rec.autos.simulators

> Before you go all hell bent for *** and flame my tooshy, read me out
> a bit.

> GPL has great driving and......well....thats all really. Its missing
> alot of things.

> Take a look at flight sims like MS Flight Sim 98 or Flight Unlimited 2
> for example. They are much closer to a true sim than GPL is. Why you
> ask? Glad you asked. :)

>Before you go all hell bent for *** and flame my tooshy, read me out
>a bit.
>GPL has great driving and......well....thats all really. Its missing
>alot of things.
>Take a look at flight sims like MS Flight Sim 98 or Flight Unlimited 2
>for example. They are much closer to a true sim than GPL is. Why you
>ask? Glad you asked. :)
>In GPL do you start in the paddocks? No. In flight sims you start with
>your plane docked a ways from the runway.
>In GPL do you have to start the engine? No. In flight sims you have to
>fire up the engine and adjust flaps and stuff. (Along these lines, if
>one would spin out on the track you would probably kill the engine and
>have to refire it up.)
>In GPL do you hear public announcements for practice times? No. In
>flight sims you have to communicate with the tower.
>In GPL do you have to make you way to pit lane? No. In flight sims you
>have to taxi to the runway.
>My point is GPL could and should have been so much more than what it
>is.  Perhaps I'm alone on this one but I feel the game would be much
>more interesting if one had to do ALL the details of racing the car like
>getting from the paddock to pit lane or having to actually flip some
>switches then fire the car up or have to find you way around the paddock
>and drive on to pit lane.
>By adding a few different and interesting touches like these things, GPL
>could have really put some polish on an already great game.
>One could go really overboard and make one play the roll of a pit crew
>member and have the view switch from driver to 'Quake type view'  when
>one made pit stops. But one would have a impact gun or jack instead of a
>weapon. One would be made to put a jack under the car, jack it up,
>remove the lug nuts, change tires, install the lug nuts then remove the
>jack. Then switch the view to 'fuel man' making one get the fuel
>container, fill the car up etc etc. You get the idea.
>Of course any of these things, if implemented, should be made optional
>in the actual game.
>Any thoughts on these ideas?

> But ridiculous key press options like "engine starting" should be made
> mandatory? I'm sorry, but "Pit Crew Legends" is a ridiculous option that
> would've added an extraordinary amount of time to the development cycle
> of the product and would've had an impact on the average buyer of exactly
> NOTHING! It has no attraction to someone wanting to play a -driving-
> simulation and would've increased the price of the product for no
> apparent reason.

>Any thoughts on these ideas?

> >Any thoughts on these ideas?

> Just one:  stick to flight sims.

> Randy

> Randy Magruder
> http://members.home.com/rmagruder