rec.autos.simulators

    My problem is with the AI in NR2003.  I love the physics but... For
instance after a lot of track time I qualified 4th at Pocono at 100% AI
strength.  So I can run competitive times.  I start the race and I usually
get wrecked on the first corner.  I break for the corner and Junior comes
from like eight lengths back Kamikaze style into the corner like I'm not
there and boots me.  This happens about 80 % of the time it's impossible to
get through a race. This is just an example it happens more or less on each
track and with all drivers.

    I've searched the group on Google and this AI problem does seem to be a
known issue but I'm unclear on the solution.  Do you change an ini file or
reduce their aggression or what?  I've even tried to drive (horrors,
horrors) defensively but that often makes it worse.

I want to love this game but it's making it very hard.

TIA

Don't you know Jr. can do anything he wants in NASCAR and get away with it.
lol

IIRC www.thegreenflag.com (I'd check, but I'm at work) has some AI tweaks.
They help, but there is no perfect cure.

MadDAWG

Rude, some tracks, the ai work ok some dont...  But hey, your getting great
training for ONLINE play!

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   Go back to NASCAR HEAT, dude.  Can't beat it for left-hand-turning action
as a singleplayer game.  At least the AI drives with some personality.  I
also like all the mods, especially Spirit of HEAT.  Also if you have a PS2,
check out Dirt to Daytona.

  I fired up the NASCAR 2003 demo to try out, and, despite turning off the
"run complete pace lap" , it still made me go around the track behind a pace
car.  No rolling start skips?. To top it off, it black flagged me for some
wierd reason and then disqualified me.  The cars also have no power steering
and handled more like the race-cars in GPL- with full force feedback it felt
like I was driving a bus.  I immediately deleted the demo from my hard
drive.

  NASCAR Thunder 2003 on PC also isn't as bad as everybody was saying.
Sure, it doesn't have 42 car multiplayer or career mode ,but it's more like
NASCAR HEAT in its user-friendlyness.

  The only Papyrus racing sims I've had any measure of enjoyment out of have
been NASCAR Legends and, to a lesser extent, Grand Prix Legends.

Marc

   I've run several leagues with Nascar HEat mods, but I think you will
find most of the guys here are not to fond of that title.  Here is the
lowdown.

GPL=Great.
Viper RAcing = pretty good
Nascar HEat.= ***to barely ok....

(ssshhh...don't tell people that the same team that made Viper also made
NH.)

dave henrie

  Maybe it isn't so great for multiplayer, but for singleplayer it's alot
more fun than Papyrus NASCAR games.  It has just the right number of options
to make the game fun (like no yellow flags, no pace laps, reduced race
lengths, etc.), yet you can have all the *** physics you want.

ps did you see what Junior did to Mark Martin yesterday.  He came from 18
lengths back to boot him off.  So I guess NR 2003 is hyper realistic. :-)