rec.autos.simulators

I try and negotiate better electronics and instead of offering a new season
contract it advises them that I'm cancelling next years contract! What's up
with that, I haven't even appointed them yet!

Is there a patch out?? Does anyone else have issues? Did anyone persevere
with the game! Thank god I only payed $15! But that's $15 too much!

NG

Andi.

and maybe I should also put in my message that I'd appreciate no one liners
from folks that offer no value at all and just feel they need to contribute.

NG

-Cheers!

Great concept, shitty execution, too small an audience for anybody else to
build a better one.  After all how many people want to mix F1 racing and
Risk in the same game?

Actually I think he was talking about F1 manager 2000, which was put out by EA.
 The Gand Prix Manager games were put out by MicroProse.

I was hoping that F1 Manager 2000 would be decent, but it sounds like it's got
too many flaws, so I never bought it.  I did however, buy Grandprix World,
which is the latest in the Grand Prix Manager series.  And to be honest, I
think that Grandprix World is a pretty good game.

I managed to turn Benetton around in my second season, and won the drivers, and
constructors titles in my third, with Coulthard, and Wurz as my drivers.  Oh
yeah, I managed to get a contract for the Mercedes engines too....That may have
had something to do with it  : )

NG

I had looked at all of the previews for F1 Manager 2000, and I was getting my
hopes up for it.  But I never picked it up, due to all of the complaints about
it.  It's really too bad we keep getting half assed attempts at  F1 management
sims.

BTW:  One of the best all time management games in my opinion, is Grand Prix
Wizard....If you've never tried it, do a web search and check it out.  It's a
few years old, and is a dos based game, but it's rock solid.  Graphics are
pretty cheesey though.

Is there anything new GP manager wise on the horizon? If not I may have to
get out GP Manager 2 - electronics bug and all!

NG

I haven't heard of anything, but I'm always holding out hope.  If you don't
have it already, see if you can get your hands on Grand Prix World.  I think
that it's the best in the series.

Somehow I must have missed out on GPW...  Did it come out in the
States, and if so, when?

-John

You're right I was thinking about GPM/GPW

So you don't have to micro manage wing settings any more?  and there's some
cause/effect to what you do set?  Cars don't go from 3 laps down to win the
race?

No, you didn't miss it.  It was never released in the states.  I ordered my
copy online from a reatiler in the U.K.