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What the heck did BMW put in these motors? :lol:
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sturk0167
Yeah, I completely botched that one. Entered the final straight 1st and finished 5th. :banghead: Gonna start at the back on the next one. 👍
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Ugh that damn Brazilian moving over at the wrong time. Did you pay him off? :lol:
Perhaps the winner paid him off cause I don't know what he was doing.

One more, getting tired of these long waits. Of course it ends 1 minute after the F1500 race starts, nice timing!
 
Pigems
I really hope it’s not the Supra for Race B, we already have a Supra race series, we don’t need another one.
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After looking through all the N300s, there's a high chance it will be. It's their pet project/lovebug at the moment, after all.

I don't know if others feel the same way but I don't like it very much; it feels like you need to go on the throttle just right or it will oversteer like no tomorrow.

I'll remain optimistic and hope for the X-BOW or the GT-R R34 even though I know I'll end up disappointed.
 
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After looking through all the N300s, there's a high chance it will be. It's their pet project/lovebug at the moment, after all.

I don't know if others feel the same way but I don't like it very much; it feels like you need to go on the throttle just right or it will oversteer like no tomorrow.

I'll remain optimistic and hope for the X-BOW or the GT-R R34 even though I know I'll end up disappointed.
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It’s a nice car, I just don’t like the way you have to drive it. It’s got way too much torque, 1st and 2nd gear are useless for racing and half the time you have to lug 4th or 5th around corners just to keep the wheels from spinning. It’s not really all that enjoyable to drive, for me anyways. So hopefully it’s another car. :)

I’m sure some people love it though. :)
 
Oh well crap. 4 sec penalty, I just can't race with Brazilians. Why was he taking such a weird line. Then I don't get to serve it until the end of lap 2, rip. I'm going to race C, this slow pace and long wait is making me too antsy.

Fun racing @sturk0167 Good luck!
 
Outspacer
Yeah, no, I don't have an idea!



Just sounds like a glitch, possibly fixed since but I don't know. Certainly it's not the intent of the algorithm used, which is meant to give at least 1 point for each person you beat. There was (and probably still is) a bug where the winner would get 0 points from a player where the difference between them is very close to 40,000 DR, but I don't think that bug could extend to a -1 (let alone hitting enough times in one race to add up to -7!).

There are cases where a player has quit from their previous race that can give strange results, but I doubt that applied to your result. What happens is that their ratings are updated when the previous race ends, so you don't see their correct ratings in your race. These days there's no way it would apply, but back when DR resets sometimes went upwards... well, I still can't think of a combination of events that would cause a DR D to suddenly have more DR points than a DR S.

Although I examined quite a few races in detail it was still a tiny number statistically. I never saw a winner lose points, so I never got to analyse why it might have happened. All I can say is it was a pretty rare occurrance even back then, and may have been fixed since anyway.
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Yes we discussed it you and @Milouse were clueless.
I still remember the Race when it happend.
It was a Daily A Race a one make.
I Started on Pole and drove a Faultless race no penalties neither a Contact.
I didn‘t rage Quit a single race before Or After that nor did i had a DR reset ever, so it Must have been a glitch.
The Strange thing is i didn‘t hear of anyone else having had this Kind of Error
 
It's so hard to avoid errors at Brands Hatch :crazy: I ran over 400km in Q time trials today to no avail. I clocked a 1:09.886 and 1:09.872, but my 1:09.870 still stands as my PB. Glad I haven't dropped out of the top 10 yet (#9 all day today). I'm almost certain that my optimal is less than 1:09.5, and although actually matching the optimal is far from realistic, I'm convinced I can shave off some more time :)
 
GT5Power
It's so hard to avoid errors at Brands Hatch :crazy: I ran over 400km in Q time trials today to no avail. I clocked a 1:09.886 and 1:09.872, but my 1:09.870 still stands as my PB. Glad I haven't dropped out of the top 10 yet (#9 all day today). I'm almost certain that my optimal is less than 1:09.5, and although actually matching the optimal is far from realistic, I'm convinced I can shave off some more time :)
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I'm the same, should easily be able to beat my 1'09.9, hasn't happened yet, so I went racing on my other account mostly. The two races I did do on my main had some funny things going on with the grip, first it seemed to just not be there after I pitted but I had a big lead so it didn't matter but later my car just had no traction at all, I especially got mauled at the start even with TC on and it wasn't any better the rest of the race and then I went off and got bashed about some more. Getting a corner slightly wrong can cost you quite a lot here as a lot of corners flow into another, so the grip feeling wrong is not good, can lose a second a lap easily, even if you don't end up driving off the track or spinning out. :indiff:
 
PirovacBoy
Yes we discussed it you and @Milouse were clueless.
I still remember the Race when it happend.
It was a Daily A Race a one make.
I Started on Pole and drove a Faultless race no penalties neither a Contact.
I didn‘t rage Quit a single race before Or After that nor did i had a DR reset ever, so it Must have been a glitch.
The Strange thing is i didn‘t hear of anyone else having had this Kind of Error
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There were a couple of people who said it happened to them, and no reason to doubt them. If you were one then another posted in one of the threads I was posting calc related stuff in, saying I must be wrong because of that one time! :) Yours was the best defined and most extreme set of DRs but still it's hard to even guess at what kind of bug caused it.

The odd cases caused me many headaches, because one wrong initial value makes every (or most) players' results wrong as well. Quitting from previous race would make (usually just) one player's DR incorrect (I wasn't thinking it was you that quitted, could be any player) and when I realised that I could work backwards and say how much DR they lost (or gained from a broken DR reset) from the previous race, which made the other scores come out correctly.

There were also some cases where the scores were calculated with a different finishing order than was shown on the results screen. Usually swapping a pair of adjacent players made it correct. But again, I can't see how that would apply to your result because you'd lose so much to a DR D; it wouldn't have just been 7 points, more like 160!

We'll never know :)
 
Oops, missed the start for race C, found my car limping down the straight with everyone long gone. So I switched to FM5 with short shifting and did a no stop. I was in 4th for a bit, but had to let 2 faster cars pass, finished 6th. Best lap in the 1:15 however towards the end I was running 1:17 laps. The tires don't look very worn, but it still affects the car quite a bit.

The good thing about missing the start, I also missed all the lap 1 chaos! Then draft cars until they go off to climb up the ranking ladder.

Next back to one stop, and hopefully I'll remember to set the brake balance this time. Why won't the game remember anything. It had me starting at TCS 3 in the copen race :banghead:

My one stop race was 1 sec faster than my no stop race where I missed the start.... Finished 7th.
 
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Very poor from PD when it was flagged weeks ago to Yamauchi that the playerbase didn't like being restricted to Japanese tracks in daily races.

If it was deemed important enough by PD it would have been hotfixed.
 
I did another Tokyo race since I missed the 19:30 F1500 derby. It was going well until I avoided a car and hit the wall instead, 5 sec penalty, better to hit a car than a wall! Luckily I got to serve it in lap 1, however the competition didn't quit line up nicely to get back to the front, finished 5th.

Then the 8 o'clock F1500 race, at full power this time. I guess I got put in the slow room as my finish time of 19:21 was enough!
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I'm going to leave it at that tonight, tired!
 
How can the Copen race be soo hard? It took me ages to win it last night and my SR copped a massive whack in the process. Sometimes as a result of unfair penalties, where people hit me! I almost rage quit. The slipstream is far too strong, because you can be 1.5 seconds behind and still be overtaken before the start/finish line. It's an absolute joke and kills any gain you make in other parts of the track.
 
Outspacer
The odd cases caused me many headaches, because one wrong initial value makes every (or most) players' results wrong as well. Quitting from previous race would make (usually just) one player's DR incorrect (I wasn't thinking it was you that quitted, could be any player)
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If I entered another daily after quitting an unfinished race, will they use my DR before or after quitting to calculate?. Say I'm about to lose 2k of DR in race C due to rage quit, and enter race A immediately and finish 2nd. I may gain 500DR for a net of -1.5k DR. Maybe the first finisher need to suffer DR loss as well?
 
Dear diary,

I entered race C tonight. I got punted off to the Andromeda Galaxy near the end of lap 1. Gg ez.

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Tried it again, and it was MUCH better. Started at pole, but I had a terrible start, sending me to 3rd place. 2nd place ends up going off track, so I retake 2nd. The battle between me and 1st place was intense. In the last few laps, we were no more than 1 second apart, and I manage to finish 0.3 seconds behind him. Such a good race!
 
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What's the etiquette for when you gain an advantage due to lag? From the other player's perspective I did a bump and run but it was clean on my side, so I didn't back off.

 
Just did a couple of the Daily Race B's and it happened a couple of times that another driver drove next to me steered into me, made contact en then drove of track on purpose (without losing time) so I ended up with a penalty. I'm going to skip this weeks dailies...

Does getting a SR down sector in a shorter race impact your SR more than in longer races?
Or does it just count the orange SR sectors as a percentage of the total race sectors to calculate SR, because then it sort of makes sense and I'm going to stay away from races A and B from now on.
 
De_Breuk
Just did a couple of the Daily Race B's and it happened a couple of times that another driver drove next to me steered into me, made contact en then drove of track on purpose (without losing time) so I ended up with a penalty. I'm going to skip this weeks dailies...

Does getting a SR down sector in a shorter race impact your SR more than in longer races?
Or does it just count the orange SR sectors as a percentage of the total race sectors to calculate SR, because then it sort of makes sense and I'm going to stay away from races A and B from now on.
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I think the SR down in a shorter race has more impact than a longer race. Also I think it depends on howmany sectors a track has. Yesterday lost allot of SR (40) in RBR when getting punted in the back but with a couple of better races I just gained (15). (I might be wrong on the sector part tho if so please correct me)
 
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Just did a Race B starting from 4th with a quali time of a 1:28.217 in the Audi R8. L1 T1 was fine, but L1 T2/T3 is where a Malaysian in a blue R8 (mine has the Tidgney Racing livery by Mr. Skinner applied instead of my self-made one, or the Koakuma car for that matter) and good ol' RamStig (he's either absent for a long time or he went under using his qidplays account, but either way, he's back!) in the Corvette came together, which allowed me to gain P2. The polesitter in yet another R8 pulled away, even though I was hunting him down fast. At one point, he made a mistake at the end of the 3rd lap, which allowed me to briefly take the lead until I decided to unsettle the Audi coming out of T1 on Lap 4. He retook the lead and despite the 0.5 second penalty he accidentally got out of T1 on the Final Lap, that wasn't enough for me to take advantage of as I settled for 2nd. Said Malaysian that got involved on the incident dropped down to 12th at the end with a red S to add the insult to the injury. Also encountered @Nismonath5 in his R35 GT-R with him also walking away with a red S in the end due to an argey bargey with an Aussie.
 
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