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by **Alan Smi** » Wed, 10 Jun 1998 04:00:00

I stopped by Sierra's press room several times throughout the show and there
was always some press person trying out GPL. My suspicion is that there will
be more press in the *** mags coming out in the next couple of months.

Mike from Papyrus was kind enough to let me leave with a pre-alpha copy of the
game and while there are a few places that are still rough, all in all, it is
one great game. I haven't had as much time to drive it as I would like (yes,
we do work here occasionally) and I still spend a little too much time plowing
the fields. But there are lots of tracks and lots of cars. We've done some
network racing here and it is very smooth. I can't wait for the next version!

Alan
ThrustMaster, Inc.

>> I was also dissapointed in lack of intrest in my orig***post by this
>> group. If the simmers here aren't e***d then how could the gamming press be
>> ??

>Geez,

>If I would be disappointed after every unreplied post I wrote, I would already
> have
>comitted suicide. I was really waiting for the follow-up but nothing came. So
>there......, are you happy now?

>Greetz,

>Harald

by **Hans van Da** » Wed, 10 Jun 1998 04:00:00

You're correct there, Bruce.
According to the GM-interview it should be a total of 20
So, this means they (Papy) are negotiating 2 more.

Quote"Up to twenty players (any combination of human and AI) may compete in
a race. "end of quote.

But, who and/or how many we will only know, as allways, just before the
start of the season :-)

Hans

Bruce Kennewell heeft geschreven in bericht

>Eigh*** driver names does not necessarily mean 18 cars.
>It simply means that we have a choice of whom our alter egos can be.

>However, I hope you are correct, Hans!

>> Mike L. allready announced eigh*** driver names
>> and negotiating with more.

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by **Bruce Kennewel** » Thu, 11 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Great, if that is so.
I have only seen reference to 18 drivers *names* and 4 *teams* but no
reference to the actual field size.

Back in 1967 fields varied......could be anything from a dozen to two
dozen cars. Note also that it was not unusual for some venues to mix F2
with the F1 cars to make up the numbers or to run the F2 championship
concurrently if the F1 numbers were low.

> >'No pitsops' I can live with, Marc.
> >It was not the norm to make pitstops back in that period: the cars
> >invariably were designed to carry enough fuel for a GP-length race and
> >they didn't pit for tyres unless they had a problem.

> >No....I'm more concerned about the size of the fields that we will be
> >racing in. I have this bad feeling that we are not going to have any
> >more than 8 or 9 A.I.competitors

> Where did you hear this may be so?
> The last think from Mike that I have seen was on the gamesonline interview
> where he said that there would be a 20 car field that could be made up of
> any combination of real or AI cars.

> Todd.

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by **Byron Forbe** » Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:00:00

What's the bet that soon after release we see 40 car carsets as in ICR2, etc. How many
are in the shipped product's carset will probably be irrelevent within a month. It will be
a simple matter of having a cpu with enough grunt to run 40 AI cars.

> You're correct there, Bruce.
> According to the GM-interview it should be a total of 20
> So, this means they (Papy) are negotiating 2 more.

> Quote"Up to twenty players (any combination of human and AI) may compete in
> a race. "end of quote.

> But, who and/or how many we will only know, as allways, just before the
> start of the season :-)

> Hans

> Bruce Kennewell heeft geschreven in bericht

> >Eigh*** driver names does not necessarily mean 18 cars.
> >It simply means that we have a choice of whom our alter egos can be.

> >However, I hope you are correct, Hans!

> >> Mike L. allready announced eigh*** driver names
> >> and negotiating with more.

> >--
> >Regards,
> >Bruce.
> >----------
> >The GP Legends Historic Motor Racing Club is located at:-
> >http://www.racesimcentral.net/

by **Marc J. Nelso** » Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:00:00

> Thats the end of Enduro prospects too :(((((((((((

Naw...just means we'll have to wait 'til N3. ;)

Cheers!

Marc

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by **Marc J. Nelso** » Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Hi Edwin,

Yes, minor damage can be addressed during a race, but there's no
option for any other types of stops. As Bruce pointed out, it
isn't needed in recreating an authentic time piece, but kills a
bit of the game-play add-ons that had made past sims so wonderful
(i.e. TPTCC for N2).

Cheers!

Marc

> >> Hi Bruce,

> >> While I'll agree that the pitstop was a 'rare' thing in the series,
> >> the lack of an option kinda' kills it for us who wish to do a little
> >> hacking on the side.

> AFAIH (and i have this from a *reliable source*) we CAN do pitstops in GPL!!

> I've been told (**IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY**) that we can fix *minor* damage
> and change a puntured tire etc...

> Lets keep our hopes up!
> Best,
> Edwin Solheim
> Check out The Paddock - a legendary site... for some cool GLP stuff.
> (http://home.c2i.net/thepaddock)

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by **Edwin Solhei** » Sat, 13 Jun 1998 04:00:00

>Yes, minor damage can be addressed during a race, but there's no
>option for any other types of stops. As Bruce pointed out, it
>isn't needed in recreating an authentic time piece, but kills a
>bit of the game-play add-ons that had made past sims so wonderful
>(i.e. TPTCC for N2).

So basiclly what you're saying here is that there will be no options to
change tires and refuel, whilch would be nessecary for a Sportscar add-on??

If so... DAMMIT!! I had some very good plans abotu running an endurance
league;
You know...
1000 km's at Monza
1000 Km's at Spa
1000 km's at Nurburgring
6hrs at the Glen
All the works.... man could have been awsome stuff... all online ofcourse!!

Well lets hope Papy can give us a **real** sportscar simulator some day. You
know, Can-Am, IMSA, WSC or a Group C sim. Now **that** would be awsome!!

Best,
Edwin Solheim
Check out The Paddock - a legendary site...
for some cool Grand Prix Legends stuff and tips!
(http://home.c2i.net/thepaddock)

by **Keepe** » Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:00:00

>Things have gone a bit quiet
>about GPL, mainly because I think most of us have pretty much got our lap
>times at WG as low as we're likely to get them. Some of us will just
>*never* make it into the 1:06/7's and have learned to live with it :-)

Well, for me, GPL is just beginning. The demo was reasonable on my
P100 (what, Keeper no longer has his 486??) with Rendition card, but
once I put in my new motherboard and a K6 300MHz processor (yes!), my
second lap was 20 seconds quicker than I had done on the P100, and only
a few laps later did I get a 1:15. With practice I'm sure I can get
that down. It's unbelievably smooth (of course, how it'll look with
a field of competitors is yet to be seen), and the car handling is so
incredible that all other racing sims now are just disappointing to
play!

Is there a facility to save screenshots in the demo? I tried hitting
the backslash key, and the drive did seem to write something, but darned
if I can find what it was doing. Too bad, 'cause I managed to get the
wall going THROUGH my car, pulling out the left rear wheel about ten feet.
Pretty impressive for a demo without a damage model in it. It was not a
nice accident...

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