[Russell Sobie]

Are you saying that you do not expect drivers near you on turn 1 to leave space if you are along side? Or that you do not expect people to refrain from throwing a PIT maneuver at you the moment they get a chance? You are saying that this is a game and nothing else, but I don't think you actually believe that as you have stated it. My expectations are not too high. My expectation is that many do not know they should be behaving differently, or that they don't care. The former can be educated, and the latter can get banned.

If sim racing is a game and nothing more, then it is the most poorly designed game ever created. It doesn't prevent bad behavior at all. In fact, it greatly rewards it. Someone in your way? Put them into a wall and destroy their suspension. Do that 22 more times and you get a podium! You can even let the people fast than you lap you, take them out on the next lap... and still cross the finish line first! Super!

Sim racing games are more just a game because they require externally enforced rules to be followed so that other people can exist in the same game space. If this were not true, there wouldn't be a Protest Form. Or the Regulation page, for that matter (as sparse as it is).

And that is what we are discussing: The fact that the externally enforced rules are not communicated well enough to the user base. If they were communicated well enough to the userbase, would that make every race 100% clean? No. Would it help?

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It wouldn't hurt!