FG: NASCAR VIII: NFS Underground II Edition

[Sparrowhawk]

Sent , and I would have liked to have put more thought into this one. Not sure what my best strategy would have been, but I want to get orders in, so I am sending anyway.

/me

Edit: okay, just after typing this I thought again and revised my orders. So revised orders sent please disregard the initial ones.

Thanks.

[Jonny]

Sent.

To whom should I pay any bribes concerning the possible outcome of a certain coin flip?

[rah]

I'm with you Jonny, nothing else to do.
Slip and slide time and pray. Hope we don't crash too.

And yes, boring it isn't.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Ramsey's orders are not vaild...pm sent.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Pms are wacky, so I'll state it here.

First I think you meant right when you put left.
Second you cannot have 3 directional or speed changes period. see rule under car options.

[gjramsey]

I think I am becoming directionally challenged in this race.

so new orders. B(B+1)RRMM with grass also slowing me down one.

Now to pick a nit. If 3 Ls or Rs are not allowed, then why is LMLMRMR or combinations with multiple Ls and Rs been allowed? The original rules for that was for a lane change (i.e. MLRMM), and so far several of us have done commands where the L and the R were not next to each other, so it should possible be considered a direction change, and not a lane change.

Just curious.

[rah]

In previous games a LR was allowed without using a WC.
LRLR was allowed with the use of a wild card
RRR was never allowed.

The LR combos were allowed so lane changes would work, and we had a discussion on LRLR or LRRL requiring a wild card but allowable and most seemed to agree at the time, and therefore became a standard rule. It was not that way at the beginning of the first race.

Once you allow LRLR it was a short leap of logic to allow movement in between.

[Spaced Cowboy]

My intention was to make it not possible to do more than a 90 degree turn in one turn.

If they are balanced, that is, the amount of L + R, then it does not result in a directional change for the turn as a whole.

Now that I think on it more, I should have capped the lane change to one, maybe that would have made the swaybars less attractive.

[gjramsey]

That is cool and makes sense for the track!

[Spaced Cowboy]

Ram,

Last check, you are car #6....no way to hit the grass from where you are. Are your orders final?

[Kassiopeia]

I've sent, like, ages ago, but it's not the same if you haven't posted about it.

[Spaced Cowboy]

no, just waiting on the ram.

[Kassiopeia]

I figured as much, just thought I'd get the +1 that was rightfully mine.

[gjramsey]

crips....yep, put me into the wall

[gjramsey]

for some strange reason, I just assumed I was still behind Sparrow.