Hang on... I'm putting on my flame proof suit.
Okay, ready.
I would like to offer you some suggestions. Take them or leave them. These
are just my opinions.
1. You don't need to shout. In you subject titles, like I just did to
prove a point. And in you body of the post. It doesn't need to be bold and
large.
2. We don't need to be publicly challenged. Just quietly host a race at
Talladega and people will join.
3. Think before you post. If others are getting the same impression of you
as I am, you might want to read your posts as if you were someone else
before you actually send them. In my opinion, they are coming across WAY to
strong.
4. Relax
5. Your earlier posts states that you are 15 years old. I haven't driven
against you, so I offer this suggestion as an assumption. Practice.
I race against people that are in their 30's (myself included in this
group), 40's and 50's. Papyrus has been building racing sims since shortly
after my daughter was born, which is around 1993 or 1994. A lot of the
people I race against have been racing these sims since they first came out.
So that's at least 6 years of experience racing against computer cars. I
don't think you are aware of a project by Papyrus call "Hawaii", but is was
at least 4 or 5 years ago, and TEN and NROS was a couple of years ago, so
there are a lot of VERY experience online drivers out there (most of whom I
expect wouldn't join you in a race). That amounts to you being about 9
years old when we all started racing Papyrus sims, and 12 or 13 years old
when a lot of people were gaining valuable online racing experience.
Racing online is a lot different from racing the AI. Once you've raced a
track a few times, you know what the AI is going to do. Human beings are
different. They're not just going to move over. You also have latency to
deal with. If you see an opening at the bottom of the track, you can't take
it for fear of a communications "hiccup" that will throw the car into you.
You have to make sure there is at last a couple of car widths before you
make a move.
Just join some races, get some experience. Try not to take anyone out, and
try to stay out of trouble. And there's more tracks out there than just
Talladega, California and Michigan. Get some practice at the other tracks
offline, in races long enought that you have to pit. and then join someone
online at those tracks. A lot of these "experienced" people are great
teachers. I have learned a lot from them. I have never won a race, or
even gotten pole position in the leagues I run in. The best I've done is a
3rd (at Talladega), but I am getting better.
I don't mean any offence by this, this is just my opinions. So I apologize
if I have offended you.
Dean (Decawi on WON)