NASCAR 09

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:10 pm

Dig the Mello Yello car, Terry. I have been thinking about giving a Days of Thunder car or two a shot. Who doesn't want to drive the#46 City Chevrolet?

I really wish this game had an AI difficulty slider instead of pre-set Easy/Medium/Hard AI settings. I'm not good enough to hold on to a car fast enough to really compete on the Hard level, but I can dumb down the veteran setting and destroy the Medium field. I might try using the Easy set-up as a base and see how that goes against Medium for the time being.

I still can't get over how improved this game is vs. last year.

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:03 pm

I agree Dave the game is a huge improvement over last year.

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:01 pm

I wish they had put the rivalries back.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:13 pm

Teal wrote:
Rodster wrote:Nice work guys.

There's no way I could figure out how to do that.

It's a helluva lot easier than Forza 2!

Yeah its alot easier to paint the cars ...but hell If Im ever going to figure out how to get the car into the game.

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:42 pm

Dave wrote:Dig the Mello Yello car, Terry. I have been thinking about giving a Days of Thunder car or two a shot. Who doesn't want to drive the#46 City Chevrolet?

Inspired by Terry's work, I intend to make the 'city' car if I have time this weekend.

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:10 pm

Naples shoot me a friends request on XBL, I want to download your cars.

XBL GT: Rodster360

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:34 am

Finished a City Chevrolet car. Long live Cole Trickle!!

Also, you have a friends request Rodster.

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:33 am

Good golly miss Molly, wow that looks awesome Naples. I'll snag it later tonight. As i've said why bother making your own cars when you can just download them from Naples, Terry and Teal.

Hey Teal shoot me a request so I can download your cars too. Btw what's the total car limit that you can download to your hard drive? Also I was using one of Terry's cars but I see it shows up as #100 on the race standings instead of the actual number of the car. Is there anyway to get the car number to match the race standing?

Btw, nice work Terry !

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:02 am

Verrrry nice work, Naples!

Love,
Rowdy Burns

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:07 am

Thanks guys.

Now I'm a little tempted to make a Rowdy Burns car, but probably won't do so for a little while.

TCrouch · Post by **TCrouch** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:32 am

Rodster wrote:I was using one of Terry's cars but I see it shows up as #100 on the race standings instead of the actual number of the car. Is there anyway to get the car number to match the race standing?

You have to modify your driver info to be whatever number you want it to be. What I try to do is to go and change the driver, then go to the locker and start a new car. Choose the font (since it displays your font in the standings), and then the base paint and number paint to match the skin I'll be downloading. Then go into the locker and download the file. When you're done, you will see the number in the standings page that at least somewhat resembles your car, and it will have the number you assigned for your driver.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:59 am

Naples, I snatched all that Canucks cars from your locker already so if you need more room to install some of your latest creations, do so. Nicely done again.

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:54 pm

TCrouch wrote:
Rodster wrote:I was using one of Terry's cars but I see it shows up as #100 on the race standings instead of the actual number of the car. Is there anyway to get the car number to match the race standing?
You have to modify your driver info to be whatever number you want it to be. What I try to do is to go and change the driver, then go to the locker and start a new car. Choose the font (since it displays your font in the standings), and then the base paint and number paint to match the skin I'll be downloading. Then go into the locker and download the file. When you're done, you will see the number in the standings page that at least somewhat resembles your car, and it will have the number you assigned for your driver.

Terry I did that (edit Deiver Info) and the number starts at 100 and ends at 199. Am I in the right place?

Naples, your #46 City Chevrolet is the sh*t.

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:52 pm

I think Terry and Wco will like this one

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:58 pm

No love for the San Jose Earthquakes?

Painting cars for this game is too damn fun. I'm a few races from moving up to the Nationwide series in my career and realized I don't like the Canon car I created as much as my current truck and future Puma-sponsored Cup ride...time to get to work!

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:39 am

Would anyone be interested in doing a NASCAR 09 Sprint Cup season?

Here is what I have in mind. We'd all start out by picking a real driver and use their car to race on 10 different TBD tracks over the course of a "season." All cars would be required to race using the default veteran set-up so that more experienced racers couldn't tweak their cars and effectively destroy all rookies. As far as I know picking real drivers and not our custom cars means that performance points won't effect each car (although each driver has their own ratings for each track type). Each race would consist of a practice session (10-15 minutes), a qualifying session and then a 15% race depending on the track. All four track types would be represented.

Track/Race Settings
Race Length: 15%
Wear Factor: x3
Pit Stops Required: Between 1-2 depending on the track
Damage: On
Collisions: On
Flag Rules: Full

Points
Points would be awarded based on where you finish according to modified version of NASCAR's current point system. No extra points for leading a lap or leading the most laps. 1st: 185, 2nd: 170, 3rd: 165, 4th: 160, 5th: 155, 6th: 150, etc...

We could try and do one or two races a week but I'm guessing having a set time period (i.e. Wednesday night, 7:30pm PST) would be easier for everyone. If you couldn't make a race you'd get a DNF and get the least amount of points (but still some points). After each race I'd update a cup thread with the results similar to the EURO 2008 league we got going.

Very casual, but organized. Show up on race day, practice a bit, qualify and then race. What's so hard about that?

What do you think? C'mon Teal, Terry, Naples, Nyisles, 10spro (aka Xeneineinene!) and anyone else on who wants in, you know you wanna race!

James_E · Post by **James_E** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:29 am

If this has legs and looks like it's going to get a good amount of participants, I'd love to join in.

I'd need to go get the game

I'll do that.

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:16 am

I'm interested, but a little afraid of commitment.

Surely I'm going to miss a number of races, but maybe unlike a league where a game cannot be played without both participants, these races can still go off. So I guess it's worth a shot.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:28 am

It's a good concept mac, but with my current schedule I am not sure it I can do it weekly and definitely not the time that usually everyone starts at. I may just squeeze by a poker night here & there but we'll see. Another rule of thumb, everyone else should have a two lap advantage' on Terry and his Bro.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:04 pm

Had a bout of insomnia last night, and this was the result of a 2am inspirational twitch:

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:28 pm

10spro wrote:It's a good concept mac, but with my current schedule I am not sure it I can do it weekly and definitely not the time that usually everyone starts at. I may just squeeze by a poker night here & there but we'll see. Another rule of thumb, everyone else should have a two lap advantage' on Terry and his Bro.

Just testing the waters to see what kind of response I get. I know how you guys feel about not wanting to commit and letting the rest of the field down on race day. Maybe we could just try and get a decent "Poker Night" race field going on a certain day? This game is going to be around for awhile without anything to topple it from its 360 racing throne for awhile so no hurry. I'll post over at OS too and see if anyone there wants in.

@ Teal: Dude you continue to out do yourself in paintbooth. That dew car is siiiiiiiiiiiick!!!!!!

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:04 pm

Damn it Teal send me a friends request. I want that #3 Dew car.

XBL GT: Rodster360

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:09 pm

macsomjrr wrote:
10spro wrote:It's a good concept mac, but with my current schedule I am not sure it I can do it weekly and definitely not the time that usually everyone starts at. I may just squeeze by a poker night here & there but we'll see. Another rule of thumb, everyone else should have a two lap advantage' on Terry and his Bro.
Just testing the waters to see what kind of response I get. I know how you guys feel about not wanting to commit and letting the rest of the field down on race day. Maybe we could just try and get a decent "Poker Night" race field going on a certain day? This game is going to be around for awhile without anything to topple it from its 360 racing throne for awhile so no hurry. I'll post over at OS too and see if anyone there wants in.

@ Teal: Dude you continue to out do yourself in paintbooth. That dew car is siiiiiiiiiiiick!!!!!!

Hehe...thanks mac...for my sons, a TMNT car is next...

...unless you want me to do an NRA car for ya...

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:57 pm

Has anyone filled up their stable with created designs yet? If so, how many are allowed? I only have 3 in there, that I know of, yet it won't let me upload my TMNT car. Doesn't the thing hold like eight?

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:15 pm

Teal wrote:Has anyone filled up their stable with created designs yet? If so, how many are allowed? I only have 3 in there, that I know of, yet it won't let me upload my TMNT car. Doesn't the thing hold like eight?

Terry said he seems to be capped at about 7. I think I have 4 in mine at the moment, though to get up cars 3 and 4 I had to try a second or third time.

In-game I think it actually says your locker is 10mb.