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N2:Who uses the default driver settings?

2 posts by 2 people · 06 Jun 1997 - 10 Jun 1997

I'm just curious to find out how many out there use the defaault driver settings for power, aggression, etc. I find that if i use the original settings, the ai is way to "loose" or something in the corner, and after passing a car, they never enter back into my mirror. By making adjustments, the cars can be much more aggressive to pass after being passed, you can actually race side-by-side lap after lap without the ai drifting up suddenly and hitting you in the turn, and it makes for a much more "realistic" feel. It just seems to me that the way that it is out of the box misrepressents how WC series really is. The cars are just not as competitive as they should be. Some cars have such low ratings that they would probably never win a race or even come close. I real WC, although there are drivers that are consistently in the top of the pack, there are always "breakthrough" drivers that show up in the top ten every so often. Look at last week, Dave Marcis qualified something like 5th, although he didn't finidh particularly well. Maybe these settings have something to do with some of the complaints that i see here at R.a.s. The ai can be competitive. Of course this would never fix the bad pit decisions etc, but it makes racing imo more realistic, competitively speaking. Tim
Jon Gue 10 Jun 1997#370058
On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 12:42:57 -0700, Timothy Hamaguchi
Quoted text (23 lines)>I'm just curious to find out how many out there use the defaault driver >settings for power, aggression, etc. >I find that if i use the original settings, the ai is way to "loose" or >something in the corner, and after passing a car, they never enter back >into my mirror. By making adjustments, the cars can be much more >aggressive to pass after being passed, you can actually race >side-by-side lap after lap without the ai drifting up suddenly and >hitting you in the turn, and it makes for a much more "realistic" feel. >It just seems to me that the way that it is out of the box >misrepressents how WC series really is. The cars are just not as >competitive as they should be. Some cars have such low ratings that >they would probably never win a race or even come close. I real WC, >although there are drivers that are consistently in the top of the pack, >there are always "breakthrough" drivers that show up in the top ten >every so often. Look at last week, Dave Marcis qualified something like >5th, although he didn't finidh particularly well. >Maybe these settings have something to do with some of the complaints >that i see here at R.a.s. The ai can be competitive. Of course this >would never fix the bad pit decisions etc, but it makes racing imo more >realistic, competitively speaking. >Tim
Tim, You've summed up every thing I have been trying to achieve. Visit my site NOW!! :)) The new numbers won't change how the cars drive, just who drives up front and who doesn't. :) Please look at the results files I've posted to see what kind of thing you'll expect. Seeing Dale E mid-pack and all the mediocre drivers having decent runs now and then is fairly commonplace. In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw Dale E leading in any races I've had for awhile. Jon Guildford, UK http://www.meganet.co.uk/~pegasus/nascar2/

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