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FAST! (but real?)

5 posts by 5 people · 19 May 1996 - 28 May 1996

WOD 19 May 1996#319318
OK, call me an old so and so if you like, but here's my problem: I have found some very fast setups on the net from all of you guys who do such great work. On several tracks, the opponents at 100% just aren't competitive. I want to be fast, but I want to be realistically fast. I don't want to "beat the sim" if you know what I mean. Does anyone have any thoughts on where a realistic setup ends? How much is unrealistic stagger? I'm not a real gear head, so I just don't want to have a setup that is fast, but totally unrealistic. Where do I draww the line (lines)? Hawaii: Rustbucket
Julian Lov 22 May 1996#319618
Quoted text (10 lines)> OK, call me an old so and so if you like, but here's my problem: I have > found some very fast setups on the net from all of you guys who do such > great work. On several tracks, the opponents at 100% just aren't > competitive. I want to be fast, but I want to be realistically fast. I > don't want to "beat the sim" if you know what I mean. Does anyone have any > thoughts on where a realistic setup ends? How much is unrealistic stagger? > I'm not a real gear head, so I just don't want to have a setup that is > fast, but totally unrealistic. Where do I draww the line (lines)? > Hawaii: Rustbucket
If you want 'realistic' setups, do them like the real drivers do. Don't download them off the net - work them out yourself! Start with the default ace setup, get yourself a copy of the Quick Fix setup guide, and go and thrash out your own setups. Much more of a challenge than just using someone elses, and teaches you alot about driving, too. Julian _____________________________________________________________________ University of Oxford
Bobby 22 May 1996#319619
> If you want 'realistic' setups, do them like the real drivers do. Don't > download them off the net - work them out yourself! Start with the > default ace setup, get yourself a copy of the Quick Fix setup guide, and > go and thrash out your own setups. Much more of a challenge than just > using someone elses, and teaches you alot about driving, too. I still find though personally that I can win easily using the Ace setup and with opponents at 100%, esp. in wet conditions.
Are we talking ICR2 or Nascar ? (Just curious, I find that hard to believe in ICR2, although the part about a wet race would suggest ICR1) Cheers. --John -- ------------------- John (Joao) Silva http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jsilva Seattle, Washington USA.
TOBY BRANFO 28 May 1996#320190
RA> > If you want 'realistic' setups, do them like the real drivers do. RA> Don't download them off the net - work them out yourself! Start RA> with the default ace setup, get yourself a copy of the Quick Fix RA> setup guide, and go and thrash out your own setups. Much more of a RA> challenge In principle - this is good. But equally, do like real drivers do and ask advice from others. Downloading someones very fast setup MAY work for you as it is. But I often find I end up using them as ideas only. For many the "Ace" setup is everything but - someone elses "fast" setup may not be ideal but at least works. It's often been one "major" change that transforms something..... .....years ago F1GP seemed difficult, then I saw all the fast setups had a massive rearwards bias to the braking. Maybe I'd have got there eventually but so many blind alleys avoided there! .....massive frustration with Nascar might have made me give up in disgust since the Glen was the only interesting place to drive. But then some pointers suggested BIG reductions in the steering lock.....and the cars at least began to handle! Cheers! --- * RM 1.3 U0414 * .....NO CARRIER.....but two destroyers and a frigate.

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