rec.autos.simulators

Could you *please* do something about the bad behaviour and driving on
Sierra.com / "WON"??
It's worse than a Jerry Springer show at times for Christ sake!

Also, while I'm begging,  any chance you could do somethign to prevent all
these "wreckers" from ruining all the races?

Just something as simple as allowing the server admin to set a  "min. LPI"
(LPI=Laps Pr. Incident) for attending -  just like the min. skills - would
help GREATLY.

I for one think you could have solved this alot better than what we see
now...  The way things are now it will do no-one no good.  People will get
fed-up over your products and perhaps not buy the next title... I can also
see a time in the future were sims will be online-racing only - and IMHO -
this can be a time where all the bad driving and behaviour will back-fire!
On Sierra, Papy, Nascar and "us" - the community...

I challenge you Papy-folks to use a few nights on "WON" - try race around on
the servers that got drivers on them - and see how much you enjoy having
your raced ruined by some lemonhead who thinks wrecking all the others is
the coolest thing since sliced bread!

Pretty please...

ed_

As for these problems and the impact they have. Online racing is still only
done regularly by a fraction of the people who buy these sims. Shitheads who
spend their time wrecking online races won't ruin titles or developers.

Why can't you guys simply password protect your races? I've had hundreds of
online races, and when I want to keep out the jerks I password protect the
race. Problem solved.

David G Fisher

Honest question: is there a server matching software in F1RC ? Are
there people there wanting to race anytime ?

And how are you going to get people into the passworded races I host.

The N4 problem is that of 40 usually one guy is enough to ruin it for
everyone. Of course, some immature peolpe shout "wrecker" and worse to
people who do a honest mistake, but thats to live with.

Although I do agree with Ed's LPI limit, the LPI needs to be resetted
because with 40 IC points it is very hard to get over my current
26. :) It might also be a bit hard to get a high lpi in the first
place, but a 200 lap passworded race with five or six friends would
probably solve this.

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Olav K. Malmin
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Sure...  I can a gree that 43 drivers in a race is bound to mean problems...
but 20 drivers in a good race is fully possible....

As for passwords... I for one dont host races and i also think it's hard
8i.e takes to much time) to setup and find drivers for a password protected
race.

Sure.. passwords are good for 5 player games etc. - but like I said... that
not what i'm looking for.

The password-system in N4 would work if there were a "closer" community...
Right now -  it seems that most of the N4 drivers "hang" other places [than
r.a.s]....  I for one dont have the time to seek them out...

ed_

I think 26 will do just fine - for starters!

What we want to avoid is the lemonheads, and their LPI's usually in
single-figures... 5.2 etc.

However a reset would be nice tho...  *my* LPI could really use it :-)

ed_

Mike Grandy
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3 A Champion Forever-Godspeed Dale

This is why the eight player limit in F1RC is ok. Hear me ymenard? Full
field racing is a pipe dream. Yes, you can get better quality drivers in
leagues (still not the quality of real life racing), but most of us can't
commit to set times to race.

As for these problems and the impact they have. Online racing is still only
done regularly by a fraction of the people who buy these sims. Shitheads who
spend their time wrecking online races won't ruin titles or developers.

Why can't you guys simply password protect your races? I've had hundreds of
online races, and when I want to keep out the jerks I password protect the
race. Problem solved.

David G Fisher

8 would be a reasonable number allready.. too bad f1rc starts warping
too heavy with more than 4 players connected :(

Andre

No it is not the game which is faulty ymenard or thom j, it's just my
config, because it works with other people....ha ha ha

anybody got a clue to where my problem might be ?

thx

He's talking about pickup racing, David.  Not league racing.  It's also
quite obvious that full field racing was successfull both on Hawaii and the
NROS.

Us?  LOL you surely did a great informal poll to bring the word "us" here.
Not.  Do you know there's 100+ leagues for N4?

buy these sims.

Same can be said about multiple features in any kind of game.  Only a
fraction of the people who play FPS are the ones who will create mods, or
maps, or add-ons.

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LOL

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Scott B. Husted
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Yeah, in many pickupraces someone who does a honest mistake gets
called all sorts of things. Even if it could be advoided with less
agressive driving, the driver get awarded with all sorts of words, not
even appropriate for a deliberate wrecker.

Remember that also the victim gets incident points so that would mean
that a unlucky sod would also get ejected. How fair is that ?

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Olav K. Malmin
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There's F1RST, although support for that is being dropped since Schumi is
releasing a program at any time now called F1Relay which iis going to be
fantastic.

Isn't there a chat program where you can send a private message with the
password to the people you wnat to join?

David G Fisher

David G Fisher