rec.autos.simulators

When it's your car and your car is not the Williams, presumably.  I
know, and for reasons that are actually inexplicable as far as I am
concerned, that whatever car you choose to race with, it
'automagically' inherits the Williams performance.  But, does it also
inherit the driver characteristics ... i.e. the driver performance,
grip, and grip variance.

I actually like to race a car that is not equivalent to the most
powerful in the field ... It's not much of a game zooming past
everything in sight at the flick of a joystick ... so if I edit my car
and driver performance (so that I am not in an equivalent to a guided
missile), does this have any real effect ... or do I become a
surrogate Williams/Hill whether I like it or not?

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Tony Sanders
Wellington
New Zealand             ... absolutely, positively nuclear-free,
                                and absolutely OS/2 Warped.

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Tony

If you don't like "zooming past" every other car in the field, race in the
Pro or Ace levels!  You won't do much "zooming" past anything except,
perhaps, the back markers.

BruceK

: >I actually like to race a car that is not equivalent to the most
: >powerful in the field ... It's not much of a game zooming past
: >everything in sight at the flick of a joystick ... so if I edit my car
: >and driver performance (so that I am not in an equivalent to a guided
: >missile), does this have any real effect ... or do I become a
: >surrogate Williams/Hill whether I like it or not?

I got an editor that will change the HP settings of the computer cars.
I added 50 HP to each of the other cars and it really makes the game
more realistic.  At Germany, for instance, it takes a real effort to
draft and pass the other top cars and make it stick, whereas with the
standard game, it was relatively easy to draft past on the straights.
All of this with the rear wing set on 1, by the way.  I think that with
the default settings, the player car has a horsepower advantage of 20-
40 HP.

The editor, and a lot of other GP2 stuff, can be found at:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5164/gp2.html

Regards,

-Dirt-

Mark
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"..every lap I think `Oh bollocks!
This is dreadful..`" Damon Hill
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Tony Sanders
Wellington
New Zealand             ... absolutely, positively nuclear-free,
                                and absolutely OS/2 Warped.

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Of cousre, I`m wrong again.  If you assume the power of a Williams
then originally your team mate will be way down on your straight line
speed (unless you drive for Williams).  A global increase in HP will
put him closer to level and not ahead.

Mark
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"..every lap I think `Oh bollocks!
This is dreadful..`" Damon Hill
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