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N2 -multiplayer - Cars are reversed??

6 posts by 5 people · 09 Mar 1997 - 14 Mar 1997

stee 09 Mar 1997#358684
Hey Papy, Great game! I have one problem with the whole thing. I have changed the cars (Using the fantastic IWCCCARS artwork) and I have now completed my field. I also have a friend who has IDENTICAL cars, matched; and we each have our own cars for our refrence of "who's who". Now the problem is that when my friend calls me I am In my car (#50) and he appears in his car (#1). But on my friends system, he is driving Car MY car (#50) and I am in his (#1).. Why is this happening? Is this normal? My list is with my name first, and his name second; and his name is first on his list, and then followed by my name. (then the rest of the field is identical on both machines) I was told that this is the way a MULTI race list must be in order to work properly. Can anyone tell me if I am doing something wrong? I hope I am, because its a real shame, The numbers and names appear correctly durring "chat mode" why would the graphics be diffrent from one machine to another. (I.E. one works correctly, the other is backwards.) I am going absoulutly crazy trying to figure this thing out! Again thanks PAPPY/Sierra! It's wonderful to get a new change once in a while! (Your efforts are great!) -And I CAN live long enough to get the patches!- <G> Praise the gods above for the IWCCCARS team! You guys really make the game come to life with the authentic car paint jobs! Thanks Steel
Quoted text (15 lines)> Hey Papy, Great game! > I have one problem with the whole thing. I have changed the cars (Using > the fantastic IWCCCARS artwork) and I have now completed my field. I > also have a friend who has IDENTICAL cars, matched; and we each have our > own cars for our refrence of "who's who". > Now the problem is that when my friend calls me I am In my car (#50) and > he appears in his car (#1). But on my friends system, he is driving Car > MY car (#50) and I am in his (#1).. Why is this happening? Is this > normal? > My list is with my name first, and his name second; and his name is > first on his list, and then followed by my name. (then the rest of the > field is identical on both machines) I was told that this is the way a > MULTI race list must be in order to work properly.
Yes, this is normal. Whoever is the ANSWERING computer will appear in the second car; the CALLER will appear in the first car. So whoever is the ANSWERING 'puter would have to place their car SECOND in line. There is great utility called N2HQ you can use to place cars ANYWHERE in any list; also has track settings and other things you can do from Windows.
You are right about the problem! I have 3 pentium pcs networked, all lists have the 3 humans in order, the first client list swaps to the server, the second client to the first client. My only thought is that in the manual it says that there should be only one human player in the driver list. Have tried everything BUT renaming each human- first on each PC-to t_player. Very confusing!
I also had the same exact problem with N1. After renaming drivers, and changing the order, we did get to work properly. I hope this will be fixed in the "patch". Mark
huggin 14 Mar 1997#359320
This seems to be working fine for me. Let's say you have 3 networked PC's getting ready to play NASCAR2 multiplayer. Be sure they all have identical carsets, say one named "MULTI". Then have each player change the first car to their real name. (i.e. change "The_Player" to "Mark Harrison") Now, one player needs to "ANSWER" the multiplayer race. This person needs to have the CD-ROM in their machine. They will drive the first car in the carset. The other two cars need to "DIAL". The first one to do this will get the second car in the carset, yet they will still have their correct name, which appeared to be associated with the first car in their carset. The next driver to "DIAL" into this multiplayer race will get the third car in the carset, yet still have the correct name, which appeared to be associated with the first car in their carset. By the way, for this last person that joined, that first car in the carset will have the name of the person hosting the race (the person that did the multiplayer "ANSWER"), for this one race only. This is how it should be! This way requires the least amount of time and labor to get all the right driver's names and cars in the right order, short of transmitting the car's graphics across the network to every other player. Any other ideas?

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