Nascar2 Save Game

How do you save a race during championship season? Or did they decide to leave this out!

The save game feature is gone. The old one was pretty lame anyways, since you always had to start back up under yellow with the cars lined up in standing order, as opposed to how they were lined up on the track. Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

Nooooo!!!! Say it ain't so!! I know some people didn't like the way it worked but if you don't like it just don't use it... Don't punish those of us who liked it. :( Just my $.02 SteveMc Still impatiently waiting for my pre-order....

> How do you save a race during championship season? Or did they decide to > leave this out! Since I've now read that the save game (such as it was in previous Papyrus sims) has been removed it looks like N2 will be the first Papyrus product I won't purchase. I've been a long time supporter of Papy sims, but their failure to include what to me is a KEY FEATURE mystefies me. VERY FEW OF US HAVE FOUR HOURS TO KILL IN ONE GO! F1GP (the first one) had a fully implemented save game facility, and it was released in 1991. Currently F1GP2 is the only sim I'm playing - mainly because I can save full length races whenever I like. I don't care how good the other improvements to the game are, without a save game I won't touch it. Mike Excell

Quoted text (14 lines)

> Since I've now read that the save game (such as it was in previous Papyrus > sims) has been removed it looks like N2 will be the first Papyrus product > I won't purchase. I've been a long time supporter of Papy sims, but their > failure to include what to me is a KEY FEATURE mystefies me. VERY FEW OF US > HAVE FOUR HOURS TO KILL IN ONE GO! > F1GP (the first one) had a fully implemented save game facility, and it was > released in 1991. Currently F1GP2 is the only sim I'm playing - mainly because > I can save full length races whenever I like. > I don't care how good the other improvements to the game are, without a save > game I won't touch it. > Mike Excell

Poor guy, The save game in Nascar 1 was stupid. I think it is great that it was not included in Nascar 2. This adds alot more realism to the game. In real life you just can't stop in the middle of a race and finish some other time. To solve your problem, just race shorter length races. If you do choose to deprive yourself of this awesome game, then I pity you. GREAT JOB SIERRA...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!!! Gary Burns [ burnsga 5K ] UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!!!!! Hey!!! It's Me!!!!! Send Me E-mail...Any Suggestions ??? Click here to see a copy of my Resume Sign my guestbook before you leave !! ( Special thanks to Amy Voss for helping in its creation ) Click here to find out more about me Here are some of my friends pages Dustin Pennington Mark Strawmyer Brett Williams Mark Stumpf Jeff Pajor It's about time you visited!!!! You are visitor # Sports!!!!!! Auto Racing Dale Jarrett. My favorite Nascar Driver Click here to see my Dale Jarrett Homepage Click here to see my favorite Nascar drivers Click here to see my favorite Indycar drivers Nascar Racing Headquarters Standings IndyCar Racing Headquarters Standings The Official Nascar Homepage Purdue Athletics College Football News Polls College Basketball News Polls Gene Keady's Page Professional Sports NBA ( Basketball ) NFL ( Football ) MLB ( Baseball ) Television Days of our Lives. My favorite and only soap opera. Dustin's Days of our Lives Homepage The counter is brought to you by www.digits.com

Quoted text (8 lines)

>> How do you save a race during championship season? Or did they decide to >> leave this out! >Since I've now read that the save game (such as it was in previous Papyrus >sims) has been removed it looks like N2 will be the first Papyrus product >I won't purchase. I've been a long time supporter of Papy sims, but their >failure to include what to me is a KEY FEATURE mystefies me. VERY FEW OF US >HAVE FOUR HOURS TO KILL IN ONE GO!

You know, you could *always* run a 25% or 40% or smaller race. In all my nascar racing days, I have run 100% races only 2 or 3 times, and then it's because of a league or series I was in that required a "really long one". the only times I save races are when I run 100+ laps and the computer crashes or locks up. then when I re-run it, I save it at the first caution.

Quoted text (28 lines)

> > Since I've now read that the save game (such as it was in previous Papyrus > > sims) has been removed it looks like N2 will be the first Papyrus product > > I won't purchase. I've been a long time supporter of Papy sims, but their > > failure to include what to me is a KEY FEATURE mystefies me. VERY FEW OF US > > HAVE FOUR HOURS TO KILL IN ONE GO! > > F1GP (the first one) had a fully implemented save game facility, and it was > > released in 1991. Currently F1GP2 is the only sim I'm playing - mainly because > > I can save full length races whenever I like. > > I don't care how good the other improvements to the game are, without a save > > game I won't touch it. > > Mike Excell > Poor guy, > The save game in Nascar 1 was stupid. I think it is great that > it was not included in Nascar 2. This adds alot more realism > to the game. In real life you just can't stop in the middle of a race > and finish some other time. > To solve your problem, just race shorter length races. If you do > choose to deprive yourself of this awesome game, then I pity you. > GREAT JOB SIERRA...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!!! > Gary Burns

....snipped a freaking home page..... Excuse me?? Taking the save game out adds alot more realism to the game, yet your advice to this guy is to just run shorter length races? Shorter 'unrealistic' races?? Is the pause button stupid as well? Its just as unrealistic. I personally have never used the save game, just let it set on pause when I needed it. However, saying taking it out is good because its 'more realistic' is stupid. Taking something out of a game that removes alot of the playability for alot of users always is. How much realism will they now experience only running 20 percent races? Not much.

>I don't care how good the other improvements to the game are, without a save >game I won't touch it. That's a little harsh and rather in the same mold as those who claimed that they wouldn't play GP2 at all because it doesn't support IPX. It will still be worth getting N2, just means that you will need to stick to shorter races <g>. Did you also leave ICR1 & 2 and N1 alone - after all the implementation of the game save feature in those sims was pointless IMHO. Cheers, Richard

>Since I've now read that the save game (such as it was in previous Papyrus >sims) has been removed it looks like N2 will be the first Papyrus product >I won't purchase. I've been a long time supporter of Papy sims, but their >failure to include what to me is a KEY FEATURE mystefies me. VERY FEW OF US >HAVE FOUR HOURS TO KILL IN ONE GO! I guess this is where the difference of opinion comes from. I don't have 4 hours to kill at a time, either. When I sit down to race, I set the race length so that I can finish it in one sitting. That usually means somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-40% length. Unlike N1, you won't see a yellow come out everytime an AI car bumps the wall, so the race won't be lengthened all that much by yellows. It's pretty easy to just take your average lap time and divide that into the amount of time you have to spend. If it takes 30 seconds to finish a lap at Atlanta, then an hour race is 120 laps or about 30%. I've said all I have to say on the subject. Sorry that we have a difference of opinion. If Papyrus had been able to implement a real Save Game that would save a race in progress without any other features being impacted, I would have campaigned for it. As it was, I didn't think it was worth the sacrifice. Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

: : >I don't care how good the other improvements to the game are, without a save : >game I won't touch it. : : to shorter races <g>. Did you also leave ICR1 & 2 and N1 alone - after : all the implementation of the game save feature in those sims was : pointless IMHO. I usually waited for a caution in N1 before saving my game... this worked out best for me; However, with N2 and the lack of it... well, let's just say it'll keep me to much shorter races (although I rarely ever run anything over 25%-35% or so offline). bill -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hakuna Matata: Don't worry for the rest of your days... -- ------------------------------ Bill Pogue Deep In The Heart Of The South