rec.autos.simulators

by **Jan Verschuere** » Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:35:58

Sure, but also those 30 racers must have very stable, low ping connections
and the bandwidth requirement is higher.

Jan.
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by **Randy Magrude** » Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:18:05

Forget playing games, you should be in a good anger management course
if you're going to get this angry and insulting.

Randy

> That's a pretty weak excuse if they really care about their
> customers. The development group has to know the customers took one
> in the moon when they bought this unfinished turd. Taking a few
> minutes a week to let the people who bought into the EA hype machine
> know that they haven't been forgotten is the least they could do. It
> would take them all of two minutes to write a couple of sentences
> about what they've been working on but they choose not to do
> it...that's a good way to build a community.

> >> A blog would be nice...for the people who already bought the game
> and >> those who would like to. With EA's track record with patches
> I think >> it would have a positive effect. I'd buy NSR right now if
> I knew EA >> was committed to getting it right...

> > I think guys like James Hawkins would write a blog if he wasn't
> > trying to put out 15 fires at once all the time. Look, I've been
> > doing testing awhile now, and the team at Tiburon is working as if
> > they still hadn't shipped the product yet. I'm seeing definite
> > improvement. Not all issues are going to be addressed in the first
> > update. They are trying to prioritize issues, and the TOP issues
> > in the game right now concern the handling of penalties, flags and
> > cautions, because these are really hurting the game when it comes
> > to league adoption. Because of this, there has been a lot of
> > torture testing and long hours scrutinizing replays to get a handle
> > on how to reproduce and fix these complex on-track situations that
> > can occur.

> > I'm not one to tell you how to spend your money. The only thing I
> > will tell you is that I've been up working with them way late at
> > night trying to pin down elusive problems and been there the next
> > day when they are eager for testing to see if they've gotten it
> > fixed properly. You want to know if EA is committed to getting it
> > right? I hate to use the term "EA" because I think of the
> > corporate suits in Redwood City when someone says EA, and not
> > knowing THOSE guys, I NEVER want to guess what they are and are not
> > committed to. I WILL say the NSR team at Tiburon is committed to
> > getting it right, and as I mentioned earlier, my guess is there are
> > some unhappy Tiburon spouses right now...that's just how hard they
> > are working to get these things ironed out.

> > Please realize that the whole naming of the thing "NASCAR SimRacing"
> > was NOT an element of marketing hype. That's what they were going
> > for, and that's what they are committed to, and this is the first
> > year I really, really see that level of commitment to realism.
> > Doesn't mean they won't make mistakes, and it doesn't mean we won't
> > have to wait for some bug fixes....but I'm saying that the
> > commitment is as much or more there than I've ever seen in a game
> > company before.

> > Randy

by **Bill Bollinge** » Sat, 02 Apr 2005 09:09:01

NSR handles variable ping(s) better than N2003 and the bandwidth requirement
is not that high. Higher than N2003, but not higher than most good online
games. NSR's online code at its heart is very good, unfortunately right now
the other stuff and even some multiplayer bugs are keeping it from being
extremely good.

Bill Bollinger
www.gsxn.com

by **Rusty Unge** » Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:40:22

This is so simple....why hasn't anyone else figured it out. When we
purchased the game we signed an end licsenced agreement with Papyrus,
not with First-Racing...this will never hold up in court, as First
Racing is not the original publisher of the game. Yes, they may have
bought the source code, but the agreement signed on install was not
with them....it was with papyrus and sierra.....they have no leg to
stand on.

by **Byron Forbe** » Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:21:31

Dunno about legs, but FIRST has some serious financial backing.

Luckily though, U.S. judges can't be bought! Fwhew.

by **Michael Horto** » Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:00:09

And why is it so hard for you to understand that all those license
agreements that you signed with Vivendi/Sierra/Papyrus were transfered to
FIRST when they bought everything?

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