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1) What is the "preferred car number" setting for?  It has
   absolutely NO effect in the sim, either online or offline.

2) If I wanted to run an online league where all of the drivers
   got the same car number every time we raced, *exactly* how
   would I go about doing this?

3) How do we use different carsets when racing online? I
   assume that everyone racing would have to use the same
   carset.

4) Is it possible to add more cars (with car numbers higher
   than 20) to the car.dat file, and use THOSE cars for
   online races instead of using the first 20?

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I successfully added a car (#21) to the dat file, but when I set "the
"Car Number" field to "21" in the player.ini, i still got #4, both online
and offline.

The next thing I'm going to try is changing the car number of one of the
AI drivers in the driver.ini file, and then setting his old car number to
my preferred car number.

Humorous note - Someone said something about the "pogo-stick effect" when
overwriting the GPL-AI.INI file - all you have to do is rename the file
and then start a race with AI cars.  They'll all bounce in their pit
stalls.  LOL

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Trips

Interesting side note - with no DRIVER.INI file, all of the AI cars in
the field are Brabhams with a car # of 0.

I sure wish Papy would step up to the plate here and tell us just how to
accomplish what I'm trying to do...

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NROS racing has been fine...

hehe

dw

* Switch confused.net with concentric.net to reply...Confused-yet? *

The preferred car number (the carNumber field in the player.ini) is, in the
end, ignored.  Each player is assigned the car number from the AI car [s]he
would bump if that AI car had been in the field.  The host is always
assigned car number 4.

Have the drivers connect to the server in exactly the same order each time
you race.  I know this isn't practical, but you asked... :-()

Yes, each person should have the same carset installed.

There is no _practical_ way of doing this, though I suspect it would be
_possible_ for someone that has a lot of time, patience, a paint program, a
dat exploder, and a .3do or hex editor.

Randy

You're right - not practical... :-)

Well, this is a moot point since we can't get the same car number in
every race.

Again, a moot point since we can't be guaranteed the same car number.  
However, I did add a car to the dat file, and it didn't work anyway.  I
always get car #4.

Can you do me a favor?  Find the guy that made these decisions and punch
him in the face for me. :-)

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Thanks,

Dave Ewing

First, it might make it (slightly) easier to write a script to filter
exported race results, for the purpose of automatically tallying the
season's results.

Second, it is one mechanism by which a driver can tell who is driving a car
that they are overtaking, or being overtaken by.  While driving, however,
you can only read the number painted on another driver's car from a very
limited set of vantage points.  This makes car numbers practically useless
for this purpose.  (Paint jobs on these cars suffer much the same problem,
though to a somewhat lesser degree.)

We included the ability for a driver to choose their helmet color
specifically for this reason.  Since these are open***pit cars, you can
see the helmet of an approaching car from just about any angle.  In our
in-house league, if I see a Brabham in my mirrors with a yellow helmet
sticking out of it, I know it's Dave Kaemmer.  If I see a Lotus with a gold
helmet, I know it's Rich Yasi.  If someone sees a Brabham with a light-blue
helmet, they know it's me.  (I had wanted to put a small, properly colored
helmet icon next to each driver's entry in the "Entry List" page of the
Event Info, but we didn't have the resources or time to do so).

Randy

The only problem I can see is if the host of a multiplayer race changes
their driver.ini to use 'car_number's above 20.  Paint jobs don't exist
with numbers above 20, so anyone that is assigned a car number of 21 or
higher will get a paint job with an empty circle.

Randy

This is just plain weird.

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