What are peoples reactions on seeing your Sim racing rig?

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In Scotland the main national sports are football and rugby. I actually know very few people interested in Motorsport and no one who actually enjoys sim racing so peoples reactions to my rig have always been a bit strange, I think they think I'm some sort of weird 39 year old Geek who still plays computer 'games' on an OTT setup when he should be past that stage, maybe there is an element of truth in that though :eek:
My age!.. :lol:

There are some very nice manufactured and ingenious, really cool DIY Sim racing rigs on here. The vast majority of you will likely be much younger than me so it might not apply How old are you and what are the general reactions on people seeing them for the first time?
 
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Good question!

I started as we all do on a Playstaion when I was a teenager and still remember my first go at GT, back then I was gob smacked by the new graphcs and physics the title brought. I guess now, at 31, that same buzz is still there lurking insde as it does in all sim racers.

As an avid motorsport fan, anything I can do to get me closer to a race car the better, hence my ever evolving rig and additions. Its now at the point where people visit and wonder what the weird contraption is sitting in my dining room. After 2 seconds of brain processing they soon realise that it is infact a race simulator in front of them.

From that point most peoples reactions are:

A) F@# me, that looks expensive
B) I gotta get me one of those
C) Please let me have a go
D) Oh god, boys and their toys

Its usually a combination of above with males going for a, b and c and generally the girls go with d. Now thats not being sexist as some female friends love a go but generally its the children in adult form who get excited the most.

I think there is still the image of "gamers" when in fact for majority of those here the title should be "simulator enthusiast". Sure, we all love Mario and Tetris but with todays technology alowing triple screen rigs, VR and with everyone having their own way of wnjoying games then perhaps the term geek needs to have tiers!

Now, heres another question...I have, at times, quite a stressful job and some nights sit and drive to purely unwind rather than drive for fun as such. Whats your best "wind down time" title?
 
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People usually laugh at mine:
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I don't know why...
 
I think the folks who don't like my rig are probably too nice to criticize it and the people who do like it usually just want to talk about how cool it is, but they never want to use it.

Youngsters always love it and want to use it. I have to pry my 3 year old nephew away from it when he shows up (he doesn't play he just pushes buttons and spins the wheel).
 
TheORDL
Good question!

I started as we all do on a Playstaion when I was a teenager and still remembeer my first go at GT, back then I was gob smacked by the new graphcs and physics the title brought. I guess now, at 31, that same buzz is still there lurking insde as it does in all sim racers.

As an avid motorsport fan, anything I can do to get me closer to a race car the better, hence my ever evolving rig and additions. Its now at the point where people visit and wonder what the weird contraption is sitting in my dining room. After 2 seconds of brain processing they soon realise that it is infact a race simulator in front of them.

From that point most peoples reactions are:

A) F@# me, that looks expensive
B) I gotta get me one of those
C) Please let me have a go
D) Oh god, boys and their toys

Its usually a combination of above with males going for a, b and c and generally the girls go with d. Now thats not being sexist as some female friends love a go but generaly its the children in adult form who get excited the most.

I think there is still the image of "gamers" when in fact for majority of those here the title should be "simulator enthusiast". Sure, we all love Mario and Tetris but with todays technology alowing triple screen rigs, VR and with everyone having their own way of wnjoying games then perhaps the term geek needs to have tiers!

Now, heres another question...I have, at times, quite a stressful job and some nights sit and drive to purely unwind rather than drive for fun as such. Whats your best "wind down time" title?
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That's cool, mine is a work in progress and resides in a spare bedroom so not everyone sees it.
I don't have a 'wind down' title as such... if anything sims and racing
games really get my adrenaline flowing.

I'm currently driving the Indy car in grid 2 trying to find my best possible time for Okatumo Mountain Hillclimb in daytime (currently in the 2:52's ) but RSRBR is usually my sim of choice. Really looking forward to Pcars though...
 
TheORDL
From that point most peoples reactions are:

A) F@# me, that looks expensive
B) I gotta get me one of those
C) Please let me have a go
D) Oh god, boys and their toys

Its usually a combination of above with males going for a, b and c and generally the girls go with d.
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Had exactly the same kind of responses here too! :D

No one has been too surprised though, since my friends and relatives know how much I'm in to sims and motorsports in general...
 
Matrixi
Had exactly the same kind of responses here too! :D

No one has been too surprised though, since my friends and relatives know how much I'm in to sims and motorsports in general...
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Isn't Rallying (and all other forms of motorsport) almost the main national sport in Finland? Even if it isn't I can imagine it ranks a helluva lot higher there than elsewhere. I'd love that to also be the case here in Scotland too...
 
Yeah, rallying and folk racing are pretty big here among the common people. I'm more in to regular track racing myself, even though there's not very many to choose from and the distances are pretty long, which is where sim racing comes in. :)
 
From my male friends:

Very positive to amazement to the inevitable "can I have a go!"

From their female counterparts:

"....." To "but why don't you just drive your real car?!"

I think it's one of them 'if you get it you get, if you don't you don't' things. I've always been interested in driving games from when I was 8 or so years old when I got into F1 and BTCC on the telly and for me going on holiday then to the arcades to play Daytona and Sega Rally etc was the highlight so I've take this passion and created my own den to have fun and compete in.

I got my first wheel for the PS1, a Mad Catz Jordan F1 replica and since then I've upgraded over time from DF:EX to DFP to a Playseat with a G27 A couple of years back. Today I'm (finally!) placing orders for my first Gaming PC which will have triple screens, Derek Speare seq shifter and a SRH SLI-Pro wheel plate. Thankfully my girlfriend appreciates my interest in all of this. But then again, I've not told her how much all this new goodness is costing!

Even my Dad has now got into the sim racing action with GT5/6 and a Playseat too. We are lucky that driving games offer us a whole host of options and ways to play them and has the strongest, most active community out of any genre of 'game'.
 
TheORDL
From that point most peoples reactions are:

A) F@# me, that looks expensive
B) I gotta get me one of those
C) Please let me have a go
D) Oh god, boys and their toys

Its usually a combination of above with males going for a, b and c and generally the girls go with d. Now thats not being sexist as some female friends love a go but generally its the children in adult form who get excited the most.
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This is pretty much my experience too :)
 
Since I only own a wheel and a shifter, I usually only get a "nice". :p Better than nothing I suppose.
 

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