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So the only excuse not buying is the lack of steering wheel and the space for it.  You're making this hard!

Well, nothing beats 75 min endurance races at a track like Road America, let me tell you. Especially in my custom painted car. Sponsor is a stream I watch that I figured would make a cool car skin. The first pic is it without the custom skin applied, instead the paint people would see if they didn't have the app that automatically shares custom paints.


But yeah, the cheapest "decent" wheel you can get is the Logitech DFGT, which can be found for around $90, while the next step up, the G25/27, goes for aroun $180 for the g25, but it's a much nicer setup, includes a clutch pedal and an H shifter. I myself use the g27, which is a slightly newer iteration from the 25, which uses a slightly better FFB system and has more buttons on the wheel spokes itself. But that's around $220 new.

Bumping because new weekend deal is active for Assetto Corsa.

Yeah they added a carebear galaxy.  Theres a lot more than two now though.

I personally didn't have an issue with the 64-bit change because even my netbook has that.  Guess I was wrong about the hardware people are buying these days.

32 bit is starting to shrink to the point where it's going to be a bad time investment to make legacy supporting clients in a few years. The fact that the consoles now also are 64 bit based means it's likely in the next few years any games coming out will require 64 bit out of the box, even if it's PC exclusive. The latest Steam survey that came out revealed 32 bit only makes up 17% of the gamer market now, which while currently a decent chunk, is only going to keep shrinking as Windows 8 doesn't even come in 32 bit flavors anymore, the same with OSX and the gamer preferred Linux distros.

Hello folks,

I just bought a 2004 WRX STi (in WR Blue colour with original gold rims!).

I am saving the STi as weekend drive, so to satisfy my driving bug on weekdays, I am looking for the PC equivalent of Gran Turismo or Forza.  It doesn't have to be hardcore sim, can be somewhere between arcade or sim, as long as it offers customisations. A game that has the variety of cars of NFS Underground 2 (I love old school Japanese cars the most), but with greater realism, would be ideal. iRacing is perhaps too hardcore for me.

GetGames has 75% off on Codemasters games, so I bought GRID. GRID2 got bad reviews, so skipping it. GRID Autosport just got released so I'll wait til the Game of the Year Edition with all DLCs is released. Any other recommendation?

Eh, not really anything approaching the level of "Car Pokemon" for PC that PS3/360 has. pCARS might have customization on that level but I'm not sure, and either way it's not in any sort of open beta and won't be for a good while. For right now, your main choices are rFactor, Assetto Corsa, and iRacing, none of which really do the "car tuner" type things NFS games did where it was about making your car as flashy as possible. Unless you are skilled in 3d modeling and can manually edit the cars yourself, then Assetto Corsa would work in that regard, but that's probably far too much effort. That said, Assetto Corsa is likely going to have a large modding community, so a large number of cars is to be expected in the future. There's already a decent number of custom cars and tracks on their forums.

I mean unless you want to count making a truck look as flashy as possible as tuning, then Euro Truck Simulator 2 would work, but that's not quite the same either is it.

So, iRacing just dropped a new promo. Three months for free. Still requires valid credit card and all that, but you can just make sure to disable auto-renewal in your account options.

http://www.iracing.com/nurburgring1000/

So, after the iRacing Thread died, I decided instead we should do a thread about SimRacing games in general. Assetto Corsa, iRacing, rFactor, NR2003, anything really.

iRacing is a Racing Sim based on the code for Nascar Racing 2003, widely considered to be one of the best oval racing sims of all time, killed shortly after release by NASCAR signing an exclusive agreement with EA. It's subscription and content based, and Multiplayer only, and usually has anywhere from 2-4k concurrent online users depending on time of day. The shortest races tend to run a minimum of 25 min, and at the longest during special events run the entire length of a real world race, such as the yearly Daytona 500 event. Despite all this, it also has a just as complete Road Racing side, featuring everything from Mazda Miatas to GT3s, Formula 1, and more. On both sides it features races split by ranking and a saftey rating system designed to keep unfit drivers out of cars they can't handle without crashing.

So in iRacing news, Season 4's update just dropped, and while the content itself is slim pickings, the Holden V8 car has been added for the V8 series, Gateway Motorsports Park has been added as the new track, and the Ford GT2 has had a GT3 version released for the GT3 Series, (both are now sold in a package for the price of 1 car, much like the RUF Porsche and it's 4 variants before it) bringing iRacing's GT3 series to a total of 4 cars, the main update this time is team racing for endurance series. Now you and several friends can all compete as one team, with driver swaps during pitting procedures during the race. They are going to have a few series specifically dedicated to team racing, although what they are aren't announced yet, it's assumed GT3 will be one of them. Come next week when the update week is over we'll know for sure.

Currently, Reddit runs a weekly race league based entirely around the free content.

I've taken the liberty of creating a Bay 12 Motorsports team here if anyone wants to have races together.

Current promo codes for new iRacing customers are:
PR-LIONEL for 3 Months for $9 and a free Gen 6 car
PR-INRACING for 1 Month for $5
http://www.iracing.com/nurburgring1000/ For three months FREE, valid until 10/15
PR-NURBURGRINGEXPO for 3 months free, valid untill 1/1/15



Assetto Corsa is an up and coming primarily single player Road racing simulator with a more modest multiplayer component comparable to standard multiplayer games. Currently featuring a handful and tracks and a much larger handfull of cars, the current release candidate is promising. Currently races are usually much shorter than iRacings, and all races, multiplayer and singleplayer, are custom setup by the users, and as such tend to be on the short side, although pitting is now available for multiplayer sessions.

In Assetto Corsa news, the current release candidate is out, adding a few new cars and 3 more tracks. The Career Mode is also implimented

Assetto Corsa is currently $40 on Steam Early Access.

Race 07 Going to be honest, don't know much about Race 07, other than the fact that's it's pretty decently regarded and can be had for only $4 on Steam, so that's probably worth a look.

So yeah, checked the entities_default.txt, elves are still missing the diplomat job. I'm assuming that this is still broken and that the usual copypaste job of the below code will restore them?

[POSITION:DIPLOMAT]
  [NAME:Diplomat:Diplomats]
  [NUMBER:1]
  [RESPONSIBILITY:MAKE_INTRODUCTIONS]
  [RESPONSIBILITY:MAKE_PEACE_AGREEMENTS]
  [RESPONSIBILITY:MAKE_TOPIC_AGREEMENTS]
  [APPOINTED_BY:DRUID]
  [PRECEDENCE:70]
  [DO_NOT_CULL]
  [COLOR:7:0:1]
  [MENIAL_WORK_EXEMPTION]
  [SLEEP_PRETENSION]
  [PUNISHMENT_EXEMPTION]
  [ACCOUNT_EXEMPT]
  [DUTY_BOUND]
And if so, do we know how the diplomat's tree quotas factor into the multi-tile trees now?