Does a car gain miles when driven online?

[FuSiioN_HaVoC]

Just wondering a car gains miles when driven online.

 

[TAZ71]

No it doesn't.

 

[esoxhntr]

yes it does, but only during races. it does not in free drive or whatever you want to call it.

 

[Mubble]

Why don't you just drive a car online and see if the mileage goes up?

 

[ampire]

You have to complete the race to gain mileage. It does not gain mileage just being in a lobby on "free" mode. FYI, If you are making a limited PP race car you can use your personal online lobby as a quick place to tune.

 

[shirakawaa]

yes it does, but only during races. it does not in free drive or whatever you want to call it.

Which is a shame, because I find myself often driving more in free run mode than in actual races.

 

[Vol Jbolaz]

yes it does, but only during races. it does not in free drive or whatever you want to call it.

It does gain some miles, but not accurately. If you run 100 miles in an online race, your car will not gain 100 miles.

 

[esoxhntr]

Which is a shame, because I find myself often driving more in free run mode than in actual races.

i kinda like it, doesn't rack up miles on cars when i am tuning... and i do a lot of that be it in the lounge or in online lobbies.

unrealistic.. yes.

 

[Dmarc_Atl]

I thought it did go up in free run?
I ONLY drove my X1 in free run and it has miles on it. I never raced it or did a practice run.

 

[trk29]

I thought it did go up in free run?
I ONLY drove my X1 in free run and it has miles on it. I never raced it or did a practice run.

I think he is talking about free run when in a online lobby (before the race).

 

[SavageEvil]

It does gain some miles, but not accurately. If you run 100 miles in an online race, your car will not gain 100 miles.

Where did you squeeze this piece of information from? You will gain the amount of miles you actually drove, including extra distance from wheelspin and driving off course and driving back on, as long as your wheels are rotating you will pick up miles, like a real car would. From what I know about GT and adding up mileage. Anyone want to check that out?

EDIT!

I forgot that GT use GPS, but to count mileage of that I am not sure. Hmmm!?!

 

[Sselecta]

My milage went sky high after a couple of days of free running/drifting in the online lobbies.

 

[shirakawaa]

I forgot that GT use GPS, but to count mileage of that I am not sure. Hmmm!?!

When going sideways at an angle of exactly 90 degrees, indicated speed drops to zero. Can you imagine why?

 

[Rdp616]

Why don't you just drive a car online and see if the mileage goes up?

He's trying to get that post # up

 

[photonrider]

Why don't you just drive a car online and see if the mileage goes up?

Maybe he's not online? I'm not. My PS3 is discrete, unattached to the 'net as yet. I've been playing offline since day 1 - at 4000+ days now (game days) and still playing the original unpatched game. At level 36 now - and hope to go online at level 40. Maybe I will download Spec II at that time.

While I read all about the online mayhem, a lot of it is obtuse to me because I'm playing offline. So, yes - good question, because mileage does effect performance. Or is that debatable?

 

[SavageEvil]

When going sideways at an angle of exactly 90 degrees, indicated speed drops to zero. Can you imagine why?

I know, GPS only calculates speed when you are going in a forward direction, but that has no bearing on mileage considering it's supposed to add up rotation from two non non sequential wheels. I'll see what I can come up with by driving around a course more than the distance it is for one lap and see what the counter says at the end of it all.

 

[NLxAROSA]

I'm a bit confused here, shouldn't GPS record mileage regardless of what direction you are facing? (Unless GPS in this context means something completely different) Somebody care to explain?

 

[shirakawaa]

Real GPS sytems, yes. However the indicated speed in GT5 doesn't really work like them since it depends on the direction the car is facing relatively to the direction it's actually going.

Bottom line: I wish PD just put wheel speeds as in real life, or at least used proper "GPS" speeds.

 

[NLxAROSA]

I have noticed that behavior. If you're in a spin, you see the indicated speed going up and down, even while you're actually going slower all the way.

 

[iamjajo]

I only use my NASCAR models in online races and I've got several with more than 2,000 miles. In fact, I used to dispose of them at about 2,500 miles, but l recently decided to start keeping some of them with high miles.