rec.autos.simulators

> This is one that I don't get, and that is the need for the ability to not
> qualify for a race!  Maybe in a Championship Season.  But, then again, I
> didn't buy the game to be told that you couldn't play it because you just
> weren't fast enough.  It's my game, I get as many provisionals as I want. I
> get told enough in REAL life, that I am not good enought already, I don't
> need my game telling me that too.  What am I going to do....  Well I guess I
> didn't make that race, I guess I'll have to wait until next weekend to play.
> If you put that option in the race, then you need to put the other side of
> it too and limit how much you can actually play the game.  None of this
> practicing for a week and super fine tuning your setup.  Then doing the
> actual race.  Last year (I Think), NASCAR.COM was putting in the number of
> laps they ran in practice.  Most number of laps where from 5 to 15 laps per
> session.  Happy Hour was anywhere from 10 - a full tank of gas.  Try
> limiting your play time to that and run 100% races. After that, you may have
> some merit to having the ability to miss a race in the game.  My
> head-to-head races where that way.  We both agreed to limit our practices to
> a hour on the track that we ran that week.  The night we raced, we qualified
> first then practiced for about a 1/2 hour.  Talk about some good races.
> Because our setups weren't perfect, it opened the door for a lot of
> different possiblities.  Gave you that extra time to think about where you
> where starting.  We just did that same format for a 100% Bristol race.  All
> I can say is WOW.

> A better place for it, would be in Online play.  Seems most hosts have had
> good luck with 20 drivers.  Let 30 or so join the race, but limit the field
> to 20 after qualifying. Now that would be something! Not to beable to make
> an online race because I wasn't fast enough. Give me something to shoot for.
> You can even do that without a patch.  Just a lot of cooperation.  Which
> SOMETIMES is hard to come by online. The last 10 or so drivers would just
> disconnect.

>  For offline play, different qualifying settings would be nice.  You could
> still have the standard (for N1, N2, N99) 1 day qualifying, to handle race
> weekends like this last race a Loudon. Then add a 2 day qualifying to be
> just like actual NASCAR,  a points standing starting order,  and a
> qualifying race (with an option to reverse the order).

> Thad

> > Since some people on here are complaining about stupid things... here's my
> 2
> > cents.

> > I was driving around Darlington the other day.. and something started to
> > happen to my car.. the engine, transmission, something.  Well... my
> > spotter/crew chief told me that will do it for today.  I refused to give
> > up.. I went into the pits and tried to go behind to wall to have them
> repair
> > it.. just so I can get out there on the track and finish the race... but
> > when I went to turn in behind the wall... BOOM!!! I hit the pit wall.  I
> > tried again.. and by goly I hit the pit wall again.  I decided to drive
> > along pit lane to find another entrance to the garages.. nothing.  I drove
> > across the track thinking I could go out into the infield from there.
> > nothing.
> > Then I realized... I'm trapped in this track.. there is no way to get out
> of
> > it.  Either I go around in circles or I stop playing the game... no other
> > options.  I didn't know what to do.. I pulled off to the side, backed my
> car
> > up backwards, and sat back and watch the race... then suddenly.. out of
> > nowhere, my car starts to move.  I checked to make sure my foot wasn't on
> > the gas.. no.. not on the wheel too.  Here goes my cars, all by itself
> down
> > the straight, into turn 3, then turn 4, then finally, somehow, it gets
> > pushed from the passenger side directly parallel to my pit crew.  I
> couldn't
> > believe it.. my car moves effortlessly sideways.
> > And I turned off the game and thought... wow.. that was so real!!!!!!