Why AC is not a service?

he is probably an agent sent by some other people for clouding people's minds anything and everything he says is bad for AC and devs. is there a chance to block certain people and never see their messages? i'd like something like that.

 

Sorry I do not agree with you Schubert. No matter, it is only our personal opinion.

 

This is what i am hoping for and indeed why I have signed up for forums such as this in order to build a network of like minded people to race with.

 

Click on name select IGNORE!

 

Because you wouldn't be able to buy it forever.
That's a fate of iRental.

 

Right now I'm doing an online championship with a 100 minutes race every 15 days with live streaming, human pace car, 2 real commentators and a team of 3 analizing races after finish to take cair of penaltys. During other days of the week we have at our desposal two dedicated servers hosted on a professional company to practice. We are around 30 simracers on this championship and around 60 regularly active on our comunity and usualy there ins't more than 2 sec per lap between first and last. We even get ocasional fun races, sometimes 2 ou 3 a week, acording to our will with game and car we choose.
By all of this we pay less than 15 euros a year.
Like our comunity there's hundred of others just as good with games and car types to every taste. And a lot of them are totally free.
To me, Iracing is offering a bad service for a lot of money and I'm glad Kunos didn't went that way.
Don't get me wrong but it seems there's a lot of ignorance by "Iracers" of what online racing is outside Iracing. Quality a quantity speaking.

 

I will play whatever drives the best. For me the iRacing handling has never felt realistic past the limit. All the bells and whistles of online tournaments can't make up for that.

 

I talk A he think B and then want to ignore people some more. What an interesting species.

 

As Einstein put it “Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!”

 

I think everyone should cool it a minute.
1) This is not iRacing, nor does it want to be, nor should it be. Diversity is good for the industry. Or you want the simworld to turn out like what BF/CoD is turning the modern shooter into with all their f2p, p2w and paid clones?
2) It has been confirmed that AC will be updated in the long run
3) Kunos have proved to be fairly open to input and this is 2014 after all so it would be suicide for them not to be. We are well into the "Connected" era where everyone is just a couple touchscreen taps away. You can expect refinements of the multiplayer aspect for the game down the line even if at first it will be somewhat crude. Feedback will make sure it will move in the right direction. Have some patience,
4) No matter how good your product/service is, you can't satisfy everyone

 

Beam me up Scotty!

 

3 pages and no further comment from Mr Gabox....

 

He's most probably busy playing iceRacing.

 

What iRacing has that AC don't, is celebrity endorsement. Clearly, it is more popular nowadays because some NASCAR racers are their customers. I tried iRacing, and to me it is too American-centric for my taste. The community there is rather unforgiving, "do you know this is a sim racing?" "This is not NFS!" Oh sure, we know alright? We managed to download and install it!

Well, they say it is a good way to get rid of quitters, bad seed, from tainting the already good community there. But ultimately, it will nurture divisive fanboyism attitude. Another similarly very difficult bunch is F-16 Sim Falcon 4.0 Benchmark Sims mod. I was able to get in there, because I was passionate enough to learn through it and from previous experience with another high-fidelity sims. But I simply avoid iRacing. Dealing with lonely fanboys insulting newbies and calling other players/gamers names in BMS is already enough.

So, iRacing, I kinda like the American approach to the look and feel of the software, I like the interface, a button looked like a button, you'll know in an instant which part is text and which is selectable options, the sessions feels very dynamic. And since it is a simulation, you don't get much eye and ear candy instead of the realistic feel. In short, the Spartan approach, but in nicer package. You'd feel good playing it, you'll feel that you are not wasting your time doing something useless. It makes you believe that you can do it in real-life.

Meanwhile, Assetto Corsa feels very European, yet accommodating. I never liked European software, been working with IT audit and implementation a couple of times. They have a rather technical interface, very not user friendly, bad design (not fluid enough, lack of soft touch), too many features that will most likely remain hidden, if they try fancy UI - mostly it ended up being too gimmick. You can see the difference between games released by JoWood/Ubisoft vs. EA/Activision. As a serious person, I prefer European content, but as a normal human being, I like American UI. AC nearly delivers both. So I pick AC.

Many doubted AC's realism. "OMG! Where do they got the data for these new cars? That must be fake placeholders!" is the most common criticism. I think it is jealousy. I can only trust Kunos' reputation in this. Everyone has their own approach into playing simulation games. Staunch defenders of their way will of course promote their own ideas. For example: the Americans always maintained their own stealth aircraft design principles and quick to denounce others' stealth characteristics claim, until they found out that even rounded or curved surfaces may also deflect radar waves. They once thought that cars should be massive in size, have a wobbly suspension, and features oversized tail fin where you put all the rear lights. I am not saying that it is wrong, but they should know that there is always another way to look at something.

 

Like the famous (but massively erroneous) claim that NASA spent millions designing a pen for astronauts to use in space. Yet the Russian just took a pencil. Design to engineering and most things in-between should all follow the simple yet clean K.I.S.S. Complexity causes confusion and a lack of usability, but I do not think this is a national thing, more a poorly implemented understanding of the functionality of a product or service.

I'm not far off subject there then.

 

Well we are unforgiving aswell, just look at this forum or virtualr. We need to point out that AC isnt Gran Turismo or Forza and some of them think, console racer have the same level of simulation. In that case any racing sim com will destroy console players ideas, because we are right. Doesnt matter if iR, rF2, AC, even pCars guys..

Your example: Hitler build the first Nurflügler/flying wing with stealth technic and design called "Horten H IX" while the second worldwar. The americans claim that they were the first with their B2 thing haha. We germans are kinda the pioneers when it comes to new things

 

Pie n ears?

 

looks tasty

 

He has just moved to a different thread, but still the same story. LOL

 

stop watching me