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Krypton78
One question, I just managed to become DRS and yesterday in Suzuka I was in a room with 14 other S/S and 6 A/S drivers. I made until now almost 300 races but the hardest room I joined until now was 1/3 DRS and others DRA. Is this expecting me from now on just because I entered DRS? Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of anyone, I love it to race against the top guys. But why I'm asking is, I'm thinking I need to adjust my qualifying time-philosophy maybe. Until now my aim was to get at least 1 sec close to the p10 of the final-evening leaderbord to get a well startplace, but maybe this will not be enough anymore. Yesterday I had a 2.08.6xx and the end of top ten was I think 2.07.6xx, and in that room I described I started only from p11.
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Yes, that's pretty much what to expect on the popular races (grp3/4, real tracks), though it may get easier as more people reach DRS.

I got to DRS after c.70 races IIRC (might have been a few more). At that time there were very few DRS drivers, so grids tended to be a few S's, half A's and a few B's (depending on time of day). I was getting a few wins and poles at this time, but consistently racing the very fastest drivers in my region (Europe).

Unless you can run top 10 qualifying times you will struggle to get poles... 1s off the top 10 doesn't sound bad, but reality is it will be c.2s off the top time on most tracks (more on some). So if you want to win/get poles, you're going to need to be faster than you are now - likely 1s off top 10 with a top 10 list covered by 1s means there will be a lot of players faster than you.

I can qualify top 10 on the tracks I'm good at (Suzuka/Nurb/Brands/Interlagos) in the right car, but poles are still few and far between. My qualifying target is to be less than 1s off the top time AND top 10 in the region.

As more people reach DRS, the matching pool will get bigger, and there's a chance you might avoid the very fastest drivers if there's more than a grrid full trying to match... but this may be some time away.
 
Last night was a nightmare for me at Suzuka. Did not have good pace in any cars I tried.
Here I am in the Lexus and I have had this other driver in my rear since the start. I go wide but come back on the track ..
Well, you be the judge:

 
Stotty
So if you want to win/get poles, you're going to need to be faster than you are now - likely 1s off top 10 with a top 10 list covered by 1s means there will be a lot of players faster than you.
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oh man I was afraid to read that :)

According to Jason's site my times where I put really afford in are around ~0.8 % in the region, some 0.4% and some 1.3%. So 99% of the other players accomplished slower times, but now its not good enough anymore obviously. Well, where would be the fun if it was easy right? :)

Thanks for the answer!
 
Mirror_man
Hi Guys!!! :)

Anyone may report how did his experience on the Nations Cup race with the De Tomaso car went??

And how did felt the car handling????

Please?? :)
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Oh, I'll have to check that out.

To answer your question: the Pantera handles really well. It's a car that's pretty solid in its stock form. It was featured in Race A last week and I thought all 3 days with it were solid. It actually inspired me to create my own recurring lobby.
 
Well the weekend was an interesting turn of events for me with the daily races and has led me to form some more opinion on the
random selection of the tracks.

Saturday I had an absolutely brilliant day's racing and reached Rank B in DR rating for the first time and got myself back up to S rank SR and
had some good and fair racing and I enjoyed all three tracks but then Sunday was like somebody at PD thought hey let's put three races with
lots of carnage potential all out together.

Tokyo Xpressway with GR3 was just a disaster, I have never seen so many idiots ram each other through corner so now my ranks back down
to C and B because I took part in one race, seems harsh.

Next time Tokyo Xpressway comes up I want to see it a one make with Sambabus, let's see how they do with that.

Today is better and I should be back to B and A tonight all things going well.
 
xxxman1
@Robben i just wonder if anyone like to watch the replays for fun. I always do it.:D
watching high rank races are enjoyable especially F1 is off till this Sunday.:cheers:
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Replays are a gold mine in figuring out where I need to gain time. No, I'm not an alien who can match every single input of the fastest drivers but that's not the goal. It's about seeing the differences in what they're doing versus what I'm doing. Depending on their driving style, I can adjust and work on at least be consistently close to the optimum.

And yes, to enjoy watching good battles. Hope to share some of mine shortly.
Stotty
Yes, that's pretty much what to expect on the popular races (grp3/4, real tracks), though it may get easier as more people reach DRS.

I got to DRS after c.70 races IIRC (might have been a few more). At that time there were very few DRS drivers, so grids tended to be a few S's, half A's and a few B's (depending on time of day). I was getting a few wins and poles at this time, but consistently racing the very fastest drivers in my region (Europe).

Unless you can run top 10 qualifying times you will struggle to get poles... 1s off the top 10 doesn't sound bad, but reality is it will be c.2s off the top time on most tracks (more on some). So if you want to win/get poles, you're going to need to be faster than you are now - likely 1s off top 10 with a top 10 list covered by 1s means there will be a lot of players faster than you.

I can qualify top 10 on the tracks I'm good at (Suzuka/Nurb/Brands/Interlagos) in the right car, but poles are still few and far between. My qualifying target is to be less than 1s off the top time AND top 10 in the region.

As more people reach DRS, the matching pool will get bigger, and there's a chance you might avoid the very fastest drivers if there's more than a grrid full trying to match... but this may be some time away.
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Sounds a lot like old GT racing leagues I've been in. Poles and wins were a rarity but my race pace meant a high average finish. Don't know if I'll get to S rank but I've been faster than a few and been able to stay close enough behind others.
 
The game is still lying about penalties. I had very very slight door to door contact (just a brush, no harm, neither at fault) out of Turn 1 on Blue Moon (in Civic) and I got a 1 second penalty and the game told me the other driver had the same penalty.

We stayed out infront and were still battling for the win as 3rd place was more than a second behind, so I was fighting the other driver as if we were fighting for the win, however at the line it turned out the other driver hadn't a penalty, no red dot, nothing etc. so my fighting was in vain and it would have been much better for me to just drive carefully and settle for 2nd, rather than going for a win I wasn't actually fighting for.

Come on Polyphony, it isn't hard to tell us penalties correctly, surely?
 
CurbHog
Last night was a nightmare for me at Suzuka. Did not have good pace in any cars I tried.
Here I am in the Lexus and I have had this other driver in my rear since the start. I go wide but come back on the track ..
Well, you be the judge:

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I'm far from being a judge, but I'd stay on the left side of the track, and didn't rush into the inside line so quickly after a gone-offtrack-mistake ;)
Maybe that's why I'm not that successful in these online dodgem parties and wrestling/bowling games.

By the way, yesterday I was pushed wide and offtrack 3 times on Suzuka. In the first lap. 2 of them in the same turn - basically I was not allowed to join the track again, pushed back out ;) And yes, every time I received my well deserved penalties.
Yet to find time to see the saved replay, to "learn" how to try to avoid next time.
 
Don't know why it takes so long to share my videos, but here's the race from my previous post.

 
darth_tails
Well the weekend was an interesting turn of events for me with the daily races and has led me to form some more opinion on the
random selection of the tracks.

Saturday I had an absolutely brilliant day's racing and reached Rank B in DR rating for the first time and got myself back up to S rank SR and
had some good and fair racing and I enjoyed all three tracks but then Sunday was like somebody at PD thought hey let's put three races with
lots of carnage potential all out together.

Tokyo Xpressway with GR3 was just a disaster, I have never seen so many idiots ram each other through corner so now my ranks back down
to C and B because I took part in one race, seems harsh.

Next time Tokyo Xpressway comes up I want to see it a one make with Sambabus, let's see how they do with that.

Today is better and I should be back to B and A tonight all things going well.
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Ha, the couple times the samba bus was featured in sport mode it was nothing but an invitation to play demolition derby. Nice big bus to use as a guard rail in corners. On Tokyo it would be worse as there's nothing else to do on the straights than run into each other.
 
VeeDoubleU
The game is still lying about penalties. I had very very slight door to door contact (just a brush, no harm, neither at fault) out of Turn 1 on Blue Moon (in Civic) and I got a 1 second penalty and the game told me the other driver had the same penalty.

We stayed out infront and were still battling for the win as 3rd place was more than a second behind, so I was fighting the other driver as if we were fighting for the win, however at the line it turned out the other driver hadn't a penalty, no red dot, nothing etc. so my fighting was in vain and it would have been much better for me to just drive carefully and settle for 2nd, rather than going for a win I wasn't actually fighting for.

Come on Polyphony, it isn't hard to tell us penalties correctly, surely?
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That variation of Blue Moon is weird. It has some very sensitive track limits at certain places where a penalty gets triggered if just one tire touches the grass. Every race I did with the Mach 1 last Friday resulted in some kind of track limit penalty and I wasn't even aiming for shortcuts.
 
Satomiblood
That variation of Blue Moon is weird. It has some very sensitive track limits at certain places where a penalty gets triggered if just one tire touches the grass. Every race I did with the Mach 1 last Friday resulted in some kind of track limit penalty and I wasn't even aiming for shortcuts.
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I didn't even care about this penalty, it was 1 second, and I thought the other driver had it too. I'm just frustrated that the game can't even output penalty messages correctly.
 
outlaw4rc
Don't know if I'll get to S rank but I've been faster than a few and been able to stay close enough behind others.
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I just kudosprimed you and you are almost DRS. Impressive curve by the way, one more guy towards the very top, congrats
 
Krypton78
I just kudosprimed you and you are almost DRS. Impressive curve by the way, one more guy towards the very top, congrats
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Man, I’m really horrible compared to you guys. But I do love reading all of the posts and picking up things to improve myself. One day, I may get there, but for now, I will continue to trudge through the lower ranks.

http://www.kudosprime.com/gts/stats.php?profile=1154108
 
I got hit by an avenging spaniard in nurb. He went through me, went on the grass, tried to hit a swiss guy and missed. Funny though. Before that the spaniard and swiss guy were tussling.

 
Krypton78
oh man I was afraid to read that :)

According to Jason's site my times where I put really afford in are around ~0.8 % in the region, some 0.4% and some 1.3%. So 99% of the other players accomplished slower times, but now its not good enough anymore obviously. Well, where would be the fun if it was easy right? :)

Thanks for the answer!
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at dr s you have to be top 10 in the region if you want to start on pole because if you arent then one of the guys who is in the top 10 will be on pole instead
 
Sven Jurgens
Ha, the couple times the samba bus was featured in sport mode it was nothing but an invitation to play demolition derby. Nice big bus to use as a guard rail in corners. On Tokyo it would be worse as there's nothing else to do on the straights than run into each other.
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I actually got my only win on Suzuka in that thing, a clean one too (up to 3rd place):lol:
 
Crazybutt198
I got hit by an avenging spaniard in nurb. He went through me, went on the grass, tried to hit a swiss guy and missed. Funny though. Before that the spaniard and swiss guy were tussling.

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Seems nearly every time I've been on the wrong end of a ramming nutter they are either in an M4 or a FWD car, just like with your race. I always get worried as soon as im near one because sadly the law of averages says it's going to end up messy. I suspect all FWD cars are driven by kids anyway cos surely no self respecting adult would choose one?!
 
Any recommendations on what car to use in Race C? I plan on trying to run that a few times later tonight.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
NurbGP is confirmed as my worst track, refuse to use the Atenza, or even the M4 as I’ve been in that a lot lately. Tried the viper and corvette but couldn’t get better then a high 2:06. Started a lowly 15th in my only race of the evening! Finished 13th but only because of penalties and crashes ahead. The whole first sector is a mess with being allowed “off track”
 
Civic brakes like a POS. Probably wouldn’t be so bad with better tires...

Nick Cannella
Any recommendations on what car to use in Race C? I plan on trying to run that a few times later tonight.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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I just used the Mustang. Not a bad choice. Might do the Viper next if I feel like doing another 20-Lap oval.
 
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I managed to get 3 races before work this morning. First 2 were relatively uneventful, except for an accidental drift in the second race. Both races had the top qualifier in the Americas on pole. Finished both where I qualified.

The third race had some awesome clean pressure and a tough battle. Almost perfectly clean until the end. Great race though.
 
Question for u guys:

How do u handle a guy who hits u purposely 7 times in 5 laps?

I was doing the Civic race at Blue Moon and I didn't qualify well because I only had 2 laps before the race (not that 20 laps would have helped anyway).

There were 3 of us vying to stay out of last place. I race clean (SRS). I passed cleanly as well, waiting for the other 2 guys to make mistakes.

One of the users he rammed me 7 total times, from behind, from the side, from everywhere. The first couple times was in the getaway at the opening of the race and I figured he may be new or just struggling.

It wasn't long before I realized he was targeting me to pass me.

He rammed me 2 turns before the finish line to overtake me. I figured I'm finishing last, yet again, and I was fuming but had no outlet for my rage.

I raced as hard as I could but I wouldn't have caught him, except for the fact that he rammed the other car directly in front of him at the last turn.

He spun wildly out of control and I beat him to the line. That felt good but also a little hollow. I'm embarrassed to say I wanted to punch him.

I clicked on his name and submitted a report but I wish PD could actually review the race. They would ban this guy for sure.

Sorry for the rant. But, I'm a guy who'd rather finish last than race dirty
 
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