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[superbike81]

SR calculation is not completely dependent on that one race. SR is calculated by your last "X" number of races. New races replace the oldest races in the calculation, so if you got 10 incidents 20 races ago, but only got 1 incident this last race, you might will get a big gain. But if you got three incidents 20 races ago and one incident this time, you won't get such a big gain.

 

[Blaze_409]

Awesome blaze! soo much better then gt5... Just have to be super careful and watch for retards. Then legends are much more fun to drive then the MX5 imo. Lol while in the Race warmup I found that you could change the setup from oval to road, made it 10000000x better, and much more enjoyable. It was a nightmare taking right handers with the oval setup,

I sort of noticed this in the practice session. One time i was on the banking at Charlotte and the guy literally swerved left and right as i tried to pass him considering i already had a huge run on him. Considering it was a practice session.What an idiot.

 

[tissimo]

SR calculation is not completely dependent on that one race. SR is calculated by your last "X" number of races. New races replace the oldest races in the calculation, so if you got 10 incidents 20 races ago, but only got 1 incident this last race, you might will get a big gain. But if you got three incidents 20 races ago and one incident this time, you won't get such a big gain.

I've only had 2 races in the ovals.. The first had one 0x contact and one 4x... Gained .14sr iirc with 5 incidents on the race report, the last was 4-5 0x and one 4x, with 4 incidents on the race report with only gaining .06 SR

 

[sandboxgod]

I've been an iRacing member since the beginning (with a 18 month break in the middle) and I have still never touched the oval side. I think I ran a practice session in the Legends car one time on an oval, couldn't understand why people think driving that way is fun, and went back to the road side within about 3 minutes.

oval racing is completely different now with the NTM on all the cars (except Indy).

Btw guys dont forget warmup sessions also count towards SR.

 

[tissimo]

oval racing is completely different now with the NTM on all the cars (except Indy).

Btw guys dont forget warmup sessions also count towards SR.

What's NTM? I'm a noob, lol..

I usually don't participate in the warm up.

 

[Jav]

It's the New Tire Model Tissimo, iRacing had been working in this tire model for the past 3-4 years IIRC and started implementing it just 2 seasons ago. First with the HPD/FordGT/SkipBarber 2 seasons ago and now the C6.R/MX5 at the begining of this closing season. On the oval side of things I believe all cars but the Indy Car have the NTM.

 

[Imari]

I've only had 2 races in the ovals.. The first had one 0x contact and one 4x... Gained .14sr iirc with 5 incidents on the race report, the last was 4-5 0x and one 4x, with 4 incidents on the race report with only gaining .06 SR

It happens. The longer you play, the weirder it gets as it digs deep into your history to generate your SR change. I had a 15 lapper at Okayama full with one x2 today, and lost 0.02 SR. Go figure.

Basically, I must have gotten unlucky and bumped a 0 incident race of corners off the end of my SR calc, so I went down. It doesn't do good things for your head to try and think about it too much, just focus on racing each race as clean as possible.

 

[sandboxgod]

Hell I lost something -0.56 SR in 1 race when an another HPD lost control and spun into my car at Okayama Full when he was attempting to pass me. I got dropped from Class A 3.08 to Class A 2.52 I think. I've been working hard to get my SR back up after that. My goal is to hit Class A 4.99 eventually

edit: my bad looking at the 'lap view' I lost control + went off track before that guy spun into me. So I was probably already heading towards getting dropped down. Btw, I think you lose like -.40 or -.50 SR when go down a point so it sounds much worse then it was

 

[Jav]

Oh man, my worst SR loss ever was a -.76 that one really hurt! That was abouth a month ago IIRC, and all thank's to other's mistakes...

 

[Nastradamus87]

What series do you guys prefer, the skippy or the radical?

I just caught the tail end of this past skippy series and I loved it. I was planning to buy the six tracks I don't have for the upcoming season so I can race all 12 weeks, but for some unknown reason I keep thinking maybe I should race the radical instead, even though I don't even own the car and have never driven it. It just looks so damn exciting.

What do you all think. Should I buy the radical or just stick with the skip for at least one entire season?

 

[superbike81]

I prefer the Radical.

I don't mine the Skip Barber car, but sometimes it seems you can do everything you are supposed and it still spins out.

The Radical is faster, easier to drive, has a bigger following (I think) and I just find it more enjoyable to drive.

 

[Imari]

Week 13 is...weird. On one hand, it's great because you get massive fields and the majority of people on iRacing are pretty decent drivers. On the other hand, it's all open to rookies so if your iRating is below about 1700 you get stuck in the bottom split with all the mouth-breathers.

The RACC stuff though is just fantastic. I spent the last ten laps chasing down a guy 15 seconds ahead of me to catch him on the final lap and secure the pass for a 5th place. That was a quality battle.

 

[swiftwilly]

Guys just wondering. Hearing a lot about you guys losing SR due to other peoples mistakes. Is it that bad?

Would the following be the best code to use?i don't like oval racing

12 months basic membership for $49: PRLEAGUE12

It says basic membership. Hope there's no other types of memberships? This one makes it same value as the black Friday special.

 

[tissimo]

Guys just wondering. Hearing a lot about you guys losing SR due to other peoples mistakes. Is it that bad?

Would the following be the best code to use?i don't like oval racing

12 months basic membership for $49: PRLEAGUE12

It says basic membership. Hope there's no other types of memberships? This one makes it same value as the black Friday special.

In the rookie series its just best not to race people, as they don't leave room when trying to pass etc... you have to drive really careful and watch for other cars spinning, rejoining in front of you, exiting the pits, or whatever. Expect they will cross you're path, so drive defensively.. Cause it'll likely happen, at least in the rookie series.

Basic membership just means the normal/standard cars and tracks, no extras. Its enough to get stated... Then you can decide what you want to race and buy that content.

 

[marky5244]

Guys just wondering. Hearing a lot about you guys losing SR due to other peoples mistakes. Is it that bad?

No. It's worst at the rookie level, after that it happens sometimes but it's the same in real life racing. The software isn't (and it is unrealistic to expect it to) able to apportion blame in an incident and so both drivers lose SR. Think of it like in real racing that if you were in a real accident your own car would get damaged even if the accident wasn't your fault.

Would the following be the best code to use?i don't like oval racing

12 months basic membership for $49: PRLEAGUE12

It says basic membership. Hope there's no other types of memberships? This one makes it same value as the black Friday special.

There's only the one type of membership so that is OK. It'll get you the 12 months membership plus access to all the rookie cars and tracks. If you don't like oval racing then there is no need to buy any of the oval content.

 

[Patrocles]

Guys just wondering. Hearing a lot about you guys losing SR due to other peoples mistakes. Is it that bad?

Would the following be the best code to use?i don't like oval racing

12 months basic membership for $49: PRLEAGUE12

It says basic membership. Hope there's no other types of memberships? This one makes it same value as the black Friday special.

I also put this link in the other thread.
This $49/one year offer to new members is still posted at iRacing
http://www.iracing.com/leagues/pricing.php

On this same page you will see the content of the 'basic' membership (looks to be 6 cars and 9 tracks). If you want additional tracks or cars content you have to buy it.

 

[redmalloc]

What series do you guys prefer, the skippy or the radical?

I went Radical. It really was not that easy for me to learn and get into reasonable lap times but it was a lot of fun. The Skippy feel like a "eat your vegetables" sort of car. I feel like I should run it, because it has a lot to teach, but it isn't that exciting as far as the driving experience goes like the Radical.

The Radical has a Thurs-Sun race schedule so just know you wont be able to race anytime you want. Not ever race goes official either. But it is a good group, good car and nice track schedule. In my opinion of course.

 

[Pingwhen]

Guys are very stubborn in the oval. They'll constantly block you even though they're laps down. Just had a race like this, I'd go inside on them and then exit they'd force me to hug the inside wall while they drove down to the low lane on the exit. Maybe its just the rookie series, but it makes it nearly impossible when you only gain .06 SR per race because people not staying in lanes.

Does 0x contact count towards your SR? Last race I had only 1 4x contact when a guy drove down hard on me in the inside, and several other 0x when they only slightly taps... but only gained .06 SR that race. The previous race (only have done 2 oval) a guy spun infront of me (I was exiting turn and he was at the entrance of the next) and his car disappeared then reappeared right as I got to the spot (t-boning him). It gave me 4x car contact but no damage, but gained like .12 SR.

im doing a trail month. so i got to d in road in a week, and decided to start on oval, sense i will have to start a new username and everything (i wanna get the year for 75 and f1 and 2 tracks) but anyways! im hopping if i get out of "rookie" oval it gets much better.

 

[swiftwilly]

suffering from massive amounts of buyers remorse....
iracing looks so dam good, but I need to spend $800 on a PC to play it. If I had a PC I would sign up in a flash but to buy a whole new PC just for it...is $900 (PC + subscription) really worth it?

Just recently spent a lot of money on a wheel + cockpit. Still getting the miles out of GT5 although its simply a lonely affair doing time trails or vs AI....

TO BE OR NOT TO BE!!
yes, iracing is worth it with subscriptions as low as $49.
yes/no? is iracing worth it if you have to buy a new $800 PC + $49 subscription fees?

 

[Nastradamus87]

I prefer the Radical.

I don't mine the Skip Barber car, but sometimes it seems you can do everything you are supposed and it still spins out.

The Radical is faster, easier to drive, has a bigger following (I think) and I just find it more enjoyable to drive.

Ya, it looks a lot faster, that's for sure.

I went Radical. It really was not that easy for me to learn and get into reasonable lap times but it was a lot of fun. The Skippy feel like a "eat your vegetables" sort of car. I feel like I should run it, because it has a lot to teach, but it isn't that exciting as far as the driving experience goes like the Radical.

The Radical has a Thurs-Sun race schedule so just know you wont be able to race anytime you want. Not ever race goes official either. But it is a good group, good car and nice track schedule. In my opinion of course.

That is an important consideration indeed! Hm. That's a bit disappointing actually.

I'm probably going to stick with the skip for now in that case. I actually like how easy it is to spin. It keeps the races nerve racking.

 

[superbike81]

suffering from massive amounts of buyers remorse....
iracing looks so dam good, but I need to spend $800 on a PC to play it. If I had a PC I would sign up in a flash but to buy a whole new PC just for it...is $900 (PC + subscription) really worth it?

Just recently spent a lot of money on a wheel + cockpit. Still getting the miles out of GT5 although its simply a lonely affair doing time trails or vs AI....

TO BE OR NOT TO BE!!
yes, iracing is worth it with subscriptions as low as $49.
yes/no? is iracing worth it if you have to buy a new $800 PC + $49 subscription fees?

If you already have monitor/TV, mouse, and keyboard you can easily pick up a computer that will run it well enough for $500. To do that you will have to take advantage of sales from places like NewEgg and Amazon and piece it together yourself though.

 

[Blaze_409]

Thinking back. I bought GT5 for 51 dollars. So at $49 its a great deal.

In addition an XboxLive Gold membership cost $49 dollars a year. So theres plenty of other people in the world who have dropped $49's in subscription fees. So its worth it and you wont feel guilty haha.

Jav says he got an awesome computer from newegg for 400-500. Talk to him and go see newegg.com

 

[swiftwilly]

Yea $500 sounds about right, I rejigged my PC plan to look like this:

AMD AM3+AMD FX-4100 3.6Ghz Boxed CPU <--- this is a quad core!
Mobo: Asrock H61M/U3S3 B3
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1333
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500Gb
Powercolor 1GB 6770 PCI-E VGA Card

so is iracing really worth it for the $500/a new pc even?

(example, I have to say uncharted series on PS3 is one of my favourite games of all time, but for someone to straight out buy a PS3 just for that game...I'd have to say not worth it...)

Looking forward to your input guys!

 

[Eric.]

Seems that Intels are a lot faster than AMDs, if you could fit an i5 into your budget instead.

 

[swiftwilly]

Seems that Intels are a lot faster than AMDs, if you could fit an i5 into your budget instead.

i5 would be double the chip i just stated above

 

[Jav]

Yea $500 sounds about right, I rejigged my PC plan to look like this:

AMD AM3+AMD FX-4100 3.6Ghz Boxed CPU <--- this is a quad core!
Mobo: Asrock H61M/U3S3 B3
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1333
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500Gb
Powercolor 1GB 6770 PCI-E VGA Card

so is iracing really worth it for the $500/a new pc even?

(example, I have to say uncharted series on PS3 is one of my favourite games of all time, but for someone to straight out buy a PS3 just for that game...I'd have to say not worth it...)

Looking forward to your input guys!

Depends on what you want, if you're a hardcore simracer it's definitely woth it! For me it's a no-brainer. Just think of it this way, is GT5 worth the 400 bucks for the PS3? GT5 is the only reason I bought the PS3, sure there's some other games I play like MW3, but my main reason for buying the console was GT5, same for the PS2 and PS1. If you ask me right now is GT5 worth the $400 I'll tell you HELL NO!! But that's a completely different subjest, as for iRacing? I'd definitely do it again!

 

[plate88]

Like Jav said, definitely worth it. I find myself using most of my "gaming" time on iRacing. To be honest, iRacing is probably going to save me money in the long run. Used to play all sorts of consoles games, but not since I joined iRacing.

Not to mention, iRacing is just going to get better in the future. They are continually updating the sim and evolving it. More and more features, tracks, and cars are being added every year. Must say some impressive cars and interesting features are going to be added this year.

 

[swiftwilly]

what sort of cars and features? I just heard about the enduro thing thats all.

 

[superbike81]

Cars that will be added this year (most likely):

Lotus 49 (the one and only, SUPER excited for this one myself)
Cadillac CTS-V R
McLaren MP4-12C GT3 (this one should be pretty good too)
Updated Indy Car

Features, I'll only talk about one, because it's the only one I've paid any attention to. Team driving with driver swaps for long endurance races. Can't wait to get a team together and do some 12 or 24 hour races.

 

[plate88]

what sort of cars and features? I just heard about the enduro thing thats all.

Lotus 49, McLaren gt3 race car, and Cadillac CTS-V R.

Can have friends be spotters instead of in game spotter and team creator for endurance racing with driver swaps. Epic.

This is all I can remember off top of my head. Those three cars alone are going to awesome.

DOH, a little slow off the line.