Beta testers

[Gareth Hickling]

Any RD members on the beta of iRacing? Im just curious to see what people think of it,
I thought it was going to be fantastic but it seems to be missing lots of features right now as ive read at RSC, Jeez it does not even have yellow flags or pitstops in its current state

[Sascha Henken]

Missing a lot means: Beta to be added soon

But I hope when racing late models on Super Speedways or normal oval tracks in a race condition that Full Flag Rules are used and not only Black Flag settings. That would be lame.

[Gareth Hickling]

Theres that word "soon"

Once they get the features added maybe it will good fun. I think now I have more info and movies to watch ive been turned of it quite a bit. Also the pricing seems to be a little steep, Not the subscription but payment for addon cars and tracks, £12 for a track. hmmmm.

Races every 2 hours, So does that mean we cant host private servers for say RD members? That would suck.

I think I will probrably leave this one for a while, Hopefully GT evo will be with us in the not too distant future and I shall be running that a fair bit.

I think I will forget going straight for the 6 months and just try one once its released.

[Sascha Henken]

The money is also a needle in my eye so that hurts but once you have purchased additional content, it is all yours for lifetime so you don´t need to repay for it again, only the normal subscription for racing of course. That how I understood Shaun Cole´s preview of iRacing.

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[Gareth Hickling]

yes that the way I see it, but if you look how many tracks they are planning to have, You could run up quite a bill

Im more worried about the server issues, I have not heard anything about being able to host private servers. That would be such a shame if you cant. You simply would not be able to host RD events... Maybe im miss informed, I hope so.

[Sascha Henken]

Originally Posted by Gareth Hickling

yes that the way I see it, but if you look how many tracks they are planning to have, You could run up quite a bill

Im more worried about the server issues, I have not heard anything about being able to host private servers. That would be such a shame if you cant. You simply would not be able to host RD events... Maybe im miss informed, I hope so.

I don´t think they will offer or sell private servers. My main concerns are for Leagues out there. If it stays only like it was shown in the preview, then Leagues will not have a chance to enjoy this product. I don´t need a ladder system or driver stats, or track records stats, if I don´t get "as real as it can get"

But i´m not that much involved into iRacing yet so i´ll keep waiting until release day while will be propably a few more months.

[Ramon van Rijn]

I have some concerns regarding the money too. I don't care to spend 10 eur each month on it, but I car about cars/tracks.
If we want an event for our members, I guess we have to reserve some space. Then if we choose a car and track (maybe more tracks), every driver has to be in possession of the car/track, which is very costly for lots of us.

We have to see how this works when its released, of course I give it a try for one or two months.

[Attila Domján]

honestly i do not like at all this whole concept of pay always continuously for everything. not that i can not afford it by myself, but i simply refuse to allow to anybody to suck my blood like this.

[Ramon van Rijn]

Originally Posted by Attila Domján

honestly i do not like at all this whole concept of pay always continuously for everything. not that i can not afford it by myself, but i simply refuse to allow to anybody to suck my blood like this.

I think exactly the same, but when something is very good, I am willing to pay for it.
Don't forget you don't pay it in total for the game. They are trying to run a community with all services which comes with it included. Including a game (excluding some cars/tracks)

If you look at it this way, it sounds reasonable. At the moment I donate more to RD for our services/community then iRacing will cost.

So it better be good

[Attila Domján]

Originally Posted by Ramon van Rijn

At the moment I donate more to RD for our services/community then iRacing will cost.

thats the same here, again it is not the money, but the concept of it which i refuse to accept.

[Jamie Wilson]

I personally have no big problem with their pricing method - I played WoW for some time - but I can 100% fully understand why people would have a problem with it.

I'm absolutely fascinated in what they're hoping to achieve; and it's very refreshing to have a new physics and 3d engine on the scene as well (I never played any of the Nascar games so it's totally fresh to me). Each engine has it's own 'feel' to it; in the same way that in the FPS world you can tell by the way things move and respond to your inputs whether you're in, say, the Unreal Engine or the Source engine etc, you can tell here in the sim world whether you're in the Motor engine or the nK(P) engine etc, even before you get to the specifics of the physics and graphics.

What they're trying to achieve may be either the best thing since sliced bread or a complete flop (resulting in a small 'closed' community), but either way I want in on that ride just to see how it goes. Being in a live development process is, as any LFS veteran will tell you, a great experience, especially when the developers are as they are reported to be regarding community involvemen in iRacing.

It might just get me into Oval racing as well

I'm in 'the list' for the next batch of testers (or indeed the first batch of non-testers) for the ~13th, when I get invites I'll be sure to hand them out here.

[Sascha Henken]

I also shall get an early invite too hopefully and then I will see if its any good or not. The Papy days were pretty awesome and I had much fun racing leaguewise but as iRacing is not going to be league friendly in the early stages and that also Yellow Flags will be missing but added in the near future, makes me consider to test for 30 days but then cancel it again and until the end of this year and how iRacing considers to support Leagues with individual room setups and custom rules! Let´s see!

I´m mainly interested to run late models and oval racing!

[Daniel Pettit]

I should be in too, looking at the prices today looks like if you don't want all the oval tracks you can save some money but you want the whole lot and it will be pricy

[Sascha Henken]

If its any good then i´m up for it to hook up with iRacing. About the money... Well you start small with a small license and i´m going to buy more content when my driver license has a status to be able to run other types of racing cars and what not. I will though propably sign up for a 3 or 6 month contract though

[Robert Hicks]

Originally Posted by Attila Domján

thats the same here, again it is not the money, but the concept of it which i refuse to accept.

I agree completely. Oh, and the world is flat and nothing you can say will change my mind!


Seriously, You spend $20 to $50 on every sim game you buy and some of them are terrible. With this game, the software is free. You pay for just the first month and then never pay again if you don't like it. If you do like it, decide what subscription you can afford and go for it. Even at $20 a month, it's cheaper than 2 movies but gives you lots more entertainment.

You are a great racer and I have a lot of respect for you, but if you don't at least give it a try, you are doing yourself a disservice.

[bblocker68]

I've been a Beta tester there since May and I've been sucked in, lol. The physics and graphics are stunning. The accuracy of the tracks really made me take notice. I've been to Laguna Seca and did some installation laps there. They pretty much hit elevations track distances right on the nose. It's alot different than the rFactor/GTR2 versions. The same goes for Limerock. They have Silverstone and it's pretty close to watching T-cams on the F1 cars on TV. I've re-met so many of the sim community that I thought disappeared, so it's been like a reunion for me.

There are no GT cars yet, so I dont know how you guys would like it here at RD. You could start by using the Radical, so you could compare it to Race07, I suppose.

I signed up for a year. Time to kiss the wife and kids goodbye becasue I'm going to get my monies' worth

[Bram Hengeveld]

Good luck Barry. If possible please post a little review just like Robert H did? It is nice to see different views on the same game.
What do you like? What do you dislike so far, thats stuff

Thanks

[Robert Hicks]

Rofl, I posted in this thread, but it got moved. I couldn't find it at first and was wondering what the hell happened to it.

[Bram Hengeveld]

i gave it a nice own thread http://forum.racedepartment.com/irac...w-iracing.html