I'll say it again, 1:16 is not the record for that track. I don't know what
it will eventually be, but that isn't it.
Do you really think you can match or beat the best times of any racing game
(sim or arcde) after just a couple of hours?
GPL, POD, CPR, GP2, F1 RS, MGPRS2, F1 2000, RC 2000. Whatever driving game
I've tried, no matter how different to eachother they are, I always end up
at about the same level in comparison with the top times and online drivers.
That's because none are much more realistic than the other.
David G Fisher
> >What he said in his sly little way was that only GPL fans have REAL
talent.
> >That's a bit of a pompous and insulting attitude. Not to mention
completely
> >wrong and laughable.
> That was not what I meant. If someone does a 1.14 lap with F1 2000,
> that's superb, and I don't think I can beat that that easily. But I
> was a little bit disappointed that I could break the current record
> (as far as I know) within 2 hours practising. I didn't feel I really
> had to work for it, so the fast laps didn't give me any satisfaction.
> >What he tried to make us believe was that with other sims, all that's
needed
> >is practice to be fast (I agree that most people can be extremely fast
with
> >a lot of practice). Then he tells us that only GPL requires real talent,
but
> >that he's also played GPL two hours a day, every day, for the past two
> >years. I guarantee all the other GPL hotlappers have similiar time
invested
> >into the game. So where's the difference?
> The difference is that I beat the current record (afaik) within 2
> hours driving in F1 2000, and I can't even come close to the GPL
> records after 2 years of driving.
> >Never said he's untalented. I have no idea how talented he is. I'll
> >certainly never know how talented he and anyone else is if they've spent
> >anywhere near as many hours with one sim as he has. My guess though is
that
> >he's very talented.
> I feel honoured, but seeing guys like Woeger and Huttu driving 1.27
> shortly after GPL was released, and seeing them driving 1.26 laps on
> Monza now, I'm not talented, they are.
> I'm reasonable fast, but there's a big difference between the guys can
> drive pretty fast after lots of practice, and the guys who can drive
> ridiculous fast laps.
> >They are all the same. Trying to bridge the gap to the fastest known MTM2
> >lap time is the same, and as challenging, as it is to catch the fastest
> >SBK2000 or GPL lap time. Actually, you'll never know who really has great
> >talent in sims because unlike real life racing, anyone, regardless of
talent
> >level, can practice a huge amount of hours and eventually find the limits
of
> >a racing game. All the top guys tend to have an unbelievable amount of
hours
> >invested in their chosen sim.
> This is indeed hard to measure, but fact remains that Woeger and Huttu
> broke all the pb's allmost from the beginning of GPL's release, and
> still they are at the top of most hotlap boards.
> I allways enjoy real life Karting with my friends, but it's allways
> most fun when we go to a Karting centre where none of us drove before.
> Getting a victory there allways gives the most satisfaction!
> >More than likely you just need a setup which suits you better, or
different
> >hardware (CPU, controller) which runs the game that much better and
allows
> >you to gain the elusive half second.
> I have a constant 36fps, so hardware problems are out of the question.
> My current pb for Monza is 1.27.33 (since yesterday :) , I gained time
> by working on my trailbraking in the first lesmo and at the
> Parabolica. It was not due to my setup, I used the same setup, it was
> due to my driving technique.
> Current record is 1.26.52, I don't think that I'm allmost a second
> slower due to a bad setup.
> And there you have it again David, I had to practice and work for my
> new pb, that gives me satisfaction and a feeling of victory, something
> I deeply miss with other driving games/sims.
> Andre
> >David G Fisher
