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Accelerate Time in a Quick Race

5 posts by 5 people · 15 Dec 1996 - 18 Dec 1996

Je 15 Dec 1996#348604
I was running a "realistic" quick race at Talladega. On about lap 20 or so, I hit the wall and sustained enough damage that I knew I would'nt be able to keep up with the leaders. So I decided to, "accelerate time" just to see who ended up winning. However, the "accelerate time" feature seemed to do nothing. The laps were never updated, nothing! Then, just to check I ran a championship season race and accelerated time there to see if it would work or not. It worked just fine. Is there bug in the quick race accelerate time feature? Jeffrey Lipack
ARCA BOB 16 Dec 1996#348841
<< Is there bug in the quick race accelerate time feature?>> If you asked me...I would say that it is a bug. Papyrus may have had their reasons...but I have noticed that if you pause a race in progress and then attempt to accelerate the time you are out of luck..it will remain frozen. As long as you don't pause before exiting to main you can finish the race in accelerated mode.
Jim Sokolo 17 Dec 1996#349020
Quoted text (8 lines)> << Is there bug in the > quick race accelerate time feature?>> > If you asked me...I would say that it is a bug. Papyrus may have had their > reasons...but I have noticed that if you pause a race in progress and then > attempt to accelerate the time you are out of luck..it will remain frozen. > As long as you don't pause before exiting to main you can finish the race > in accelerated mode.
No, we didn't have our reasons; it was just a bug... ---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus
David Spark 18 Dec 1996#349204
Quoted text (12 lines)>> << Is there bug in the >> quick race accelerate time feature?>> >> If you asked me...I would say that it is a bug. Papyrus may have had their >> reasons...but I have noticed that if you pause a race in progress and then >> attempt to accelerate the time you are out of luck..it will remain frozen. >> As long as you don't pause before exiting to main you can finish the race >> in accelerated mode. >No, we didn't have our reasons; it was just a bug... >---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus
Jim, You've burst my bubble, ruined my faith in Papyrus. You can't have possibly had a... a... sorry I just can't say it. This is obviously an undocumented feature that was meant to prevent offline league racers from cheating. <BWG> Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html
I have been able to accelerate a race from quick race, but I was out and towed to the pit before it would let me accelerate.

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