didn't Rameback created pro-invite server? huh? what's the difference from this one?

i agree with the fact that you want to make a server for people that are of a skill level to understand basic aspects of drifting and track knowledge. but i for one am a good drifter, i can lead perfectly well, but i tend to have 'issues' following certain people and there fore end up crashing. thats just what happens.

having this as you will 'trail' to get into the server is just stupid. its the kind of thing that would put people under pressure in a act that should be more laid back and fun.

a better solution would be to watch people in the DBox server who are consistent, and give them the password, whether they choose to join or not would be up too them. you will find much better drifters from doing that than giving them a form of 'trail'

Personally, I have seen this sort of thing be pretty divisive to a growing community and is the main reason I declined my invitation. I feel the only reason to lock a server in a growing community is for a private event, like a comp. And for that its best to make it a temp and separate, Theres a few things that are going on when you create this "elite" server:

You take good drifters from the main pool, leaving the main public server where any NEW people that join only get to play with the worst of the drivers.

You are possibly insulting players. (i.e., would you REALLY ask Maug, FSR, Jim Diamond, DQ/LD50 or Twisterbest to interview for a password?)

You make an "us" vs. "them" attitude, as well as an elitist attitude.

Please understand I am speaking from the heart here, as someone that has been part of online drifting communities since we were setting world records in GRID. I started in rFactor right after the OBS 2.3 revision was released, and pretty much utterly destroyed the community. That revision was ugly and difficult and the few elite members that made it shoved it down a lot of peoples throats and as a result, most left. I came in as the servers were dying and for the last 4 years we have been LUCKY to get more than 4 people on a server at a time. Onlinedrifting.com was created in essense to centralize what was left of the few mods and players, and for a bit we were able to gain enough life in OBS 2.4 to have 5 rounds of a damn good series. Since then, goddamn tumbleweeds blow through the servers. So certain people that have remained unmentioned anywhere here went through huge effort by themself to contact the dead mod authors, figure out why they won't work cross-platform, get them working, and then get the mod authors to authorize re-releases of their mods or patches, and get what few people out there to all use the new stuff.

"WHY??" some may ask. BECAUSE WE WANTED TO DRIFT WITH ANYONE WE COULD GET! You all here on JDMFactor have done a great job promoting rfactor drifting through facebook, and with the ISM and NAvi mods that are being worked on, its brought more people to drifting online than I've seen since the first days of Team ULTRA vs. UNITED-DK in GRiD. You guys got a TON of people drifting and I've had more fun in the last month than I've had in years. I don't want to see you guys already trying to split your community just as it's just really getting to steamroll. There's already too many admins on the server swinging their weight a little too heavily, you don't need to take more steps the wrong way. You've done to much right, dont start doing wrong.

If someone is keeping a personal server, they can do what they want, but if its a official JDMF server, fuck no, all day err'day.


That is, why split the community.

I'm sure that all people used to be a n00b e-drifters at the beginning (Well i still am a bad driver), in fact professional drivers often break, crash, burn, dump, their cars.
i can't get the point of this server.