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Does anyone know if I can recover paints that trading paints has deleted? After I left a session, Trading Paints deleted every file in my MX5 folder, including my paint job which I spent loving ages on. I thought I'd backed it up to Dropbox but I overwrote it with my RS3 paint job when I didn't click that they have the same file name and the version history hasn't caught it. WinUndelete can't find it. e: Ah poo poo, I am stupid. I didn't understand that I need to upload my paint to the Trading Paints website for it to work properly, that's an expensive lesson, time-wise but it probably only took so long because it was my first attempt. I can't believe it's scrubbed them from my drive so thoroughly that WinUndelete is stumped though. Anyway, here's my thoroughly backed up second attempt at a livery:  And my replacement for the one I lost, probably a bit too busy but it's kind of what I had in mind:   
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Convincing myself that this season is finally the time I'm going to get really into iracing
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Jun 15, 2022 16:31
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if by "getting into iracing" you mean only logging in for league races and enduro events, then it is absolutely time! No one races iracing for real, only nerds do.
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Jun 15, 2022 19:10
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I have a group of irl friends who I race with and I’m patiently waiting for them to come around on iracing. Right now they’re all in the “it’s a money pit” stage. It can be, but these guys also dropped a couple thousand on rigs, soooooooo. They used to only want to race F1 2021, then they discovered that ACC was much more realistic, so they do that now. Someday the light bulb will go on and they’ll come around to iracing, but that day isn’t today.
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Jun 15, 2022 19:28
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It’s basically free to try with the code, you don’t have to play it ever again after that… 
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Jun 15, 2022 19:40
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I have a group of irl friends who I race with and I’m patiently waiting for them to come around on iracing. You'll see this at times in the VR thread; people who spent hundreds of dollars on a headset and a grand on a video card getting pissy when an indie developer in an ultra-niche market charges more than $15 for a game.
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Jun 15, 2022 20:07
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I have a group of irl friends who I race with and I’m patiently waiting for them to come around on iracing. Use the golf argument on them, or substitute whichever sport they played before they got old (we're all old here now let's not even kid ourselves)
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Jun 15, 2022 21:04
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Shine posted:You'll see this at times in the VR thread; people who spent hundreds of dollars on a headset and a grand on a video card getting pissy when an indie developer in an ultra-niche market charges more than $15 for a game. And you see it in sim racing too when a developer charges $50 for their game.
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Jun 15, 2022 21:38
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edit: this is not a hockey thread.
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Jun 16, 2022 02:23
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Ran a couple of MX-5 Tsukuba races last night and the first one was very bad. I put myself into the wall a few too many times, but managed to avoid any big incidents or driving into other racers. I think I was maybe just too hyped up on Mountain Dew and pushing too hard instead of finding a comfortable and consistent race pace. Second race was both better and worse for me. My overall consistency and pace was better and I didn't drive into walls, but I did have an incident where a driver came back onto the racing line from being off and was ~30mph off the pace on the line and I ended up hitting him mid-turn and ended up spinning him around my front end and hitting him again as we were still tangled. I think primarily the incident was his fault but there was a ton I could have done better to simply avoid him and make a clean pass instead of getting all tangled with a slow driver like that. Both races ended up bumping my SR up, so at the end of the day I'm pretty happy with how I ran last night. Lots more to practice now that I've got some laps around the track with others and can feel better where I may be able to gain advantages and such.
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Jun 16, 2022 15:21
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I think Tsukuba is in my top 3 road courses on the service. I love that track. Alas, I’m moving in a few months so the wheel is packed away. The GT Omega is folded up (pedals still mounted) and the subscription is disabled. No racing for me for a few months. I’ll probably wait for the Black Friday deals to start rolling out to resubscribe I think. They seem to be better than the standard $110ish a year.
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Jun 16, 2022 22:35
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I find driving to a maximum time is really helpful for me if I'm having a lot of offs. I push until I don't set a fastest lap for 3 laps in a row and then try to do 5 consecutive laps within half a second of my fastest time. If you beat your old fastest lap, and you probably will, that's the new benchmark. You really learn where the dangerous parts of the track are and where you can push. I chopped 3 seconds off my Touring Car lap time at Interlagos doing that and went from not being able to do a single lap in the Radical to doing 20 laps with 0x incidents.
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Jun 17, 2022 10:42
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If I'm having trouble with incidents at at track, I'll usually stop practicing and go do a time trial. Putting SR on the line is a great way to not drive like an idiot
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Jun 17, 2022 13:40
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Is it cool if I plug my league in here? I'm going to do it anyway. CORT is the league I've fallen into running in the past year or so. It's primarily ovals with our big series on Mon/Wed nights, but we have two road leagues as well (GT and Supercars) and a short track thing on off-Wednesdays. Always looking for more people to add to the roster, so if you're interested check out cortracing.com. There's a rulebook and a ton more info there and I put a lot of time into that drat site so please look ok. https://twitter.com/CORTRacing/status/1538929681964990464
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Jun 20, 2022 23:24
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Extremely cool to post here, I think a lot of NA folk (esp in the West) have been looking for a good midweek league for a while.
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Jun 20, 2022 23:38
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Are those times GMT or other?
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Jun 20, 2022 23:38
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US Eastern e: we have a shocking amount of brits who race, considering
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Jun 20, 2022 23:47
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Time to set up an exchange program so you get the NA goons on weekdays and we get your EU guys on weekends
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Jun 21, 2022 00:13
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kidcoelacanth posted:Is it cool if I plug my league in here? I'm going to do it anyway. Hey kid I joined your discord and you, or somebody else, actually just hit me up and said they'd add me officially next week I think. I don't know I opened it up and the messages went away as I don't have permission to see the message history yet. No big deal. It would be cool to run an oval league so I'll probably signup for trucks for this season. Looking at the rule book it looks like you guys will use the iRacing default _open setups as the fixed setup if I read that right? Funny enough I just tried the current truck just yesterday. I managed to catch the iRacing downtime and got into the free test sessions where you can try any cars, any tracks for free. I really wish they would do that more often, or even if they had a rental program, like a 30min practice session for like $1 or something. Just getting to try some stuff I wasn't so sure about has me probably going to buy a handful of cars now. The current truck (I'd only run the legacy truck) the '87 Cup car, the Next Gen Cup car and maybe the BMW GT4.
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bigbillystyle posted:Hey kid I joined your discord and you, or somebody else, actually just hit me up and said they'd add me officially next week I think. I don't know I opened it up and the messages went away as I don't have permission to see the message history yet. No big deal. It would be cool to run an oval league so I'll probably signup for trucks for this season. Looking at the rule book it looks like you guys will use the iRacing default _open setups as the fixed setup if I read that right? Yeah that was me. Wasn't aware it would kill the message history, I'll work that out. And yes that's our setup situation where avilable.
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Goon looking for a wall to turn into. Is the league still active?
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Every Friday and Sunday, check the discord for more info / to let us know who you are if you aren’t in the league already.
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Jun 21, 2022 21:22
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Fellblade posted:Every Friday and Sunday, check the discord for more info / to let us know who you are if you aren’t in the league already. Awesome - much appreciated. Will check it out now.
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Can vouch for CORT being cool and good. I ran the truck series last season and even finished some of the races!
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Jun 22, 2022 03:42
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kidcoelacanth posted:Is it cool if I plug my league in here? I'm going to do it anyway. Signups for this are now live for any interested parties https://forms.gle/uo2BLmSmKZ1d7aby9
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My company gave everybody an extra day off today so this morning I jumped on iRacing to turn some laps and it was during the update period so the test drive was available. I added the test page to my bookmarks and it appears you can just hop on that page at any time and test drive cars and tracks. I've always wanted to be able to try before I buy so it looks like as long as you have the test drive link you can test away. https://testdrive.iracing.com/app
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I'd be way too terrified of being banned to try that
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KillHour posted:I'd be way too terrified of being banned to try that Really? You think they monitor who's using test drive outside of test hours and also would care? For me I'll probably end up buying more poo poo because of it, never thought iRacing would be bothered by using it. I mean it is provided by them, it's not like a 3rd party work around.
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Loaded the test site and got "iRacing.com's Testdrive is Currently Offline" so it looks like it only works during maintenance?
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Yeah if you go to the test drive page outside downtime it says unavailable. There’s some overlap because I believe Test Drive runs on its own server, so they can activate it whenever (it’s been turned on for unscheduled downtime before) but it’s not always available.
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Bentai posted:Loaded the test site and got "iRacing.com's Testdrive is Currently Offline" so it looks like it only works during maintenance? I guess that solves that. It seems they only keep it up for a couple hours after the maintenance period. I thought I found a way to sample the goods before buying.
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By gods I've won my first race in Rookie MX-5s, exhilarating! Qualified P2, beat P1 off the line and put in good clean, consistent laps and any challengers ended up spinning out behind me so the last few laps were just about keeping it on the track and bringing it home. Going to drink the mini bottle of champagne I bought specifically for the occassion and listen to Bizet's Carmen Overture like I've just won an F1 race.
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:By gods I've won my first race in Rookie MX-5s, exhilarating! Qualified P2, beat P1 off the line and put in good clean, consistent laps and any challengers ended up spinning out behind me so the last few laps were just about keeping it on the track and bringing it home. Going to drink the mini bottle of champagne I bought specifically for the occassion and listen to Bizet's Carmen Overture like I've just won an F1 race. Congrats and don't forget to print out the first win certificate from the iRacing website!!
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VelociBacon posted:Congrats and don't forget to print out the first win certificate from the iRacing website!! I need to find some fancy rear end paper to print it on
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I’d like to start branching out from the miata and skippy races (I’m rank C right now) but I’m pretty overwhelmed by the choices (and the cost). I just picked up the f3 Dallara because it seems to get lots of races; but for any other car that looks fun (I have my eyes on the Porsche 911), is there a risk of there not actually being any races for it?
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If you want to do open wheel the irpr is good, moving up to the f3 both get plenty of races
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The Porsche cup car is fun, just be aware that it is fairly difficult to drive, no ABS, no TC, and is about as fast as a GT3 car. Very rewarding but might be frustrating for a newer racer. GT4 should also be at that level if you're interested in progressing through GT cars, and if you're interested in sports prototypes, the Radical SR-10 is there as well, although I'm not sure how popular that series is since it went to a paid car.
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GT3 is the way to go at that point really, Ferrari if you want to run the D series, anything but the Ford (and prob the Audi at this point tbh) if you just want the main GT3/IMSA stuff. GT4 is - counterintuitively - harder than GT3s and the Porsche Cup is true hard mode for GT cars.
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Vando posted:GT4 is - counterintuitively - harder than GT3s What exactly are the reasons? Less downforce?
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I’m curious too about gt4 because it seemed like a good next step. Happy to hear that gt3 should be fine though, I love those cars! Been taking the dallara f3 around philip (I think that’s what it’s called?) and wow, that car is not a loving joke. I’m terrified every time I go full throttle. Idk if I’ll feel confident enough to join a race in it for a while, but it’s fun to learn.
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