Where's all the racers?

[Vaughn Stegeman]

Now, i haven't been around here very long. But even in the short time I HAVE been here, I've been noticing a fall-off in the numbers of club race entries.
Why is that? Have I bought a dead (or dying) game here?
Race 07 is a lot of fun!! It was hailed as getting the most out of the physics engine. Its graphics still look fine to me (tho, as often noted, a bit lacking in the perception of speed) and SimBin apparently has a good reputation for their force-feedback and tracks and cars ...
What's going on here?
Is it the new games coming out? I don't quite get that, since both Asetto Corsa and rFactor 2 are still not yet actually released.
Why do people appear to be abandoning Race 07??
I just don't understand.
C'MON people!! Get in on these races. They just aren't that much fun with grids of 5 people.
To me, just because a game was released 6 years ago doesn't make it 'old' or render it somehow 'unplayable'. And I don't understand how ANY racing game could ever become boring. After all, it's about you vs. the other drivers. Or you vs. the car and track vs. yourself. What's boring about that?
HELL!! If I could get it to run right, I'd still be playing Sports Car GT!!! That was and still is a great game.

 

[Juergen]

That and the whole skidrow pirated and hacked version that at the same time released thousands of anonymous idiots on the loose, making every league and site to inspect their own gamers and their legitimacy, causing a backlash and horrible workload for admins.

we got the same problem (project-race.de) and we try to ban all this skidrow f*****s but it`s a hard job...There was a script around who was blocking drivers with the steamname "skidrow". Anybody around who have this script?

Our bans for the moment (growing daily...)

Steam-ID Steamname
1242172 Reinaldo Tognetti
1635232 The Winner
0 Gemini
68026368 Blackhell13
80467488 TURDBIRD
1635232 Kot
1635232 nms-za
70410232 DoI
1635232 Kenny_H49
1635232 cor_H523545
0 Potion
1635232 wassa2014
0 kapek
46137344 [RC-HU]Nagy
70354736 Majstor11
0 Tanu
99905312 pedro rebelo
1635388 Gabor Sipos
57147392 VIOLATOR
21365344 RodRA
0 È30
3577216 MAU-EHC
0 Hun_Koviubi
0 MiKre
1635232 HELL YEAH
1635232 Amir Hossein F1 (PUNCH)
82678480 giannini giuseppe
23673976 JaCK_S on
1635232 bruttanomea
1242016 RED_0211
64552960 Dmitry Seleznyev
1635232 Luka gantar
62586880 Zsozso
96658904 seth
77121088 Ruud
120425848 sergio
0 Al Greegoriev
0 SKIDROW

I hope other admins do this too...