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How does iRacing work for leagues?
DIR By: guybo
Date: May 11, 2015, 12:06 pm
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This sim is a serious contender for the future of the league.
Lots of our past members have jumped ship to iRacing and so far
neither rF2 or AC have attracted people to the league in great
numbers. But how can a league be set up through iRacing? Do
you have to pay for servers, can you use dedicated iRacing
servers?
Also, do you have to start out with some crappy low powered
beginner cars or can you buy some GT cars and a bunch of tracks
right out of the gate? If we do this, we have to be able to
start out with GT3 or equivelent cars.
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Re: How does iRacing work for leagues?
DIR By: Chad Brown
Date: May 11, 2015, 1:54 pm
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When yo uatart out you have a rookie license. You race and learn
and get enough quality races under your belt to get out of the
rookie class (As little as 2 races qualifies you to get your D
license) Once you get your d license you can start to purchase
and drive cars that are allowed in D license classes. This
includes any of the GT cars. However, if you wish to take place
in the "official BES series" you will need a B license. With a D
license you can take part in the Blancpain Endurance series. But
this is serious endurance driving 3 hour races with available
driver swaps. This is certainly longer than our members will be
able to go.
As far as League play. I believe there is a fee for each race
that is scheduled. I dont know all the ins and outs of the fees
and if they include practice sessions or not.
The elephant in the room for iracing is the phenomenal cost for
content. This is simply is not a factor for rF2. I believe that
what would likely happen is that we would get over here and
people would balk at the cost for a series. $12.00 for the car
of their choice. (Ford GT-40, BMW Z4, Mclaren 12C, or RUF) then
factor in the cost for tracks at $15.00 apiece. Then the cost
for a subscription. I paid a promotional cost of $50.00 for a
year, but once that is done it is $12.00 a month unless you find
a special for multi-month purchases. There are discounts for
multiple content purchases (20% off for 6 or more pieces of
content purchased at the same time) to help offset the cost so
that is a plus.
With the cost for Iracing comes some benefit though. Lots of
people online and racing. The quality of racers is pretty good,
especially once you get out of the rookie class. Graphics are
good, the FFB and physics are passable, although not as good as
rF2. THe tracks are laser scanned as accurate as all get out.
Frankly I am wondering if we simply join another league that is
already established at the time we normally race. i have not
looked to see if there are any leagues running GT cars on
Sunday mornings/evenings though. I am sure there are since GT
class racing is one of the most popular racing in iracing,
second only to oval NASCAR racing.
I am looking into Pcars and am curious how the online racing is
there to make a comparison. BUt as it is new I would expect that
the initial numbers will be high then drop off as people loose
the newness of the game. Also I expect to see alot of "Casual"
racers. The videos I have seen so far dont offer alot of hope
for serious racers. Most of the stuff I have seen is of the
Forza/Gran Turismo style bump the AI car out of your way to pick
of the next position. Not exactly fair racing in my opinion and
would not translate to online very well.
In any case I am interested to see what others opinions are.
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Re: How does iRacing work for leagues?
DIR By: Chad Brown
Date: May 12, 2015, 1:03 am
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After checking out GT series races run on Sundays I located one
league, "Old Bastards" They appear to run a Sunday morning
series at the same time as us using the GT cars. They also run
league races on Wed, Fri, and Sat. However those are different
car types and times.
#Post#: 161--------------------------------------------------
Re: How does iRacing work for leagues?
DIR By: guybo
Date: May 12, 2015, 5:57 am
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I was reading up on it too. It's only a couple of bucks to run
your own race, not a big deal. We're going to race every 3
weeks and I pay more than that now just keeping the server up
(electricity is not free). With the 1 year sub you get a few
tracks and some cars (we'd likely use the CTS-V since it is a GT
car that would come free). So we'd have to get a 1 year sub and
buy the tracks we'd want to use. For a 10 race season that
wouldn't be too much since we start out with 4 free ones.
That'd take us 30 weeks for the base $50 start up fee and $90
(ugh) for tracks, each race would be $2.
Some of us already have a sub, none of the regulars are
particularly strapped for cash, we'll manage. I don't like that
there's no rain and we're so limited in what we can and can't
do, but I don't see how to attract people. rF2 is not an
option- after all this time we still can't get people on the
grid and the game is still plagued with problems. It's going to
be time to move on after the Cup is over.
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