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Also, I just saw AppleTV are producing a huge budget production of the Asimov series Foundation, there's a trailer out already - looks pretty good.

Thanks heeps for setting up that dedi server, go tmy time down by a second practicing on it this evening. I'll be back on it again tonight, and I see a couple of the guys are on it now practising. If you could give me the heads up when it will need to come down that would be appreciated. Thanks again.

Found this for £15/mo for 20 drivers, I'll put it to our race admin and see what he thinks. https://www.gtxgaming.co.uk/server-hosting/project-cars-2-server-hosting/

Hahaha, love it. I Googled around and couldn't really find a good n00bs "explain like I am 5 type" guide. Which surprised me as it its hardly a new game - plenty of time for this sot of guide to mature out of the community. I imagine that's they way ahead - I'll look around as we have had a couple of people suffer disconnects which is frustrating. Thanks for the detailed explanation. Next track is Hock GP if you guys are interested in racing it this weekend.

Glad you guys liked racing on Oscher, like I said it's probably my best track - which is still mediocre of course. We did stream our race yesterday but only just managed to - storms meant connection was ropey and so its a poor 480px broadcast, volume levels were out of whack too. We'll get it sorted. In a GT3 car I managed a 1:32 once but I'm usually round in a 1:33. The best of the guys a race with are doing it in 1:29, and I believe the WR is 1:27. I'm intrigued how you guys had a dedicated server up.. how did you manage that?

So the PC2 racing league I'm in races on sunday nights now, brilliant timing huh. They were going to stream, but not today for some reason. I'm in a porsche this season, first track in Oscher A. I'm only managing a 1:33 lap, but if there are enough pile ups I might get a place lol.

Raced that track again yesterday - at night - in the snow - with a track full of AI and 3 humans. Crazy.

Help me out here guys - you still using TS or will we be meeting on discord?

I forgot to say, by pure coincidence, after mentioning Asimov in this thread, my copy of one of his paperbacks turned up in my house the same week, weird and cool.

Yeh Robert Space Industries, these guys are into SC too. It took me 3 races until I figured out how to setup the traction control on the AMG, so I spent 3 races basically spinning off the track as I exited every corner. My season challenge therefore was just to finish races, never mind about placing lol.

Here's a promo video from the league I'm racing in at the moment. Pretty cool job Erike made of this, you'll spot my Merc right at the end, but enjoy the whole video.

Ak ok, sounds fun.

Nice, any word what track it will be?

So you guys are doing Sunday nights? That works for me, see you next weekend hopefully.

Yeh PC2, apologies if I was vague.

Haha.

So here's my profile So going by whats above F = I have worst safety rating there is, for some reason S is the best, after A 1430 = is driver rating which starts at 100 and goes up to 5000 So yeh the U100 means anyone can join.

I didn't think there as any licence requirement, I am sure he said that, and I only raced a few times and I got in. I've never even viosited my profile page to see what it says, I'm going to check it in a moment. I always meant to understand the licence numbers anyway hang on I am googling it now.... https://www.projectcarsgame.com/competitive-racing-license/ the license tracks three main spheres of a driver’s career: a driver’s reputation for safety, a driver’s skill level —both of which can be used as a filter for online racing—and driver experience. The Safety Ranks system is as follows: Unclassified (lowest, and also the starting point), F, E, D, C, B, A, S (highest). This Skill Rating number ranges from the lowest at 100, up to 5,000 as the highest, with the player’s starting strength set to 1,500. All players should be aiming for S5000 licenses therefore.

I race every saturday evening GMT with a good bunch of guys. I'm last every week (if I finish), and the winner is usually setting a really good lap time, so it's a good mix of skill sets. Its Clean GT3 racing and there are still slots. We are 5 races in to a 10 race season but still taking new drivers. Something to think about if you want to dip your toes back into online. Let me know. http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthread.php?67979-Olympus-Racing-League-GT3-(Clean-racing-for-all) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJLmimZBNpEsu54C1vk6MQ?

I used to make videos of nascaar race events when I raced every Sunday, but like you say, it's not the same racing with randoms so I don't have the enthusiasm so much for making after race movies anymore. Racing with randoms is fine for me practicing though even if I am coming last every race. What surprises me is that although I have not raced for YEARS, I recognise some of these tracks and know the bends!

Some highlights of random cars today. Still getting the hang of recording this stuff.

Race ended badly, lap 9 on my side, here's some shots from before that disaster. Some nice close racing...

Hey Hunter You might be surprised to hear then, that whatever gaming genre you prefer, has carried over into VR. Including 1st person shooters to cartoon platforms and everything in between. My personal faves are my found love for VR racing, horror games (I'm 53 now and I still cry out like a baby playing these), space games, sci-fi shooters (Alien Resurrection oh boy!), Golf, fishing (!), puzzlers, etc etc. I have the Vive Pro headset, with the new Index controllers (AKA Knuckles). For a newbie with no PC, then it has to be the Quest. It's cheap, standalone, and can be connected to a PC to get better performance as an upgrade down the line. Everyone reading this probably has a good PC though, so either the Pro like me (cracking OLED display), or the Valve Index (just back in stock).

I will stop harping on about this incase I'm getting annoying. But after about 2 years of VR gaming, I can now say I have found the genre that actually keeps me coming back to VR and gets me excited about finding time to put on the HMD, and it is racing. VR racing is transformative, there is no doubt about it. Firstly there's the improved gameplay which comes from increased situational awareness. There's improved depth perception to the next bend and there's improved control because your perspective is now full 360 not flat 2d. Next there's improved immersion. Sitting in a virtual cockpit with the dials all operating and your virtual torso all in HD, it's stunning. Sitting in a pack of cars in VR is totally different from monitor racing, remarkable. When I looked out my driver window as my nephew lost control on Oulton, slamming into my drivers door, I nearly had a heart attack. I'll see how that came out in the replay and post it up later. I played my local track online yesterday, Knockhill. Only 5 online randoms in some kind of formula car, formula 2 I think it was, what a rush that was, even though I came last. If you get the chance to experience it, give it a go guys.

Wow you took my down the rabbit hole Zeno! A lot of Asimov stuff is available at https://epdf.pub/search/asimov but I could not find The Naked Sun. His short stories might be just the trick for this isolation period....