Money, get back; I’m alright jack, keep your tires off mypiece of track. 
A sim arcade, for lack of a better term, recently opened near me. They have two levels of rigs running Rfactor2, a three monitor + fanatec and a single monitor + thrustmaster. I’m going to check it out after work. Might be a fun way for me to get mid-week seat time since the kart tracks are all a bit of a drive.
That sounds cool. I did try a fancy rig at RPM raceway in NJ but it was a waste of time. Since it was commercial it had some sort of software on it that basically drive itself. It was not like a real sim.
RFactor is a legit sim. I guess it depends on how it’s set up.
Bring back the arcades:
It’s a good sim facility. I drove with damage off, but I don’t think any other driver aides were turned on. I drove 50-60 laps at PIR and I think I got 15-20 clean laps. A lot of laps were almost good but I set a tire wrong or messed up a braking point or got on throttle too early and threw it away. Grrrr. I think I need a couple of weeks to get familiar. I hope that the owner can generate revenue, it doesn’t seem like an activity that lends itself to the casual general public.
Was the motion on the rig good? I’m not sure why arcades ceased to exist. Maybe consoles.
There was no motion on the one I used. The “advanced” rigs have bass shakers but no motion.
It’s basically 12 sim rigs you might have at home set up for a LAN party in a small concrete floor building.
That’s pretty cool. Be fun to go with a group of pals.
Well, well, well…
That’s great, good for those guys. To pour over a decade of your life into a passion project like this, with numerous delays and tough decisions over a large part of your life, and then have the project gain traction from a grassroots effort by the player base and word-of-mouth promotion and get picked up by a developer must be a nice pay off for them.
Plus, it should mean that the game actually sees some progress now with fresh resources. I haven’t played the NASCAR Heat series since about 2002 probably, didn’t realize they owned that IP.
I have really enjoyed KK and tried to promote it as best I could, by sharing my joy if it. I hope it helped!
I hope GoPro is one of the the tracks they do. If not, rfactor 2 has Kartodromo Parma. I haven’t driven it yet, but the videos look pretty close for sim reps. Turn 6 is kind of different which is a bummer, probably the turn I need the most work on.
I would think GoPro would be a logical US kart track to have. I think it would be cool to ultimately have all the tracks where the pro tour goes. Maybe duplicate the existing ones sorta.
I found this kind of cool:
That’s the locations of the various worthies I faced a few mins ago. Other than one car blinking in and out a bit, it went perfectly. IRacing has really got it’s act together.
Since everyone loves a crash, here’s a bunch of them happening all at once.
We are doing an Oval track this week, which is interesting in formula cars. I don’t think the setup changed in that I don’t get the impression they staggered anything suspension/wheel wise. Regardless, the cars can do oval pretty well. The open wheel wells and generally v close racing of oval are an amusing and frustrating combination.
In short, it’s extremely crashy. So it has been a stop-go experience where you’d have to pit quite a bit for repairs and end up many laps down. But, when it works and folks allow each other some room, it’s uniquely fast paced and fun.
The first few races were a slaughter but I have gotten better at avoiding the messes. Once again, my pace isn’t quite as fast, but good enough. I can go .3-.5 within the front runner, typically.
It occurred to me that trying to be super fast every lap in oval is a dumb thing to do, that avoiding incidents is more important. If a faster car wants to get by, let him by.
See where the chips fall, keep apexing.
Last nite I qualified 9, for example. I stayed out of trouble and let the leaders run ahead of me .5-1.5s. As the race progressed, if someone got on my tail, in the corner I’d go a bit wide and let them by, tucking back under on corner exit.
9, 8, 7, the positions fell, and fast. One after the other, folks got tangled up, dropping positions. Since I had positioned myself back, I gave myself time to find lines through the messes.
6,5,4… Hey, I could podium here. Tires are still good. I knew from practice that I could run within 2 tenths over 70 laps on the same tires. All I needed to do was stay present, stay alive.
One of the challenges with this is that as people pit, they get new tires and get faster. So, as my pace is declining, everyone else (other than 1 and 2) kept finding new pace. Great for them but it occurred to me that they could set new lap records for all I cared… they were down laps. Who am I to stand in their way? Off you go and try to regain positions. I am fine where I am, thanks.
…3 Finish!
In the end, the consistency and crash avoidance won out. The only other folks to make it through the race 66 laps without incident was 1 and 2. The leader snuck one last one in, for good measure.
This was a neat few days of learning. I went from “WTF is this BS” to “Bring It On”.
I think I am starting to understand the logic of iracing. You do need to accept that clean races are on you and pretty much you alone. Others will bonk you, it’s a given. It’s your choice as to whether you want to open the door to contact or not.
If it makes sense to expose yourself to risk, fine, go for it. But, do you need to let it all hang out 100% of the time? Maybe winning a race isn’t always about being the absolute fastest.
Aaron, forgot to mention, next track for KK is Genk, in Belgium, I believe. Soonish.
How to join KK on line races?
It’s not live currently. It was up for testing a while ago but they are still working on it.
So I was looking at standings and I noticed that yet again, I seem to do “more” laps and starts than most. While I haven’t lit the world on fire, I have placed a couple times, had a couple wins, and had more good than bad finishes. So, within the “league” and division, I seem to be doing OK in standings.
If I am not mistaken, I get points for every race I complete, assuming I finish in points positions.
If I run more races than someone else, don’t I end up with more points?
In a normal series, there’s only so many races you can run: 10 races over three months, say. In Iracing I can get in a race every hour in the hour. This seems to favor quantity of races in order to do well in standings.
Am I missing something here? Is the answer to run as many races as possible if one was trying to accumulate champ point?
No, you only get one count towards championship standing.
You can race 80 times if you want, the points from top 25% finishes will be averaged and the average counted as your total for that race week.