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My email to Opinion Nation.
This covers some of the same ground as in my last topic but I wanted to
post it here so you guys could see what I sent to Opinion Nation. http://radio.psrtv.com/ Dear Opinion Nation, My motivation for SIM racing is first I'm a competition junkie. Secondly to hang out with my friends, especially Joe Hassel and Norm Graf. I pick the leagues I run in by the how well they are ran, level of competition, guys in the league and which car the league offers for competition. The reason I came back to MNRL's MIRL division is they are running North American Open Wheel and a balanced schedule of Ovals and Roadies. There are very few situation where you can demonstrate the wide variety of skill necessary win the drivers championship then in a NAOW style championship. MIRL offers it. My motivation to stick with rFactor is first, there are North American Open Wheel cars and secondly there are many mods that I can race at the drop of a hat. rFactor mods can be as good as the mod maker can make them and they have gotten better within the rFactor structure. There are many tracks that have been created for rFactor that are works of art and labors of love by the modder. The same for the cars that are created and the fact that someone has to sweat blood over these things make me want to continue to support them. The choice of leagues are almost endless. There are leagues like MNRL that are so highly organized that they can compete with any proprietary league format out there. Race2Play has a league organizational management system that anyone can use to run their league plus a large group of members to promote their league to. Why I'm not motivated to go iRacing is: First I tried it and the driving school format has no appeal to me. But over-all when iRacing got going, many of the arrogant and reckless racers went there and it cleaned up the leagues in rfactor. So iRacing really made rFactor better by absorbing the marginal people and racers. Secondly, I can't offer my support to the people that run iRacing because of the hatefulness they demonstrated in 2004 and 05 to the SIM Racing community in general, over the NR2003 "code gate" scandal. Also when they made Redline withdraw their kickass version of GTP and reissued that dumbed down version it also broke any support I would ever want to give them. 1.0 GTP rocked. Thirdly, the iRacing zealots turn me off. iRacing is good but it ain't that good. Not good enough to be around their zealots. iRacing would do itself a favor by keeping their a-holes out of the SRC forums attempting to do PR for them because it turns potential recruits off. There is too much "our stuff is hot and your stuff's not." "Come to iRacing Jesus, the only way to SIM enlightenment." Fourthly, There is too much game. What they call their licensing procedure is too much ... I'm not tuned into it. I like league racing not that glorified pick-up racing that demands too much time, under stress, to play their silly "driving school" ratings game that's built into it. In my SIM Racing world that is totally unnecessary. I can race 10 minutes with a guy and know if he's good enough to race with. Fifthly, The money. Not for me because I'd buy everything they had in one fell swoop just so I wouldn't have to do it over and over. But they wear their membership out by constantly keeping them in a negative upgrade cycle. When people bitch about a single item as much as they bitch about that, then a smart business person would need to look at it as a problem. OK they got their NASCAR deal finally done, which I predicted it would happen as soon as the EA exclusive ran it's course. Times up. Now if they get a kick ass Indy Car thing done then I might back track on everything I just said above. Note: SIM Racing is still a game. I'll tell you when it's a real SIM or a new kind of sport. SIM Racing doesn't have to have Lazer scanned tracks to be a SIM either, but it will need properly modeled tires, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Dynamic Fluid Weather for aero effect. Also it will need a standardized criteria for force feed back wheel and cockpits. And I can't see how the g-forces of the cockpit will ever be properly simulated. Of course iRacing's Lazar scanned cars and attempt at weighing components for proper weight distribution is the right direction to go, but not enough to play their game. |
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My email to Opinion Nation.
"Niles Anders" > wrote in message ... > This covers some of the same ground as in my last topic but I wanted to > post it here so you guys could see what I sent to Opinion Nation. > http://radio.psrtv.com/ > > Dear Opinion Nation, > I'm sorry, I fell asleep after the first sentence. Alan |
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My email to Opinion Nation.
typing in your sleep?
Alan Bernardo wrote: > "Niles Anders" > wrote in message > ... >> This covers some of the same ground as in my last topic but I wanted to >> post it here so you guys could see what I sent to Opinion Nation. >> http://radio.psrtv.com/ >> >> Dear Opinion Nation, >> > > I'm sorry, I fell asleep after the first sentence. > > > Alan > > |
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