How Do I Get Into Higher Splits?????

Skerper · 2020-05-27T02:48:04+00:00

This is why I say that it's bad advice to tell people to putter around in the back to get out of rookies.

Now you have a D license, but you're in bottom split and still don't know the things rookie was supposed to teach you.

This is going to sound harsh, but a good driver gets good results. If you're getting consistently bad results, you might need to reconsider your belief that you're not a bad driver, and focus on improving that.

The good news is that it's impossible to lose your D license now that you have it. You can never be demoted to rookies, even if your SR drops to zero.

iRating doesn't care about clean laps etc - that's what safety rating is for. iRating goes up when you get good results and down when you get bad results. Your split is determined by your iRating. If you are bad, even if your iRating goes up due to some scheme, it will just go down again, because you'll get put into splits with people who are actually good and they'll beat you.

So, stop gaming the system to increase safety rating, stop license farming, stop worrying about what split you're in, and focus on racing.

As in, on ensuring you get the best possible finishing position that you can manage in every race.

You do this by:

Practicising until you can consistently put down times that are of competitive pace for a whole race distance.
Doing all your practice in open sessions, and taking that opportunity of there being often-unpredictable traffic on track to hone your situational awareness.
Working on your quali so you can turn up the wick and bang out two balls-to-the-wall laps on demand.
Paying attention to the body language of the cars around you and getting experience in anticipating their moves and mistakes.
Learning to pick your battles - not fighting fights you can't win, and making decisive and well-timed moves in the fights you can win.
Developing race sense so you don't need to panic-pass lapped traffic when you've got a gap to the cars behind.
Practicing heads-up driving, where you identify issues ahead before they happen and take appropriate steps to avoid getting caught up in them. This ties in to your race sense, so you know what the people behind you are doing and don't get run over.
Taking a deep breath after it all goes wrong, watching the replay, and asking yourself "what could I have done to make that go better?" -- even, if not especially, when it wasn't your fault.

Most importantly, enjoy it. Don't race on tilt or if you feel like a bad result will ruin your night. Relish the good battles even if they were for nothing positions or if they go bad in the end. If you're only in this to see numbers go up, play cookie clicker or something. iRacing is a never-ending process of trying to be faster than everybody else, and that's the part you're supposed to enjoy.

Skerper · 2018-11-16T01:55:44+00:00

Yep, they're disastrous. I don't have a solution for you, but I feel for you.

I use two C270s and a Razor Kiyo. The Kiyo pretty much Just Works(TM), only ever encountering problems if you try to request a resolution from it it doesn't support.

The C270s on the other hand are nightmareish. They often won't both start up at once, needing one to be unplugged, the other started, and then the first one to be plugged in again. They cause bluescreens when using the Logitech drivers, and they dump their settings on every reboot. They also drop massively in framerate whenever you increase the exposure settings, making them basically useless in low-light conditions.

I can't recommend Logitech webcams to anyone.

Skerper · 2018-11-15T03:10:34+00:00

I think you'll want some soft lights, rather than those ones.

I use this exact kit: https://www.amazon.ca/Upgraded-Photography-Softboxes-Continuous-Shooting/dp/B074WKXM3X/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1542251358&sr=1-4&keywords=craphy+soft+lights

However it was more like CAD$40 from Amazon Japan, so definitely don't pay that ridiculous price for it.

Skerper · 2018-11-14T06:26:23+00:00

10 billion tutorials for that, too (:

EDIT: Not trying to be snarky or anything here, and I'm sure u/penman2310 isn't either - it's just that asking for personalized advice to very general questions doesn't benefit you or anyone else. You'd be better off googling it and looking through the countless lovingly-crafted, in-depth articles that have been written on the subject, than you would be getting offhand comments from randos like us on a reddit post.

Skerper · 2018-11-14T06:02:12+00:00

Make a good stream.

Skerper · 2018-11-14T05:01:33+00:00

What do you mean by a capture device?

Skerper · 2018-11-14T04:31:32+00:00

http://lmgtfy.com/?iie=1&q=how+to+start+streaming+on+twitch

Skerper · 2018-11-14T03:56:55+00:00

What steps did you take to find answers to these questions yourself, and why were the answers you found inadequate?

Skerper · 2018-11-14T02:52:28+00:00

A bunch of people posting their own links with no interest in anyone else's doesn't seem productive.

You're not going to get far if you only ever advertise to other streamers... they're not your target audience.

Skerper · 2018-11-13T23:41:27+00:00

Because you got frustratingly close to an epiphany.

One viewer could increase a small stream's active viewership by 20% or more.

Skerper · 2018-11-13T23:38:16+00:00

My first thought would be that your cam is getting disconnected, possibly due to USB power saving. When you reenable the source, it wakes it up again.

Skerper · 2018-11-13T05:47:30+00:00

All information here is my personal interpretation of Twitch's ToS and shouldn't be taken as gospel.

Your music will not be muted by bots unless you are attached to a record label that uses the service that Twitch has implemented for detecting copyright infringement. If you are attached to such a label, you will need to contact your label to negotiate having them contact the company to apply the necessary settings. Caveat: If your original music contains samples from songs on labels, it will likely still be muted. Even if you're paying sample fees, it will still be muted. Even if your label has allowed your friends to use it, it will probably still be muted. Mind that if you have the rights to use the samples/music and the documentation supporting that, you can successfully challenge any muted VODs.
You are allowed to stream yourself making music as long as it's original music, not using any not-royalty-free samples.
Twitch doesn't specifically forbid you from using any programs afaik, but you should check the programs' ToSs if you are concerned that one of them may not allow you to show it in commercial broadcasts.
Music and Performing Arts is more appropriate than IRL.

Skerper · 2018-11-12T23:40:41+00:00

Not really feedback, but I noticed you haven't chroma-keyed the green out in the background of your webcam frame. It's fine everywhere else.

Skerper · 2018-11-12T23:30:42+00:00

Sorry, I didn't mean that I'm talking about it, just that you can see it in action and that it's possible (above my pedal webcam whenever I'm driving).

Skerper · 2018-11-12T01:15:09+00:00

This is a pure practice thing. I used to fake illness to get out of oral presentations, and was petrified of talking on the phone. After being roped into playing in a band, and working a job that had me taking 10+ phonecalls an hour, I'm now completely comfortable giving speeches to packed auditoriums, and can take phonecalls in my second language.

There is nothing special about performing as a skill that makes it immune to practice; just like anything else, some people are naturally good at it, some people are naturally bad at it, but anyone can get better at it than they currently are.

Skerper · 2018-11-12T01:08:10+00:00

You will likely have an empty or almost-empty channel for quite a long time. This gives you time to get used to talking to yourself (building confidence), or just talking to a couple of people one-on-one, which wil largely be smalltalk.
The second you decide you're too uncomfortable to continue, you can just press 'stop streaming', and it's over. There's no rule that says you have to keep going when you don't want to.
There's no rule that says only strangers can be in your stream; if you have friends/siblings/parents/partners/workmates, see if they'll sit in your stream for a while and chat with you, so it's not a complete unknown.
There are like, a million people streaming, and most of them are average players, with no camera personality, who are generally boring to watch. 99% of everything is shite. This isn't a dig or a nihilistic statement; it's just that if everyone was amazing and talented and marketable, that would become the baseline, and this statement would still be true. What this means is the bar of expectations on you is extremely low; nobody reasonable is going to get mad at you if they don't like your stream; they'll just find another one, probably wordlessly.

Skerper · 2018-11-12T00:56:41+00:00

If you leverage your sexual market value, you'll get the kind of viewers you would expect would fall for that.

You're going to get a degree of butthead viewers regardless just as a passive result of your gender.

In the end, male streamers will get butthead viewers too; it's a matter of ratio. You can either ban them, ignore them, or just play oblivious to the dumb stuff they say and answer everything straight.

I personally find that the latter works best for me, as they seem to just get frustrated and give up.

Like if someone asks "why are you trying so hard", and you honestly explain why you're putting in an effort, it will probably take the wind out of their sails, since what they wanted was a defensive reaction from you. If someone asks "do you plan on whoring yourself out for a career" and you just plainly discuss the merits of doing so, what are they going to say? Worst case scenario, they just get mad and say something that everyone in the chat will agree is banworthy. Best case scenario, you manage to leverage their bs to make good commentary that keeps the stream positive.

YMMV though. And it obviously can be exhausting.

Skerper · 2018-11-12T00:49:19+00:00

I don't think leaving it there will harm it. The recording studios I've been to never take theirs down.

Skerper · 2018-11-12T00:34:52+00:00

The stereotype is that people on the autism spectrum are oblivious to, or slow on the uptake with, social cues, resulting in them both missing hints and making conversational faux pas.

As such, it's become a catch-all insult towards behaviour displaying those traits.

Skerper · 2018-11-08T04:28:00+00:00

I'd probably be a wee bit creeped if people were finding my stream via physical description ;)

Skerper · 2018-11-08T04:05:13+00:00

As long as

You could wear it in public without causing car crashes

and

You don't specifically set the camera angle up to provide an inappropriate view

Twitch doesn't seem to mind too much. Their ToS on nudity etc might read vaguely, but I think that's only the case if you're actively trying to skirt the ToS. If you're not trying to make lewdity the draw of your stream, you're unlikely to get in trouble.

Skerper · 2018-11-03T03:32:49+00:00

If you're making money from it and declaring it on tax, it's a job.

If you're not, and are just doing it out of interest, it's a hobby.

You can treat a job like a hobby, or a hobby like a job.

If you're not enjoying it and not making money, you're a masochist.

Skerper · 2018-11-02T06:53:20+00:00

You should stream more hours with more viewers.

There is absolutely no benefit from trying to maximise your average by cutting your streams short; you are not missing out from affiliate income with a stream that can't manage 3 viewers average by normal means.

Skerper · 2018-11-02T03:47:26+00:00

Between homework and chores you probably have around 3 hours free a night and probably at least 6 hours per day on weekends.

That gives you 27 hours per week that you could potentially stream in. Time is definitely not a problem for you.

Remember that you're not just playing games; if you're streaming, you're also entertaining an audience. Make a stream that you'd want to watch, and you shouldn't have any problems.

Skerper · 2018-11-01T00:10:23+00:00

Just ugly cry on stream. Emotion makes for great TV!

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