GPLEA

discussed in 61 posts, 2000-2007 · overall tone very positive

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Key threads

• Banked Monza demand and track-editor debate 2000-07-12 · 94 posts
  GPLEA's Ed Solheim said he had driven a banked Monza in GPL and found it dull, which drew protests from fans who wanted it. Martijn Keizer said editors build tracks they enjoy and that track-editing tools stay private to prevent cheating, while ymenard argued that releasing tools would benefit the community. Posters also corrected the history of the 1961 von Trips accident.
• GPLEA releases Grand Prix Legends track-creation tutorials 2001-02-16 · 24 posts
  Phil Flack announced the GPLEA's online guide and tools for creating new Grand Prix Legends tracks, with discussion hosted at Legends Central. Users praised the work and one reported building a driveable track in a weekend, while a concern that editors would undermine GPLRank was answered by noting the tools cannot edit encrypted existing tracks and that cheating was easier other ways. Other developers mentioned upcoming GPL utilities such as a lap record editor.
• GPLEA announces upcoming GPL track creation tools 2001-01-01 · 35 posts
  Phil Flack of the GPLEA announced that tutorials and utilities for building GPL tracks were coming soon. Some welcomed the chance to see new tracks such as a banked Monza, while Ville Sinkko and Dave Henrie feared a flood of poor-quality tracks and version confusion. Tim Wheatley and Ruud van Gaal predicted that the difficulty of track building would keep numbers down.
• Thanks to GPLEA for the Snetterton track 2000-03-17 · 26 posts
  Players thanked the GPLEA for the Snetterton track and praised its quality. Some lamented that the announcement was being drowned out by F1 2000 warez posts. Edwin Solheim said improved AI was in progress but the racing groove would not be fixed.
• Returning racer asks whether anything has replaced GPL 2004-12-23 · 25 posts
  A sim racer coming back after two years asked whether anything had replaced Grand Prix Legends. Answers ranged from 'no, GPL is still king' to strong claims that GTR was now the best sim, with some arguing that NR2003 had a better tyre model. Several people reported that GTR's 1.2 patch had made multiplayer worse, with stutters, crashes and disconnects. The thread also picked up spam recipe text.
• Project Wildfire announces free NR2003 mods 2003-06-05 · 57 posts
  A link to Project Wildfire, a team including many names from Papyrus game credits, announced free mods and tracks for NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. Posters were excited and posted wish lists (GPL 2, CART, Aussie V8s, Trans-Am and Featherlite modifieds), leading to a long tangent explaining the appeal of Australian V8 Supercars and Bathurst history.
• Racing trivia: Graham Hill's triple crown and John Surtees 2001-02-16 · 30 posts
  A poster asked whether Graham Hill was the only driver to win the British GP, Indy 500 and Le Mans; others corrected that Hill never won the British GP but is the only driver to take the F1 title, Indy 500 and Le Mans. The thread turned into racing trivia about Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt and John Surtees, the only world champion on two and four wheels, with jokes about Surtees' AI car in GPL.

Busiest threads

• Banked Monza demand and track-editor debate (5 posts about it)
• Re: GPLEA Eagle released for GPL (4 posts about it)
• GPLEA releases Grand Prix Legends track-creation tutorials (3 posts about it)
• GPLEA released Lotus 43 BRM ! (2 posts about it)
• Grand Prix Legends: GPLEA 1.5 Litre mod. (2 posts about it)
• GPLEA release new Ferrari for GPL (2 posts about it)
• GPL - New GPLEA car projects (2 posts about it)
• GPLEA announces upcoming GPL track creation tools (2 posts about it)
• GPL Graphics Problem/Question (2 posts about it)
• Re: My Lotus (2 posts about it)
• Thanks to GPLEA for the Snetterton track (2 posts about it)
• GPL for rF v1.2 spotted in the wild... (1 posts about it)
• GPLEA has a temp site (1 posts about it)
• REQ: Contact From GPLEA (1 posts about it)
• Returning racer asks whether anything has replaced GPL (1 posts about it)

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Who talked about them most

Malc · 4 Phil Lee · 4 Arto Wikla · 3 µartijn · 3 pierrot · 2 Alan Coates · 2 Andre Warringa · 2 ymenard · 2 Randy · 2 mcewena · 1 JP · 1 Ruud Dingemans · 1 JCanar · 1 Bruce Kennewell · 1 jason moyer · 1 Joel A. Willstein · 1 MadDAWG · 1 Samuel Senior · 1 Dan Leach · 1 Sideshow Bob · 1

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