just thought I had to tell everyone
Owen(OP not PO)
Shouldn't happen. Gentleman racer ethos is oftne abused to gloss over
agressive driving online. Doesn't happen in league racing (not often
anyway).
hehehe... another ***. ;-)
PO is short for "Pit Out" and is used to warn people one's pulling onto the
track from the pits.
Jan.
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You said it ;-)
It varies. I honestly think it *is* better than most other online
games, but I'd be being dishonest to say it was always like that.
Example: a while back, some joker calling himself "Indigo" would join
races and drive round the wrong way, making sensible racing impossible.
Having said that, I do think that - although it's exaggerated - there
is a sense of fair play in GPL that is somewhat lacking from certain
other games (beginning with N, perhaps...?). I suppose it has to do
with the facts that: a) GPL isn't a "just-home-from-the-pub" console
game, and b) anyone still playing a game after 4 years is probably
fairly committed to "the cause"!
Jan (below) is right when he complains about this - it shouldn't happen
by now (unless there's a warp). I mean, come on, how many people don't
know this track in 2002? One problem is that the times are very close
at Monza, meaning it's very hard to make up even a few seconds in the
11 laps of an Int Short race. That in turn means people won't risk
easing off at the start and losing a couple of seconds. (The fact that
they lose a lot more than that in a crash tends to pass them by.)
The good news is that things are a lot better on most other circuits.
Watkins Glen, for example, has a much tighter start than Monza, yet T1
pileups are far less common (perhaps because the Glen has a reputation
as a tough circuit - which it is in some ways - so the average skill
level of drivers there is higher). Spa is probably second to Monza in
the "startline pileup" stakes, though here there is a steeply downhill,
"funnel" start with very little time until the start of Eau Rouge. Lap
times vary more here, though, so it's more common for people to wait.
I'm sure someone could write an essay on the subtleties of GPL "SRY/NP"
messages (how about it, RSC? <g>). Speaking for myself, I tend to say
sorry even if it's just a racing accident - it's politeness, nothing
more. I also try to put out a "NP" if someone hits me, unless they've
done something particularly stupid (eg misjudged a railriding move -
which they shouldn't be doing anyway - at Curva Grande). (Of course,
concentrating on the track is more important than chatting, so drivers
can't *always* spare the time for a message.)
Hope you haven't got any family. Or pets. Or hobbies. Or a job. Or an
overdraft (yet). Or a life. ;-)
PO = Pit Out. See here for (among other things) an explanation of some
of the other abbreviations:
http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard/vrocguide.html
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really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh.
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