rec.autos.simulators

That would be fun, eg. for events like the Professional Gamers League:
PGL going GPL - GPL going PGL?

Even more interesting would be the chance to "race" in the champions
race with your own GPL car at home, with the cars of the champs acting
as ghosts or AI.

--
Matthias Flatt

Heh, sounds like fun to me.  I had a ball just watching a replay of Grahme Nash
winning a race at Kyalami by a few feet against an AI car, so I can't image how
much fun it'd be to see live online racing!  :)
Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited

M

Also very useful when you want somebody who is looking if there are no rules
broken by someone.

Greetinx Micha?l Hompus

Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited

J. P. Hovercraft

for the NROS, since it's an official NASCAR sanctioned series.... this has
been though for years.

The main problem is that even for today the connections aren't enough fast.
Just think about how much download you would need to see all the cars on the
track.  Because even in GPL when you race online, you see what 4-5cars
forward on fast connections and 1 in your mirrors, no ?

Now just imagine if you had ALL the cars.  And on the NROS it means 24cars.

It's the current limitation.  Even with ADSL and Cable-modem, it's barely
acceptable. Especially with GPL and it's physics.  But for the future, there
is a great market for such a thing, and incredible possibilities.

--
-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-- NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
-- SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/
-- Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
-- May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

If we had the co-operation of the software houses and manufacturers of
hardware on this one, imagine the possibilities. Semi Pro racing might not
be too far off. Software could be demoed in real time to prospective buyers
in a much more exiting manner, kudos would be gained by winning hardware
manufacturers ....hundreds of people watching a race, A driver using a TSW
wheel wins the race. TSW gets loads of orders in the next week. Sound
familiar?

Mark

so that is at least 10 cars in front, 2 in the mirrors :)

Greetinx Micha?l Hompus

Yes that is a good point, but this only take off any need to upload.  Taking
off upload doesn't mean you will accelerate the download.

Still, the cars could update half the time as when we are racing normally
(that would make what you said correct)  ;-)   With a good prediction code
like on the NROS ovals, it shouldn't make a big difference, I speculate.

--
-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-- NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
-- SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/
-- Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
-- May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

    That's a problem with AOL.  The concept is good where you can't receive
(virus) files, But, Valid files are a real pain to receive.  If you see me in
GSB, and you have the RW software, and are NOT using AOL to race with, I'll give
you the file needed.

C-ya on the track,
Mike Barlow

Sim Racing Mag
http://www.simracingmag.com/

Race Communications Association
http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html

Holodyne Engineering

Mystic Music

(have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

And also the computer does not to have to simulate the car, the whole
driving simulation engine can be set off...

Just some toughts...

Greetinx Micha?l Hompus

Hey, hick boy, send that replay to a Northern Yankee

Say with a 28.8 modem you would receive from one puter and send to
three others, this means you would get around 750 bytes of bandwidth
for the car data, per second. For 15 cars it's 50 bytes of data per
car, which surely is implementable. Maybe even 30 cars would be
implementable... It should be on a 56k modem...

/Christer