rec.autos.simulators

> No, my post didn't help much. But hey, yours was stating the blindingly
> obvious, so what makes that so earth shattering?

> My view that NL is better than N3, is chiefly that a) the AI have more
> balls, and, b) the tyre wear/fuel consumption part of the equation more
> accurately reflects the way real cars behave/behaved then. There are
> problems, but none that a couple of clever people (not me), could sort out.
> It may be the same game engine, but the parameters have been shifted. This
> is all of course IMHO.
> Steve

> writes:

> >Tire wear also makes things a lot more interesting.  A few times I've
> >managed to find online races to get into, I've found many folks try
> >driving these like they do in N3.  I just let them go, knowing they're
> >gonna have to pit before the end of a 10% race.

> So how *should* you drive them?  I've never gotten in online races, but I've
> burned up MANY a tire trying to keep up with the AI...

> Eldred
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> Own Grand Prix Legends?  Goto  http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc

> Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats you
> with experience...
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>Eldred
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> Yet another indication that it's N3 with different skins :(

> -Larry

> > The thing that bugged me about Nascar Legends was this... When Nascar2
> > came along, the folks at Papyrus removed the tire stagger setting from
> > the setup menu, claiming that NASCAR no longer allowed setting of
> > stagger. That's all well and fine, but back in the Nascar Legends era,
> > tire stagger was indeed a valid setup option. I fully expected to see
> > the setting return for Legends, but it didn't. Legends is pretty
> > obviously N3 with graphic changes.

> > Still, I bought it, and I will buy everything Papy puts out, just in
> > the hopes that I'm helping support the company that might release
> > another GPL-quality title down the road. Perhaps I'm being naiive
> > here, but I can afford to buy their other titles while I wait for the
> > next GPL-quality sim from them.

> > David Bell

> > >Same game, same engine, same sounds, same options, different intro and
> > >different cars and tracks.

> > >If you have N3, you have NL just with different cars and tracks.

> > >It should have been an expansion pack for $20.

> > >-Larry

> > >> Is anybody playing this game, if so how is it and how does it compare
> to
> > >> Nascar3?  Trying to make up my mind which to buy.

> > >> tank you

> buzard

> > Holy Cow!  I didn't think of that!

> > Yet another indication that it's N3 with different skins :(

> > -Larry

> > > The thing that bugged me about Nascar Legends was this... When Nascar2
> > > came along, the folks at Papyrus removed the tire stagger setting from
> > > the setup menu, claiming that NASCAR no longer allowed setting of
> > > stagger. That's all well and fine, but back in the Nascar Legends era,
> > > tire stagger was indeed a valid setup option. I fully expected to see
> > > the setting return for Legends, but it didn't. Legends is pretty
> > > obviously N3 with graphic changes.

> > > Still, I bought it, and I will buy everything Papy puts out, just in
> > > the hopes that I'm helping support the company that might release
> > > another GPL-quality title down the road. Perhaps I'm being naiive
> > > here, but I can afford to buy their other titles while I wait for the
> > > next GPL-quality sim from them.

> > > David Bell

> > > >Same game, same engine, same sounds, same options, different intro
and
> > > >different cars and tracks.

> > > >If you have N3, you have NL just with different cars and tracks.

> > > >It should have been an expansion pack for $20.

> > > >-Larry

> > > >> Is anybody playing this game, if so how is it and how does it
compare
> > to
> > > >> Nascar3?  Trying to make up my mind which to buy.

> > > >> tank you