I agree with what someone posted here recently, that Papyrus should be
conferring with IVGA to stop cheating. They shouldn't ban any group.
The software can certainly do checks of setups. Is this parameter out
of bounds? Yes. EJECT! No. Let them race. Can Papyrus employees who
have the inside information get around this. No. Not unless they write
code into the system to ignore certain drivers. The server has to have
more communication with the clients than just, where are you? I'm
here. I'm here now. Now I'm here. .... Noone is going to bark about a
pause in the simulation for 10-15 seconds while the server verifies the
setup of each driver and the weather conditions at each client. At race
time, if everything has been checked, who can cheat. Then all of the
"under the table" practices are visible to the other competitors, except
ones line during qualifying, but even that can be policed by the
server. If you speed on pit row during qualifying then you are
penalized. If your cars goes backwards on the track during qualifying,
you are penalized; it's not like you are likely to be sitting on the
pole after a spin during qualifying anyway, right? Let's face it,
hawaii is just a prototype for NRL. It runs using a client program that
has been in use for quite some time and has not totally been kept secret
from the public. Hopefully, the code to NASCAR2 will not be given out
to anyone so noone will know how to cheat. I trust Papyrus not to write
in code that excludes their employees from the cheat checks, so let them
race as well.
And I implore everyone to keep your setups as secret as possible. Don't
give them out except to a trusted friend and teammate. There's nothing
worse than having to compete against someone in a really great car that
doesn't know how to drive the pace lap.
David Martin