NSR Multiplayer, worth buying?

I want to get the opinion on the multiplyer component of NSR. I don't care for the offline game, multiplayer racing is where its at. So I don't want to shed out the cash, to find the online game bites. tx exx

Why should you get off so much 'easier' than I (we) did... <G> if your that tight about money, Id wait until the patches, plus by then probably 25 bucks versus 45? But if you are kinda like me, I like to have the newest to allow myself to struggle with it at same time when everyone else is, and the postings (here and or anywhere) are timely and are more on topic, so to speak. That is, instead of later when I have to google the newsgroups for the answers to what we all did back when the game came out, but wont recall everything we ever read, or as in some cases, websites fold or what-not... Its still your call. I like the multi aspect, but again the people I like to hang with use wheels, NO Driving aids, and alas no matter what, throngs of online idiots ruin even the best online games. yeah there are bugs, & stuff that doesn't work 'right' compared to what we're used to, but it aint all bad. LOL... exxtractor enlightened us with: > I want to get the opinion on the multiplyer component of NSR. I don't > care for the offline game, multiplayer racing is where its at. So I > don't want to shed out the cash, to find the online game bites. > > tx exx

No, the online really stinks right now, wait till they patch it. Cars warp all over the place, I can't even play with one buddy of mine and 9 other AI cars, and we both have 3meg Cable.., We can and have been running for years the Papy sims with all 41 other AI cars without any problems. If they can fix the muti-player and a few other issues they will have a winner. It also stinks you have to log into there servers, to even do a direct IP connect. "Plowboy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:m7JVd.33205$7z6.27643@lakeread04...

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> Why should you get off so much 'easier' than I (we) did... <G> > > if your that tight about money, Id wait until the patches, plus by then > probably 25 bucks versus 45? > > But if you are kinda like me, I like to have the newest to allow myself to > struggle with it at same time when everyone else is, and the postings > (here > and or anywhere) are timely and are more on topic, so to speak. That is, > instead of later when I have to google the newsgroups for the answers to > what > we all did back when the game came out, but wont recall everything we ever > read, or as in some cases, websites fold or what-not... Its still your > call. > > I like the multi aspect, but again the people I like to hang with use > wheels, NO Driving aids, and alas no matter what, throngs of online idiots > ruin even the best online games. yeah there are bugs, & stuff that doesn't > work 'right' compared to what we're used to, but it aint all bad. > > > LOL... > > exxtractor enlightened us with: >> I want to get the opinion on the multiplyer component of NSR. I don't >> care for the offline game, multiplayer racing is where its at. So I >> don't want to shed out the cash, to find the online game bites. >> >> tx exx > > >

All I can say is, Wow about your experiences. I would no more host my own game with my tiny upload bandwidth, dont know if exxtractor will either? FWIW, I did host a time or two, when I was on cable with papy's tittle. I could only have <18 cars on it at the time. FWIW, I have 1.5 down, 256 up, and everyone I been talking or readin about, are meeting at a dedicated (read that as OLR or another server than has great bandwidth, like flog or ??) it hasn't seemed to me to have been near as bad as you say, again your expectations are higher than mine, and can you be sure your machine can do both really well? I would suggest that if your trying to host, drive, and also include 'AI cars' from your one gaming machine, i too would bet that it sucks badly. Everywhere I have read, by server operators like you know, due to reports out by the FLOG.com dude, and others...... where the server without problem could run 3-4 instances of Papy NRxx, not all running 'full' at once mind ya, the NSR is taxing the hell out of the same servers. This is with just one instance of NSR, and without being anywhere near full in that session. mjones53 enlightened us with:

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> No, the online really stinks right now, wait till they patch it. Cars > warp all over the place, I can't even play with one buddy of mine and > 9 other AI cars, and we both have 3meg Cable.., We can and have been > running for years the Papy sims with all 41 other AI cars without any > problems. If they can fix the muti-player and a few other issues they > will have a winner. It also stinks you have to log into there > servers, to even do a direct IP connect. "Plowboy" > <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:m7JVd.33205$7z6.27643@lakeread04... >> Why should you get off so much 'easier' than I (we) did... <G> >> >> if your that tight about money, Id wait until the patches, plus by >> then probably 25 bucks versus 45? >> >> But if you are kinda like me, I like to have the newest to allow >> myself to struggle with it at same time when everyone else is, and >> the postings (here >> and or anywhere) are timely and are more on topic, so to speak. That is, >> instead of later when I have to google the newsgroups for >> the answers to what >> we all did back when the game came out, but wont recall everything >> we ever read, or as in some cases, websites fold or what-not... Its >> still your call. >> >> I like the multi aspect, but again the people I like to hang with use >> wheels, NO Driving aids, and alas no matter what, throngs of online >> idiots ruin even the best online games. yeah there are bugs, & stuff >> that doesn't work 'right' compared to what we're used to, but it >> aint all bad. LOL... >> >> exxtractor enlightened us with: >>> I want to get the opinion on the multiplyer component of NSR. I >>> don't care for the offline game, multiplayer racing is where its >>> at. So I don't want to shed out the cash, to find the online game >>> bites. tx exx

For a guy like me, the casual online player (a few buddies, nothing major hardcore serious league stuff) it is just fine. I have done quite a bit of testing so far, and for my low car number needs, its more than enough. Plus, you can actually bump draft and not fly 12,000 feet into the air.... :)

Too bad he wont post back what he decided and maybe a why... lol. Smokin_Bob enlightened us with: > For a guy like me, the casual online player (a few buddies, nothing > major hardcore serious league stuff) it is just fine. I have done > quite a bit of testing so far, and for my low car number needs, its > more than enough. Plus, you can actually bump draft and not fly > 12,000 feet into the air.... :)

I think mutiplayer is getting better.Last night I was on & it was great the first few times I was on ot was terrible.Maybey it was just a better server? "exxtractor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I want to get the opinion on the multiplyer component of NSR. I don't > care for the offline game, multiplayer racing is where its at. So I > don't want to shed out the cash, to find the online game bites. > > tx exx

I'm going to wait right now, I'm not interested in hosting a race, and racing a friend against AI cars. I'd rather have a field of 40 real drivers that 5 real drivers and the rest AI. If you guys are getting waring on the servers I'll wait till they issue a few patches for multiplayer than buy the game, like I said I have no interest in racing AI cars. exx On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:08:49 -0600, "Plowboy" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Too bad he wont post back what he decided and maybe a why... lol. >