I'm curious about this. I see a lot of posts from people that looks like they never actually drive any car in the game stock. They buy it, and immediately dump every upgrade possible into it. Regardless of whether the car in question could actually receive such upgrades in real life.
Granted, I used to be like this, back around GT3.. but I've changed since then. I drive cars for what they are, not what I can make them. I won't tune a car unless absolutely necessary, or if it's a setup that I know exists IRL (in which case it may be slightly tuned, but not all-out), or if it's a car that's just begging for it (classic muscle). And yes, I'll change tires.. that's not tuning, that's common sense.
For example, I read a post the other day where someone complained about the Veyron being too slow off the line. Clearly, this person did... something to the car that made it "slow", because my stock Veyron can utterly destroy practically everything off the line.. the acceleration is downright ludicrous, and it'll be in the lead before the first turn, in every race I've run it in so far.
This car is actually a good example of what I mean.. IRL, the Veyron is at the very limit of what human beings can do to a car given our current state of technology. And yet this game allows you to do more, and by golly, people do it. These are things that simply cannot be done to the real car (or the original designers would already have done it). Think about it.. do you really think you can tweak the Veyron's engine computer to give it some extra power? Do you really think you can go buy a new transmission off the street that won't tear itself apart as soon as you hit the gas?
And people actually ask if we can tune up the X1? Really?
When a drive a Ferrari, I want to drive a Ferrari.. I don't want to drive some souped-up mega-car that happens to look like a Ferrari on the outside, but sure as hell isn't a Ferrari on the inside anymore. The Enzo is an amazing machine all on its own.. it doesn't need anything else.
Does anyone else feel this way?
I mean, it's not like we can't win races. Instead of making our current car go faster, we just buy a faster car. Actually costs less in quite a few cases, too.
Granted, I used to be like this, back around GT3.. but I've changed since then. I drive cars for what they are, not what I can make them. I won't tune a car unless absolutely necessary, or if it's a setup that I know exists IRL (in which case it may be slightly tuned, but not all-out), or if it's a car that's just begging for it (classic muscle). And yes, I'll change tires.. that's not tuning, that's common sense.
For example, I read a post the other day where someone complained about the Veyron being too slow off the line. Clearly, this person did... something to the car that made it "slow", because my stock Veyron can utterly destroy practically everything off the line.. the acceleration is downright ludicrous, and it'll be in the lead before the first turn, in every race I've run it in so far.
This car is actually a good example of what I mean.. IRL, the Veyron is at the very limit of what human beings can do to a car given our current state of technology. And yet this game allows you to do more, and by golly, people do it. These are things that simply cannot be done to the real car (or the original designers would already have done it). Think about it.. do you really think you can tweak the Veyron's engine computer to give it some extra power? Do you really think you can go buy a new transmission off the street that won't tear itself apart as soon as you hit the gas?
And people actually ask if we can tune up the X1? Really?
When a drive a Ferrari, I want to drive a Ferrari.. I don't want to drive some souped-up mega-car that happens to look like a Ferrari on the outside, but sure as hell isn't a Ferrari on the inside anymore. The Enzo is an amazing machine all on its own.. it doesn't need anything else.
Does anyone else feel this way?
I mean, it's not like we can't win races. Instead of making our current car go faster, we just buy a faster car. Actually costs less in quite a few cases, too.
