We've lost the gearbox

Man, I was playing RBR on arizona, lost the gear box, and then was able to coast down the rest of the mountain and finish the stage. I was hoping the service park was next, but it wasnt. So the next stage started and the gearbox was still busted but if you babied the throttle you could get the wheels to catch and move the car. But if you pushed too hard it would slip and you could barely get any power down. Awesome

fredrickson wrote: > So the next stage started and the > gearbox was still busted but if you babied the throttle you could get the > wheels to catch and move the car. And what fun is finishing a stage tediously like that? I find it annoying if you retire through the menu that Country stage of racing is totally over with. Why, when you retire, can't you simply get to the next service port area skipping only that one course?

Destroy <[email hidden]> wrote in news:Vs35d.37127$[email hidden] kc.rr.com: > I find it annoying if you retire through the menu that Country stage of > racing is totally over with. Why, when you retire, can't you simply get > to the next service port area skipping only that one course? When Rally drivers tear up their cars, they are done for the whole rally. If you can't get to a service point you can't continue. I'm sure the drivers would LOVE to be able to rip the car up at 100% attack and then skip a stage to get it rebuilt. There is more to rally than just tooling down a dirt road. dave henrie

Destroy wrote: > I find it annoying if you retire through the menu that Country stage of > racing is totally over with. Why, when you retire, can't you simply get > to the next service port area skipping only that one course? realism. it's what rbr's about, in case you hadn't noticed :) :) Charlie

that'd be the clutch slipping just so you know, not the tyres. Charlie

"fredrickson" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:6935d.3083$[email hidden]:

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> Man, I was playing RBR on arizona, lost the gear box, and then was > able to coast down the rest of the mountain and finish the stage. I > was hoping the service park was next, but it wasnt. So the next stage > started and the gearbox was still busted but if you babied the > throttle you could get the wheels to catch and move the car. But if > you pushed too hard it would slip and you could barely get any power > down. Awesome > >

I managed to do that, freewheeling most of a stage in France, shifting between 4th and 5th (in the Pug) with no throttle just to get that little boost, got to the end of the stage "You cannot get to the service area and have had to retire" or something like that. It's nice to know the sim lets you do it, but it really is utterly pointless :-) cheers John