What happens when you run out of oil?

[Jonish]

Ok ok...so it's pretty damn obvious that I'm a newbie by asking such a dumb question...but I'm just curious as to what happens when you run out of oil during a race? I'm currently doing the Laguna Seca endurance race...and my mind started to wander at lap 60

 

[Famine]

You can't. So nothing.

 

[Jonish]

Hmmmm...kinda pointless then (just like this reply )

 

[Famine]

Of course, running the car with sludgy, used oil drops your power a bit, so you want to keep on changing it every 100 miles or so. But you can't run out.

 

[Jonish]

Ok cheers dude ...now if only the game incorporated petrol..*ideas starting to form*

 

[Famine]

From some of the early screenshots at E3 this year, I suspect GT4 WILL include petrol - probably only as a distance/pit strategy thing, but maybe affecting the mass of the vehicle (and thus lap times) too.

 

[Jonish]

yeeeeeh thats more like it...I'm going to (in a way) contradict myself now...I just hope they dont over complicate the game and ruin it...but then again I guess there's always arcade mode

 

[Vasco]

That would be nice if it had petrol...then pit strategies would really come into play.

 

[Bollocks#999]

yeah like going half a lap to far will finish your race

 

[HsV_CoUpE]

ohhh like the lemans race game....i dont like that game

but the petrol thing is cool

 

[Bollocks#999]

the old "Lotus Esprit 3" game on the Amiga was like this, run out of fuel and thats it, AI never pitted though

 

[Vasco]

Heh, same with the "F1 World Grand Prix" game for the N64, but you could set it to 0 fuel and it's sort of a cheat, as you'd then be as light as 0 fuel, and it'd still give you infinite fuel...