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Yesterday I started to think about the Megane and Race B. B/S Lobbies.

My thought was to bring some color into this race and give finally the RWD cars a try. Sounds like fun - but it really wasn´t... :nervous:

Made some races with the Viper, Aston Martin and the M4.

The Viper is so nice to drive trough the hills, no suprises, a lot of traction and this amazing V10 sound!
M4 is also fun, a bit more tail happy. It has this feeling of a touring car I like personally.
Aston is stable and feels very well balanced, my favourite RWD yet at Bathurst.
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Try the stang. I like the cars you mention, Jag, Aston and RCF especially but the Mustang has been the best for me. Managed to run a 14.6, still 7/10ths off my megane time but netter than anything else i have run.
 
This connection stuff is interesting. Even in a relatively dense city in a plugged-in state like Connecticut, I've only had access to a fiber internet connection for a little over a year (and my 300mb/s service is very lovely...5 bars of green all the time). Before that, I relied on cable internet that was in the 15-20 mb/s range if I was lucky. It makes a huge difference.
 
Ooh an F-Type won in SR.C, by this fellow (Meganes 2nd and 3rd)
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His greeting says he has over 2,400 wins, his average SR is 38.1 :lol:

5th place for me, +1 SR to 34 lol. I guess I'm stuck here until I switch to race C. Can't pass without getting bumped, I'm apparently driving an extra strong electromagnet. This thing must be stuck to my car
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Is it possible to look at regional SR by week? Like an average of all daily racers? It'd be fascinating to see how track affects overall SR rating. Maybe it was just because I was new, but I feel like I didn't take any penalties at Big Willow a couple weeks ago. I think thats when I became SR S.
 
Bathurst, as much as I love it, is a nightmare for SR. People have zero patience, I had a guy last night try and pass me up the outside of the cutting. THE OUTSIDE. This does not work, ever, in a million years. Then he got a run on me into the chase, because Megane, but was still behind me and no way alongside at all. He stuffed it up the inside, overshot the corner and left me nowhere to go.

It's not racing, it's just stupid. I also copped a 4 second penalty for my trouble so SR continues to tumble and I am buried in amongst more and more imbeciles.
 
Still not very good at Bathurst, so been doing some racing from the back there, don't think I've seen a race that's been less than half Méganes yet. There's been some fun racing with others who haven't picked it, had a good battle with a GT-R and a Corvette in one of the races. Nothing notable about any of my own drives, apart from a big sudden spin at McPhillamy park in a Mustang which dropped me back to last.

The extra power for the FFs is presumably to balance out the terrible tyre wear, but they could really do with a different BOP for tyre wear and non-tyre wear races.

Might venture onto Race C, but don't know Sardegna that well, so a bit more racing from the back I think. Have kept my SR at 99, and even if this is going to drop my DR back into C territory, it's still fun along the way, and should make for some better results on combos I'm better at!!
 
Embrace the dirt that is race b. I’m having fun. Now, ANY Megane gets it...The only people I will spare in the next couple are USA. South America watchout!
Just got a win, Megane blew it coming down the hill, I ended up tangling in his wreck but came out ahead, and luckily went inside onto Conrod where he just missed punting me..Too much understeer for him to hit me...
It’s a dirty race, get in get aggressive have fun. I’m not afraid to get my hands dirty...Plus the Mcclaren is a bit loosely goosey so it’s fun and challenging.
 
Famine
20 of the fattest cables in the world connect US east coast to Europe, in as straight a line as they can manage, over a distance of about 4,000 miles - because they're vital to the global finance markets. They spend billions to shave 1ms off the transaction time between New York and London.
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I'd say that someone blew some serious coin on the North America-Asia cables, too. I'm in Northern California, and when I use my Asian account, my connection is always just as good as the Aussies/Kiwis. Never experienced any connection issues.
Anyone on the west coast of NA should feel confident about using an Asian account. 👍
 
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roamingbard13
Is it possible to look at regional SR by week? Like an average of all daily racers? It'd be fascinating to see how track affects overall SR rating. Maybe it was just because I was new, but I feel like I didn't take any penalties at Big Willow a couple weeks ago. I think thats when I became SR S.
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There was, but it's not updated (often) anymore and the new tracks are missing.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/stats-site.373054/page-36#post-12927233
It's per track/car category.

BS penalty again, 26 SR left, from 3rd to 8th cause when you serve the BS penalty, the next car will punt you off no matter what you do lol. Perhaps I should look into pause racing....
 
My life is now complete.
It just so happened that a guy starting ahead of me in second, in a Megane, was on my punt on sight list.
We tangled in turn one...
From there well I will spare the details, suffice to say I exacted revenge. After his ten seconds I pit maneuvered him and he quit. USA top 3 finished! Guy cost me big time on my main a while back with a last lap punt that caused me to lose like 1400 Dr...
Up here in North America we can play rough also guys...
 
DelboyD
No, you could set a better qually time in a different car. But that car might be more difficult to be consistent in.
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So I spend all week running qualifying in different cars? To what end?

If you're going to draw a parallel to real life, IRL teams are committed to a given car because of many factors. I GUARANTEE that if teams in the real world were able to pick and choose which car they could qualify in, with unlimited time to do it, they would.

sturk0167
No Q laps would work for me.
Pretty soon I'm gonna talk PD into doing a Weekly D race, where the cars and tracks are shuffled. You don't know what or where you're racing until you enter. Probably only people with alt accounts would do it. 👍

Or, we can go back to daily races. Not much time for Q.
It was never really an issue when we had 3 new races every day.
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This.

Although, I have to say, I don't see an issue. If you want to spend every moment of every day trying to better your qualifying time, so be it. If you would rather set it and forget it, so be it. If you would rather not set one at all, so be it. If you want to try different cars, so be it.

People need to stop pushing the responsibility for their performance onto others. If people want better results, they need to put in the time to get better results. Stop trying to hamstring the others because the others will just put in the time to get better under the new regime.

For instance, if I were to only be allowed 3 flying laps, I'm going to spend a WHOLE LOT OF TIME in time trial mode until I can get 3 AMAZING laps in a row.

This whole topic is a giant "get good" discussion.

I'm 51 years old with no special talent. I simply dislike not being good at things, so if I become interested in something, anything, I put in the time to get good at it.
 
Sorry if a thread exists about this, but is there a trick to using the battery on the Audi R18 '16, to speed recharging? Braking harder? What? I can't keep the battery charged to help much at all.
 
Groundfish
^^^thats same here, put a lot of effort in and I’m not on the level of @Voodoovaj. No special talent for sure just practice and application of mind. After the earlier negativity, I have to say check this out. What a fantastic track, and I cannot imagine doing this for real...
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It is a magnificent race track, i spent many years up there with the ferals.

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Gee he was pushing through the first half of the lap, just on a knife edge. When driven hard these cars still look like race cars rather than being glued to the track. They don't have a lot of tyre or a lot of downforce and it is dead easy to light up the rears as they make a ton of power.
 
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I did 1/2 dozen races the other night .Was terrorized by the Migraines ,all they have to do is block up the mountain and use their top end down the straight.I got malachied ,punted ,side swiped in every race in my GT-R but #6 .The matchmaking gods must have felt my pain,last race I had pole,only one migraine (he wrecked early)and all DR B/C .Cruised around the mountain ,drank my beer and had a relaxing time for the win/ *** bonus :sly:
 
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Voodoovaj
So I spend all week running qualifying in different cars? To what end?

If you're going to draw a parallel to real life, IRL teams are committed to a given car because of many factors. I GUARANTEE that if teams in the real world were able to pick and choose which car they could qualify in, with unlimited time to do it, they would.



This.

Although, I have to say, I don't see an issue. If you want to spend every moment of every day trying to better your qualifying time, so be it. If you would rather set it and forget it, so be it. If you would rather not set one at all, so be it. If you want to try different cars, so be it.

People need to stop pushing the responsibility for their performance onto others. If people want better results, they need to put in the time to get better results. Stop trying to hamstring the others because the others will just put in the time to get better under the new regime.

For instance, if I were to only be allowed 3 flying laps, I'm going to spend a WHOLE LOT OF TIME in time trial mode until I can get 3 AMAZING laps in a row.

This whole topic is a giant "get good" discussion.

I'm 51 years old with no special talent. I simply dislike not being good at things, so if I become interested in something, anything, I put in the time to get good at it.
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You're missing the point It's not a "get good" discussion. It's about getting more variety of cars in the races and more people racing instead of qualifying.

However I agree that limiting qualifying won't help a bit. Better incentives to actually race and a better penalty system to avoid unfair losses will work better.

Atm it's 2 games, one chasing the leaderboard, the other racing in sport mode.
 
Groundfish
^^^thats same here, put a lot of effort in and I’m not on the level of @Voodoovaj. No special talent for sure just practice and application of mind. After the earlier negativity, I have to say check this out. What a fantastic track, and I cannot imagine doing this for real...
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This was the first footage for me that I saw from Bathurst:



Now if PD could only do me a small favor and give me that Peug, I'll probably never drive something else anymore :lol:
 
Sven Jurgens
Ooh an F-Type won in SR.C, by this fellow (Meganes 2nd and 3rd)
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His greeting says he has over 2,400 wins, his average SR is 38.1 :lol:

5th place for me, +1 SR to 34 lol. I guess I'm stuck here until I switch to race C. Can't pass without getting bumped, I'm apparently driving an extra strong electromagnet. This thing must be stuck to my car
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I saw you get knocked around a bit yesterday. You passed me as I was having a bad time in the esses on the first race, but I did a little better after that. Jumped in right after work and didn't do a warm-up lap, and it showed. I also got screwed 3 times in one race by a Megane later on, but he was super apologetic in the lobby. I must admit, it's surreal being in a Lambo and all these Renaults catching up on Conrod. FF is just so boring, I refuse to drive it!
 
250Cal
Dude, brake straight and early. Gas out. You're going in there way too hot with big steering inputs.
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Thanks, man. You're right.
I did about 20 laps this morning, and that was my worst one. I guess I was daydreaming, or something. I waited way too long to brake on that one. :lol:
Most of the clips I post are when things go wrong. More entertaining, I think. :crazy:
As soon as I get under 2:10, I'll stop.
Then I'll focus on painting my group C cars for Lemans, next week. 👍
 
Sven Jurgens
You're missing the point It's not a "get good" discussion. It's about getting more variety of cars in the races and more people racing instead of qualifying.

However I agree that limiting qualifying won't help a bit. Better incentives to actually race and a better penalty system to avoid unfair losses will work better.

Atm it's 2 games, one chasing the leaderboard, the other racing in sport mode.
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The game is it's own worst enemy. People are encouraged to build DR and SR, with the emphasis on the former. To build DR (and often protect SR) you need to be as near to the front as possible. And that means qualifying well. You've got to put a good time on the board. You can put a decent time on the board but your DR is at risk. This effect is compounded by FIA matching being based on DR and FIA points being scaled based on DR splits. If you're not near a top split, you ain't getting a good points haul. A midfield finish in the higher splits is worth a multiple of a win near the bottom. If you want to do OK-ish in FIA, you need that good DR.

Personally I really get in to the challenge of beating the clock. On a track that is nice to drive, with a nice car which is competitive, I can sit and punch in laps for a long time. I did 100s of miles hot lapping at Spa. Hell, even in something like the RS01 I do not like quitting until I've got the best I can out of it. That said, it's a racing game and I enjoy that, too. However, we all know there are better options in terms of race combinations and formats. Longer races, bigger grids, changing conditions, one-make/many makes etc etc.

There's precious little appeal in playing dodgems when you're trying to race clean. I love playing dodgems in a I don't give a **** kind of way, but there needs to be an acceptance that everyone is on that page or someone is going to get upset.

I've no issue with someone who does 100s of qually laps and does one freak lap that gets them near the front. They will get found out and as long as they race clean and accept their race pace isn't good enough when it comes down to it. People who qualify out of position and then block unfairly need eliminating. Also, there have always been people who can absolutely nail a single lap but cannot convert that into pace over a sustained period. See, aslo: Trulli Train.
 
sturk0167
Thanks, man. You're right.
I did about 20 laps this morning, and that was my worst one. I guess I was daydreaming, or something. I waited way too long to brake on that one. :lol:
Most of the clips I post are when things go wrong. More entertaining, I think. :crazy:
As soon as I get under 2:10, I'll stop.
Then I'll focus on painting my group C cars for Lemans, next week. 👍
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Honestly, a 2:09 is not hard to do. I mean that with the greatest of respect and in the appropriate sense. I posted a lap the other day which is 99% drama free which was a 2:09.2. I am no expert at this game. Small inputs, smoothly, minimal sliding, no armfulls of lock, and the time just comes. I've been waiting for the leaderboard reset so I haven't tried to push on.
 
250Cal
Honestly, a 2:09 is not hard to do. I mean that with the greatest of respect and in the appropriate sense. I posted a lap the other day which is 99% drama free which was a 2:09.2. I am no expert at this game. Small inputs, smoothly, minimal sliding, no armfulls of lock, and the time just comes. I've been waiting for the leaderboard reset so I haven't tried to push on.
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Well, I suppose how hard it is, depends a lot on how you're going about it.
My gas pedal is the X button. I brake with the [ ] button.
In case you don't know, that means I have to be either 0% or 100% on the brakes or throttle.
Things like trail braking, and smooth, gradual throttle inputs are out the window for me.
It's probably the most challenging way possible to drive these cars.

This isn't an excuse. I have the same option as anyone else to do it differently.
It's just the way I'm still most comfortable doing it, and it doesn't matter to me that I'll never be the fastest.
I don't think there are many people who would beat me using the same method.
 
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Did my 1st race this week, for Daily Mileage. Survived. Probably a good enough bar for this week. :lol:

Race A. QT 2:13.617. Mixed DR grid A->D. Room not full. Started 2nd. Finished 6th. - 200 DR. Blue SR.

Went off/ghost reset once, lap 1. Because somehow 2 wheels off-track has more grip than 4 on tarmac. :odd:
 
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