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thehacker0 posted:Is it really worth it to do so, given the hit your irating would take once you graduate to whatever C class ovals you head to next? No matter what you do, your iRating will always normal back up to where you are supposed to be. Get up to D4.0 and start racing Indy. Once you learn the car and get some clean races in, your iRating will come back. Lord Crapulus posted:So far the combination of CotA and the L79 has led to one spiked and broken headset. loving slow corners and pyramids. To be fair, the scanned it during ALMS or WEC or whatever and it has those stupid pyramids. They really should offer different options or change the pyramids to something that works for open wheel cars as well.
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Lord Crapulus posted:So far the combination of CotA and the L79 has led to one spiked and broken headset. loving slow corners and pyramids. Why the gently caress are you not racing the DW12?!  Seriously it's incredible
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Aug 16, 2014 00:28
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Admittedly I didn't give it much of a shot, but when I was doing some week 13 testing at Mid-Ohio, I couldn't drive the drat thing. Also I think I don't have enough buttons for all the in-car adjustments. I might look at it again for next season, but right now I'm thinking I'll either stay in the 79 or get really stupid and try the FW31.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:49
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Lord Crapulus posted:Also I think I don't have enough buttons for all the in-car adjustments. Yeah, if I were going to run that car in an open series, I'd want to have a wheel plate or button box.
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Aug 16, 2014 03:04
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Goddamn some (most) rookie drivers piss me off. Had my first pole just now at Charlotte street stocks, and lead for 15 laps. The guy who was drafting me the whole race poked his nose in on the inside line, when i was clearly on it, and spun me getting me a 6x and taking the win. My best finish so far, but still really drat frustrating. Do you just have to defend the hell out of the inside line on the start/finish triangle-thing?
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Aug 16, 2014 03:24
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Aug 16, 2014 03:27
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Street stocks on charlotte doesn't require driving any kind of line to be fast. Just hug that inside yellow line the entire time and no one will be able to pass unless to drop onto the apron and then you can protest them when they spin you out.
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Aug 16, 2014 03:32
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Why starting from pits is suggested: http://gfycat.com/AdeptDeliciousArachnid edit: This was after I got rear ended not 10 seconds after starting the pace lap. The pace lap. Cage fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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Aug 16, 2014 04:42
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My worst was someone in the default gray car mashing the gas before the pace lap started. He spun into the wall instantly.
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Aug 16, 2014 04:53
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Cage posted:Why starting from pits is suggested: Oh yea its definitely the way to get easy SR. My main issue with it is that it's just a lot less fun. However, I think its worth it in order to grind to D 4.0 and get some good races in C class. I just ran my first pit lane start, and finished easily in 7th place. There is definitely still some risk Cojawfee posted:My worst was someone in the default gray car mashing the gas before the pace lap started. He spun into the wall instantly. thehacker0 fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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Aug 16, 2014 04:57
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thehacker0 posted:Oh yea its definitely the way to get easy SR. My main issue with it is that it's just a lot less fun. However, I think its worth it in order to grind to D 4.0 and get some good races in C class. I just ran my first pit lane start, and finished easily in 7th place. There is definitely still some risk
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Aug 16, 2014 05:00
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iRacing still has the best crash physics, and I still love making stupid videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNqmvb7NEws
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Aug 16, 2014 08:33
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ManicJason posted:iRacing still has the best crash physics, and I still love making stupid videos. loving bravo. Got a good laugh at the end.
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Aug 16, 2014 09:44
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The best part is the idiots who drive under the guy flipping around the track and nearly get hit, then the guy that does get hit. I'm sure he was whining about the guy flipping around causing a collision.
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Aug 16, 2014 14:35
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ManicJason posted:iRacing still has the best crash physics, and I still love making stupid videos. You missed out on Crashcar last night. Ohsh and the rest of the race got to see my DW12 crash for over a minute plus. I'll have to put it on YouTube tonight.
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Aug 16, 2014 15:46
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Cojawfee posted:The best part is the idiots who drive under the guy flipping around the track and nearly get hit, then the guy that does get hit. I'm sure he was whining about the guy flipping around causing a collision. Let me ruin it. I was the guy flipping, it was in an open practice and the dudes trying to hit me were goons.
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Aug 16, 2014 16:57
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Do tire and brake temperatures from the 5 minute warm up session before the race carry over to the start of the race? I've been avoiding the warm up sessions oftentimes because of the increased risk of morons crashing into you in rookie races, but wondering if I should be out there getting temps up in the tires/brakes
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Aug 16, 2014 20:43
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As far as I can tell, it has no effect.
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Aug 16, 2014 20:52
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Bentai posted:As far as I can tell, it has no effect. This. I typically avoid the warmups in order to reduce the likelihood of morons, but it is useful to double-check your setup and make sure you're not in qualifying trim to start.
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Aug 16, 2014 21:21
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I'm on a D Licence for road course series currently, so when I enter a race in Mazda Cup or Production Challenge I get a message telling me the race is below my licence level and does not count towards promotion. However, once I've finished the race my iRating and my Licence score have changed according to my result (either for the better or for the worse), what's going on here?
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Aug 16, 2014 21:33
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Helicon One posted:I'm on a D Licence for road course series currently, so when I enter a race in Mazda Cup or Production Challenge I get a message telling me the race is below my licence level and does not count towards promotion. I've never gotten that message, or at least haven't notices it, and am in the same situation as you are. I'm currently grinding street stocks in oval to skip over D class, and driving production challenge on my D class road license, as well as learning the skippys. You can definitely progress your SR through rookie, and I think irating as well
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Helicon One posted:I'm on a D Licence for road course series currently, so when I enter a race in Mazda Cup or Production Challenge I get a message telling me the race is below my licence level and does not count towards promotion. SR and iRating are affected by any official race, not just ones in your license category. Otherwise I could go slumming in D-level races and give no fucks about wrecking everyone.
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Aug 16, 2014 21:52
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Right after I hit D, I bought the skippy and the upcoming tracks. It was one of the series I was excited about when I decided to give iracing a shot. Then I took it for a spin... Goddamn it was hard to handle. Tried slowing down and getting a feel for the circuit I was on (donnington, which seems like a pretty tough circuit for the first time in an open wheel racer). Still couldn't handle it worth a poo poo. I got a bit frustrated, and gave up for a day or two and races some ovals. I came back to it today on some familiar tracks and with some patience. All I can saw is wow. It's so much fun to drive and not super difficult after some practice. Can't wait to start racing it in a few days after some more time behind the wheel - I can absolutely see why everyone loves the car so much
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It's definitely a car you have to drive around a bit then step away from and go back to. That's how I learned it. I got in it, drove around Road Atlanta and it was terrible. I regretted buying such a lovely car, how could anyone like it. Then I got back in the next day and was a hundred times better at it. You have to get used to how it handles and then let your muscle memory work it out overnight and come back.
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KingShibby posted:They'll never tell anyone the outcome of protests for privacy, etc but you should always submit if it's serious enough. I'm sure if you're spamming they'll say something to you. I don't need to know the punishment but unless I'm at least getting "Upheld" or "Rejected" there's no point.
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Cojawfee posted:It's definitely a car you have to drive around a bit then step away from and go back to. That's how I learned it. I got in it, drove around Road Atlanta and it was terrible. I regretted buying such a lovely car, how could anyone like it. Then I got back in the next day and was a hundred times better at it. You have to get used to how it handles and then let your muscle memory work it out overnight and come back. This is exactly the same experience that happened to me in the past 24 hours. I think part of it was also that the first time I drove it was at Donnington, which has tons of super hard braking areas and technical corners. When I came back today, I drove on at Okayama and Lime Rock and got the hang of it before taking it back there. Truly an amazing car, but extremely frustrating the first time behind the wheel
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Dudley posted:I don't need to know the punishment but unless I'm at least getting "Upheld" or "Rejected" there's no point. They send 2 different mails from what I've seen. 1. Action taken: other driver notified. 2. Rejected: something along the lines of we saw nothing wrong.
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KingShibby posted:This. I typically avoid the warmups in order to reduce the likelihood of morons, but it is useful to double-check your setup and make sure you're not in qualifying trim to start. I once had my engine blow on the 8th lap of an oval race because of this
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thehacker0 posted:I've never gotten that message, or at least haven't notices it, and am in the same situation as you are. Its a tooltip that pops up when you mouseover the MPR on an upcoming race:  But it seems to be a dirty lie so w/e Edit: ManicJason knows what's up. I didn't realise there was the MPR to consider as well as Safety Rating and iRating. (iRating is just for matchmaking and dickwaving purposes, right?) Roller Coast Guard fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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Your MPR is the minimum number of races you have to do at or above your current level before you're promoted (in addition to getting your SR high enough.) Those Mazda races will no longer get you to promotion; you have to race something in class D or above. SR and iRating are always affected, no matter the level of the race. edit: For example, I got my oval license to D in Street Stocks. I continued to race Street Stocks until my SR got over D 4.0, but I was not promoted. I then did time trials in IndyCar Oval Fixed (C) and was immediately promoted to C once I met my MPR there. I then continued to race Indycar Oval Fixed to get up to B. Once I got to B 4.0, I had to go to a B or A series to get my MPR. ManicJason fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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Yeah otherwise I'd have to actually do NASCAR A races and gently caress that when I can go truuuuckkkkiiinnnn'' 
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LordPants posted:Yeah otherwise I'd have to actually do NASCAR A races and gently caress that when I can go truuuuckkkkiiinnnn'' I've been kinda curious why everybody loves the truck series races so much. Whats the allure? Super fun tracks or trucks are great to drive or what?
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Can anyone explain why my SR decided to just go insane and leap up by over half a point from a single race?  I included 2 very similar races. I finished in 6th both times, the SOF was the same both times, both races were about the same length, I finished more or less as far behind the leader both times and I had the same number of incident points both times. But for whatever reason the race at Okayama only got me a .13 increase where tonight's race at LRP gave me a .59 increase. What gives? Edit: ManicJason posted:iRacing still has the best crash physics, and I still love making stupid videos. About 2 minutes after watching your video I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM99JqeLrWg&list=TLf4dSt0LxJ3BUUTWnIzPKxlBHNxeQM55e I guess that song is the official iRacing shenanigans song. KodiakRS fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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thehacker0 posted:I've been kinda curious why everybody loves the truck series races so much. Whats the allure? Super fun tracks or trucks are great to drive or what? They race every hour, and they're a lot more fun to drive then the gen-6 or Nationwide car.
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It's also cheaper because they recycle tracks a bunch. I do enjoy the B cars. A cars is where its more driving the car than racing the car if you know what I mean, and also particpation is less and if I'm going to drive A I'm going to drive the half-distance races on weekends and gain crazy SR. edit: Also when participation is high in trucks, you're either going to be winning or close enough to the front to learn something. Not like 1 race going official in A, with 5 aliens and 5 scrubs and you're in the middle. Also B is great for fooling with the setups in open. 
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KodiakRS posted:Can anyone explain why my SR decided to just go insane and leap up by over half a point from a single race? when you go +/- past a whole number you get .5 tacked on to it. SO if you are at 3.99 and you gain .10 SR you actually show a gain of .60 If you are 4.02 and you lose .10 SR you actually show a loss of .60 this keeps folks from going 3-4-3-4-3-4 every race. you get some padding so you don't drop down a tier.
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And incidentally, hovering over that giant question mark would have told you that.
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thehacker0 posted:I've been kinda curious why everybody loves the truck series races so much. Whats the allure? Super fun tracks or trucks are great to drive or what?
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LordPants posted:It's also cheaper because they recycle tracks a bunch. On that note, what oval tracks are best to buy if I don't want to get them all right away? Right now I'm grinding up my SR to hopefully reach D 4.0 before Street Stock switches back to USA (screw that place in Rookies), with the goal to race mostly trucks and Indycar ovals. I don't follow real life oval racing though, so I have no idea what tracks are great fun or snorefests. (Also, I want to avoid getting tracks that are going to be phased out next season.)
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ManicJason posted:I think it's just a happy medium in a few respects. The drivers have to get over rookie and D, but they don't have to stress out about SR like you do with an A license. C is accessible enough that the races are always well populated and run every hour. It helps that the truck is also a blast to drive. I still can't drive the truck properly for obvious reasons but when I bought it I was still skeptical. Then I hit the throttle for the first time. It's awesome and it makes me sad that I can't drive it.
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