Simviation Forum - M$ Driving Simulator

Aug 6^th, 2003 at 5:09pm

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I don't know about you, but sometime in the future, I'd like to see an M$ Driving Simulator. Don't you think that would be neat to start at your house and go on a 2 week road trip? That would be neat in my humble opinion. Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - Aug 6^th, 2003 at 6:09pm

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Only if they put in all the bridges.LOL

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Reply #2 - Aug 6^th, 2003 at 6:45pm

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Would the sim include police? If so, that may make it difficult for me. Grin

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Reply #3 - Aug 6^th, 2003 at 8:02pm

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Oh oh how about this.......

Multiplayer................select your car.................police..........................objective..................c
hase and stop speeders, giving them a virtual ticket. You current Area: Miami, do not pass the city limits.

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Reply #4 - Aug 6^th, 2003 at 8:55pm

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Sounda good Grin

but how about framerates Roll Eyes

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Reply #5 - Aug 6^th, 2003 at 10:01pm

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Nah, I don't like the idea of a driving simulator. A while back, I said I'd like to see a boat simulator. Imagine taking your taking your brand new Bombardier Seadoo across a rural lake at break neck speed or sailing the Voyager of the Seas across the Caribbean. That would be cool.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

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Reply #6 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 1:41am

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I wouldn't mind seeing a TRUCK driving simulator detailing all that is involved in driving a big rig over the open road. My dad was a trucker for many years and there is quit a bit involved in it.

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Reply #7 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 1:55am

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I wouldn't mind seeing a TRUCK driving simulator detailing all that is involved in driving a big rig over the open road. My dad was a trucker for many years and there is quit a bit involved in it.

If that happened, maybe 4_Series_Scania may appear out of the darkness!

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Reply #8 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 5:25am

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yea sounds cool

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Reply #9 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 10:09am

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Would the sim include police?

They have games with police in them. Need for Speed, uh... Test Drive games are pretty good. In those, YOU can be the police and stop the speeders. In Test Drive 5, you have to stop speeding cars that have alredy commited crimes. The crimes include groping women, chicken plicking, rape, 3rd degree murder, and software piracy. All that good stuff. Grin

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Reply #10 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 11:25am

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they should make a huge online world in which you can fly, race or drive a train but in seperate simulators... but that is future-to-come

Test Drive is dead since version 3 and 4. it has become too arcade-ish...
NFS 3 and 4 are cool, NFS6 has lot better graphic quality (static FS2004-like sunsets, no sheet-type trees anymore) but they got rid of the car interior view so it looks arcade-ish now too

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Reply #11 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 2:19pm

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Grand Theft Auto is another "driving simulator",but it has no interior view ,too.

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Reply #12 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 3:35pm

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If that happened, maybe 4_Series_Scania may appear out of the darkness!

Damn Right Wink

GTA3 isn't too bad from a graphical point of view, one of the best (and hardest!) driving sims I know of is an old Sierra Game called "Grand Prix Legends", released back in '98 I think and still supported today by a huge modding community.
http://karkrazy.m4driving.sm/racing_gpl_guide.html
http://racesimcentral.com/downloads/gpl/gpl.shtml
http://racesimcentral.com/guides/gpl/beginner.shtml

Yup, I like this sim!

MS Driving sim? not if it runs as "well" as CFS3 Tongue

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Reply #13 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 3:40pm

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I'd like to see an app that exports your Sim City and creates a sceanery add-on for FS.... it would be cool to fly around the city you built!

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Reply #14 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 3:44pm

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sim copter and sim city 2000, if you have both of those you can create and export your citys to sim copter from 2000, not great graphics but thats the closest you can get right now

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Reply #15 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 3:55pm

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The only problem with most of these suggestions is that they involve vehicles which are, compared to your average airliner, relatively easy to drive.

This means that you're not going to have the same effect that F$ has. There are no landings in a Corvette, no altitude changes in a boat. About the only thing I can think of that might be even remotely challenging is perhaps a cruise ship, but even that moves at such ridiculously slow speeds that I can't think it would be an exciting game.

F$ got its reputation as a sim for being challenging, and being something very complex. You can't compare having to know flap settings, AP settings, airspeed laws, airspace restrictions, trim wheels, engine gauges, FSI's, GPS's, VOR's, NDB's, DME's, ILS, IFR, VFR, and all the other aspects of flying that I don't have time to type with "the speed limit is 65 mph".

IMHO, there's just no comparison here...

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Reply #16 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 5:06pm

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No, but it is kind of interesting when a 60 ton truck gets going down a 30% grade in Colorado somewhere. The tendency to jacknife is pretty high. Driving a truck is not just a matter of learning to drive a larger vehicle. There are literally hundreds of regulations you must consider, route planning (so your 13' 7" truck doesn't go under a 13' 5" bridge), fuel consumption, driver fatigue, dealing with morons like me who can't stand to be behind anyone... The list could go on and on. I'm sure Scania can back me up on this. It's complicated work.

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Reply #17 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 7:18pm

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I wouldn't mind seeing a TRUCK driving simulator detailing all that is involved in driving a big rig over the open road. My dad was a trucker for many years and there is quit a bit involved in it.

Have you checked out "Hard Truck-18 Wheels of Steel"?
I'm pretty sure you would like it, especially if you have a steering wheel and pedals, it's the closest thing to a truck driving simulator that I know of, much better than the previous 'Hard Truck' titles and not an arcade game like the truck games for the consoles.
With a price tag of only $20.00 USD, it's very well worth the price.

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No, but it is kind of interesting when a 60 ton truck gets going down a 30% grade in Colorado somewhere. The tendency to jacknife is pretty high. Driving a truck is not just a matter of learning to drive a larger vehicle. There are literally hundreds of regulations you must consider, route planning (so your 13' 7" truck doesn't go under a 13' 5" bridge), fuel consumption, driver fatigue, dealing with morons like me who can't stand to be behind anyone... The list could go on and on. I'm sure Scania can back me up on this. It's complicated work.

You actually do have to deal with most of this stuff in "18 wheels of steel".

BTW, My Dad has also been a truck driver his whole life and still is, except instead of traveling the whole U.S. like he used to, he just delivers around the Michigan/Ohio area these days.
He was gone so much when I was growing up that I don't remember having a real conversation with him until I was 25 years old!

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Reply #18 - Aug 7^th, 2003 at 10:00pm

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He was gone so much when I was growing up that I don't remember having a real conversation with him until I was 25 years old!

I sure know that feeling!

When a sim comes out that can reflect the potential consequences of getting it wrong with 38,44 or even 60 ton's behind you, I'll be the first in the queue.

I just wish as a matter of routine, normal car drivers had to try a truck as part of their lessons, then, perhaps us truckers may just get a little respect out on the roads...... (Something lacking from 90% of fellow road users!) Roll Eyes

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Reply #19 - Aug 8^th, 2003 at 9:17am

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Hey,4_Series_Scania I think everyone should be made to ride a motorcycle for 12mths before they drive anything else. I've got friends who are truckdrivers AND m/cycle riders and we all have a common complaint--car drivers.

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Reply #20 - Aug 8^th, 2003 at 9:20am

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Nooo, I wasn't implying that a truck is just a "larger vehicle"....sorry if that's how it came across.

But what I'm saying is that a lot of things involved in driving, no matter what kind of vehicle you're driving, are based on the sense of touch. You can feel if you're in a wrong gear, you can sense when your power steering goes...these things can't accurately be simulated, ya know?

Flying has so many things to learn that are visual. That's why it has sold so well.

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Reply #21 - Aug 8^th, 2003 at 10:11am

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I'm really waiting for a Fly/Train Sim. Like you fly from Europe in to Canada,travel the Canadian/Pacific rail then fly Vancouver/Tokyo/Beijing then board the TransSiberia to Moscow flying into London at trips end.

Mind you if M$ came up with a Fly/Drive deal in a discount package I'd go for 6 nights in the UK instead!! Grin

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Reply #22 - Aug 8^th, 2003 at 10:18am

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How about if you have a sim where you drive from home to the dispatchers office, take a semi from Chicago to Des Moines, load your cargo onto a train, take it to St. Louis, then fly it to London? Grin

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Reply #23 - Aug 8^th, 2003 at 12:09pm

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Maybe it could be kinda like GTA3. ??? Get a gun, a car, and a plane. Oh and a plane with a gun. Grin

Spit, Jug, or anything. Grin

Get to straf some police cars? Grin

Or you could drive a rig from Chicago to anywhere... Roll Eyes

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Reply #24 - Aug 8^th, 2003 at 1:53pm

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You can drive (by yourself) in FS2k2, use the mbvito or the followme car in the misc. downloads (2k i think), also there are some coast guard cutters (2k2 misc) and a fishing boat so you can do some boating too -- not that much to do though, and I wouldnt want to do a cross country drive.

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