rec.autos.simulators

by **ymenar** » Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:39:48

> Please put down the Papy flag for five minutes.

Nah its not that at all. Papy's dead, buried. I don't hate rFactor, au
contraire its good from all that I see but I'll wait and see if its
supported by both the community and the developpers. Or else it'll be just
another sim, like GTR that stays on harddrives for 6 months until another
one gets released. I hope that's not true, but we cannot say that for the
moment.

I had 30+ fps on a Pentium 166. You just had to take off some stuff, you
know.

Fantasy drivers in GPL? Unless you consider "Player" as one ;)

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by **ymenar** » Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:22:45

> Tools and patches are coming, not to mention a couple of future upgrades
> of the sim itself, as in not fixing bugs but putting planned features in
> there that wasn't targeted for the release version

Actually I'm sure of that, but how polished it will be, that's gonna be a
determinating factor of it's power over other sims, released or not. 'Cause
we have to remember that GTL is there soon. rFactor isn't as it is now a
full release compared to what GTL will be when released.

What's to say in 6 months they'll prefer GTL or whatever else new nearby
Christmas to mod as it's a better platform, with a more stable game engine,
lesser multiplayer problems, etc..? And everybodys gonna migrate the mods
to it instead of rFactor.

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by **Jan Verschuere** » Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:04:57

"whooo" wrote...

> I am willing to put up with ISI multiplayer, but not when it means
> using fantasy cars/tracks.
> Sounds like stupid snobbery! The tracks may be fantasy, but they
> are really well designed, classics. Won't be long before they are
> converted over to other sims.

I sim to get an appreciation of the scale of the problem faced by the
drivers we watch on TV every weekend. I haven't seen them running Diamante
or Effexx as part of any sanctioned series yet, so, for me, it's pointless
to gain proficiency at these venues.

Obviously, it also interesting to play the "what-if" game using sims. To
this extend I'm surprised no-one's made Brooklands for NR2003 yet, but I
digress...

Jan.
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by **jason moye** » Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:03:48

> I'm surprised no-one's made Brooklands for NR2003 yet, but I
> digress...

Someone made the oval:

http://www.simracingconnection.com/nascar/n2k3ovals.shtml

The site is down right now but I think I saw it at dei-racing.com.

by **Larr** » Fri, 09 Sep 2005 03:57:55

Me too.

-Larry

> I'm up for it - needs to be open-wheelers for me though.

> Regards

>>> What do you think guys, the evolution of a whole new rascar...

>>> ...rasFactor

>>> A new sim and a whole new start.

>>> Imagine it now, Fisher & Simmons hand in hand dancing in meadows... er
>>> well maybe not but it could be some good fun and ras does seem to be
>>> buzzing again these last few days. Any takers (and any servers?)

>>> Cheers
>>> Tony

>> That's what we had planned (er, most of your post) since interest in
>> N2003 died out. Might be time to get things rolling.

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>> David G Fisher

by **Uwe Sch??rkam** » Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:11:57

Hi folks,

sorry for popping in and out again last night, we had friends over for a
BBQ so I had to cut my racing time short ;)

cheers, uwe

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by **Larr** » Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:22:13

I must have missed sometning...

-Larry

by **David G Fishe** » Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:31:43

Did you change your e-mail address Larry? I sent you the e-mails the others
received, and info was at the forum.

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>I must have missed sometning...

> -Larry

>> Hi folks,

>> sorry for popping in and out again last night, we had friends over for a
>> BBQ so I had to cut my racing time short ;)

>> cheers, uwe

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by **Larr** » Sat, 17 Sep 2005 04:25:25

Yeah, but I didn't know we were a go.

-Larry

> Did you change your e-mail address Larry? I sent you the e-mails the
> others received, and info was at the forum.

> --
> David G Fisher

>>I must have missed sometning...

>> -Larry

>>> Hi folks,

>>> sorry for popping in and out again last night, we had friends over for a
>>> BBQ so I had to cut my racing time short ;)

>>> cheers, uwe

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