GPL Track limit?

On Dec 9, 6:49*am, hoover > wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:49:16 +0100, Ruud Dingemans wrote:
> > 400?) - if one excludes alpha's and beta's, I guess.
>
> > (Still a lot, though - I doubt if any other race game/sim gets close to
> > it, in all.)
>
> Well, rFactor does better:
>
> > select count(*) from tracks ;
>
> +----------+
> | count(*) |
> +----------+
> | * * *731 |
> +----------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> (taken from rF Rank's database this morning) We don't even support
> every track out there, so I guess the true number would be closer to
> 1,000 tracks.
>
> Cheers, Uwe

With all due respect, I'm afraid that one of the things that turns me
off (not completely, mind) about rFactor is that there seems to be
many variations of the exact same track which will increase the count,
not to mention the many car/mod versions confusing things.


I'm not doubting that rFactor has many tracks available though, as I
believe that it's much much easier to produce one in rFactor than in
GPL.

Bob Simpson wrote:

>> Well, rFactor does better:

>> every track out there, so I guess the true number would be closer to
>> 1,000 tracks.
>>
>> Cheers, Uwe
>
> With all due respect, I'm afraid that one of the things that turns me
> off (not completely, mind) about rFactor is that there seems to be
> many variations of the exact same track which will increase the count,

> I'm not doubting that rFactor has many tracks available though, as I
> believe that it's much much easier to produce one in rFactor than in
> GPL.

Besides, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those tracks started out as
GPL conversions (i.e. originally developed in GPL)?

(Not sure about this though; I'm sure rFactor has many fine original
tracks, too, btw.)

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank: -40)