rec.autos.simulators

Interesting email...

"You are receiving this email because of your passion for motorsports. We were very
glad to count you among the thousands of racers and enthusiasts who joined iRacing
during our first six months of public operation, and wed really like you to come
back and see how the simulation and service have evolved since your membership
expired. To help make that easier, we have a special offer for you:

Renew your membership by 3/27/2009 and get 3 months for only $25!"

Although after four months away I really don't miss iRacing any more, I shall
probably sign up and take a look at the new style practice servers. Anyone else
who's been away for a while may be getting a similar offer soon. It may put a
significant blip in the user stats for a while.

Andrew McP

Andrew McP

I too received that email, however the new feature "abolition of the
cruel penalty system and intensive *** of those who thought it
up" is prominently absent from the list. ;-)

I was tempted, but only for a second. The open praccy servers sound
promising, but unless they come up with a way for leagues to run on
their own time, rules and points systems, I'll stick with rF (those v2
screenies sure look lovely), thank you.

All the best,

Uwe

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It's the only change of any note (for non-believers anyway) in recent builds.

I haven't seen any talk about v2... though that may be because I haven't looked.
:-)

Andrew McP

Cheers, Uwe

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Cheers,

Uwe

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Andrew McP

As you say though, only they know for sure. But it's not hard to make some pretty
educated guesses. That's even more fun than iRacing itself. :->

Andrew McP

His few million is about to become a few bucks.

Lowering their rates to $10.00 per month would get a lot more new
subscribers. Speaking for myself, charging over $17.00 per month is beyond
my acceptable threshold for an online game. There is no online game that I
know of that charges such a high rate.

I accept it's beyond your threshold and that's fine, but regaring your
last sentence: How many of them are non-fiction?

I don't know how creating a character, weapon, a new ship in EVE
Online, etc, could be compared to a car which takes probably a month
to model and a 2-3 month period to define and refine physics for.
There's no research trip, no scan trip, no hotel fees, no extensive
modelling time (it isn't real, you can make it whatever shape you
want), no extensive physics work... Plus, the much longer time it
takes to create a non-fiction item, someone has to be paid during that
time difference. A track, even one like Bristol, can take months of
flat out work for one person, now imagine a track that isn't 0.533 in
length...