ICR II - field-destroying crashes eliminated???

I'm getting tired of reading these "Will ICR 2 have this/ will ICR 2 have that" posts, and yet there is one thing that even *I* can't wait a few months to find out.... namely, will these highly-unrealistic entire-field-destroying crashes be eliminated?? Example - I'm driving at a record-setting pace in the IICC2 Detroit event, haven't knocked a single car out, 20-25 laps remaining. Two AI cars get together on the front straight, and by the time things get sorted out, the *entire field* is sitting in a motionless heap on the front straight, ruining my race. I ended up finishing fourth at the event, but had a chance at at least second had it not been for those stupid AI cars... will these tremendous heaps of crashed cars be eliminated in Indycar 2? -Brad -- * . . . . . .,___/--/|) **** [link lost in import: /**] *./ ./ ./ ./ ./ ./ \_/ ()|/\\ *** people/traweek/traweek.html * * \ \ \ \ \ \_/`~---'\_/ *********************************

will these tremendous heaps of crashed cars be eliminated in Indycar 2? <<< The AI in IndyCar Racing II is dramatically improved over IndyCar Racing (and even somewhat improved over NASCAR Racing, especially for road courses). I think you'll be pleased. Rick Genter Technical Lead, IndyCar Racing II/NASCAR Racing for Macintosh/Windows Papyrus Design Group, Inc.

>I'm getting tired of reading these "Will ICR 2 have this/ will ICR 2 >have that" posts, and yet there is one thing that even *I* can't wait >a few months to find out.... namely, will these highly-unrealistic >entire-field-destroying crashes be eliminated?? (dripping with sarcasm...) Does anybody else care about THIS? If you don't want any wrecks then lower the number of OPPONENTS!

With respect, I think you misunderstand. In Indycar Racing if you spin out and cause damage to your car, often the rest of the field will stop on the track and progress no further until you get going again. I believe the hope is that this will be fixed in ICR2 - was certainly ok in NASCAR. Mike.

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>>>I'm getting tired of reading these "Will ICR 2 have this/ will ICR 2 >>>have that" posts, and yet there is one thing that even *I* can't wait >>>a few months to find out.... namely, will these highly-unrealistic >>>entire-field-destroying crashes be eliminated?? >>(dripping with sarcasm...) >>Does anybody else care about THIS? If you don't want any wrecks then >>lower the number of OPPONENTS! >I care about it! >How many time have you seen a whole feild of >indycars in one wreck?

Actually, folks, Patrick is making a sarcastic joke re: my previous posts about my lack of interest in a 'save game' feature for ICR II, in which I said 'if you don't want to run a full race, then run a shorter race.' I don't like things that aren't realistic - saving your game in the middle of a race and coming back to it later, for example. And esp. having the entire field knocked out in one fell swoop. So it's good to hear that ICR II will be 'vastly improved' in that area.... -- * . . . . . .,___/--/|) **** http://www.cs.arizona.edu/ ** *./ ./ ./ ./ ./ ./ \_/ ()|/\\ *** people/traweek/traweek.html * * \ \ \ \ \ \_/`~---'\_/ *********************************

->>I'm getting tired of reading these "Will ICR 2 have this/ will ICR 2 ->>have that" posts, and yet there is one thing that even *I* can't wait ->>a few months to find out.... namely, will these highly-unrealistic ->>entire-field-destroying crashes be eliminated?? Ya know...I've never seen one of those yet. The most cars I've ever seen (excluding those times when I turn damage off and go backwords around Michigan <g>), is 5 cars going into turn 1 on the 1st lap of Michigan, which isn't all that an uncommon occurance. 'Course, that six car pileup I had in NASCAR yesterday was good for the replay. <g> ... Destroy the Borg? Let's give them DOS 6.0!!!!