SCGT (and a bit of GPL, too :-)

Hi racing folks! Yesterday I bought SCGT - basically I am a GPL guy, anyhow, and still I am. But the SCGT seems to be a really nice sim! I was kind of surprised. The feel is good, and I guess it is the ABS, why I can stay quite well on the tracks... :) The idea - quite similiar to that of Viper Racing - of earning money by winning lower series, bying better parts and better cars(!) seems to work, too. Already in my first "career" in GTQ I could achieve GT3, but instead of buying a better car I updated my GTQ car. And the result was that I was very bad in GT3 career... Back to GTQ to earn more money for a good GT3 car. But anyhow I could get more cars and tracks to "quickrace"... and there are lots more to achieve when I qualify to GT2... I could win 2 of the 3 races, and I had won also the 3rd, if my screen saver hadn't decided to turn the screen off... A crash, and I lost several positions after the limbing recovery... Perhaps my success can be explained by GPL experience? Then I started a new GTQ season. I decided to set the number of opponents little higher, and to my great astonishment one of the AI racers in my next season was called "Alison Hine"!! Our GPL ***e! I became quite nervous..., you know the feeling... In qualifying I could anyhow get the pole. "AI-Alison" was third. In the race I won! And Alison was only 7th. Perhaps SCGT is not so realistic in this detail... ;) I just wonder if AH knows that her (famous!) name appears in SCGT... Anyhow, a good sim! A leisure in between GPL races! One question: Are all the tracks of SCGT real ones? My knowledge of U.S. tracks is very limited! The three GTQ tracks are called: Chatham, Sardian Park, and North Point. Are they real? They feel they could be real. It is a pity (only for an European! :-) that you must start SCGT in all American(?) tracks... Arto

How on Earth can you compare SCGT to GPL, and sleep at night, I don't know... If the demo is anything to go by, SCGT is total cack! - pardon the French. Griffin, the Slayer

>How on Earth can you compare SCGT to GPL, and sleep at night, I don't >know... What the man said, Griffin, was ... Pat Dotson wrote ... And you replied ... Jeez, lighten up Griffin. I'm sure the comment about SCGT will allow Arto to sleep at night. And since you haven't tried ff, how can you know that what Pat said isn't true? I'm sure Pat is well aware that GPL is "unforgiving." If you just want to pick an argument, go to a neighborhood tavern, for goodness sake. Kurt Steinbock

On Tue, 18 May 1999 18:21:29 -0400, "Kurt Steinbock"

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>>How on Earth can you compare SCGT to GPL, and sleep at night, I don't >>know... >What the man said, Griffin, was ... >>>Anyhow, a good sim! A leisure in between GPL races! >Pat Dotson wrote ... >>Without FF, you can slip and slide to your hearts content >>without paying much of a penalty. With FF, you will pay >>a price for not driving smoothly. >And you replied ... >>Not in GPL you can't! >>GPL is the most unforgiving simulator available! >Jeez, lighten up Griffin. I'm sure the comment about SCGT will allow Arto >to sleep at night. And since you haven't tried ff, how can you know that >what Pat said isn't true? I'm sure Pat is well aware that GPL is >"unforgiving." If you just want to pick an argument, go to a neighborhood >tavern, for goodness sake. >Kurt Steinbock

My message was in no way attempting to _pick a fight_. I was simply stating shock that anybody would compare the two, SCGT and GPL. :) You see, he said: So here, he's comparing SCGT and GPL. So I said: Geddit? :) As I said however, it was in no way intended to begin any sort of arguement, and I apologise if it seemed that way. :) Griffin, the Slayer

it is better not to compare because... gpl loses!

I assume you're not a simulation fan? Griffin, the Slayer