RaceSimCentral close their forums

[Bram Hengeveld]

Bad news for simracing as RSC has decided, after a lot of bad luck, to close their forums. I think I speak for a lot of people here that our simracing careers started there.

After two years of hardware troubles they have decided to pull the plug.

 

[Michael Herrmann]

Sad news my first online race i had at RSC's race club
i realy hope they can sort it out and come back as strong as in the past

 

[Stefan Werner]

With all the trouble they have been having, I really don't blame them. It is a real shame though.

 

[Keith Barrick]

Perhaps they could link members here. The RSC members will need a fix somehow....in my eyes RD is the perfect fix

 

[Günthar Rowe]

Keith, that is a good idea... Most useful would be the modding community having a new home...

 

[Patrick van Driel]

Shame there gone but i think they where warned a while ago this could happen.Would be nice to see there members at RD to make the racing club even bigger.

 

[Hans Sneep]

That is a real shame,there are a lot of people with a lot of knowledge,hope they will join RD. Maybe,Grand Prix Legends??

 

[Ivo Simons]

Such a shame.

 

[Richard Torp Jensen]

Sad. Last time it went down the guys did a GREAT job to get it up and running again...but it was already dead then imo..

I came here from RSC and I think others will do the same..

RSC will be missed..

 

[Neil Gault]

very sad news, there were lots of great posts there that helped a lot of people, would love to see the old threads kept alive somewhere even though they are just locked down and for reference only.

 

[Kevin Watts]

Its a shame, it was one of the first proper internet forums for racing sims that I joined after hanging around the newsgroups for years. They seemed to have a lot of trouble finding funding and a reliable host as the site was offline quite often. I think RaceDepartment is a good place for people to come and hang out at.

 

[Esteban Maurel]

omg what a bad news!

 

[Mark Birney]

I don't think it's "for now". I think it's for good

I don't really go there much, but that forum had loads of help and was the place where most simracers started.

Sad news

 

[Martin Bulgin]

Like Mark said above it`s where most of us started me included, but since they came back online (a year ago ? Icant remember) I had hardly been there, it is a shame but they were offline for such a long time that people moved on and found somewhere else.

 

[Steve B]

I agree Mark there was so much information and links for moders and now there gone.

 

[Edgar Herrero]

Wow, bad bad news :S a very good website of simracing losted... I think like a lot of people here, they need to come to RD for race!

 

[Brian Duddy]

Has RD considered providing support for some of the games RSC focused on? I'm talking specifically about GPL, which they had a lot of activity in, and GeneRally, the top-down game, which they were just about the only forum for... I participated especially in the latter, and it'd be sad to see that one go, especially because one of the developers had just come back from a years-long break...

 

[James Johnson]

A PM to Bram or one of the Admins could probably have them sorted.

 

[Xosé Estrada]

Well, we are opened to do it of course, it's a pity an active community like GeneRally lost contact because of this, I have some teammates in, if somebody is interested, please PM me, we will work it out.

http://forum.racedepartment.com/generally/

For the moment we opened this.

 

[MoAK]

Sad indeed, but since it shut down I found this place and like it a lot.

I loved RSC's hardware forum, most of the ideas for my rig was taken from various posts there. I hope this new home for Sim Racing can take the hardware torch that RSC held for so long.