Choose your own prize car

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After a long night of experimenting with the prize car 'lottery' after winning a championship, I am convinced that there is atleast 'some' level of influence that you can have on choosing your prize car, as opposed to the belief that the process is entirely random.

Having my heart set on a Rosso Pearlescent TVR Speed 12, I endeavoured to keep trying until I got that very car (knowing I couldn't buy one..) and duly set about the old trick of winning the championship with a race to spare, then reloading the game after not getting the prize car I wanted.

Of the 4 cars available as the prize for winning the Polyphony Digital Cup, I seemed to be able to select the Speed 12 atleast 33% of the time (instead of the 'random' value of 25%) albeit in the wrong colour! :banghead: But eventually, I got my car! :lol:

I found that the strategy of tapping the X button as the black GT symbol passes under the car seemed to be more effective than not doing anything at all... I must admit, I spent the best part of 1.5hrs trying different 'strategies', many of them suggested on this forum before, but nothing seemed to work as well as the X button trick...

Of course, if you are really fussy (like me), you still have to be ultra patient to get the right colour of car... (hence why I was trying for so damn long), but it is worth it in the end!:cool:

The most important point, however, is that the only real reason that you 'need' to be able to influence the choice of prize car is when finishing an endurance race (where you can't do the reload trick), and my success rate of (only) 33% means that it is a fairly safe bet that you won't get the car you are after first time... the only plausible solution is to do the enduro over again until you get your car...

Anyway, I'm off to have a spin in my lovely new Rosso Speed 12... see you! :D
 
Luckily the endurances don't have any specific cars, but like you, I also just give that X button a few pushes when i complete an enduro, or a series in where i really want to get a specific car...it gives that sense of coolness. :D
 
Does that mean to say you believe it works or not? I am pretty sure that it was working more often than it wasn't, if you see what I mean...
 
Well the X button trick never really did work properly for me, so I take it it's random after all IMO. I just let the stupid logo spin around and get whatever car. I use the save/load trick too though.
 
Flame shield ON, Batman!

Buy a sharkport and download MK's program. Then, after you win the Speed 12, change the color to the one you want. IMHO, its no more cheating than doing the "Save Trick" on the last race. :p

MG
 
I not sure if the X-trick works or not. It almost seems to "randomly" work for me. It doesn't always help get the car I want faster, but sometimes it does.....or at least seems to.
 
if at any given time the X trick doesnt work for you it sugests that the X trick doesnt work at all.....
 
Damn. 1.5 hours? Now I know you have to be patient, but I'd go mad after 30 min!

That's why I stuck with my YELLOW Speed 12. :yuck:

And I'm one of the most impatient people I know. :banghead:
 
Originally posted by SandStorm
That's why I stuck with my YELLOW Speed 12. :yuck:
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Trade ya my pastel green Speed 12 for yer yellow one. :)

For pete's sake, someone needs to knock on the door of a PD developer and ask him about the number generator for picking cars... 'd save us a lot of conversation and rumor. I can't believe that nobody has successfully gotten a hold of that information.
 
Originally posted by under18carbon
Well yeah, thats what I'm thinking. But people keep saying it works. Screw it.
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if X work 60% or even 99.9% of the time then it isnt working. It would only be a valid way of "picking" cars if it worked 100% of the time.

for those out there who have pressed X and have recieved the car they want, you were lucky.

................

.... word just in from PD....

I spoke to a PD rep and he had one word for me:

RANDOM!

I of course cant back that up...
:p
 
Keep going with the X trick buddy. Your experiment suggested it worked 33% of the time.

Do another experiment and I reckon it will work 17% of the time.

Hey the average of 33 and 17 is ... 25.

Guess what I reckon you have a 1 in 4 chance of winning the car you want with the X trick. Yay. It works. :lol: :p

I too have experimented a while ago. There is a thread here somewhere. Too busy to look now.

My view...

It is...

RANDOM
and
1 in 4 chance
 
Originally posted by MotoGuzzi
Flame shield ON, Batman!

Buy a sharkport and download MK's program. Then, after you win the Speed 12, change the color to the one you want. IMHO, its no more cheating than doing the "Save Trick" on the last race. :p

MG
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**** that **** - 1.5 hours to get the car color u want? i pity u that do not have a sharkport/xport....... and they call it cheating, tsk
 
Mmmm, very interesting...

I did try the trick again but decided just to give it 10 shots, 5 without pressing X and 5 with...

In the 5 without, I got my chosen car once... In the 5 with, I got my chosen car 4 times in a row...

I am now convinced it ain't random... that said, you do have to be very much on the ball to get it right, so I agree with Ving in that it is a pretty useless system for 'choosing' a car, but with a little (well, alot actually) practice, you can nail it... my 1.5 hours of trying the other night has obviously paid off...! :cool:

Of course, none of this really matters anyway, does it.... if you are a true player, you'll be doing the tournaments enough times to win every car anyway! ;)
 
Originally posted by Touring Mars
Mmmm, very interesting...

I did try the trick again but decided just to give it 10 shots, 5 without pressing X and 5 with...

In the 5 without, I got my chosen car once... In the 5 with, I got my chosen car 4 times in a row...

I am now convinced it ain't random... that said, you do have to be very much on the ball to get it right, so I agree with Ving in that it is a pretty useless system for 'choosing' a car, but with a little (well, alot actually) practice, you can nail it... my 1.5 hours of trying the other night has obviously paid off...! :cool:

Of course, none of this really matters anyway, does it.... if you are a true player, you'll be doing the tournaments enough times to win every car anyway! ;)
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If you really want to get true percentages then you need to do it way way way more than 10 times. After you got 4 in a row you might not have gotten your car again until after 20 tries. If you really want to win people over to your "X-trick theory" you need to try it about 100 times.... I bet you only get the car you want about 25 times.
 
OMG!!!

if it worked 4 times out of 5 then IT DIDNT WORK AT ALL.

if it was a system that worked it would work 100% of the time not 80%!!!!

sheesh, some ppl amaze me...
 
Originally posted by gumpy
Keep going with the X trick buddy. Your experiment suggested it worked 33% of the time.

Do another experiment and I reckon it will work 17% of the time.

Hey the average of 33 and 17 is ... 25.

Guess what I reckon you have a 1 in 4 chance of winning the car you want with the X trick. Yay. It works. :lol: :p

I too have experimented a while ago. There is a thread here somewhere. Too busy to look now.

My view...

It is...

RANDOM
and
1 in 4 chance
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https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/t-21952.html there ya go :)
 
i dont care what you non believers say
it works for me
 
Ving - you're not entriely right... Injected on the other had IS entirely right.

You need a sample size in excess of 200 - that's 200 times leaving it alone, and 200 times with pressing the button of your choice (some say X, some say circle, some say up, some say down... etc. etc. etc.) - the car must be the same one each time though.

For each one you need to note down the car awarded each time. Then you can calculate percentages - however that isn't where it ends.

You then need to do a paired t-test on the values, to see if there is any significant difference between the "random" value and the "chosen" value. For it to be significant, there must be a p value of less than 0.05.

Simply comparing 25% to 33% and saying "it's not 25% so it works" is false. Saying it must work 100% of the time is also false - we are only human and our timing isn't always spot on. This could actually be resolved with a ROC curve, to detect operator inconsistencies.
 

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