rec.autos.simulators

One POSSIBLE reason is that this prevents you from using the "save game"
feature as a safety valve.  For example, if when you drive a "good" lap,
save game, then resume...  If your next lap is "Good" then save it!  If
not, then revert to your last saved "good" lap....  I know, I know...

No, it's not a bug it was intended to be that way.  Think of it as a race
being red flagged because of rain and restarted the next day.  NASCAR doesn't
use an "aggregate time" system as they do in Formula One.  If you happen to be
way out in front when the race is stopped, you lose your advantage, and that's
unfortunate, but that's just the way it is.

In the Papyrus game, when you exit and save and come back to the same race
later and restart, in effect what you have done is impose a red flag period
in the middle of your race.

Happy Racing,

Ian McIlroy

It kind of irritating because if you are quite a few seconds and then you save
it, it brings the car behind you RIGHT behind meaning you lost all your hard
work trying to get the gap in the first place.

--
Andy Yau (aka: Speed)
BSc Hons Information Technology
DeMontfort University - Leicester
England

: > >
: > >Whenever you save a race weekend in Nascar and then you reload it, it
: > brings the
: > >car back yo a bunch again, why does it do this?  Is is a bug in the
: > game or is
: > >that how Papyrus wanted it to be, I can't see why though.  
: > >
: > >It kind of irritating because if you are quite a few seconds and then
: > you save
: > >it, it brings the car behind you RIGHT behind meaning you lost all your
: > hard
: > >work trying to get the gap in the first place.
: >

: No, it's not a bug it was intended to be that way.  Think of it as a race
: being red flagged because of rain and restarted the next day.  NASCAR doesn't
: use an "aggregate time" system as they do in Formula One.  If you happen to be
: way out in front when the race is stopped, you lose your advantage, and that's
: unfortunate, but that's just the way it is.

: In the Papyrus game, when you exit and save and come back to the same race
: later and restart, in effect what you have done is impose a red flag period
: in the middle of your race.

: Happy Racing,

: Ian McIlroy

--- Also a useful tip on this issue is try to limit your save-race to a
point in the race during a caution and JUST as you receive the
"One Lap Until Green" message.  The only short-coming to that is all
cars are re-organized according to standings (as they do anyhow with
ANY save) still, BUT it doesn't affect you with respect to 'bunching up'
as you were bunched up anyhow AND it better maintains you RACE AVERAGE
SPEED as opposed to throwing in an unwanted 'yellow pace lap'.  

--- It's still pretty frustrating that the two lapped cars you just got
by which separated you fromthe 2nd place car get moved to the back of
the field on a re-load with the 2nd place car on yoru bumper again :-(

--
Christopher Goucher            

Steven

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Steven Tarry, Coventry, England.        Yakrider of the Apocalypse

George
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