Lightweight! When Spa came out and I was about to hit the buy button I realised I'd already spent over £750 at iRacing, and that only included one whole year's subscription and several shorter periods. The drip, drip, drip of content is torture for your credit card, especially back in the beginning when things were more expensive, and especailly if you're a bit weak willed, like ovals as well, and got lured into buying a lot of content for the Fun races.
The silly thing is that outside iRacing I'm very capable of restraining my spending. I think that was when I finally decided I
had to give it up. The quality of the racing in the UK mornings is pretty hit & miss anyway, with few splits outside the Rookie races. So I'm not missing much.
I do miss the forums though. It's such a mad mixture of ultra hardcore sim-freaks as well as normal folk looking for fun that there's always an entertaining clash waiting to happen.
It's also fun watching the iRacing staff trying to keep a lid on the unrealistic expectations of the community (encouraged by unrealistic claims by the iRacing website). Personally I think they should save a lot of money and sack everyone who isn't programming, scanning, or Nim.
Andrew McP... spending the rest of February learning Trento bondone in NKPro
