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NASCAR 2 Driver Randomization

4 posts by 4 people · 13 Sep 1997 - 14 Sep 1997

Jeff Georg 13 Sep 1997#377395
Does anyone know of a program to vary the driver skills from race to race? There's one by a Tom Hansen that I downloaded from a couple of different sites but it doesn't seem to work, much like his NASCAR 1 randomizer didn't work. If anyone can figure out how to make this single downloaded file, YADR2.EXE (an executable, not self-extracting), work, please let me know. -- JMG (Jeff George) If I sound like a ranting madman, it's probably because of my insanity. ======================================================================= Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand. (If it were up to me, I'd add low self-esteem and bitterness to the list....) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the *** of patriots and tyrants."
Doug Reichl 14 Sep 1997#377452
: Does anyone know of a program to vary the driver skills from race to : race? Um, I never understood the people that wrote these "randomizers" as ICR2 and NACAR1 & 2 have them built in. Perhaps I am missing something? If you want the drivers to be completely random between races, then just set Min values to 1 and Max values to 999. That's about as random as you'll get since the program will pick a value between these two numbers automatically every time you run it. If that's not what you mean by random then I guess I don't understand.
Harry Row 14 Sep 1997#377453
> : Does anyone know of a program to vary the driver skills from race to > : race? Try N2stgrid available at www.theuspits.com A lot of people, me included, like their season to somewhat parallel the real NASCAR standings and therefore change the skill settings every race. Setting the values from 1 - 999 would make for a terrible race. hlr
What I have success with is starting all drivers at min's of 100 and then starting with a max of 560 (for Jeff Gordon or whoever's leading the real-life WC points standings), go down the standings and drop each driver down by 10. I get some unpredictable qualifying results and over the course of a season, the top drivers float to the top, yet don't finish in the same places every race. The bottom drivers never win (which they don't anyway), but the middle of the pack gets a decent shot at a win occassionally. The only problem is the aggression ratings. The way it is now, passing on a shorter track is at times suicidal. I will try starting the max at 300 and using 5 point increments.

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