GPL flags ?????

Need some help on flags. I know what the green and black flags are but there are some other colors I am not sure about. Please list color of flag and its purpose... thanks

F1 Flags standing yellow - inccident off track moving yellow - incident on track blue - someone faster is behind you red - race is stopped red and yellow - slippery track (water, oil, ...) white - very slow car ahead (even ambulance) in USA also means last lap chequered flag - :) maybe i forget some McKafre De La Rosa R E P S O L

>Need some help on flags. White flag: Watch out! Remco is ahead of you! Remco

> Need some help on flags. > I know what the green and black flags are but there are some > other colors I am not sure about. Please list color of flag and > its purpose... thanks Yellow Flag = Caution. You are approaching an accident. The green flag will be shown when the situation has cleared. Blue = There is a faster moving vehicle behind you. In Practice, this will occur whenever there is a car close behind you. If you are not on a hot lap, you should yield to this car. In a race, this will only be shown if the car behind you is about to lap you. You should let the car by. There is no penalty for ignoring this in the game, but it is considered very bad manners to do so, particularly when racing online. White = There is a very slow vehicle on the track ahead. This will come out when a disabled car tries to limp back to the pits. Dave Ewing

Hi GPL racers, I've been watching some videotapes (of old films) from the period, and they seem to have used the national flags for starting the race. In GPL that is not the case. Does somebody know, why Papy was not realistic in this (tiny!) matter? And perhaps somebody is making a patch? ;) Arto

They probably couldn't get a license to use the countries' flags likenesses. I think they got the green flag just in the nick of time. Sega wanted exclusive rights to the color. -- ========================================================= John Simmons - Redneck Techno-Biker (Zerex12) http://www.members.home.net/jms1/index.html John Simmons - Barbarian Diecast Collector http://members.home.net/jsimm/diecast_index.html IGPS Director http://www.paddedwall.org/igps/igps.html If you want to send me email, go to either of the URL's shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

I hear sega got it for 1999 but they are going to put different colors on it to make it unrecognizable and hold the license for the next 10 years so no other games will be able to use it. Jesse

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>>Hi GPL racers, >>I've been watching some videotapes (of old films) from the period, >>and they seem to have used the national flags for starting the race. >>In GPL that is not the case. Does somebody know, why Papy was not >>realistic in this (tiny!) matter? And perhaps somebody is making >>a patch? ;) >They probably couldn't get a license to use the countries' flags >likenesses. I think they got the green flag just in the nick of time. >Sega wanted exclusive rights to the color. >-- >========================================================= >John Simmons - Redneck Techno-Biker (Zerex12) >http://www.members.home.net/jms1/index.html >John Simmons - Barbarian Diecast Collector >http://members.home.net/jsimm/diecast_index.html >IGPS Director >http://www.paddedwall.org/igps/igps.html >If you want to send me email, go to either of the URL's >shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. >=========================================================

How come they got the right to license the flag of Libya then? I thought Gaddafi doesn't do deals with american sons of the satan? - "If the meaning of life was printed in a book, someone would use it to keep the window open."

Yellow, waved = incident on the track. Yellow, held = incident off-track or off the racing line

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> > Need some help on flags. > > I know what the green and black flags are but there are some > > other colors I am not sure about. Please list color of flag and > > its purpose... thanks > Yellow Flag = Caution. You are approaching an accident. The green flag > will be shown when the situation has cleared. > Blue = There is a faster moving vehicle behind you. In Practice, this > will occur whenever there is a car close behind you. If you are not on > a hot lap, you should yield to this car. In a race, this will only be > shown if the car behind you is about to lap you. You should let the car > by. There is no penalty for ignoring this in the game, but it is > considered very bad manners to do so, particularly when racing online. > White = There is a very slow vehicle on the track ahead. This will come > out when a disabled car tries to limp back to the pits. > Dave Ewing

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Well, the national flag of the host nation was certainly the signal used to start the race back then. Perhaps the extra work required to have eleven different starting sequences may have been too much, Arto.

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> Hi GPL racers, > I've been watching some videotapes (of old films) from the period, > and they seem to have used the national flags for starting the race. > In GPL that is not the case. Does somebody know, why Papy was not > realistic in this (tiny!) matter? And perhaps somebody is making > a patch? ;) > Arto

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I'm not 100% sure, but I guess it's not possible to get the exclusive rights on the use of national flaggs. Should be another reason. Jens >They probably couldn't get a license to use the countries' flags >likenesses. I think they got the green flag just in the nick of time. >Sega wanted exclusive rights to the color. --------------------------------------------- Remove "NOSPAM" before using my email-address

Can't you people identify sarcasm when you see it? says...

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>I'm not 100% sure, but I guess it's not possible to get >the exclusive rights on the use of national flags. >Should be another reason. >>They probably couldn't get a license to use the countries' >>flags likenesses. I think they got the green flag just in >>the nick of time. > >Sega wanted exclusive rights to the >>color.

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National flags are not subject to Copyright or Licencing of any sort at all.

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> I'm not 100% sure, but I guess it's not possible to get the exclusive > rights on the use of national flaggs. > Should be another reason. > Jens > >They probably couldn't get a license to use the countries' flags > >likenesses. I think they got the green flag just in the nick of time. > >Sega wanted exclusive rights to the color. > --------------------------------------------- > Remove "NOSPAM" before using my email-address

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Certainly, but one has come to learn that sarcasm and international newsgroups sometimes just don't blend very well!

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> Can't you people identify sarcasm when you see it? > says... > >I'm not 100% sure, but I guess it's not possible to get > >the exclusive rights on the use of national flags. > >Should be another reason. > >>They probably couldn't get a license to use the countries' > >>flags likenesses. I think they got the green flag just in > >>the nick of time. > >Sega wanted exclusive rights to the > >>color. > -- > ========================================================= > John Simmons - Redneck Techno-Biker (Zerex12) > http://www.members.home.net/jms1/index.html > John Simmons - Barbarian Diecast Collector > http://members.home.net/jsimm/diecast_index.html > IGPS (Season 2) Director > http://207.104.111.77/igps2/igps2.html > If you want to send me email, go to either of the URL's > shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. > =========================================================

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Sh.t, you got me. :-) Jens

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>Can't you people identify sarcasm when you see it? >says... >>I'm not 100% sure, but I guess it's not possible to get >>the exclusive rights on the use of national flags. >>Should be another reason. >>>They probably couldn't get a license to use the countries' >>>flags likenesses. I think they got the green flag just in >>>the nick of time. > >Sega wanted exclusive rights to the >>>color.

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