Sorry, I thought from your post that you were mainly concerned about not
knowing who was on the track during qualifying, and not being able to ride
with the other drivers to see what sort of times they were getting. Both of
which you can do.
Iain
> Sure the range isn't bad, in fact it's good. But as we all know the
> user base is going to blast through the 1:23 time mark given time and,
> since this range is at the full 120% it doesn't leave an easy means
> within the game to boost the AI. That's all I meant. My comments on
> the range of times wasn't intended to be compared to what occured in
> real life.
> I said in my post that I can't sit in the AI's seat and watch how it
> drives during a replay. So yes to me this is a bad thing and sitting
> to the side of the***pit where I can't see a thing in the displays
> is hardly of any use. In fact, I think when you sit in your own
>***pit watching a hotlap or something the display is blank, another
> (minor) gripe.
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 16:10:03 +0100, "Iain Mackenzie"
> >Well spotted!
> >Hitting the 'finish session' button does give poor results, but watching
> >(via ctrl-t) gives near perfect times.
> >You say the range 23-27 is not bad, but at Monza this year the range was
> >22.2-27.5. I would say that 23-27 was pretty acceptable wouldn't you?
> >As far as the qualifying comments are concerned, of course you can watch
the
> >other cars as they are running. Just press + or - on the keypad to switch
> >from car to car. Pressing 'home' 'pg up' also switches views on the
other
> >cars, so you can watch from the front wing, the side of the***pit,
> >external to see the times, etc. what more do you want?
> >Iain
> >> Earlier I posted that the gap from first to last, at least at Monza,
> >> was on the order of 10s or so and thus that the bottom 3rd of the
> >> field always fell out of the 107% span. This is actually not the
> >> case, but does point to an oddity in how F1 2001 behaves.
> >> It seems that if you click on the 'Finish' button before much of the
> >> field have run some laps then you end up with really slow times, but
> >> if you sit and wait it out a bit, the times will drop to something
> >> more reasonable. ctrl-t also helps to speed up the passing of time.
> >> Still, at 120% the AI still only runs in the range of 1:23.x to 127.x
> >> at Monza. Not bad but you'd think it would be a little quicker than
> >> that at max difficulty.
> >> After playing around with F12001 I'm really starting to hate its GUI.
> >> It's pathetic. The game also lacks some core features that prevent it
> >> (to me) from being regarded as much of a sim. In qualifying alone you
> >> can't tell who's on the track and who's not, nor watch anyone else as
> >> they're running. You can't even view in a replay AI cars from the
> >>***pit view.
