After joyfully downloading the newest of cars sets I have often wondered
just how the creators did their final determination of relative car
strengths. They usually are pretty close, with a few obvious favorites
possibly pressed a little bit. Sometime ago I wrote a driver editor
program (for DRIVERS2.TXT) and with the advent of more time on my hands,
during the latest degbug session, I decided to add a routine that uses
current point standings to automatically adjust the driver's relative
strengths. Using a tiny bit of statistics with current and past WC points
the routine makes the field darn close to what you see/saw in the races. A
little closer sim to what it was, and fun those who keep in touch with the
real world NASCAR. And can be updated as the seasons progress by noting
the current point standings.
If you want to try this out email me and I'll send you a copy. (it's also
pretty good as a NASCAR editor in general) Yes, it is a DOS mouse app.,
but you can make an icon for it in Win3.x if you want, and it's not speed
intensive so the DOS under WIN95 works fine. I would really like some
feed back on this as I will soon(?) be re-doing it as a windows app., and
want to improve on it [if possible!] :) when I do.
Matt "I don't do windows (yet)" Hart
Using a tiny bit of statistics with current and past WC points
Hi Matthew,
One thing I have always felt was unfair in NASCAR was that the AI
drivers entered in a race in the order they appeared in the
Drivers2.txt. This meant that not all the drivers had an equal
chance of winning the Championship because the ones at the end did not
race in all the races of the season.
How hard would it be to make a utility to randomize the drivers2.txt
and at the same time correctly match up the car PCX in the dat file?
To me it sounds impossible but I thought I would ask.
Cheers,
Craig.
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> After joyfully downloading the newest of cars sets I have often wondered
> just how the creators did their final determination of relative car
> strengths. They usually are pretty close, with a few obvious favorites
> possibly pressed a little bit.
I use a spreadsheet and enter in the results of each race. I have a range
defined for each value, the spreadsheet just calculates an average
percentage for each driver and scales them accordingly, depending on the
number of drivers (eg. 2nd place out of 39 scores more than 2nd out of
3). If you have ClarisWorks 1.0, I can send you a copy if you want.
Greg Hingerty
You can make it that all the cars race in every race. You have to go into
the track txt file and on the line that read's cars 38 38 change the 38 38
to 40 40. That will put all the cars in your drivers2.txt in the race, so
none of the cars miss out.
>You can make it that all the cars race in every race. You have to go into
>the track txt file and on the line that read's cars 38 38 change the 38 38
>to 40 40. That will put all the cars in your drivers2.txt in the race, so
>none of the cars miss out.
However this gets a bit crowded at Bristol.... North Wilkesborough...
Richmond.. <G>
Hope you like LOTS of traffic...
Weyr
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>Subject: Re: Nascar & Points Standings >Date: 19 Apr 96 08:15:54 GMT >>You can make it that all the cars race in every race. You have to go into >>the track txt file and on the line that read's cars 38 38 change the 38 38 >>to 40 40. That will put all the cars in your drivers2.txt in the race, so >>none of the cars miss out. >However this gets a bit crowded at Bristol.... North Wilkesborough... >Richmond.. <G> >Hope you like LOTS of traffic... >WeyrI want the wrecker concession at Darlington...
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