>> I'm soooooo tired of the only bug i've found in Indycar (even
>> 1.05) ... but it is just sooooo much a pain.... if you race new
>> hampshire and go into the pits and accidently overshoot it and backup
>> (across the line) you are put in a weird state...
>> Mine said something like this
>> 1) Emo 140.345
>> 2) Pac --1
>> 3) Paul -2.2
--- First, this seems to happen when you over-shoot the pit, go to reverse,
AND _RE-RECROSS_ the start/finish line. To avoid this nuiance just try not
to re-cross the line and you shouldn't lose you lap or whatever. It's hard
I realize as usually they pit you just past the line so it's hard to
avoid breaking the line. Just be gentle I guess or burn-out and come in
next trip. Squawk 'dem tires ba-BE!
--- Good way to look at it :) I try as well to cover up bugs in programs
by comparing it to something real as well ;-)
--- This is annoying, but I can tollerate it. The two things with respect to
Yellow flags that annoy me is:
1) When the yellow comes out, as you say everyone slows, thus not permitting
you to race back to the stripe and un-lap yourself (if you were right behind
the leader say) or better your position. You should have to complete _that_
lap regardless how much carnage is on the track. At least that's how it
is in most forms of racing, not sure about Indy.
2) Yellow Flags in general bug the hell out of me-- to the point where I
generally turn them off. They serve no purpose except for the human
driver to take advantage of the AIs as far as I can tell. The AIs will
NEVER pit under yellow unless they are bone-dry even if they only have two
or three laps remaining in the tank, they'll still wait until then to pit
regardless of green or yellow. A shame. In fact two nights ago the
yellow came out (New Hamp.) with 144 laps left (prime pitting time, in
fact I was on my way in when the yellow flew!). The only other car to
take advantage of the situation was J.Villeneuve, the rest rode out the
yellow and pitted two laps (giver' take some earlier some later) after
the re-wave of the green rag. Retarded if you ask me; porked I say.
Needless to say I built quite a lead out of that (and a shame too as I
really had to struggle to even gain on the top 3 before that, after the
pitting sessions were over there was only 1 other car on the same lap).
Of course I eventually wiped out just over 1/2 way through the race....
typical.
Btw, I am i the process of tweaking up the "TRACK.TXT" files to create
a) more consistancy between all tracks <ie. set 100% and you should
not have to change the strengths at any of the tracks... a challenge at
each> and b) attempting to rectify the weird qualify vs. race speed thing.
Ever notice that in order to get a challenge in the race one must set
the strengths so as to have narry a hope of qualifying above LAST? Well,
I'm tring to address these. I've got New Hamp done so far so it's quite
good. At Opp.Strength 100 the field qualifies around 182 to 185 and the
race speeds are around 175-180 depending on fuel load and stuff. This
works well for me as I can qualify at around 182+ and run 177 or so `
during the race. I am gathering as many "race speeds" as I can from the
net and the various series' that are going on (including the one I'm
in - ICRS-II) and averaging everyone's "best" times that I can get to
obtain a 'bench mark' for basing 100% strength on. If you are faster then
the new "average" speeds just bump the strength up one or so and
vice-versa. The good thing will be (hopefully) that that setting will
be good at ALL circuits. Be nice huh?
So keep submitting those times to the "Net-Best" chart guy here
or if anyone is interested I have made a "fill in the blank" speed
chart for all who wish to help out by presenting me with their best times.
The more I get the better the average. :)
[hell, here's the chart :) ]:
+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| | FASTEST SPEED | *FASTEST SPEED | *FASTEST SPEED |
|TRACK NAME | or TIME (min.fuel)|or TIME (1/2 Tank)|or TIME (40 Gal.)|
+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+-----------------+
|Surfers Paradise ->| | | |
|Phoenix ---------->| | | |
|Long Beach ------->| | | |
|Indianapolis MS -->| | | |
|Milwaukee-Mile --->| | | |
|Detroit ---------->| | | |
|Portland --------->| | | |
|Cleveland -------->| | | |
|Toronto ---------->| | | |
|Michigan --------->| | | |
|Mid-Ohio --------->| | | |
|New Hampshire ---->| | | |
|Vancouver -------->| | | |
|Elkhart Lake ----->| | | |
|Nazareth --------->| | | |
|Laguna ----------->| | | |
+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+-----------------+
* - denotes optional (for more accurate tabulation and reference)
-Please try to use default conditions (ie. no wind and a temp around 70 deg
or so)
--
Christopher Goucher
This be the end
My opinions are MY opinions (so be gentle! :) )
