rec.autos.simulators

> Saw you made a Player called JSmith

> Navigate to your C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Sports Car
> GT\SAVE\JSmith folder.

> You will see a file called: JSmith.PLR

> Right click on that file and choose: Open With...
> Now find your Winzip32 in the menu.

> Once you open that file with Winzip you will see a zip file with a
> JSmith.plr inside it with ? ? ? for size and compression.
> No worries.
> Click Extract
> Extract it to a safe folder some where.

> No go to that file you just extracted..

> This time open the newly extracted file with a text editor (Like
> Notepad.. Not Word or Wordpad)

> Scroll down until you see:

> Difficulty=(1.00)
> GameMode=0

> Note, the number 1.00 at difficulty may be different.. Don't worry
> about that, just find the Difficulty=(some number.00)

> Now with that number at 1.00 that is normal max difficulty in the
> game.
> Turn that to 2.00

> In other Words..

> Difficulty=(2.00)

> Now save the file.
> Copy that file over your JSmith.plr in your SCGT/SAVE/JSmith folder.

> Start SCGT
> DO NOT.. I REPEAT.. DO NOT go to the RACE settings page.. You do and
> it sets the number back at 1.00
> Just go race.
> Prepare to lose.. muhahahahhahahahahahaha
> Too tough for ya? Turn the number down to 1.50

> Find a number that's good for you..
> If you accidently go to the race settings page where it shows opponent
> strength, remember it will set the AI back to 1.00 rating.

> There is to ways to avoid this..

> 1) Just have a spare copy of your JSmith.plr with the difficulty
> setting you like some where, and overwrite it again if the AI strength
> goes down..

> 2) OR... Right click on the modified JSmith.plr file and select
> Properties, then make sure the READ ONLY box is checked..This way,
> SCGT can not overwrite the file.

> What I did was make a player for every track.. Like for Chatam I named
> the Player James Chatam... Then I modify the player file James Chatam
> with the preferred difficulty I like, make it read only, then whenever
> I want to race Chatam at tough AI I choose player James Chatam and
> click READY... Then I click race.. For Limerock, use like Billy
> Limerock and do the same..

> Pretty cool huh.. And I guarantee.. you can't complain about weak AI
> now :)

> Techware Motorsports
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> - James Wohlever

>In your post, you proclaimed...

>"Now if the ai corner speed was a little quicker!Keep the goods coming."

>Go to the GT Insider site and you will find mucho info on their forum.  For
>example, http://www.racesimcentral.net/***.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000180.html contains
>Gunslinger's instructions but it also includes an alternative from Packman
>that
>describes how to increase the speed of the AI through the turns.  This makes
>for a much more realistic and strategic race.  Also, this alternative
>method, is not impacted if you enter the 'Race Options' screen.

> > Ok, so you say the AI in SCGT is too slow in the turns... Not very
> > smart..
> > Well.. I got a simple solution..

> > Saw you made a Player called JSmith

> > Navigate to your C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Sports Car
> > GT\SAVE\JSmith folder.

> > You will see a file called: JSmith.PLR

> > Right click on that file and choose: Open With...
> > Now find your Winzip32 in the menu.

> > Once you open that file with Winzip you will see a zip file with a
> > JSmith.plr inside it with ? ? ? for size and compression.
> > No worries.
> > Click Extract
> > Extract it to a safe folder some where.

> > No go to that file you just extracted..

> > This time open the newly extracted file with a text editor (Like
> > Notepad.. Not Word or Wordpad)

> > Scroll down until you see:

> > Difficulty=(1.00)
> > GameMode=0

> > Note, the number 1.00 at difficulty may be different.. Don't worry
> > about that, just find the Difficulty=(some number.00)

> > Now with that number at 1.00 that is normal max difficulty in the
> > game.
> > Turn that to 2.00

> > In other Words..

> > Difficulty=(2.00)

> > Now save the file.
> > Copy that file over your JSmith.plr in your SCGT/SAVE/JSmith folder.

> > Start SCGT
> > DO NOT.. I REPEAT.. DO NOT go to the RACE settings page.. You do and
> > it sets the number back at 1.00
> > Just go race.
> > Prepare to lose.. muhahahahhahahahahahaha
> > Too tough for ya? Turn the number down to 1.50

> > Find a number that's good for you..
> > If you accidently go to the race settings page where it shows opponent
> > strength, remember it will set the AI back to 1.00 rating.

> > There is to ways to avoid this..

> > 1) Just have a spare copy of your JSmith.plr with the difficulty
> > setting you like some where, and overwrite it again if the AI strength
> > goes down..

> > 2) OR... Right click on the modified JSmith.plr file and select
> > Properties, then make sure the READ ONLY box is checked..This way,
> > SCGT can not overwrite the file.

> > What I did was make a player for every track.. Like for Chatam I named
> > the Player James Chatam... Then I modify the player file James Chatam
> > with the preferred difficulty I like, make it read only, then whenever
> > I want to race Chatam at tough AI I choose player James Chatam and
> > click READY... Then I click race.. For Limerock, use like Billy
> > Limerock and do the same..

> > Pretty cool huh.. And I guarantee.. you can't complain about weak AI
> > now :)

> > Techware Motorsports
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> > - James Wohlever

> Techware Motorsports
> http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/epson/94/

> - James Wohlever