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djidane57
damn is it so hard to make people ghost AS SOON AS they go sideways? geez i'm getting tired of those 5sec penalties because i've been hit on the side by a spinning car
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With that said, I'm waiting for some elitist to tell us we don't understand"Race craft" and we are in the wrong.
 
Dogwolf77
Thank you Sven and Famine. So Ill need to qualify better to get into lobbies with A and S drivers.

And yes, racing against AI made me sloppy. I need to sharpen up in dailies. One great thing came out of it, I finally weened off of TCS. The dirt races were excellent for learning input control. Man they are fun!
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Nope, qualifying has no effect on matchmaking but with these short races does have a rather large influence on finishing position.

Time of day has the biggest effect on matchmaking. Assuming you're at max SR you'll get into A+/S to D/S rooms in off hours and depending on your DR into either the high or low split in peak hours. The cut off is usually somewhere around 22K DR whether you get into A+/S to B/S or B/S to D/S rooms but it all depends on how many entries there are.

You can start 3rd in the low split one race, lose a few places and still gain some DR, then start at the bottom in the high split next race (with same Q time) have a faster finish overall and lose some DR.
 
wowbaggerBR
I guess I'm a heretic then. Hate one and really don't like the other :dunce:.
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Yes. You should be burnt at the stake :p.

Sven Jurgens
You can start 3rd in the low split one race, lose a few places and still gain some DR, then start at the bottom in the high split next race (with same Q time) have a faster finish overall and lose some DR.
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Yeh. The other night I was on a grid with mainly DR/A and B. Since I'm a DR/D, even though I finished P10/16 I still gained rather than lost DR.
 
This was an interesting race, these cars drive terribly in traffic so I sat behind saving fuel. 6th gear on these cars is quite short which means:
a) It's hard to overtake in the second half of the straight if you don't already have a big overlap
b) You can save a decent amount of fuel without losing any time.



This was from the last race of the night, I've enjoyed this combo this week so...
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Sven Jurgens
Nope, qualifying has no effect on matchmaking but with these short races does have a rather large influence on finishing position.

Time of day has the biggest effect on matchmaking. Assuming you're at max SR you'll get into A+/S to D/S rooms in off hours and depending on your DR into either the high or low split in peak hours. The cut off is usually somewhere around 22K DR whether you get into A+/S to B/S or B/S to D/S rooms but it all depends on how many entries there are.

You can start 3rd in the low split one race, lose a few places and still gain some DR, then start at the bottom in the high split next race (with same Q time) have a faster finish overall and lose some DR.
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I can't believe this actually makes sense to me :lol: since I usually roll in the 18-25k DR range. I've actually witnessed this 1st hand lol.
 
I wish the races would change already! I'm too tired to wait until 2am to see what car race C will be. I'm going to do a custom race at night in the Porsche, prepare for the difficult combo. It better not be a snooze fest like the Honda 'fit' hybrid.

Oh, there is no night on the Nordschleife, twilight then. That's not very dark but does have the fog patches. Porsche is fun, down to 9:29 with lots of room to improve. That's still over a 20 minute race in total. Usually race C targets 18 minutes, I wonder.
 
I tried the Gr.4 cars, with different multiple default liveries, at NurbGP. With only 12 cars, the AI felt way more competitive than the usual 20 car grids I set up.
I already experience competitive AI in One Make Custom Races, but this was even more so. The 458 race, I came 2nd over 3 laps(Grid start from last TCS3, all penalties). M4 race I finished 2nd and with Mustang and Vantage, I finished 1st.
The 2nd place finishes found me 0.5 seconds behind. Good fun.

Here's hoping it's cars other than the Cayman, TT, Slophy and Scirocco. The 650S, Vantage, 458, would be a nice change.
 
Race A: Gr. 4 @ Nürburgring GP

Race B: Gr. 3 @ Sardgena - Road Track - C

Race C: Suzuki Swift One-Make @ Nürburgring Nordschleife
 
watto79
It's a choice of the FF Gr.4 cars ( TT, Scirocco, Megane and RCZ).
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That's fine by me. I've been using TCR cars in Forza and PC2 plus TT Cup in AC. Fiending for TCR in GT Sport!
Probably Scirocco is META this time. It has the best turn in. Though, the Peugeot and Megane have that straightline speed.
 
05XR8
That's fine by me. I've been using TCR cars in Forza and PC2 plus TT Cup in AC. Fiending for TCR in GT Sport!
Probably Scirocco is META this time. It has the best turn in. Though, the Peugeot and Megane have that straightline speed.
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Yeah Scirocco will be good, I was playing round with the TT yesterday and just seemed to have loads of understeer through the first section
 
After a over a year, I've finally got my K-Score above 70! This time last year it was in the low 50s.

I've charted it. It shows the percentage gap between me and the fastest EMEA times since I started the game (4th November 2017). Left axis is the % time from the fastest. Bottom axis are the "dailies" I've qualified for over time (1 is 4th November 2017 and 136 is last week's Autopolis). The lower the score, the closer I am to the fastest.

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Point "A" is what I call my "Big Willow Nightmare!" I did one lap and was all over the place (think it was a BMW M3 or M4 N-class with TC off) and then quit. But it was at this point I decided to take the game more seriously. Before this point, I'd log on and just have a few laps and then switch to another track or some other part of the game. Before point A, I'd switch between DS4 and my wheel. Afterwards, only on the wheel. I've probably spent on average 10 hours a week playing GTS since point A (that is driving, I sometimes make liveries too).

PD's switch from dailies to weeklies fails at 60, so it's clear the distance between me and the fastest improved after the switch to weeklies as I had more time to dial into the car/track combo. In addition, the penalty system drives me nuts, so I did a lot less racing over time too.

My qually target was 'less than 3% slower than the fastest'. Now I know the cars and tracks better, plus help from various YouTubers (thanks for your time and content!), I can reach this 'below 3%' target pretty quickly.

So I've reached my K-score target, what next?

I'm going to shift my focus until Christmas on to race craft. I'll start off racing from the back on my other account and see where my DR/SR levels end up. Hopefully I'll learn to love the race chaos!! I'll still set qually times on my main account as that will be where I'll prep for the races (this should also increase my K-Score a little too).

I'm also going to go back and set new times on the Circuit Experiences as I enjoyed that in the Alfa at Maggiore last week. I thought it a good way to see how much I've improved.
 
I didn't have time to try Race C in an actual race, but I think it might be fun. Only had time for a lap and a half in time trial, but that car seems pretty perfect for the Nordschleife (not too fast and handles pretty well). Might actually get some good racing on that track rather than it just being follow the leader until someone falls off the track.

Will be interesting to see a ghost on a sub 9 minute lap as my first try was only a 9:25 :)
 
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