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Those are some crazy swings, I imagine it occurs when a combo you aren't so good at pops up and you keep pushing for better ratings? I'm on a downward tilt right now with Fuji. I think I do bad with short races in general. Give me 30 minutes and I'll beat drivers that eventually wear themselves down.
I love being the one to dish out the karma. At Fuji, if someone side swipes me through T3 or T5, It's very easy to stick your nose in the final sector and put them back in their place. But there have been plenty of times I got lucky with a move, only to have a driver send me into the sand a lap later in retaliation. Sometimes it happens without any wrong doing. I'm in it for the ups and downs regardless.
I had a post-it note with BBS phone numbers in the early 90's. We used to login and play LORD. I'll leave it to someone else to recognize what that game was. No cheating!
It seems every few races I get knocked to the back (last or near last) anyway, so... And indeed, a good comeback IS satisfying.I think there may be more math involved in the DR calculation. Yesterday, on my A/S account I was in a 80-89 SR race at BMB. All 11 of the other drivers were D/S. For winning the race, my total DR gain was 11. Even though it was a bad mismatch, the game still gave me 1 point for each car that I beat.I expected to gain nothing.
@BenRod, for a new challenge, spend some time racing from the back. The podium finishes are really satisfying when you start last. 👍
Try gr2 or gr1. If you can get used to driving those with no TCS, others will be easy. I spent time with gr2 the first time it came up, and once I got the feel, no TCS wasn't a problem. I do use it sometimes with rain, or the shifter cart, but always start without.
I remember upgrading to a 28.8k modem. I had to upgrade the serial card in my 486 to a 16550 UART
Frag that dreck chummer. Just remember the basics and you'll survive the dailies:
Watch ya back.
Shoot strait.
Conserve ammo,
and
NEVER CUT A DEAL WITH A DRAGON!
I think there may be more math involved in the DR calculation. Yesterday, on my A/S account I was in a 80-89 SR race at BMB. All 11 of the other drivers were D/S. For winning the race, my total DR gain was 11. Even though it was a bad mismatch, the game still gave me 1 point for each car that I beat.
@BenRod, for a new challenge, spend some time racing from the back. The podium finishes are really satisfying when you start last. 👍
Not more math, it's simply capped at minimum 1 point per player you beat and maximum 160 points per player you beat. Thus at most you get a 79 point reduction from the base 80 due to having 39.5K DR or more than the other player, or max 80 points extra for having less than 40K DR than the other player. If you had disconnected and all the other players stayed on, you would have lost 11x160 DR.
You earned 1 point per driver, all of them at least 39.5K DR below your DR level.
And if you had checked, all the D/S drivers would have been in the 90-99 SR range. There was one spot free, you were the highest DR in the 80-89 SR range applying for the race and became the grid filler.
@BenRod SR doesn't influence DR gains or losses, but it does influence how much SR you can gain during a race. Below 50 SR your SR gains per sector get boosted and ramp up to 2.5x increase at 1 SR. Low SR also triggers earlier ghosting for bad behavior.
DR influences how many seconds you get for penalties, the higher your DR, the more seconds you can end up with from a contact penalty. DR also used to weigh in (maybe it still does, dunno) to assign blame. The higher your DR the more likely the blame fell on you when colliding with a lower DR driver.
"I've seen some odd things happen at times, like a driver starting a race as B/S and finishing A/S red even after getting trounced by several other DR B drivers."
That's not possible. DR letter doesn't update until the next race. He must have started as DR.A. You see your new rank (up or down) at the top of the screen but in the post race lobby it shows the DR letter you started with. Could be A/E (while already been reset), or still B/S while it already shows A at the top of the screen.
It was possible in the past to get a clean race bonus with red SR after the race. You could lose SR without get SR Down arrows from contact with other cars. It used to be -3 for the one that got the SR Down arrow, -1 for the other car. You could still get all the SR up arrows for all the sectors and get the CRB while losing SR overall.
I don't recognize LORD. I did call a lot of BBS' back in the day, mostly to exchange games and cheats/hacks/faqs. First XModem protocol, then YModem 1Kb packets so much faster. Then 2 way simultaneous transfer with the ability to talk while uploading and downloading, hi tech stuff on a 2400 baud modem.
The internet of my youth lol.
Actually downloading was so slow, when I wanted to exchange a lot of stuff with someone else running a particular BBS, I took a few hours train and bus ride to his house, we copied all the files back and forth and I was back home long before current tech could send a 10th of the data, and much cheaper as well.
Pah, mere children, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Eddie Kidd challenge, loaded by cassette, took at least 5 tries before it loaded, then crashed
As for the wife, she has memories of me playing Desert Storm on SNES, WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP of the chopper blades
I did. In 5.51 seconds!
This thread really can be brilliant sometimes
Astrotit 1987
3-Demon...ya'll I had an IBM PCXT back in the day. Castle. 3-Demon. Star Flight. Good times.
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