A few online questions

[GeekOfAwesome]

Hallo everyone

I have been playing GT for quite some time now, but I've never really been into the online, I was just wondering:

A) Do I have to install the 8GB data thingy that the game wants me to, I have a lot of other games I would like to play and do play, so I don't have the 8GB to spare

B) How can I tell wether a room is good or not? I've been into I think 3 now and 2 have just been free runs, no racing apparently? And the third was a load of, what sounded like, 6 year old Hungarians

C) Will I get kicked if I run slightly wide on a corner and gently brush an opponent? Because I'm not the worlds greatest driver

D) Is it quite a hostile environment? I don't usually play games online, I've played a bit of CoD and Battlefront II and both were populated by bothe lovely people who were really nice and helpful and also insufferable, yeah you get the picture.

Thank you all for reading and any answers are appreciated

GeeK

 

[Woodski_427]

A not sure

B you really can't. But check for sensible restrictions, like 400pp on comfort softs and limited aids; and avoid stuff like cops and anything on TGTT, Route X for example. If a room is 1000hp theres a good chance full of hacks and idiots.

C not normally, but you can find idiots quite easily who will kick for stupid reasons, a good room will usually warn you if you are a bit wayward.

D it's the same. Just leave rooms that you don't like, it's a good idea to note names of good and bad hosts and players (where the races work for you) for when you search for a room next time.

I only recently started playing online, and I've generally avoided rubbish. I found a few people from GTP too so I look out for their names when I'm on.

Shuffle races are fun and give you a good introduction to online races, and clean rooms will usually have a fair bit of contact.

Look for JohnnyPenso's guide to online racing for some good tips! I think it was in the Worst you've dealt with online thread.

Good luck.

 

[Dean]

A) Do I have to install the 8GB data thingy that the game wants me to, I have a lot of other games I would like to play and do play, so I don't have the 8GB to spare

No, you don't have to install the 8 GB, though you should expect a bit long loading times .

 

[eran0004]

B) How can I tell wether a room is good or not? I've been into I think 3 now and 2 have just been free runs, no racing apparently? And the third was a load of, what sounded like, 6 year old Hungarians

You have some filter options that you can use. Free run, race for fun and race for real. Not all hosts tagged their lobbies appropriately, but you can get a pretty good idea when you look at the title of the lobby as well.

C) Will I get kicked if I run slightly wide on a corner and gently brush an opponent? Because I'm not the worlds greatest driver

You can reduce the risk by apologizing. It's all up to the host after that, but apologizing and staying polite goes a long way.

D) Is it quite a hostile environment? I don't usually play games online, I've played a bit of CoD and Battlefront II and both were populated by bothe lovely people who were really nice and helpful and also insufferable, yeah you get the picture.

It becomes pretty much what you make it into. My experience is that lobbies tend to get politer and friendlier if you communicate, like "nice race", "that's a cool car you've got" or "sorry if I bumped you in that corner". If someone only starts saying these little things, people are generally pretty good in paying it forward and soon enough you'll have the friendliest lobby ever.

Same thing applies to hostility, cursing and foul play. If someone starts and the host doesn't do anything about it, there's a great risk that the lobby will go out of hands and that people will leave.

 

[Mini Stiggy]

Hallo everyone

I have been playing GT for quite some time now, but I've never really been into the online, I was just wondering:

A) Do I have to install the 8GB data thingy that the game wants me to, I have a lot of other games I would like to play and do play, so I don't have the 8GB to spare

B) How can I tell wether a room is good or not? I've been into I think 3 now and 2 have just been free runs, no racing apparently? And the third was a load of, what sounded like, 6 year old Hungarians

C) Will I get kicked if I run slightly wide on a corner and gently brush an opponent? Because I'm not the worlds greatest driver

D) Is it quite a hostile environment? I don't usually play games online, I've played a bit of CoD and Battlefront II and both were populated by bothe lovely people who were really nice and helpful and also insufferable, yeah you get the picture.

Thank you all for reading and any answers are appreciated

GeeK

A: You don't have to but it helps.
B: You'll learn with experience what room are good, and like someone above me said, try to remember the good hosts.
C: No, even 90% of rooms entitled "clean or kick" have way to much body contact. But if you do run someone off the road, slow down and let them pass you.
D: You will find some nice people, some people that say nothing, and some complete loonies
Hope that helped:tup:

 

[Johnnypenso]

Hallo everyone

I have been playing GT for quite some time now, but I've never really been into the online, I was just wondering:

A) Do I have to install the 8GB data thingy that the game wants me to, I have a lot of other games I would like to play and do play, so I don't have the 8GB to spare

B) How can I tell wether a room is good or not? I've been into I think 3 now and 2 have just been free runs, no racing apparently? And the third was a load of, what sounded like, 6 year old Hungarians

C) Will I get kicked if I run slightly wide on a corner and gently brush an opponent? Because I'm not the worlds greatest driver

D) Is it quite a hostile environment? I don't usually play games online, I've played a bit of CoD and Battlefront II and both were populated by bothe lovely people who were really nice and helpful and also insufferable, yeah you get the picture.

Thank you all for reading and any answers are appreciated

GeeK

A. Already answered...related to loading times.
B. See link in my sig as suggested. Have to say it's getting extremely difficult to find good circuit racing outside of Nurb dedicated rooms. Fewer and fewer all the time and almost all on RS tires:tdown:
C. Most likely not. Even in rooms that are supposedly "clean" most hosts either pay no attention to dirty driving, intentional or not, or just don't see it. If they aren't affected by it, most hosts don't care. Some do, most don't. Try to make note of or send an FR to hosts you run across that you like and go to their rooms as often as possible. Bloodredsky and Ivangrant for example, are guys that won't hesitate to kick someone for dirty driving.
D. Unfortunately, on the whole I'd have to say yes. The quality and courtesy of drivers mid to back pack is atrocious most of the time. Most rooms run reverse grid, and better drivers have to weave their way past guys who don't know how to run two wide, often don't know where their brakes are and are constantly divebombing you when they are lucky enough to get a draft run on you after you pass them. Being slow is one thing and it's fine, being discourteous is unacceptable at any level.

 

[Morgoth_666]

No, you don't have to install the 8 GB, though you should expect a bit long loading times .

Has anyone ever done a study of how much this actually affects things? I've never done the install on either of my PS3s but I do do the "rolling install." I don't think I've ever had more than 3-4 gigs of installed data according to the menu check option. But I've never experienced anything I would consider a problem(doesn't mean it's not hurting me imperceptibly). It says "installing data" whenever someone joins in a car you don't have installed, but this has either no visible effect or perhaps a stutter for a tenth of a second when it does happen. And of course this only happens during free run so it doesn't affect races. It does take longer to load the tracks the first time, but it doesn't take too long before you have them all installed and if you play offline extensively you'll already have most of the cars and tracks installed already(except for whatever is in that other 3-4 gigs).

If you don't let it install anything it will obviously take longer, but the install-as-you-go seems to have done enough for me despite only installing half of what it says. I did blow up my PS3 2/3 or so of the way through A-Spec and continue from a backup so that possibly kept my install size down. I have gone back and done much of the old things over again however.

 

[cjr3559]

Good questions, many that I was wondering about.

Here's another: How do you know you've been booted from a room? Is it obvious? I've had the connection cut abruptly and wasn't sure if I was booted or if my connection was really lost.

I started my own room today but didn't get any action. I had the settings very strict, so maybe that kept people away. I had all aids off, damage heavy, etc on the Nordschliefe with a 2 lap race. I was hoping for a realistic racing experience.

Finally, I watched some racing in a couple rooms, and does the live action always look so jittery and fake? Wasn't sure if it was heavily modded unrealistic cars I was watching.

Thanks!

 

[ryzno]

Good questions, many that I was wondering about.

Here's another: How do you know you've been booted from a room? Is it obvious? I've had the connection cut abruptly and wasn't sure if I was booted or if my connection was really lost.

I started my own room today but didn't get any action. I had the settings very strict, so maybe that kept people away. I had all aids off, damage heavy, etc on the Nordschliefe with a 2 lap race. I was hoping for a realistic racing experience.

Finally, I watched some racing in a couple rooms, and does the live action always look so jittery and fake? Wasn't sure if it was heavily modded unrealistic cars I was watching.

Thanks!

1st question: You will get a message saying "you have been rejected".
2nd question: Sometimes the room will never get a single person, it also depends on your rep, and how well your known.
3rd question. The room was probably laggy.