>>> Yup.. I don't expect WSC will ever be released (the age where 2 people
>>> can program a game is history) and I feel really sorry for Chris and
>>> Tony. I hope they can prove me wrong one day.
>>Piffle :) X-Plane has done mighty well.
>Point taken :)
>I didn't knew X-Plane was made by 2 programmers (in fact I don't know
>anything about X-Plane :)
/petern
>>Interesting to see that GPL nearly didn't allow Shift-R in
>>Intermediate mode - that would *really* have affected VROC Monza
>>races! - and that Alison & co. very very nearly got an AI slider
>>built in, but were stopped by "one guy with veto power". I'd like
>>to meet that man in a dark alleyway ;-)
> I want to buy him a beer.
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>>>Interesting to see that GPL nearly didn't allow Shift-R in
>>>Intermediate mode - that would *really* have affected VROC Monza
>>>races! - and that Alison & co. very very nearly got an AI slider
>>>built in, but were stopped by "one guy with veto power". I'd like
>>>to meet that man in a dark alleyway ;-)
>> I want to buy him a beer.
>I see your point, but surely an AI slider on Novice level only would
>have been reasonable? VROC races are generally Intermediate (with the
>odd Pro), so they wouldn't have been affected.
Andre
GPL was done in at the box office by *** people who only wanted
other people to play it the way they thought it should be played. An
absurd proposition if ever there was one.
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Maj. Bryan Hilferty, a spokesman for the
10th Mountain Division:"If they want to bring in
more people so we can kill them,We're happy to oblige."
Good question. I must have nicked that beer :)
(Having said that, I have driven in VROC races with AI drivers once or
twice.)
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I agree it's hard to win with the GPL system, but I disagree that's
hard to race the AI. People expect to win after 5 minutes practice,
and if they can't do that they say that the game is too hard. Take
N2002, for example. I installed it, and since I had no wheel
connected, I used the keys. AI on 70%, all aids on, and I won the
first race over 40% starting from the back, and when I had the lead,
I put my mug on the throttle key, and watched how I won....yoohoo,
I won my first race in N2002!
Now take GPL.....if someone said he won a race in GPL I knew what
he had to do to get that done...
Other point with the GPL AI is, that they adjust to your laptimes. The
fastest AI drivers don't improve much, but the backrunners do, so the
grid will become much closer. In N2002 all the AI drivers get the same
boost. (Well, I think they get)
GPL was/is indeed too hard for the novice racer, but IMO that was not
because of the AI system, but the lack of lateral grip.
Remco
-John
> >Yea lord knows that anything that might have made GPL more accessible
> >would have been a terrible thing...look how well it did at the box
> >office...oh.
> >GPL was done in at the box office by *** people who only wanted
> >other people to play it the way they thought it should be played. An
> >absurd proposition if ever there was one.
> I agree it's hard to win with the GPL system, but I disagree that's
> hard to race the AI. People expect to win after 5 minutes practice,
> and if they can't do that they say that the game is too hard. Take
> N2002, for example. I installed it, and since I had no wheel
> connected, I used the keys. AI on 70%, all aids on, and I won the
> first race over 40% starting from the back, and when I had the lead,
> I put my mug on the throttle key, and watched how I won....yoohoo,
> I won my first race in N2002!
> Now take GPL.....if someone said he won a race in GPL I knew what
> he had to do to get that done...
> Other point with the GPL AI is, that they adjust to your laptimes. The
> fastest AI drivers don't improve much, but the backrunners do, so the
> grid will become much closer. In N2002 all the AI drivers get the same
> boost. (Well, I think they get)
> GPL was/is indeed too hard for the novice racer, but IMO that was not
> because of the AI system, but the lack of lateral grip.
> Remco
> >PAPA DOC
> >>I want to buy him a beer.
Jonny
-John
PAPA DOC
Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
Never Forget Never Forgive September 11, 2001
www.papadoc.net
Maj. Bryan Hilferty, a spokesman for the
10th Mountain Division:"If they want to bring in
more people so we can kill them,We're happy to oblige."
>No, I think it's mostly agreed that the aids in GPL (as they should
>do IMHO) prevent you from going as quickly as you might without them.
Eldred
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