450pp Street Car Tuners Club -- Nightly 9:45-12:00 EDT

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What? We don't earn credits for online racing now?

Sounds like they did some work with the lag issues. I may host an open lobby tonight with no audio and see if we can't get a clean 16-car race going.
 
In the news section at the top right of the game, there is a new story saying that they are aware of a new bug where sometimes no $ or XP are rewarded during online play.
 
Regarding the Trial Celica...
http://horsepowercalculators.net/uncategorized/trial-celica-still-a-cool-car-after-several-years

It is supposed to be a track car and at one time was faster than an S2000 around Tsukuba. I think the online physics have messed with its elite tuner status though. Last week at Nurb GP/F I had no problem getting around the track. I was at 497pp with max downforce and a S/C. This week I added Engine 2 and a little power reduction to put it right at 500pp. The car was uncontrollable around Suzuka. The backend would kick out through the esses as if it were a midship. It is seriously the oddest driving FF car. I wish I could get other FFs to handle like it so I could find a middle ground between oversteer and understeer.
 
The celica at suzuka (with the rear view cam) looked/sounded like an On board view of a Space Shuttle launch...

I'm sure Esh will put the replay online.
 
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Ahhh just like the good ol' days.

Start the download before you go to bed and it should be done before you get up in the morning.
 
Vol Jbolaz
I'm opening a room.

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Joining now

EDIT: Sorry, I'm slow. Can't join until the 2nd update finishes. Installing now at 50%.
 
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Still downloading the update.

I started a fresh GT4 game with my PS2. Graphics are sub-par but so many more tracks. I just golded my iB license, now to kick some A.I. butt.
 
Nice turn out. And we had some pubbers and they behaved. I didn't have to kick anyone. I did have to warn a new driver on my last race because he used me as a brake. He apologized and then kind of took himself out of the race, letting everyone by and just driving in the rear.

I got to wondering, has anyone noticed a difference with the online physics with 2.4? My car was a lot less stable than I expected it to be. It could just be because I'm still trying too hard and pushing too hard to keep up. But I was wondering if maybe there has been a further reduction in physics to try and counter online problems with full rooms. We had 10 or 11 on the track and 12 in the room and I didn't notice any problems.

One driver did report having a lagged out race start.
 
I started a fresh GT4 game with my PS2.
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Awesome! 👍
I used to start with the bugeye impreza to get the impreza touring car with the impreza one make race + its awd so you can go do rally...Have fun!
 
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I just used the Mazda Kusabi to beat Sunday Cup and FF challenge. I won that and the Lupo for getting gold on the iB tests and the Lupo was too slow to make it to the front in the short number of laps.
 
We had much success last night with 12 in room, 10 on track and voice chat. I think there is some general fps loss with that many cars on the track, even in offline mode, but I didn't notice any grip reduction or slowmotion-ness like before.

Also, SRT4 is fun to drive and surprisingly quick. Never thought I would drive a Dodge online if I didn't have to.
 
Wish I could have joined you. The update failed 3 times. I fired it up this morning and it installed in less than 10 minutes. :/
 
Vol Jbolaz
It could just be because I'm still trying too hard and pushing too hard to keep up.
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try some of the one-make races if you want to see how you do on a level playing field. The "tuning" really separates those that have free time and those that do not.
 
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Also, SRT4 is fun to drive and surprisingly quick. Never thought I would drive a Dodge online if I didn't have to.
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I was kind of excited that you didn't catch up to me, a second time, at Rome.

We did have good numbers last night, and I had an okay time. But, I'm going to rework my parity series. Because...

at Rome for example, I was in 3rd place for most of the race. But, I still raced alone. The leaders were ten seconds ahead of me, and while Esh was gaining, he still wasn't close enough to make me change my driving. I saw him in the mirror in the distance on a straight, but I didn't see him at all in the corners.

Now, last night at Rome there were quite a few wall-smacking incidents. But it was like that for most tracks. Even in four or five laps, the field spread out. And we always seemed to have the same drivers on the podium.

The only reason I hosted a general 450 room last night was because I only had two people show up for the parity series. So I'm going to change it up a bit. You all are invited to join me on Tuesdays. I'll have another thread going, and you can follow it there. But I'm not going to do a series. Each Tuesday will just be a little series unto itself, so people don't have to worry about committing to a series. I'll pick different themes for cars and tracks (or take suggestions for such).

I will have to host it in my lobby because I don't know that we can police pubbers. But, if you are on my friend list, then I'll probably race your Bobs.
 
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