HAWAII: Tips for improvements

I was able to connect tonight with absolutely no problems. Well, one time going into Martinsville it gave me a red posting, but I tried it right away again and it went straight in. I raced at Michigan and Martinsville. Here are a few things I think would improve the game: 1) If we have spotters now, why don't they tell me that the leaders are coming up behind me. Yes, I have mirrors, but to know if it's the leaders or not is unknown until they get beside me and I can see decals or a number (or, of course, the approaching speed ;). This may just be me needing more experience, but it would be a nice feature anyway. It would take the guess work out it. That's it. Everything else worked so good that I don't have any complaints. Doug Online as "IBSlow" PS - I did about as expected at Michigan (7 of 13), but I got lapped 7 times at Marty because I pitted for damage.

>1) If we have spotters now, why don't they tell me that the leaders are >coming up behind me. Yes, I have mirrors, but to know if it's the >leaders or not is unknown until they get beside me and I can see decals >or a number (or, of course, the approaching speed ;). Pull up the F2 screen. Press the shift key. This tells you exactly who's on your tail and how far behind they are. It also works very well for avoiding wreckage on the superspeedways. Watch the split times and if the split times of a car ahead of you start dropping quickly, get out of the gas so you've got some traction budget to steer around the wreckage. Dave

> 1) If we have spotters now, why don't they tell me that the leaders are > coming up behind me. Yes, I have mirrors, but to know if it's the > leaders or not is unknown until they get beside me and I can see decals > or a number (or, of course, the approaching speed ;). > How about making the spotter text a different color from the chat text. It's really bothersome while you are racing to look away from the track to read each line of text to see if it is a warning about a wreck or just chat between people who have already wrecked. Thanks Josh Carr-IVGA Go#3!!!!!!

Read the Docs F2 and Shift will give you relative position listing

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>Subject: Re: HAWAII: Tips for improvements >Date: 29 Apr 1996 21:23:42 GMT >>1) If we have spotters now, why don't they tell me that the leaders are >>coming up behind me. Yes, I have mirrors, but to know if it's the >>leaders or not is unknown until they get beside me and I can see decals >>or a number (or, of course, the approaching speed ;). >Pull up the F2 screen. Press the shift key. This tells you exactly who's on >your tail and how far behind they are. It also works very well for avoiding >wreckage on the superspeedways. Watch the split times and if the split >times of a car ahead of you start dropping quickly, get out of the gas so >you've got some traction budget to steer around the wreckage. >Dave

I must've hit SHIFT accidently, and I didn't know how to get out of that... I was WONDERING how I got there... :) Eldred Pickett I am NOT paranoid. And why are you always watching me?!?

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>> 1) If we have spotters now, why don't they tell me that the leaders are >> coming up behind me. Yes, I have mirrors, but to know if it's the >> leaders or not is unknown until they get beside me and I can see decals >> or a number (or, of course, the approaching speed ;). >> How about making the spotter text a different color from the chat text. It's really >bothersome while you are racing to look away from the track to read each line of text to >see if it is a warning about a wreck or just chat between people who have already >wrecked. Thanks Josh Carr-IVGA Go#3!!!!!!

It would also be nice to have an option to not display the chat, leaving only the spotter text. -- Mike Corrigan