yeah, i found it quite disappointing as well. i managed to find it pretty easily as i remember id just read the eagle mk1 was in rfactor2, which of course isn't the case right now, but it apparently couldve been -- http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/17748-My-take-on-Rfactor-2?p=237443&viewfull=1#post237443 maybe tim can clarify a bit more, or let us know if its still even the case now that the 2014 renault & dallara are out.
Outsch, that reply sucks to hear. Historic content is the #1 reason why I came to RF2, and indeed with the four tracks we already have in high quality that is much more than the competition...
There are leagues running the historics - SR4L and IsR to name a couple - brabs and howstens.......and F3 fanatics has a fanatic following....whats this about historics not being popular.....thats all i race and there are people to join every day ....plenty of content to keep me happily waiting for more
Exactly- I think they are looking at the ISI official servers stats and not the real stats- if they got out of the log files and on to the servers they'd learn a lot more. That's half the prob with the game, you kinda get the feeling they are not playing the game they are making.
Like cookie, I purchased rF2 solely for the Historic content (I watched the Monaco trailer and said "GPL finally finished!" And, signed up as soon as I knew the game/sim was available for purchase). I know a lot of others did as well. The 'F3 Fanatics!' has people racing in it virtually 24/7. So, there is no lack of interest on player's part. I'd personally like to see more older tracks, complete with their rough edges and cars from even earlier racing periods with all of their rough edges too. Regards, Bryan Host of the 'F3 Fanatics!'
Me and my brother also purchased only because of the historic formula cars!! It's painful to se how low priority they have now All cars updated with chassis flex except the historic formula cars They are already good but they could be much better, and tires could be better! That they are not popular is just wrong... Maybe not so popular on public servers because they are quite difficult to drive. More popular in leagues when drivers spend more time learning them. Oh, I want a 70's F1 car for RF2 so much Would be perfect for next season with SR4L.
Like Cookie said: SR4L server is getting people in it every night. Last league race we had on Malaisya had 21 cars on the grid. So servers not crowded should be ISI servers not crowded. Only times i see ISI servers crowded is first days after release of new content (think karts, FR3.5...) Sure the historics are way more a handfull to learn then moderns, but being around here for a year now and i know for sure that lots of peeps here spent many hours in their favorite sim world (rF2 ) and do love the historic content. So i hope ISI will reconsider putting "historic stuff at lower priority" @Tim: If you read this tread (which i'm pretty sure you do ) please talk about it with the devs. I'll invite you to come in the SR4L server (~10:00 pm gmt) and see what happens there.
Yea me too! ..I'm thinking Historic Zandvoort with ISI's own Eves & Sparks given the full update treatment Just as was done with the very impressive Formula Renault just recently
Historic tracks are nice, but the historic cars run just as well on the modern versions of circuits as well I hope the current historic content continues to be updated as does the newer content though Tire contact patch / chassis flex etc
I'm another one who loves everything historic. In fact, when LFS, GTR, rFactor etc came out in the 2000s, I was still religiously playing GPL, refusing to move on. So, to hear that ISI have lowered the priority of older cars is disappointing. However, even with the low priority, at least rF2 has a medium amount of historic content... which is more than can be said for the competition.
1965 (Jimmy champion), 1967 (big changes in F1, last year before sponsorship), 1971, 1973, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990. Would love any of these historic years (yes 1990 is now historic )
Yeah, thats right, i am also very much looking forward to the cobra release. Not so much for the car itself, but i think we will get a really good set of tyres which will help to get more 60's cars going into rF2.....
Unlike the modern formula cars, those old brutes actually had lots of chassis flex! Might take the ISI boys longer to update because of that?
