rec.autos.simulators

In the passed I've always avoided NASCAR games due to the oval tracks, but I
do like the cars themselves. So if Thunder is as open as F1 2002, EA will be
getting my money. I'd love to take a WC car around Monza, Montreal,
Silverstone or even Monaco.

I don't play online so multiplayer is not an issue for me, better AI is
however.

You can already take a vastly more realistically modelled stock car
around vastly more realisticaly modelled versions of monza,
silverstone, monaco and, well, mosport (mosport is better than
montreal anyway).

I don't care if Nascar Thunder 2003 has 8924792487 addons for it that
are all very high quality, the core engine and all of its components
are pile of crap.

Jason

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Biz

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alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash

DC

I have heard some rumblings about track converters, but not too much (i.e.
where can I get one, where can I get converted tracks, etc). Given that
"converters" exist, why isn't there more talk of N2k2 players racing on
tracks other than the ones included with N2k2? Granted I don't read every
N2k2 post, but I don't remember reading about people racing N2k2 on
Silverstone or Monza for example.

Also another reason why I've stayed away from N4 and N2k2 is that I kept
reading that these games have poor AI. As I mentioned, I don't race online,
so having good AI is kind of important to me.

Fatbob

that, where have you been

There's a free converter that will convert about 5 tracks and a pay
converter that will convert 31 tracks, not only road courses though,
many tracks has had an overhaul in the Gfx department and I know David
and the people who pitched in also did a lot of work on the AI, which as
you say is quite poor in Papy sims

As for readily converted tracks, that's a no-no in most cases as the
original tracks are copyrighted by Papyrus or whoever created them in
the first place

There are several Road course only leagues for N4/2002, but you don't
see them advertise here very often, but if you post a message to either
RaceSimCentral or The Pits message boards, I'm sure you will get a few
pointers, most ot them are online of course

I'm currently hard at work making setups for our annual BullRun 1000
race (online), the BullRun track is a blast in N2002 as you're actually
airborne twice and you need to time those yumps to perfection or face
the consequences :-)

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

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I will probably pick it up anyway.  I always do :)

-Larry

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