Icer,
Eventually something will happen, either papy's free stuff goes away, or
the next best sim will come along. OLR is nice for 2 of the 3 aspects of
online racing. pickup racing? Naw, really there is (not yet) the volume
you will see via papy. League, and leage administration Awesome! (tools
to host a leage) or running in the fine leagues they offer, so many
different levels to choose from.
Since it is all custom, they also have cheat detection software, and the
service itself can lag behind in the "latest" tracks, & mods selections
which to me is overall doesnt matter, OK YMMV, I dont care to run Drag Strip
anywho.
however for good or bad, the one thing I dont like is the difficulty in
pickup racing hosting. Dont get me wrong, least a dialup user can host a
20+ car field race this way, because you have at your disposal, dedicated
servers that actually run the races. Unlike Using Papy where it depends on
your connection or if you have your own (or rented) server on a OC3-8
(better than t1 lines) or not.... but unlike at papy it is more or less
impossible to set a fixed race with your own setup, (FLM Trucks for example,
have friggin awsome setups for fixed setup racing IMHO) plus a few other
sources. So via Papy, we have had some very awesome races using tweaked
setups, instead of the fast or Expert sets you know. That is unfortuantley
because of how they (OLR) implemented the front end launcher/joiner.
Over all, I would rate OLR a 9 but sometimes, a 7 on "easy or intuitive
interface" maybe, but all in all really good.
your milage will vary, depending on your attitude to racing with other
people. Papy has like 300-500 servers but to me except for PW'd leagues,
only about 4 servers that arent controlled by Dink ass clowns, IMHO. OLR
least is mostly guys who are serious enough that they pay to use it...
for what it is worth.
> I like to support endevours like this as its good for the hobby in
> general. I'm curious as to the general concensus here regarding this
> site and its setup. I'm just about to start racing Nascar 2003 again
> after a couple years hiatus and hope I can find a league of moldie
> oldies to race with that won't miind my lack of skill. I also wouldn't
> mind running some GPL again but don't see that mentioned on
> onlineracin.com..Thing I never liked about "pickup-races" in the old
> VROC days was the general lack of civility in a lot of them. People
> running F1s in an F3 race, etc. etc. etc... I'm hoping the small
> charge this site requires will help keep out the "Quake-racers"...
> Any thoughts, good OR bad?
> Thanks
> G. Patricks
