I've been away from computers for quite a while but have done lots of thinking while I was away, The 2 driving games I played regularly were Test Drive Unlimited 2 & GTR2. I was especially disappointed with TDU2. I like driving & playing on roads and the freedom to roam not being stuck to the confines of a race track, that said I spend easily as much time tweaking, tuning and modding so GTR2 has a huge appeal that TDU2 never had and doesn't look like it ever will.
Back to the subject... Do we have as a community of computer games & racing game enthusiasts, programmers & modders - enough skills between us all to make the best racing game there will ever be? I have been playing with an idea based on Google earth, I have put lots of thought into it and have lots of ideas but I'm not a great programmer and couldn't even begin to do anything on that scale. I do have much to contribute though as I'm good with cars, physics, tuning, textures & skinning.
My thoughts would be that using Google Earth we would have the whole planet to be able to drive around, including the race tracks for the circuit racing fans. Using autogen similar to flight simulators to start with then once online anyone can update details / add models to be more accurate to the real area.
I don't want to rattle on for too long in case no one else is interested... But if anyone else is interested in exploring this further I'll share all my ideas &, thoughts and we can take it from there.
I'm posting this on the GTR forum too, hopefully we can pool resources.
Thanks.