Need to be VERY careful with iRacing

[EvilC4]

New to sim racing I decided to try a promotion for iRacing. It is a good thing I didn't spend a lot of money. As a brand new racer in iracing I did some testing and entered my FIRST race as a ROOKIE racing along side other ROOKIES. I went into the race trying as hard as possible to get the right times and lines down but was involved in an accident...instead of just leaving like 99% did I went in for repair and came back out to gain some stats. With in 2 laps the leader came around and even though I went so high I scraped the wall to get out of his way he slammed right in the back of me...Now r3emeber I said were all ROOKIES here...not a big deal right ? I finish the race like 7th or something cause I stayed. 3 days later I get an offical email from iRacinfg saying he reported "ME?" o.O and iRacing suspended my account for 1 week...WOW..lol

So it seems its VERY easy to harrass people in iRacing and ruin their NEW experience to the sim and iRacing just by using the reporting tool. Now at $100 a year I m not sure I want to risk money like that on a griefer loop hole like that. Ive since turned off my reoccurring payment and will make a descision soon about if Ill continue with a regular subscription. Too bad because I did think it was fun, but for the rookies and the amount of time we have in the game it seems like iRacing is shooting themselves in the foot here and loosing a lot of subscriptions. They need to investigate those reports a little better. Most likely an employee that didn't wanna take the time to review it.

I guess accidents and confusion aren't allowed even with rookies in their first days. :( The bad part is I didn't even think twice about him smashing right into my rear end up near the wall, but I guess he did....lol

So at $100 for the regular subscription id say BE VERY CAREFUL and decide well on if it's worth it and something you wanna continue with before renewed payment occurs based on your experience in the beginning.

[HK-47]

Цитата допису Archie:

Very happy I found this thread. Thanks RustBucket.

Don't listen to this turd. Do some reading yourself. Watch an Eric Jones, or a Rebens Barrichelo inteview about iRacing. Not some turd-troll. Even about 70% of the responses in this discussion are positive about iRacing.

[HK-47]

Цитата допису Gul Dukat:

Цитата допису Archie:

Very happy I found this thread. Thanks RustBucket.

Yes... it goes to show if you want to seriously/competitively race without 10 idiots in every race then YES Iracing is for you, IF you are a jackass driver then NO, Iracing is NOT for you.

Agreed. If someone has their opinion swayed by some fail-troll then we don't want you in our community. My leagues are full of +25 year old men and women who are all respectful, nice, and clean. iRacing is only for those who are serious about autoracing.

[EvilC4]

Цитата допису Archie:

Very happy I found this thread. Thanks RustBucket.

Your welcome Archie :) don't listen to these guys...they are the ones you'll find on the track cussing at you every lap telling you what a TURD driver you are etc...etc... Just listen to their tones and egos its typical of iRacing drivers lol. But in reality besides these type of people you'll find...the thread was about iRacing as a company...it seems they are there for the money and the officals don't really seem to care if they ban or suspend you at any point instead of doing their jobs. Once again thank you all for keeping this thread at the top of the list so people get the heads up on iRacing. :)

[Von Pink]

looks like OP decided not to make another dummy account to bump the thread. yet again, on queue, when this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was just out of the top 15 it gets bumped, go figure.

it doesn't matter how much this post gets bumped to the top, everyone who's ever used the service knows it's not true. anybody looking to get into simracing will find their way into forums for other racing games and every single one of them will say iRacing is the best online racing experience, with actual consequences for people who try to sour the race for others.

[HK-47]

Цитата допису RustBucket:

Цитата допису Archie:

Very happy I found this thread. Thanks RustBucket.

Your welcome Archie :) don't listen to these guys...they are the ones you'll find on the track cussing at you every lap telling you what a TURD driver you are etc...etc... Just listen to their tones and egos its typical of iRacing drivers lol. But in reality besides these type of people you'll find...the thread was about iRacing as a company...it seems they are there for the money and the officals don't really seem to care if they ban or suspend you at any point instead of doing their jobs. Once again thank you all for keeping this thread at the top of the list so people get the heads up on iRacing. :)

For starters Mr. Troll you cannot simply scream and cuss at new drivers. You will have your voicechat disabled. iRacing does their job well as far as the ban/appeal system. There is a clear difference between racing hard, driving above your talent level and/or intentionally wrecking a fellow racer. I've made some VERY aggresive moves and was given a warning, but due to the appeal system I was able to revoke the origional decision.
It seems like you're incredibly salty over your rookie experience, which I'll admit. Getting up to the D or C class license is tough. But guess what? If you drive with your head, and not try to win on every turn. Safety rating is the key. iRating is the lock. Figure it out.

[EvilC4]

Hey thanks sooo much for bumping this thread to the top :) Im sorry I didn't actually read your comments but thanks anyways :)

[Klaus]

Цитата допису The Breath of Death:

Hey thanks sooo much for bumping this thread to the top :) Im sorry I didn't actually read your comments but thanks anyways :)

This post here proves to me that you were probably banned with good reason. You thought Iracing was an arcade game where you can drive however you want. Wrong its a SIM with rules. They dont just ban people for the reasons in your story. I have raced 3 years straight and have caused a couple major wrecks. NEVER have a had someone cuss at me nor have I ever been banned.

You comment "Hey thanks sooo much for bumping this thread to the top :) Im sorry I didn't actually read your comments but thanks anyways :)" proves you are nothing more than a little troll. The iracing community hates people like you period.

Let me guess you play with a controller too? Instead of preaching to people save your money just leave Iracing. The community doesnt need to want people like you.

[Flavio93Zena]

Seeing how toxic you guys are, damn right he left.

[Von Pink]

Цитата допису Flavio93Zena (#♥♥♥♥♥♥♥):

Seeing how toxic you guys are, damn right he left.

calling a person that is clearly lying, a liar, is toxic behavior? amazing line of reasoning you have there.

[Flavio93Zena]

You're calling him way more than a liar if you re-read what you said, but you were too busy harrassing him to notice.

[Von Pink]

Цитата допису Flavio93Zena (#♥♥♥♥♥♥♥):

You're calling him way more than a liar if you re-read what you said, but you were too busy harrassing him to notice.

eh, probably a good idea to actually read what a person has posted if you're going to write something like that. op is a troll and a liar, haven't called the person anything more than that.

[Flavio93Zena]

I've read what he has posted, been following the topic for a long while.

[Von Pink]

Цитата допису Flavio93Zena (#♥♥♥♥♥♥♥):

I've read what he has posted, been following the topic for a long while.

I wasn't talking about anyone other than myself and you replied to me saying "you" while talking about someone else.

Can you spot the disconnect? Lol


Just take a moment and think about it. If the scenario in OP was possible don't you think both the Steam and official forums would be completely flooded with posts from Rookies that get put in time-out over making mistakes on the track? What's worse is OP makes the claim that he got banned for "not getting out of the way even though he was in the wall". Which is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Nobody would ever be banned for that, ever, period. You wouldn't even get a warning for that. Why is it there's no replay even though everything on the track gets recorded? It literally costs the player nothing, not even space on their drive, to save every single replay. Yet OP doesn't have one, I've actually never seen a replay for any claim made by people with unbelievable stories like in the OP. Take a wild guess as to why that is.

[Von Pink]

Цитата допису Gul Dukat:

Цитата допису Von Pink:

I wasn't talking about anyone other than myself and you replied to me saying "you" while talking about someone else.

Can you spot the disconnect? Lol


Just take a moment and think about it. If the scenario in OP was possible don't you think both the Steam and official forums would be completely flooded with posts from Rookies that get put in time-out over making mistakes on the track? What's worse is OP makes the claim that he got banned for "not getting out of the way even though he was in the wall". Which is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Nobody would ever be banned for that, ever, period. You wouldn't even get a warning for that. Why is it there's no replay even though everything on the track gets recorded? It literally costs the player nothing, not even space on their drive, to save every single replay. Yet OP doesn't have one, I've actually never seen a replay for any claim made by people with unbelievable stories like in the OP. Take a wild guess as to why that is.

Yea that is pretty odd , I didnt think about it but thats just cause I save every single replay. Because why not?

my guess, op did save the replay, as there's no reason not to, it takes only a couple mouse-clicks, and op had a very good reason in favor of saving it. there could be a couple reasons not to share it. first being that the story would be found out to be a complete lie, that the person was wrecking other drivers on purpose (because, as we all know, you have to do something really bad on the track to get a ban. people walk away with warnings for intentional retaliation wrecking, and op would have us believe he was put on timeout for being in the way of faster traffic while trying to avoid... yeah right, give me a break, gtfo with that nonsense lol). the only other reason that makes any sense at all (if the incident actually is as described) is that op got into a fight with the driver that hit him and it became a big thing between them that sucked in the other drivers as well.. and he was given the timeout for THAT reason, having absolutely nothing to do with the wreck at all.

regardless, there's no way anyone would ever get put on timeout for what is described in the op. just not going to happen, ever.

[EvilC4]

Hey thanks sooo much for bumping this thread to the top :) Im sorry I didn't actually read your comments but thanks anyways :)