Nascar Racing 2003 Season

[MonteCristo]

Bottom post of the previous page:

With iRacing making some acquisitions, could that be the end of NR2003 mod development?

Welcome to the forum .

I'm not a member of the NR2003 community, so I don't know how strong it is.

But the problem - for me - with iRacing is the subscription fee, rather than an up-front cost. I imagine existing NR2003 devs and players would continue to be drawn to a product that they already have, and in the modders case that they can control.

Over time it'll die off, but if it's strong now, it'll be fine for a while. The Age of Empires 2 community is still huge (bigger than for many, many years), and it's 22 years old.

[theracer120]

Collision boxes look like they could use some work though. Is this a full on physics mod too?

Pretty sure it's just a graphics mod. There is a somewhat extensive NR2003 physics editor that got leaked a few years back but I don't think anyone within the mainstream NR2003 modding community is actually doing edits, I guess because they're worried about getting into trouble with iracing or something. You wouldn't have to do anything to the mod if someone did update the physics though, you'd just have to use a different exe.

[Ian-S]

You can’t change the collision box, well not easily anyway, but for online you want a bit of give anyway, having an oversized car make for good racing because everybody is in the mindset of not wanting to touch others.

What’s this about iRacing acquiring things? They’ve got my number if they want to offer me a job, but I’m pretty sure unless it was stupidly generous most of the genuine modding community would tell them to do one, we have long memories and remember how they’ve treated people in the past….

[acerogers58]

Today marks 20 years since this game was released, and it still remains the best NASCAR game out there. iracing is a simulator

[erwin greven]

Had a lot of fun back in the late 2000s with V8thunder series.