Re: GP3: Various topics

In GP2 it only told you your best lap during Practice & Qualifying. To get your best lap during the race you needed the program GP2lap. Hopefully a similar proggy will be released for GP3 which will also record your PO %age making slow mo impossible in HL leagues. GD wrote:

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> In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... > > > >I can spin forever on a small piece of concrete, always with full > >throttle... > > Sure. And once you're spinning around in circles, all you need > is to keep your finger on the accelerator button (I use the keyboard > because I dont have a wheel yet) and you will continue to go around. > Even if you point the steering wheel in the other direction. > > I mentioned a few days ago how GP2 had a bit of a graphic bug, in > that the textures of some sprites are mirror images of what they > should be. Same bug in GP3. > To see it, follow a Stewart car. The red bit of the HSBC logo > is on the right side of the rear wing, but at a distance of about > 20 metres (as it switches to the sprite) it flips to the left side > of the car. At a further distance, it flips back to the correct > side. > > I hate the sounds. > The engine sounds like a whining mosquito, there are no gear > UPchange sounds at all, and the gear DOWNchange sounds like > a someone dropping a bucket of bolts on a sheet of tin. > Braking in the rain sounds shit as well. > > In GP2 there was a display on the steering wheel that told you > what your best lap of the race was so far. A 'personal best' > for the race. In GP3 this is gone, so now I have now way of > knowing whether I'm going faster than I was before, or slower > than I was before. > > The race strategy needs improving. > Starting a [wet] 12 lap race on intermediates, I was running last > (22nd) because I didnt bother with qualifying. > After 6 laps (with 6 to go), I was still running last because I'd > spun once or twice. > The track started getting wetter, so EVERYONE dived into the > pits to get wet weather tyres. With only 6 laps to go!!! > I stayed out on the intermediates, and found myself in 4th after > everyone else had pitted. > What is it with these guys? Did they really have to change tyres > with only 6 laps (or 5 laps for the second driver) to go?

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... > >I can spin forever on a small piece of concrete, always with full >throttle... Sure. And once you're spinning around in circles, all you need is to keep your finger on the accelerator button (I use the keyboard because I dont have a wheel yet) and you will continue to go around. Even if you point the steering wheel in the other direction. I mentioned a few days ago how GP2 had a bit of a graphic bug, in that the textures of some sprites are mirror images of what they should be. Same bug in GP3. To see it, follow a Stewart car. The red bit of the HSBC logo is on the right side of the rear wing, but at a distance of about 20 metres (as it switches to the sprite) it flips to the left side of the car. At a further distance, it flips back to the correct side. I hate the sounds. The engine sounds like a whining mosquito, there are no gear UPchange sounds at all, and the gear DOWNchange sounds like a someone dropping a bucket of bolts on a sheet of tin. Braking in the rain sounds shit as well. In GP2 there was a display on the steering wheel that told you what your best lap of the race was so far. A 'personal best' for the race. In GP3 this is gone, so now I have now way of knowing whether I'm going faster than I was before, or slower than I was before. The race strategy needs improving. Starting a [wet] 12 lap race on intermediates, I was running last (22nd) because I didnt bother with qualifying. After 6 laps (with 6 to go), I was still running last because I'd spun once or twice. The track started getting wetter, so EVERYONE dived into the pits to get wet weather tyres. With only 6 laps to go!!! I stayed out on the intermediates, and found myself in 4th after everyone else had pitted. What is it with these guys? Did they really have to change tyres with only 6 laps (or 5 laps for the second driver) to go?

In article <[email hidden]>, GD <[email hidden]> writes <snip>

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> >The race strategy needs improving. >Starting a [wet] 12 lap race on intermediates, I was running last >(22nd) because I didnt bother with qualifying. >After 6 laps (with 6 to go), I was still running last because I'd >spun once or twice. >The track started getting wetter, so EVERYONE dived into the >pits to get wet weather tyres. With only 6 laps to go!!! >I stayed out on the intermediates, and found myself in 4th after >everyone else had pitted. >What is it with these guys? Did they really have to change tyres >with only 6 laps (or 5 laps for the second driver) to go? > >

Mmmm? Can someone test this out for me. Do some damage (not major, broken wing that sort of thing) to an AI car whilst on the penultimate lap and see if he comes in to the pits to fix it even though there is just one lap left. -- Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington) Remove ALL_STRESS before replying No person's opinions can be said to be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience.

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

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> >GD wrote: >> In GP2 there was a display on the steering wheel that told you >> what your best lap of the race was so far. A 'personal best' >> for the race. In GP3 this is gone, so now I have now way of >> knowing whether I'm going faster than I was before, or slower >> than I was before. > >In GP2 it only told you your best lap during Practice & Qualifying.

Are you sure? I just fired up a quickrace in GP2 just now, and as I crossed the line going into lap 3, it displayed: POS 3 TIME 1:38.794 CAR 22 BEST 1:43.646 >To get your best lap during the race you needed the program GP2lap. I've never downloaded GP2lap.