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Yes, Twood be easier to walketh into Moordoor. One does not simply aquire a beautifully crafted chrome plated alloy and woodgrain wheel for $100.
Fanatec Announcements: CSW V2 Reviews Out
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F-Wheel.com has a list of fan submitted Ideas for rims, but I dont remember seeing anything official voting for fanatec. I Would get a basic momo, sparco "style" wheel, but probably not a classic wood style.
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Yeah $100? Never happen. I think these would be fair at $125 to $150. I'm looking for quality and that costs a little more. 
Imagine your man cave, everything just right, and on your wall, your multiple beautiful wheels from all different eras, hung in pride. Would be a thing of beauty.
Imagine your man cave, everything just right, and on your wall, your multiple beautiful wheels from all different eras, hung in pride. Would be a thing of beauty.
As simple as those classic F1 or wood GT designs are (though elegant, yes!), I"ll bet you'd be surprised what you could get those rims only reproduced in the far east for. I'd bet $50 ea wholesale if minimal electronics are involved. Sure they'd not be museum quality, but they'd be crazy close. Ask anyone who's ever tried to tell the difference (on looks alone) for a $150 Taylor Made R11 knock-off driver to the real deal. Sure you'd not put it in the Pebble Beach Coucours, but this is about simulation. I'd rather have an assembly line 95% replica (I could buy affordably, in a variety) then one single perfect authentic wheel lifted from a real car, but that's just my opinion.
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Exactly why I'm getting rid of my CSR-Elite and getting the CSW instead. I think with any wheel rims they release for the CSR-Elite there are going to be cool features missing that will just make me mad. Like the shift lights, rotary encoders, less buttons, etc.
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My previous post, "Mmmm, 2 joysticks
", I meant that it HAS 2 joysticks, 1 more than the standard rim, also the same amount of buttons as the CSW formula rim, so it looks like it will add features to the Elite.
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@Superbike: First you say you will be keeping your Elite because of the baby, then you say you will be off the forums for a while due to job constraints, now here you are: posting every day about how awesome the new CSW is and how you will be selling the Elite. Do you need me to arrange an intervention? haha! I saw it coming...because I am the same way myself, just cant talk myself out of buying one no matter how many excuses I give myself not to!
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I said once I start medical school I won't be posting since my limited free "me" time (non-family time) will be spent racing online instead of talking about racing online. For now, I'm still in the military for a few more months, so I'm still bored at work posting.
I managed to get rid of some stuff (SLI-Pro, TrackIR, and a few other random things) to raise enough money to offset the upgrade cost of the CSW.
So yeah, I'm not passing up on it.
I managed to get rid of some stuff (SLI-Pro, TrackIR, and a few other random things) to raise enough money to offset the upgrade cost of the CSW.
So yeah, I'm not passing up on it.
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My previous post, "Mmmm, 2 joysticks
I read someone else say that the second joystick is just like the second 360 controller joystick. The CSW Formula wheel has a rotary encoder built in to that joystick, the Elite does not supposedly. I remember Thomas saying that it wouldn't be able to have things like rotary encoders so I'm pretty sure that's true.
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That elite rim, does look very very good even though it will be missing rotary encoders and rev lights. I was surprised the wheel doesn't have the tradition D-Pad. Maybe now that the elite already works on xbox new rims wont be subject to look like it has xbox gamepad buttons.
On the CSW the rev lights are somewhat small to me, I feel they will just end up exactly like the G27 lights - how I said they were cool but I never look at them. Maybe I will look at them more often as my new rig has my wheel more in my line of sight.
I hope the F1 rim has the same Super bright rev lights & Display you see on F1 wheels, they all seem to have the exact same screen which would be awesome to have for the CSW.
On the CSW the rev lights are somewhat small to me, I feel they will just end up exactly like the G27 lights - how I said they were cool but I never look at them. Maybe I will look at them more often as my new rig has my wheel more in my line of sight.
I hope the F1 rim has the same Super bright rev lights & Display you see on F1 wheels, they all seem to have the exact same screen which would be awesome to have for the CSW.
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MayamanYeah $100? Never happen. I think these would be fair at $125 to $150. I'm looking for quality and that costs a little more.
Imagine your man cave, everything just right, and on your wall, your multiple beautiful wheels from all different eras, hung in pride. Would be a thing of beauty.
I wasn't meaning $100 set in stone, but around there, and obviously they wouldn't be real because Grant steering wheels price for a cobra replica is $315. I know now that I re-read my post it sounded like I was fixed on a cheap price, my fault. My thought was that w/out buttons and Alcantara it would probably be cheaper..... But they would still have to put electronics in it so the base could recognize the rim, so I have no idea, and it'd probably take more material than the F1 rim since it's 15" in diameter even though the spokes are simple.........
I keep countering my own arguments 
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This taxpayer feels safer already, haha!
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It is just a benchmark. The feel is important in my opinion.
Maybe someone should find a way to benchmark this on a real car? I mean in the end we are just guessing that in a real car the weight different of the rim does not matter, and I have feeling this guess is incorrect.
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I hope they do...
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If Fanatec would use a stanard big screen, it would be easier to prgram for via the sdk for game devs as well. Realism is nice, but we have to think about ease of implementation too if we want official support for Fanatec wheels in games.
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Not really logi...
Look at an f1 wheel.
Usually LED's on top.
................?........ .. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then there's say a ------- ---- ---------
The middle one is the gears and the Legt hand one is say position and I'm not sure about the far right one, usually a time delta i think to the leader either in quali or the race.
Key:
_ (led)
- (screen)
Ignore ....
Look at an f1 wheel.
Usually LED's on top.
................?........ .. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then there's say a ------- ---- ---------
The middle one is the gears and the Legt hand one is say position and I'm not sure about the far right one, usually a time delta i think to the leader either in quali or the race.
Key:
_ (led)
- (screen)
Ignore ....
I've always seen the center LEDs for gear in normal use (sometimes it says "PIT" etc..as well.) The left and right screens should be switchable ideally for what you'd like to display (time delta, place, fuel/laps, time left in session, etc..) For me I think delta +/- from best lap (for hot lapping/qualy) or delta to the car ahead (race) would be most useful, and switchable on wheel to other screens would be great too!
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Im with amf on this one, I think if the resource is there many devs would use it. And if a dev chose not to utilize a screen like this then I would be ok with it too, because someone would eventually add a plugin for it.
Just saying you can't have an F1 wheel without the one piece of tech that is standard on all of them.
Just saying you can't have an F1 wheel without the one piece of tech that is standard on all of them.
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Now that I think about it, it would be easy to just send the bare data of whatever it is that is displayed on such screens through the ages (this differs, though the main stuff like you say is present)... to the base, which sends the data to the rim that it can display. The only think a game dev would then need to do is send the data to the SDK which handles the rest. Well, that would be ideal.
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Any news on the wheel rims they said they were going to release for the CSR (non-elite)?
I clearly remember a Fanatec video saying that they will release rims for the CSR E as well as the CSR ( but not nearly as many for the CSR as the E)
I clearly remember a Fanatec video saying that they will release rims for the CSR E as well as the CSR ( but not nearly as many for the CSR as the E)
Are you sure? Maybe it was said that they don't release nearly as many rims for CSR E as for CSW. As far as I remember, they will only release Formula rim for CSR E and if it sells good, they will also release GT rim and that should be all for CSR E.
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