rec.autos.simulators

how can you pause a multiplayer LAN-game after qualification in GPL? In
single player mode you can press a pause-button, but in multiplayer games
there is none. Driving a full-length race with an one hour qualification
will mean you're sitting in front of the monitor of possibly 3,5 hours. Of
course you can stop driving your quali 15 minutes before it ends and have a
cigarette or a coffe, but a break-button would be much nicer... .

Does anybody know?

Greetings,

Dirk

I quite like your idea..

Another idea would be a Red Flag on the track like we find in Nascar racing
99.  That would be a nice addition with also an option to increase the # of
laps for endurance racing.

A trick for your idea is to let a car on the track when the practice ends.
It won't switch until everybody is back to the main race menu, so that could
be enough.

I can easily stand a 3+ hour race on the NROS, but I can understand some
can't.  Somehow a pause between practice and race (a warm-up session of
10mins maybe ?) could be added.  Probably not until GPL2 if this ever become
reality ;-)

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Having a car on the track actually doesn't delay the start - he gets
vaporized at the appropriate time. It just seems to give all the people
*** around the pits something to take their pre-start adrenaline out by
complaining about it before the start.

It may not be very useful to go out on the track with seconds on the clock,
or after it expires, and blissfully drive past all the waving flags. But in
my experience, it makes absolutely no difference in when the race starts. I
was in a VROC race the other day, when my car would not de-materialize from
the pits. I was not in it, but there it sat, with 2 people typing complaints
at me. When the time came, the race started. I've seen this several times
with cars circulating on the track too.

Doesn't answer the original question, for which I don't believe there is an
easy solution at the moment.

Kevin Caldwell

No, it will still switch after the requisite amount of time.

Cheers!
John

If you'll think of yourself in the middle of a 4-wheel drift
while on a hotlap, I think you understand why Papy didn't
implement pauses for multi.

Rgds,
Mark R.

As one of the early VROC hosts myself who used to ask people to exit their
cars, our excuse was we just didn't know any better, it made sense
that when everyone was out of their cars the race started, so it was
kind of like a superstition, it wasn't until people starting doing
scientific testing to prove this one way or the other that we realized
we should quit sacrificing ***s to the volcano.

Kind of like the way pressing the Elevator button twice makes it arrive
much faster :-)

Now frequently I am one of those out there shaking out the car with full
race fuel load after the checkered has waved on the practice session.

Seeyas on the track.

--John (Joao) Silva