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Hi, I just wanted to ask this simple question : when it comes to online playing PC racegames, which games are the best ? I am not asking which is the best game to play, but which game has a lot of people racing online, having servers constantly online and always more than enough players to race with ? I guess some of the later NASCAR games are amongst this, but I dont particularly like NASCAR racing - no offence. GPL ? CMR 2 ? F1 2002 with mod's ? Currently I am playing STCC2 (Swedish Touring Car Champ) and Insane (1nsane), I really like them, but they lack some players to play online ... particularly STCC2 - which I think is an awesome racer. rgds, Tony

Yes, too bad that not too many people know about STCC2, i would actually rate its multiplayer better then GPL. Otherwise I think you should go for GPL. Btw, do you have Rally Masters?, its also got pretty good onlineplayer, but not as crowded as GPL :/ "Tony Van Cauter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > Hi, > > I just wanted to ask this simple question : when it comes to online > playing PC racegames, which games are the best ? > > I am not asking which is the best game to play, but which game has a lot > of people racing online, having servers constantly online and always > more than enough players to race with ? > > I guess some of the later NASCAR games are amongst this, but I dont > particularly like NASCAR racing - no offence. > > GPL ? > CMR 2 ? > F1 2002 with mod's ? > > Currently I am playing STCC2 (Swedish Touring Car Champ) and Insane > (1nsane), I really like them, but they lack some players to play online > ... particularly STCC2 - which I think is an awesome racer. > > rgds, > Tony > > >

Hi, GPL ? I have played it briefly, but I didnt have my wheel back then .. found it very interesting, awesome sound, nice tracks ... not to mention Nurburging itself - at least a sim with that track had lots of fun trying to remember the track (totally failed .. only 20 laps or so) .. racing was quite impossible, kept colliding with other cars and scenery .. I will try it again some day Rally Masters : not tried yet ... know any link for demo ? Andreas Nystrom wrote:

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> Yes, too bad that not too many people know about STCC2, i would actually > rate its multiplayer better then GPL. > > Otherwise I think you should go for GPL. > > Btw, do you have Rally Masters?, its also got pretty good onlineplayer, but > not as crowded as GPL :/ > > "Tony Van Cauter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > Hi, > > > > I just wanted to ask this simple question : when it comes to online > > playing PC racegames, which games are the best ? > > > > I am not asking which is the best game to play, but which game has a lot > > of people racing online, having servers constantly online and always > > more than enough players to race with ? > > > > I guess some of the later NASCAR games are amongst this, but I dont > > particularly like NASCAR racing - no offence. > > > > GPL ? > > CMR 2 ? > > F1 2002 with mod's ? > > > > Currently I am playing STCC2 (Swedish Touring Car Champ) and Insane > > (1nsane), I really like them, but they lack some players to play online > > ... particularly STCC2 - which I think is an awesome racer. > > > > rgds, > > Tony > > > > > >

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Tony Van Cauter ([email hidden]) wrote on 15 Apr 2002: <snip> > I am not asking which is the best game to play, but which game has > a lot of people racing online, having servers constantly online and > always more than enough players to race with ?<snip> Totally biased answer: GPL. The client software (VROC) is small and very reliable, without pointless bells and whistles; the game is completely playable online with pings of 400 (as long as the connection is stable) on a 33.6k modem; there's almost always more than one race with enough drivers to choose from; you can happily race online with a 500MHz Celeron and a Voodoo3; there are several "perpetual servers"; and it's better than NASCAR (because discipline is [usually] better, you don't get kicked off servers for crashing [OK, so that's good and bad] and the tracks have right turns [except the ovals]). The only real drawback is that I feel there are just too many pickup servers these days, so the field gets spread a little thinly at times. Having said that, once you get a "critical mass" of 5 or so drivers on one server, others usually quickly follow, and a full house (19 + server) is not unknown. -- "After all, a mere thousand yards... such a harmless little knoll, really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh. The GPL Scrapyard: Back again! http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard

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> > Hi, > > I just wanted to ask this simple question : when it comes to online > playing PC racegames, which games are the best ? > > I am not asking which is the best game to play, but which game has a lot > of people racing online, having servers constantly online and always > more than enough players to race with ?

An often overlooked light sim is NFS/Porsche Unleashed. The on-line play has these characteristics: Nice lobby/chartroom while selecting a race to join, or to create your own race, where you choose race tracks and rules, and have a chat room for those waiting for the "owner" to start the next race. Pretty good physics. But it aint GPL, more like NASCAR Heat. Road courses. About half of the tracks are a tour through scenic European countryside. Nice graphics. Races are sprints, usually over in 2 to 4 minutes. Servers seem to drop once or twice, for about five minutes, each Friday and Saturday night. Max of 8 people per race. Pole position seems to be random. Typically 60 players at any time on a weekend evening, U.S. West coast time. There are usually about 10 races going, but this goes up and down. Servers are up, and kept busy, with drivers from around the world. I've tried online at all times of the day, there are usually plenty of players. Ping times are 30 ms for me and a few others who are here on the U.S. West coast, and 100 to 500, for most. Each driver, however, is being fed the track smoothly from their own PC, so they can drive fine. Slow pings can make other cars appear to move in jerks and pauses. They can even fool you PC into showing a car you are following crashing, only to have it appear in front of you driving fine, a second later. Because of this the collision and damage functions are usually turned off by the person who started the race. The track and car files are encrypted, a few hacks have been done to cheat, but no one has been able to add a new car. So you only drive Porsches, starting with the 356 from the '50s, to the 2000 911 Turbo. The 1998 GT1 and 1995 3.6 are among the most popular for online play. Cheap. A friend got a copy in December for $20.00, and there were 3 other sims in the box. NFS has it's own newgroup, alt.games.need-for-speed. Lots of fun. Light atmosphere. Nobody just got screwed by an idiot on the last lap after an hour of the best race of their lives. As stated, these are sprints. Larry