Most Reported Issues on iRacing?

I have been a faithful user almost since the beginning and hailed all the improvements and changes that iRacing has been implemented through all these years. Now almost ten years later there are some permanent issues that aren’t addressed and caused a lot of pain and discomfort to many users; rookies and veterans, whose find incomprehensible how others users try to continuously justify those “features”. We make a compilation of the most reported problems in recent years. Here, the compilation of the most reported issues/discomfort in recent years by the community.

BoP & Multi-Class Competitions

Balance of Performance (BoP) applied in a real multi-class competition seems impossible to achieve in iRacing. After years of trying it and hundreds of modifications and patches, it is hard to believe that is impossible. Rather, it is sought after, causing certain models to increase or boost sales that for whatever reason are not popular enough. It is happening right now in the GTE with the C8.R, but it has happened with the Ford GTE, with the Ferrari in both GTE and GT3 and even in the recent GT4. They do it in all series where several models coexist and it causes bitter discomfort in all players.

The Blue Flags

Have you been able to implement a functional multi-class rolling start system but are you still unable to make a lapped driver detection system works? I’m not sure what’s behind this and why it’s not done, but it causes multiple incidents and problems. If the Crewchief and other third party software that only reads the telemetry and simulator data are able to warn you, why isn’t it implemented already? Unexplained.

Realistic Temperature

I don’t know what world these New England gentlemen live in, but I’d like to share it. In the middle of November in Le Mans the temperature was around 19 to 27 Celsius degrees in the night air. It is not the only case but it is one of the most flagrant cases seen lately. As simple as stipulating a few closing dates for the tracks with their real calendar and having them held on another date that results in fewer oddities.

The Grip

Daniel Juncadella said that one of the things he liked about iRacing was that it was much less permissive than rFactor 2 in terms of the level of car control and grip. There’s no doubt that iRacing is terribly strict (too much maybe) about grip and handling. We’re going back to the golden years of the beginning of the decade where the car was a matter of a lot of temper, hands and feet. Iceracing was called in those days, which now seem to return to every new iteration of the tyre model.

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The Offtracks

Something related to the grip, although it is more to do with the nonsense of a few (who are really being listened to in the iRacing offices) who decided that the two Lesmo corners in Monza should be penalised in the form of an exit from the track. Both corners have an astroturf zone with a very unreliable grip after the last NTM, so racing on them means not only losing time, but also risk of accident and an incident to add to the list. A way to spoil the flow of the track that does allow similar aberrations in the rest of the curves.

It is not the only track where this happens and there are dozens of other examples. But you know, if you are not one of the regulars in the forum, your opinion in this matter (or any other in fact) counts 0. At least they could asphalt that area as they have done in the real track.

Punishments

The novelty that was once the report system, after more than 10 years, has melted like an ice cream in the sun in the middle of August. The fears of doing something to any other member of the track are unfounded, because we know for a fact that penalties are rare and have more to do with recidivism than with the severity of the events. Therefore, taking someone off the track to win positions is extremely cheap, in 90% of the cases it is judged as a race incident, even when there are guys of very high level who control the vehicle perfectly and are able to do it subtly. The other 10% may be satisfied with a small warning added to their CV in the simulator and which should disappear after a period of time without recurrence.

If you want real punishment and banning, all you have to do is swear and offend someone (going against politically correct discourse) to see the company run to close your account.

Discounts?

iRacing staff said they have not only not raised the price but have lowered it. They refer to the base price of course, far from the price we all used to renew and buy content. We’ve gone from 50% on Black Friday to 25%, the rest of the annual offers and even the gift credits when pre-purchasing iDollars (the currency of the game) have vanished, plus we’ve added tax to all purchases made from the EU. An increase of nearly 100% from any country with taxes on digital applications. Do those taxes we pay to iRacing reach our state? I doubt it very much.

And I could go on…

Surely there are many more sections that are weak or even these themselves to be expanded and discussed in depth. What is crystal clear is that at the organisational level there is no alternative to the iRacing level, and therefore if you want to compete in simulation at the highest level there is no alternative but to jump through the hoops.

See you on the track!