rec.autos.simulators

There I was tonight, running in a Richmond race. I'm racing clean,
holding my line. Some chump driving close behind me decides to go high.
No problem, 'cause I sometimes use that manuever to bleed off a little
speed when it's one-on-one. Then chumpy comes right down on my rear
bumper, effectively spinning me through turns one and into two.

He didn't apologize, so I simply called him a jerk and went back to
racin'. The genius admin boots me a couple minutes later. What a ***.
Did he not see the replay? Since when does calling one "jerk" constitute
cussing? Or was I picking a fight? I think calling a person that is not
out of line, in such a situation. Especially in light of me not
unloading more comments.

Yep, I know. His server, his rules.

Fuggit. I'll stick to racing offline. I'd much rather race against the
AI than deal with dumb ass drivers and admin who boots the victim
instead of the wrecker.

/vent mode off

-Will

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-Will

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Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Mike Horton

But I'd have asked him after the race whether he didn't think an apology
was due.

Achim

So even though you feel the innocent party the rule makes sense to me.

I'd agree with the other posters - find a good league.

Cheers
Tony

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The way you describe the incident it may be, in part, connection related and
calling someone a jerk over an online glitch is bad form. Might be
interesting to have a look at your replay of the incident.

You do have to realise that, due to the fact data takes time to travel from
you and your opponents to the server and back, game reality is slightly
different for each participant in an online race. The game tries to make up
for the time it takes the data to travel, but in doing so it relies on the
data always taking the same time to make the journey. If for some reason it
takes longer or data gets lost the game will make a best guess as to where
the car will go (you see him go high, he sees you clip the apron). As a
normal rythm is restored the other car may or may not jump back into
position depending on how good the game's guess was, i.e. a "warp" occurs.

Also, although I've yet to get official confirmation, I'm pretty sure the
more cars you have enabled in your fore and aft view, the less frequent
position updates on individual cars become and less accurate the position of
said car in your game becomes. I've seen errors of up to a car lenght
between my individual replay and the server replay, even with no warp
involved.

Jan.
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This sounds like a typical real live NASCAR race to me.

Ditto.

The genius admin boots me a couple minutes later. What a ***.

Bobby Upward

Mike
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Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank -18)

NR2003 is more than a Video Game :)

That's like telling Dale Jr. that his Chevy is just a car :)

-Larry