*tumbleweeds*

[Mawerick]

Anyone wanna do some fun GPL races anytime?

[Travis Daye]

I'd love to... but right now I'm in the last year of my study's bachelor phase and that consumes an awful lot of time... By any account, I'm not going to have much time to practice in the first place. It's been weeks since I last played rFactor, and I haven't touched GPL in ages...

[MiÑardi]

I should really install GPL again. I miss those random races around Miloval

[Mikosyko]

Yeah lets have a race! I've never taken part in a GPL race before now!

[jls]

I never played GPL much, so I never got competitive at it, so I never played it much.....but I'd put some practice in to do some FMB races. I guess my Dad still has it all installed and modded on the race computer....I don't think he's raced it for a long time, since all the rFactor mods became league standards.....

[MiÑardi]

I played GPL for the first time today in ages! Had some flashes of the old pace but spent a lot of time in the fields as well After abit of practice i decided i'd do a long race at a nice simple track so i chose Reims. Spun off into the fields at the 2nd corner on lap 2 and fell to 20th. Came back through the field and blew the engine whilst leading on the last lap. Damn BRM!

On to Monza. Could only qualify 9th but came up the field to 3rd. And then somehow managed to crash at Ascari which has always been flat out every lap no problem. Meh.

I don't know how i ever used to get through full distance races without incident but oh well, i'd still be up for afew races one day

Yay consistancy, ish

[Edu]

It's a sad reflection of our society that we don't have time for a simple game anymore. What's even more sad is that I'm included in this group

Final semesters of university + full time job = madness.

[Mawerick]

simple game

Ahem. What?

Really should fire up GPL again, just for the sake of it. At least holidays are coming soon...

[MiÑardi]

Yeah, after afew practice runs i've knocked 0.3 off my GPLrank for the first time in 42months!

[Nate]

We need to um.. sort something out? Help?

[NooDle]

people still playing this?

[Dékarr]

I haven't for quite a while, but having been thinking about getting back in.

[Mawerick]

^ditto

[The Ghost Who Walks]

Woot dusted it of and tryed lapping Monza was only 2 secs off my (crappy) pb and managed 3 laps in a row without crashing
Will move it onto my desktop and try it with my pedals, which I have gained since I stopped playing GPL....

[Nate]

Would there be enough interest in this still? Is there some other game out that we could use? ugh... It's been so long hah

[NooDle]

LFS is super fun though, and free if you use the demo version. It just has "regular" cars and not classic F1 cars...

however it is relatively the same level of difficulty (ie batshite insane awesomely incredibly hard) to go quick

[The Ghost Who Walks]

lol this always happens we talk about racing gpl again and people are keen then someone starts talking about some other games and it gets forgotton, lets make this about gpl 67 or lets not bother I say...

[Travis Daye]

GPL still rocks my socks whenever I boot it up (which, frankly, isn't often enough). I think the 65's would provide the best racing, as they're not *that* hard to drive - although after the season in which we used them there were some complaints that as soon as you get behind, it's virtually impossible to make up the lost ground. On the other hand, slipstreaming is possible with them.

Some time ago an update to GPL65 was released - I'm not exactly sure what the update entails, but I seem to remember that the online code and collision detection had been improved.

GPL66 would also be a very good option too, as there are so many different makes and engine manufacturers to choose from. These choices can be pretty tactical, as the lighter cars with smaller engines (2.0-2.5L) are sometimes faster at twisty tracks than the heavier, full-blown 3.0L cars. The Ferrari 312 blows everything and everyone into the weeds though, whether it be Monaco or Monza.

That being said, I can't be sure I'll be able to compete once FMBL ever gets off the ground again. For one thing, next week I'll be gone for two months on a big trip with my girlfriend to Santiago de Compostela, and afterwards it'll be a busy time with a holiday to France with some friends and the preparations to move to Liverpool for my master's degree

[Jukkis]

I haven't played GPL since 2006, I think, but I had to reinstall it today because Targa Florio is out

http://download.bcsims.com/Targa/

[Marcel]

W00000t!

Downloading....downloading....downloading....downloading....

[Dékarr]

woah...
I predict my first lap time at 92:35.555

[Mawerick]

Well... RaceSimCentral has died. They had a catastrophic data failure and are not coming back online anymore, other than a mirror of the latest backups IF they can be recovered...