 19th 05, 04:04 AM
Mitch_A
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Keep in mind Scoob some of us are extremely pleased and very appreciative of
your teams hard work. I hope sales are going well for you guys.

Thanks for popping in under the noise

Mitch


"Scoob Droolins" > wrote in message
ups.com...

> Alan, your post is nonsense. To compare the online infrastructure of
> rFactor (which has been out two weeks) to the that of LFS (which has
> been out a couple of years) is quite unfair. We are working hard to
> improve things, and do have a major involvement with the community on
> the RSC forums. As far as r.a.s. goes, well, I do read these forums
> alot, and frankly, between the childish bickering and endless cursing
> amongst supposedly mature people, I'm hesitant to get involved. Washed
> our hands of it? Hardly. We have a very small dev group of only five
> people, and have to use our time carefully. A major update will be out
> shortly, so if you'll just hang with us ...
>



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Old September 19th 05, 06:17 AM
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>"Dave Henrie" > wrote
> You will see mod support, not just by the modders but to the modders by
> ISI. And you will see unsupported mods as well.


Bah.

With the ****up that iRacing has done to the community, there's nothing
holding ISI to do the same, just to back up their arse in case of some legal
action by some entity,stopping some mods to be released.

How can we be so sure? What's telling you somebody ain't gonna slap a
no-release legal paper on a mod? What's telling you Mods aren't going to
start charging money for mods that will be supported by rFactor? Like they
are going to take the chance and support let's say, an F1 mod on racecast


Let's not celebrate until we see how truly third-party friendly they are.



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Old September 19th 05, 08:06 AM
Tony Rickard
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Scoob Droolins wrote:

> As far as r.a.s. goes, well, I do read these forums
> alot, and frankly, between the childish bickering and endless cursing
> amongst supposedly mature people, I'm hesitant to get involved. Washed
> our hands of it? Hardly. We have a very small dev group of only five
> people, and have to use our time carefully. A major update will be out
> shortly, so if you'll just hang with us ...
>


Sccob, a number of RASers are really having a blast with rFactor. I
think there are some fair points about the "completeness" of the package
(espacially as an offline sim) and the matchmaker service is suffering
some teething trouble.

However, sim enthusiasts always want to get their hands on a product as
eealy as possible so fair play for getting it out and planning to update
it. Unfortunatley the same people that want it early can often critisize
the most the missing features - so there is an element of risk even with
an enthusiast group

For those of us who have organised leagues and are trying rFactor the
missing features become unimportant and we have workarounds for
connecting. Generally the experience is good, especially with the OW cars.

No doubt there are some issues with flags and pace car laps that need
sorting but the most important thing for a sim racer is the underlying
engine and flags and other features can always (hopefully) be fixed. As
long as there is a belief ISI will fix these issues (we have had enough
experience here where they haven't) then I believe the hardcore
community (which this group represents) will be on board.

As you will no doubt have noticed this is an unmoderated board and
inevitably will have some rogue posters (!). Look beyond those and you
will discovers some diamonds within the rough

Cheers
Tony
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Old September 19th 05, 10:23 PM
Alan Bernardo
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> Alan, your post is nonsense. To compare the online infrastructure of
> rFactor (which has been out two weeks) to the that of LFS (which has
> been out a couple of years) is quite unfair. We are working hard to
> improve things, and do have a major involvement with the community on
> the RSC forums.


Is it not so that this so-called infrastructure of rFactor has really been
in place (or at least your core group has been in place) since F1C? LFS, as
soon as the first MP build was released, was years ahead of rFactor. Your
estimation of LFS and it being out a couple of years is the reason for the
difference, is bogus.

>As far as r.a.s. goes, well, I do read these forums
> alot, and frankly, between the childish bickering and endless cursing
> amongst supposedly mature people, I'm hesitant to get involved.


Endless cursing? Childish bickering? I think a lot of the conversations we
have here about racing simulators is oftentimes cogent and civil. I never
recall using profanities or bickering. Maybe you've taken a few posts and
generalized them into a few hundred in order to justify non-involvement.

>Washed our hands of it? Hardly. We have a very small dev group of only
>five
> people, and have to use our time carefully. A major update will be out
> shortly, so if you'll just hang with us ...
>


Don't misinterpret my posts, I do like rFactor and am glad to see an update
might be coming soon. I'm hoping for the best and do appreciate the work
you guys have done thus far. You must understand that too often users are
promised certain things and these things never materialize.

Keep up the decent work. BTW, are there any plans for a manual? Also, as
much as you wish to reveal, what are the planned fixes or enhancements that
might be coming in the next and future updates? I'd really like to see a
better, more stable online statistics gathering mechanism along the lines of
LFS.

Thanks for the reply,

Alanb


  #28  
Old September 19th 05, 11:27 PM
Alan Bernardo
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"Mitch_A" > wrote in message
.. .
> I'm really not at all surprised at that... I laugh at you too.
>
>
> "Alan Bernardo" > wrote in message
> news:_uadnQgFVNvnv7PeRVn- I gave a chuckle then, too, but I was laughing
> at myself.
>>
>> Alanb
>>

>
>


Certainly. But the key here is being able to laugh at yourself, which some
who have elitist attitudes are unable to do.

Top-posters, mainly.


Alanb


  #29  
Old September 19th 05, 11:30 PM
Don Scurlock
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"elrikk" > wrote in
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> On Saturday afternoon I could not get any server listing at all from
> inside rFactor itself.
>
> Couldn't see a race with "RAS" in the title on the RaceCast server
> list.
>
> The RASCAR site seemed to be down. (still does.)
>
> Retried each ot these several times between 2:30 and 4:30 EST.
>
> I know people raced but how the heck did they get there ? ;o)



Create a "Friends List" and build up your "Bookmarks", you can use either
to connect to servers even if the list is down.

From the readme:

On the Join page (found under the Connect icon in the main options), you
will find three tabs at the top - Server List, Friends List, and Chat. The
Server List is where you are taken to by default and lists the games you
can join.

Under Friends List, you can specify friends by their profile name and
clicking the Plus icon to add them. Later on, you will be able to see
which of your friends are racing right now. In the right pane you will see
games you have bookmarked. Once you are in a race, you can bookmark the
server by pressing the call-vote button in the bottom-left portion of the
monitor and then pressing the "Bookmark" button. From then on, just go to
the Friends List, pick the bookmarked server and hit Join Race.
  #30  
Old September 20th 05, 12:44 AM
Alan Bernardo
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"Mitch_A" > wrote in message
.. .
> In \rfactorpath\userdata\yourprofile locate the multiplayer.ini and change
> the line "Concurrent Server Updates" from 40 to 150.
>
> Anyone have a fix for the F3 steering wheel outline in your side view
> mirrors? Does everyone see it?
>
> Mitch
>
>


I've seen it. At first it looked like a single, white thread, spinning
slowly in the air. When you mentioned it here, I took a closer look, and
indeed the thread moves as my wheel moves. Not much of an annoyance
anymo I'm just ignoring it.


Alanb


 




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