Yes, I agree on the "feel" of the car. What you said
@demonchilde about similar driving styles explains why some of the tunes I find posted I have trouble with. And people actually spend weeks? I spent 6 hours once and thought that was too much. I figured all of you guys were just that much better than me and could make up a good tune in 15 minutes. Until GT6 my tuning was limited to lowering the ride height, setting the gear slider and maybe brake bias, and that was that.
I'll look at that trans tuning guide in your signature
@Otaliema 👍
Some can and do spend very little time. I know my cousin can come over and tune something in literally minutes and take a 10-15 second gap 1st place on any seasonal first try. But I take that very same tune and try and quit the race 1/2 way through the first lap because its horrid to my drive style. His, like many of the top 100 rankers, style is very individual. They have this magic spell cast on them from the Gods that make them win gt500 races with nothing but a wheelbarrow with a squeaky tire.
When I say 'weeks' I mean revisiting the tune often to tweak it here and there, using it in different situations. Offline, online, restricted rooms, seasonals with forced aids, seasonals without, all will effect how a tune works. Unless its made specifically for a seasonal, alot of tuners try to make a tune versatile to be used anywhere with minimal tweaking. I post 5-10 tunes a year, lol (not counting seasonals). I know some who don't even do that.
Then I know some that pump out 5-10 a week. And I also know I can grab any of those, tweak maybe 1 thing to my style, and go win with it. It won't feel like my cars, but will win with ease.
I don't claim to be some tuning god, because I'm not even close. To those who drive similar to my style, they follow me and like my tunes, to everyone else I'm just another small garage in a forum with 30 small garages, lol.
The best advice you can be given by anyone, is to use everyone here to learn how to tweak and tune everything. Anyone can grab a tune from someone and win some race, but not everyone can grab a car, tune it, tweak it, and win that same race having lots of fun and enjoying every minute.
I use them (FITT and all the garages) as teachers, all of them helping me get better at one thing or another.
Oh, and I also write long posts that take forever to read, sorry, lol.