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Has anything replaced GPL yet?

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Gary Robinson - 23 Dec 2004 17:45 GMT
Hello all,

I've been away from racing sims for a few years now.
I used to spend quite a bit of seat time in GPL and NASCAR online
racing.

Has anything replaced GPL yet?
Now after about 2 years of being away, I'm getting the itch to
re-install my old GPL and NASCAR stuff on my new machine (Dell 8400
3GHz PCI-EXPRESS, XP) and dig up my old Thomas Wheel/Pedals (replace
or clean a few pots I bet).

Is VROC still going strong? Still a lot of people racing?

What "new" sims out there (and coming soon) give the most GPL like
experience for online and stand alone?

Should I just forget all new sims and just crank up GPL and go
searching for new add-ons?

Thanks in advance,

-GR
rms - 23 Dec 2004 17:53 GMT
> Has anything replaced GPL yet?

   No.

rms
Andi Cole - 23 Dec 2004 18:19 GMT
You just have to wait for Racing Legends ;-)

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> > Has anything replaced GPL yet?
>
>     No.
>
> rms
Malc - 23 Dec 2004 18:21 GMT
> Has anything replaced GPL yet?

Not replaced direcly, but there is quite a bit more choice in the 'hardcore
sim' world so you should find plenty to choose from.

> Is VROC still going strong? Still a lot of people racing?

gpl is still going, vroc is alave & well but not as busy as 2 yrs ago,
partly because we also have iGOR & the '65 mod too now which splits the
community a little.

> What "new" sims out there (and coming soon) give the most GPL like
> experience for online and stand alone?

For online NR2003 & it's various mods is king right now, gpl is still up
there with the best in online terms, but EA F1 titles & the newly released
GTR (based on a similar game engine) have improved their online ability to
the point where it is now tolerable. lfs (Live for Speed) also has excellent
online code & is well worth a look.

> Should I just forget all new sims and just crank up GPL and go
> searching for new add-ons?

As your first port of call I'd say so, the '65 mod is worth trying & the '67
GPLEA cars are real beauties (all of them now). NR2003 & it's mods would be
your next best port of call because you'll quickly familiarise yourself with
it if you are used to gpl.

hth, Malc.
Byron Forbes - 23 Dec 2004 22:44 GMT
http://www.gtr-game.com/index.php?page=frontpage0

http://www.theuspits.com/sims/index.html - NR2003 PWF Mod

http://www.theuspits.com/sims/nascar_racing/tptcc-download.html

> Hello all,
>
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>
> -GR
Alastair Ingram - 24 Dec 2004 09:32 GMT
No. GPL still rules as number one simulator. All this other junk is based on
EA F1 2002 crap physics. GTR is lame. Go ahead and re-install GPL, it's
still king.
> Hello all,
>
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>
> -GR
John DiFool - 24 Dec 2004 15:28 GMT
>No. GPL still rules as number one simulator. All this other junk is based on
>EA F1 2002 crap physics. GTR is lame. Go ahead and re-install GPL, it's
>still king.

Umm, NR2003 isn't.  When you consider that NR and its mods have a
better tire model (and tire wear), and several other improvements over
GPL, I really don't understand why people keep touting GPL as being
the best sim in terms of realism.  Now it is true that the NR mods
have idiosyncracies of their own (like the imbalanced tires), and the
road course mods don't exactly sim their respective series (330's
do have too much grip), but I'd say they are better now than GPL
overall.

        John DiFool
mcewena - 24 Dec 2004 17:10 GMT
> really don't understand why people keep touting GPL as being
>the best sim in terms of realism

Maybe not in terms of realism but for some reason I consistantly find
better wheel-to-wheel RACING in my GPL leagues then I have in my NR
based ones.   Quite likely it's due to some inherit lack of realism. ;)
Dennis - 25 Dec 2004 04:05 GMT
> Umm, NR2003 isn't.

Nope ..........He is right GPL is still KIng no contest.
Dennis - 26 Dec 2004 00:15 GMT
crawfish, crab, or headless baby).
Flour
oil
onions
bell peppers
garlic salt, pepper, etc.
3 cups chicken stock
2 sticks butter
3 tablespoons oil

First stuff the heads, or make the patties (see index)
  then fry or bake.  
Set aside to drain on paper towels.
Make a roux with butter, oil and flour,
  brown vegetables in the roux, then add chicken stock and
  allow to simmer for 20 minutes.
Add the patties or stuffed heads, and some loose crawfish,
  lobster, long piglet, or what have you.
Cook on low for 15 minutes, then allow it to set for at least
  15 minutes more.
Serve over steamed rice; this dish is very impressive!

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

Babies really can be found under a cabbage leaf -
or one can arrange for ground beef to be found there instead.

8 large cabbage leaves
1 lb. lean ground newborn human filets, or ground chuck
Onions
peppers
celery
garlic
soy sauce
salt pepper, etc
Olive oil
breadcrumbs
Tomato Gravy (see index)

Boil the cabbage leaves for 2 minutes to soften.
In skille
mcewena - 26 Dec 2004 00:21 GMT
Babies

Just like crabs or crawfish, babies are boiled alive!
You don?t need silverware, the hot spicy meat comes off in your hands.

6 live babies
1 lb. smoked sausage
4 lemons
whole garlic
2 lb. new potatoes
4 ears corn
1 box salt
crab boil

Bring 3 gallons of water to a boil.
Add sausage, salt, crab boil, lemons and garlic.
Drop potatoes in, boil for 4 minutes.
Corn is added next, boil an additional 11 minutes.
Put the live babies into the boiling water and cover.
Boil till meat comes off easily with a fork.

Oven-Baked Baby-Back Ribs

Beef ribs or pork ribs can be used in this recipe,
and that is exactly what your dinner guests will assume!
An excellent way to expose the uninitiated to this highly misunderstood
yet succulent source of protein.

2 human baby rib racks
3 cups barbecue sauce or honey glaze (see index)
Salt
black pepper
white pepper
paprika

Remove the silverskin by loosening from the edges,
  then stripping off.
Season generously, rubbing the mixture into the baby?s flesh.
Place 1 quart water in a baking pan, the meat on a wire rack.
Bake uncovered in 250? oven for 1? hours.
When browned, remove and glaze,
  return to oven and bake 20 minutes more to form a glaze.
Cut ribs into individual
nrvsreck - 24 Dec 2004 16:21 GMT
Before collapsing in a drunken stupor Gary Robinson
<nospam@nospam.com> managed to mumble the following:

> Hello all,
>
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>
> -GR

GTR has replaced GPL in my opinion. It features the 2003 FIA GT
season. Based on a mod SimBin made for F1 2002, the full game is
based on the ISI's engine. In my mind it's the best currently
available. rFactor by ISI is also available, though only in an
online multiplayer beta at the moment. It's main focus is user
customization rather than one particular racing series.

Yes, I too hated ISI's past efforts. SCGT was fun for a while
until I discoverd GPL. Never played it again. F1 2001 was
garbage, GP3 was better. Never payed any attention to F1 2002
since it's predecessor was so bad. Tried F1 Challenge and it was
pretty good, but still not as good as Papyrus' games. I think
SimBin is making real progress with ISI's old code and ISI itself
is steadily improving it's own stuff so as to really de-throne
Papy as the king of sim makers.

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Chad Rogers - 24 Dec 2004 18:25 GMT
GTR is far and away the best game going right now.  Those that say it's
another ISI game flatly haven't played it.  It's a great sim and leaps and
bounds ahead of GPL in virtually every way.  Multi code is fantastic as
well, these guys don't have a clue because they are just the ISI bashers.
Get yourself a copy and enjoy the supercars and tracks.

Chad

> Before collapsing in a drunken stupor Gary Robinson
> <nospam@nospam.com> managed to mumble the following:
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> | Morgan V. Wooten                |
> | mvwooten@yahoo.com |
Steve Smith - 25 Dec 2004 23:43 GMT
25 minutes -
  or you could fry them in olive oil.
Place the meatballs in the tomato gravy, and simmer for several hours.
Serve on spaghetti.
Accompany with green salad, garlic bread and red wine.

Newborn Parmesan

This classic Sicilian cuisine can easily be turned into Eggplant Parmesan
If you are planning a vegetarian meal. Or you could just as well use veal -
after all, you have to be careful - Sicilians are touchy about their young
family members...

6 newborn or veal cutlets
Tomato gravy (see index)
4 cups mozzarella, 1cup parmesan, 1cup romano
Seasoned bread crumbs  mixed with  
  parmesan
  romano
  salt
  pepper
  oregano
  garlic powder
  chopped parsley
Flour
eggwash (eggs and milk)
Peanut oil for frying.

Pound the cutlets.
Dredge in flour, eggs, then the bread crumb mixture.
Fry till golden brown in 350? peanut oil.
In a baking pan, place a layer of gravy,
  then one of meat, gravy, and cheese.
Another layer each of meat, gravy, and cheese.
Then bake at 350? for 45 minutes.
Serve on hot pasta with romano cheese.

Southern Fried Small-fry

Tastes like fried chicken, which works just as well.
In fact you may want to practice cutting up whole chickens
for frying before you go for the real thing.
Whole chicken is much more efficient and inexpensive than buying pieces.

1 tiny human, cut into pieces
2 cups flour
Onion, garlic
Salt
pepper
garlic powder
cayenne pepper
hot sauce, etc.
Oil for frying

Mix milk, eggs, hot sauce in a bowl, add chopped onion and garlic.
Season the meat liberally, and marinate for severa
Steve Smith - 26 Dec 2004 00:04 GMT
GTR is certainly more complicated, interesting and fun than anything Papyrus
ever did, but I think the jury is still out on multiplayer.  I was online
last night w. GTR 1.2 for the first time, and while the warping wasn't too
bad, and the join lag seems to have gone away, there was still some
stuttering, brief (unaccountable) freezes, and several CTDs that left
everybody in the session sitting naked on the floor wondering where the
walls and ceiling had gone.

I drove, back-to-back, the 3rd-party Nordschleife for GTR and the N2003
conversion of the GPL ver of the Ring in one of the Ferrari P4 mod cars, and
the GTR cars seem much more lively - there's more to react to...and the
response is not only more involved and involving, it also makes the N2003
mod seem crude and unsophisticated by comparison.  That is, GTR seems as
much of a leap ahead of N2003 as N2003 seemed advanced ahead of GPL.

That said, everybody knows the 330 mod physics are hardly plausible (too
much grip, too much drag, too much braking power, not enough horsepower, and
somehow seemingly redolent of the front-engined origins), as if done in
haste.  The forthcoming GTP mod for N2003 seems to have a lot more thought
and effort going into it, and if it manages to capture the elusive aero
element (prolly not fully augmented in the "after-market" Papy CTS/TA
physics to begin with), the multiplayer strengths could play well to online
leagues (which need more event stats, less MoTec data).

rFactor, which is obviously in the early stages of availability to modders,
could easily surpass anything and everything that has gone on before, as
could the curious, SODA-like Live for Speed, and Dave Kaemmer's N2003-based
First-Racing project could yet put the King back on his throne.

IMO.

> GTR is far and away the best game going right now.  Those that say it's
> another ISI game flatly haven't played it.  It's a great sim and leaps and
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Neil Charlton - 26 Dec 2004 11:10 GMT
> GTR is certainly more complicated, interesting and fun than anything
> Papyrus
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> everybody in the session sitting naked on the floor wondering where the
> walls and ceiling had gone.

[snip]

I had exactly the same experience over the last two days - stutters - CTDs
and loads of 'connection lost' messages. This thing is hopeless for
multiplayer :( I even had the misfortune of running one race where the pace
lap was on - all competitors were rock steady but the pace car was warping
all over the place and took half the field out.

I wonder if anyone designing these things ever takes the trouble to look at
papy sims, where the interface, replays and multi-player have ruled the
roost for as long as I can remember.

GTR is a lot of fun 'but it ain't no gpl' (not that I have that installed
anymore). My short term hopes lie in the GTP mod and long term in rFactor.
It's a shame they can't bolt the physics from ISI into the papy system -
that would be the one! I just really hope that the developers of rFactor
have had a long hard look at NR2003, which represents the 'usability
standard' at the moment. If the demo is anything to go by, the graphics will
be better than the disappointing GTR effort.

Ahh well, there's always next Christmas ;)

Regards
Byron Forbes - 29 Dec 2004 10:00 GMT
> I wonder if anyone designing these things ever takes the trouble to look at
> papy sims, where the interface, replays and multi-player have ruled the
> roost for as long as I can remember.

   Clearly not! :( Nor any real time game with successful multi for that
matter!

   I was jubious about the multi with this thing when I heard about the
skin swapping - what a clueless design flaw! It seems the problem with a lot
of software houses is that some idiot always manages to get a say somehow -
the product of weak leadership. Or maybe the leader/management is the idiot.
It always amazes me (for 6 years to date) that there are tons of games with
good multiplayer but only Papy have been able to do it properly with race
sims - wtf??????

   I'm starting to regret parting with my money for this thing. For a sim
company to not have the multi sorted b4 they even focus on any other part of
the sim inspires zero confidence in me. Pathetic!
Uwe =?iso-8859-15?Q?Sch=FCrkamp?= - 26 Dec 2004 17:01 GMT
> GTR is certainly more complicated, interesting and fun than anything Papyrus
> ever did, but I think the jury is still out on multiplayer.  I was online
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> everybody in the session sitting naked on the floor wondering where the
> walls and ceiling had gone.

The general consensus on the net seems to be that the 1.2 patch for
GTR actually made things worse online, regarding server and client
crashes and whatnot. With 1.1 at least you could have a stable 20-plus
field race once quali was done, but currently there's only
disconnects, crashes and whining for many gtr racers out there.

I rear the same thing thing for first racing... unless they make me a
beta tester. Heck, I know some folks who were picked for the beta test
who don't even own n2003 ;->

Cheers, uwe

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JP - 26 Dec 2004 17:57 GMT
> > GTR is certainly more complicated, interesting and fun than anything Papyrus
> > ever did, but I think the jury is still out on multiplayer.  I was online
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 Perhaps they wanted a few "fresh" approaches, instead of those with
pre-conceived biases, etc.  Sometimes being to close to a subject, can blind
the viewer to it's faults.
Larry - 27 Dec 2004 01:32 GMT
Yeah, but when it's right, it's right.  Maybe that's why so many people like
it.

-Larry

>  Perhaps they wanted a few "fresh" approaches, instead of those with
> pre-conceived biases, etc.  Sometimes being to close to a subject, can
> blind
> the viewer to it's faults.
JP - 27 Dec 2004 03:05 GMT
> Yeah, but when it's right, it's right.  Maybe that's why so many people like
> it.
>
> -Larry

 No doubt.  But like I said, perhaps (who knows) First wanted some (not
all) folks not carrying any "excess baggage" in terms of prejudices, etc.
Good as Papy stuff was, it *could* have been better in many areas, and who
needs/wants a tester entering in with a mindset of, "Pffft, ain't no Papy
product, can't be worth a damn."
alexti - 27 Dec 2004 04:49 GMT
<snip>
>> I rear the same thing thing for first racing... unless they make me a
>> beta tester. Heck, I know some folks who were picked for the beta test
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> pre-conceived biases, etc.  Sometimes being to close to a subject, can
> blind the viewer to it's faults.

Getting few beta-testers without sim-racing experience would definitely
make sense. Just imagine if they pick beta testers exclusively from
GPL elite, what kind of game they would produce? Testers keep saying: not
enough power, not enough torque, too easy to drive, the tracks are
unrealistically smooth. Finally testers are satisfied. Now, how many years
would it take a regular person to learn to drive the result? ;)

Alex.
JP - 27 Dec 2004 05:32 GMT
> <snip>
> >> I rear the same thing thing for first racing... unless they make me a
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>
> Alex.

 There's plenty of other sims besides GPL, to pick testers from :)
Chad Rogers - 25 Dec 2004 23:15 GMT
Place 3 tablespoons of stuffing in the wrap, roll tightly -
     corner nearest you first, fold 2 side corners in,
     wrap till remaining corner is left.
  Brush with egg, seal, and allow to sit on the seal for
  a few minutes.
Fry the rolls:  
  325? if using egg roll wraps, 350? for spring roll wraps.
  Deep fry in peanut oil till crispy golden brown, drain on paper towels.

Lemon Neonate

Turkey serves just as well, and in fact even looks a bit like a
well-dressed baby. By the time you turn the child?s breast into
cutlets, it will be indistinguishable. The taste of young human,
although similar to turkey (and chicken) often can be wildly
different depending upon what he or she has consumed during its
10 to 14 months of life...

4 well chosen cutlets (from the breasts of 2 healthy neonates)
2 large lemons (fresh lemons always, if possible)
Olive oil
Green onions
Salt
pepper
cornstarch
neonate stock (chicken, or turkey stock is fine)
garlic
parsley
fresh cracked black pepper

Season and saut? the cutlets in olive oil till golden brown, remove.
Add the garlic and onions and cook down a bit.
Add some lemon juice and some zest, then de-glaze with stock.
Add
nrvsreck - 26 Dec 2004 00:42 GMT
use sherry;
red wine with beef (buy steak or roast, do not pre-boil).

Pie crust (see index)
Whole fresh pre-mie; eviscerated, head, hands and feet removed
Onions, bell pepper, celery
? cup wine
Root vegetables of choice (turnips, carrots, potatoes, etc) cubed

Make a crust from scratch - or go shamefully to the frozen food section
  of your favorite grocery and select 2 high quality pie crusts (you
  will need one for the top also).
Boil the prepared delicacy until the meat starts to come off the bones.
Remove, de-bone and cube; continue to reduce the broth.
Brown the onions, peppers and celery.
Add the meat then season, continue browning.
De-glaze with sherry, add the reduced broth.
Finally, put in the root vegetables and simmer for 15 minutes.
Allow to cool slightly.
Place the pie pan in 375 degree oven for a few minutes so bottom crust is not soggy,
  reduce oven to 325.
Fill the pie with stew, place top crust and with a fork, seal the crusts together
  then poke holes in top.
Return to oven and bake for 30 minutes, or until pie crust is golden brown.

Sudden Infant Death Soup

SIDS: delicious in winter, comparable to old fashioned Beef and Vegetable Soup.
Its free, you can sell the crib, baby clothes, toys, stroller... and so easy to
procure if such a lucky find is at hand (just pick him up from the crib and
he?s good to go)!

SIDS victim, cleaned
? cup cooking oil
Carrots
onions
broccoli
whole cabbage
fresh green beans
potato
turnip
celery
tomato
? stick butter
1 cup cooked pasta (macaroni, shells, etc.)

Remove as much meat as possible, cube, and brown in hot oil.
Add a little water, season, then add the carcass.
Simmer for half an hour keeping the stock thick.
Remove the carca
 
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