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QC YALUM
I'm really bad on internet and I don't know how to do a double post ? Can someone here explain that to a old fart like me lollll. And English is not my first language I'm not to bad but still.
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If you want to quote more than one person in a message, instead of clicking the “Reply” button, click the “Quote” button, you can click “Quote” on multiple posts and then when you get bottom of the screen click on “Insert Quotes” and it will put all posts you want to reply to into the reply box so you can reply to each one in a single post individually. :)
 
Rexracer702
I don't know if it's my imagination, but it seems that, if I want to retaliate and punt someone without penalty, all I have to do is get real close going into a corner. As long as I hit my brake marker as usual, then tap their rear, it sends them off and I get no penalty. Sometimes they even get one, like they brake checked me. Added bonus, I make the corner no problem and continue.
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Two guys I worked my swiss off to pass in the Lesmos and Ascari did exactly that to me.
Tried to give them space, but they were only interested in punting me off.
Fuming afterwards as both finished in the top 4 of the race.

One of the other races I was spun out twice on the opening lap.
Down to 20th. Got back up to 9th.

Trying to climb from D - C - B, but this type of racing makes it tough.
 
Been having good, relatively clean races on Monza all week. So against better judgement I took one today. Boy oh boy are people trying to make points for FIA... I went from SR 99 to 50 in one single race... All from bumps from behind and a few dives that sent me off in T1.
Went back to try and recover, I went in on hards and let the three behind me pass before T1, then followed the pack.
They fly off left and right, so I gain some spots against my will. So now I got a cat fight ahead of me and another behind me..
The race went on with among other things a case of mistaken identity where a Swiss guy in a GT waits for me only to run me off...
When I changed to medium it got a little better, easier to swerve then.
Unfortunately I ran a British guy off on last lap. I waited for him so finished up 16 with FL.
And gained SR to 61...
A long climb ahead.
 
I actually raced the Nord 3 times yesterday. Best finish was 5th, and I'm starting to get a handle on the car now. No clean race bonus yet, but I didn't do anything to negatively impact anyone elses race. I'll probably try again today, once I get my house sealed up again.
Edit...I'm racing from the back. Only race left I can do that now.
 
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QC YALUM
I'm really bad on internet and I don't know how to do a double post ?
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The idea is not to do a double-post...
Famine
Rather than double-posting, you should be using the Multiquote features or the Edit button.

In the bottom right corner of every post, there is a "+Quote" button and a "Reply" button. They serve similar purposes. Hitting "+Quote" adds an entire post to your multiquote queue. When you're done adding them, go to the message box at the bottom of the page and click "Insert Quotes". At that point the software gives you an option to remove quotes if you like, or just add them to the reply box. The "Reply" button is quicker, and adds a quoted post immediately to the message box. Every time you hit the "Reply" button, it adds the full post to the message box in the current cursor position. You can do this for multiple posts at one.

You can also do this with short sections of posts. Highlight a part of a post and you'll see "+Quote" and "Reply" buttons appear. The same thing applies, but now it will only use the part of the post you have highlighted.

If more posts appear while you're typing and you want to respond to those too, you can simply click these buttons as you need to when you've finished typing, before you hit Post Reply, to add to your current message.
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Famine
The idea is not to do a double-post...
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I can understand the need to avoid double posting. But I can also see a problem. After all this time I have learned to multi-quote but if I come in to the forum, click watched threads I get maybe fifteen-thirty posts that are new. I read them and answer a few using multi-quote. Then during the time I did this there are five new posts,one addressing what I just wrote about. Now, I have no way of answering those posts without making a double post.
Making an edit and tagging does not tell the poster I wrote anything.
Is there an easy way to do this?
 
RacingGrandpa
I can understand the need to avoid double posting. But I can also see a problem. After all this time I have learned to multi-quote but if I come in to the forum, click watched threads I get maybe fifteen-thirty posts that are new. I read them and answer a few using multi-quote. Then during the time I did this there are five new posts,one addressing what I just wrote about. Now, I have no way of answering those posts without making a double post.
Making an edit and tagging does not tell the poster I wrote anything.
Is there an easy way to do this?
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If you already have the last message, just use the multi quote button like normal and when they load into the bottom message window, highlight and copy them. Then hit edit on your last message and paste the new quotes into you’re old message and reply to them then, then hit save. No double post that way, they just won’t get a notification that you quoted them is all. :)
 
Pigems
If you already have the last message, just use the multi quote button like normal and when they load into the bottom message window, highlight and copy them. Then hit edit on your last message and paste the new quotes into you’re old message and reply to them then, then hit save. No double post that way, they just won’t get a notification that you quoted them is all. :)
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Thanks!
 
Yeah. Monza is ugly. The shame is that the vast majority of my races, and even the laps in the bad races were clean. But with the penalty system doing its thing I couldn't catch a break. I wasn't getting nasty until the last couple of races, was still trying to be smooth and clean, but the Nissan brigades weren't having any of it.
Probably should have bailed, but I was getting my SR back to S, then someone would either make a mistake, but refuse to let me back, or I would get a blatant GT-R bomb up the rear and it would drop me back. I only pulled 3, possibly 4 revenge punts all night only because I was making sure people had definitely screwed me over. In each case I got the penalty both times when I was hit and when I hit back.
Guess I got a bit of work to do with my SR now embarrassingly down to 33 from 95:(
 
The penalty system isn’t even working half the time. I don’t get it. Getting docked multiple seconds when you get hit off the line, other drivers not getting docked for clearly ramming. How can programming penalty logic be this bad?

All from last night...









All of it really got my blood boiling last night but eventually I got a good run after refusing to back down on the GTR brigade and knocked out a 5th place finish from the back of the grid. I don’t think a win is possible with the Atenza unless you get a blistering fast qualification lap in another vehicle and switch back to the Atenza once you’re starting in the top 5.
 
I decided to give the sport mode a chance for the first time today, so I started out with class E and SR - B, right now I'm on class C (nearly B) and SR - S, so I actually climbed the most challenging ranks in terms of messing up others' races. To be honest, having tried both the Nordschleife and Monza races, it didn't feel as catastrophic as I was expecting in terms of dirty driving.

I started on the Nordschleife and it did start off a bit messy, but after a few corners there's already clear breathing space between those who are there to put others off and those who are there to actually try and do a proper race. I started off without qualifying (because when I ran the first race, didn't have time to finish the lap and from then on, there was never enough time to put a lap in), and sometimes I had to lose time behind other cars (until they crashed most of the time) before pulling away, but all in all it wasn't too bad. I decided to jump one race to qualify after being punted off trying to overtake for 1st place, from then on, pole all the time and wins. I was on the lower ranks though, so the competition wasn't very intense, I just had to keep on track to pull away and win by +20s.

On Monza, I actually had loads of fun, I ran quite a few races as well and small touches here and there aside, everything seemed to be ok! Never really caught anyone trying to put me or someone else off on purpose, so my experience has been clearly different to most of you. One thing I was actually surprised to see was when I was getting ready to overtake other cars into T1, in the splitstream down the straight, they would never leave their line to try and defend. There was also one time where the guy who was chasing me pushed me off, like others have mentioned, with a slight touch on my rear in a braking zone, and because of that I lost two places, but when I got thos places back and got behind him 1 or 2 laps later on the main straight, he pulled off his line and slowed down to let me pass.

I think I'm just getting really lucky with the matchmaking.

The one thing I really find to be annoying is the messed up BoP. I started out in Monza with a BMW GT3, for no particular reason, just like the car, and it's absurd the difference in pace to the GTR, AMG, and even the DB9. In qualy I could make it to 1.49s if I could really get things together and in the race I would be running high 50s low 51s, mostly fighting withthe GTRs upfront. I switched to try the GTR to see if it felt faster and it's absurd. I made a 1:47.2 on qualy and in the race I could sit happily on the low 49s all race.

I figured that as the BMW has less power and is lighter, the BoP would make it more powerfull and heavier, which is what happens and it gets roughly the same power as a stock GTR, but then when you see the BoP effects on the GTR, it's basically the same, it boosts up the power and makes it a bit heavier. This system is very very broken.
 
To some extent the lower lobbies are actually cleaner, drivers don’t quite know when to brake so they air on the side of caution. They don’t know how close they can get so they leave space for minor lag hiccups. You just have to watch for the occasional driver in your rearview coming in too hot.

I’m basically in A-A+/S lobbies now and 1-2 cars don’t make it through the first two chicanes. After that it usually settles down until the final laps when tire strategies play out.

This was my best non-GTR finish. I had to fight hard to keep positions because those GTRs will freight train you then wreck two turns later. Find a good driver and you can get him to just pull you around the track until it’s time to make your move.

 
Ran 3 race C in NA now. Much much cleaner. One guy in a Porsche was fast but reckless. Thanks to him I finished one race with a red S.
Otherwise good fun, no qualification, gained between 13 and 9 spots.
Second race I had to run to the toilet so missed my planned pitstop and had the car on pause for two thirds of a lap. Still gained 12 spots. Mustang is very capable against the GT-R
 
A week after getting to Dr a for the first time and receiving a brutal reset the day after, I made it back to A with a p2 in Monza. Hope to last longer this time! :D I managed not to lose too Dr points in 3 races where I had very bad luck and found myself dead last after T1 or t2, I finally had a clean race and got this podium which took me to A. Enough for tonight.
 
chuyler1
I have yet to drive the Mustang, but it appears to do well everywhere except Lesmo, or perhaps that’s just the drivers I am encountering.
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Mustang is very good against the GT-R but still has the usual trouble on the straights. For the lesmos I found you have to brake a touch earlier and nail a better exit to keep it fast. Just be aware it really needs earlier braking in the slipstream. And you really have to defend the second chicane like your life depends on it. GT-Rs will catch up to you there and there area lot who cant resist the savage dive there. Outside of turn 1 it is where I was getting rumbled most.

@UjiOgami15 congrats on getting back. I think I'll probably be in B for a while as I am going to struggle to gain or maintain SR in the situation I put myself in.
 
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NevilleNobody
Yeah bop is a bit busted on some tracks. It is tough though, otherwise all cars would be the same which would be awful.

Gtr only really seems to be meta when super long straights.
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I don’t think anyone wants cars to be the same, but BOP is supposed to allow them to run similar laps in different ways, or at least within maybe 1 second of each other. From what I can tell, there’s a good 3 second per lap difference at most tracks, and the same cars always end up on the favorable side of that range, especially in the Gr.4 class. Sure, make a car slower, but give it better mileage or tire wear. I just don’t see that playing out that way.
 
Redneckchef
Mustang is very good against the GT-R but still has the usual trouble on the straights. For the lesmos I found you have to brake a touch earlier and nail a better exit to keep it fast. Just be aware it really needs earlier braking in the slipstream. And you really have to defend the second chicane like your life depends on it. GT-Rs will catch up to you there and there area lot who cant resist the savage dive there. Outside of turn 1 it is where I was getting rumbled most.

@UjiOgami15 congrats on getting back. I think I'll probably be in B for a while as I am going to struggle to gain or maintain SR in the situation I put myself in.
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So true. The GT-Rers I've been racing against, can't refuse a gnats hair of an opening.
 
05XR8
So true. The GT-Rers I've been racing against, can't refuse a gnats hair of an opening.
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Unfortunately I let that, the constant penalties from it and the beer get to me last night. Only logged on to have a trial at an FIA race for once and call it a night. Ended up as a marathon down the rabbit hole of bad behavior, and by the end of the night I wasn't looking all that much better than the ones I had complained about. Only real regret is ranting on here and boring or annoying the hell out of everyone. I just have to learn when to bail. On that note, is tonight's Manu race good for a bunch of SR? I cant sit at the back at Monza and farm it, that would just be beyond horrible at this point.
 
I'm doing Catalunya in the Mustang. Had my best run with the Atenza at that track(Race C). An RC F '16 pestered me, when I used the RC F '17 in the last FIA race there. It beat me with better cornering grip, with us both on the same tyres to the finish.

Last race til the "real" season and hoping the RX-V is worth the wait next month. Whatever happens, happens....
 
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05XR8
I'm doing Catalunya in the Mustang. Had my best run with the Atenza at that track(Race C). An RC F '16 pestered me, when I used the RC F '17 in the last FIA race there. It beat me with better cornering grip, with us both on the same tyres to the finish.

Last race til the "real" season and hoping the RX-V is with the wait next month. Whatever happens, happens....
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I’ve always had good runs there in the Mustang, ya just gotta take care of the tires.
 
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