Endurance races NEED a 'confirm restart' option.

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Yea, they need to patch it in, cause accidents happen. The game asks you are you sure for everything, except in the important parts.
 
I've bought a couple of cars the same way. We should at least have the option to turn confirmation on and off.

Duh... did this as well! Spent a cool 997K on a freaking Standard A$$ Nismo Race Car and the resale value is "You can not sell this car, do you want to remove from garage" WTF... no resale value on these standard pieces of crap!
 
Or just allow you to swap with your B-Spec drivers instead of forcing the sub-games to be separate.

That was one of the best features of GT4 and I can't for the life of me understand its omission from GT5.

+1 Autosaving while pitting would be brilliant, as would swapping out real players with AI drivers on something like Le Mans 24h.
 
Sorry for you guys! Hope this will never happen to me!

But if they add confirmation for restarts, please only in endurance! I use the restart quite often in Licences and Challenges and it still takes far too long to be back on track after restart...
 
My cousin did it half way through a 4 hour race. Then when I started it I though, "I hope I don't do the same thing!" I ended up doing the same thing though. Luckily I was only on my second lap!

Wish there was a way to save your race during a pitstop. Then load it up from where u left off.

THIS!
 
I did this on the Grand Valley race after attempting it in the Tesla, I went and got my Wedssport Lexus and was almost to my first pitstop and reset.
 
I guess this is a lesson to not be so quick to hit X to get going again.

Although it would be nice to have a confirmation.

I watched a movie during the 4 hour tsukuba race as well and paused many many times. Usually I pause and then hit the PS button so that the controller wont mess with the game menu. Then you'd hit PS button and make sure its on resume and off you go.

Easy as pie.
 
what doesnt make sense for me, and i know it has been brought up before, why is it that when you try to buy a part for your car say a turbo-kit there is a series of probably23 pop-ups you have to go though to finally get the part on the car; and in all those are several "do you really want to" fail-safes but not for exiting a race. kinda irrational.
my thoughts...
 
This is kind of ironic, I'm not meaning to generalize, but many have been complaining about PD's choice to confirm purchases of cars/parts, installations of said parts, etc…

But yet we want a confirmation notice for this. Sheer irony.
:lol:

They implemented confirmations about everywhere you don't need them, and they did not where you definitely do. GT5P had the same issue BTW, I'm suspecting it's deliberate... ;)
 
3 hours into my 4 hour nurburgring endurance A-SPEC race someone talked to me at facebook. I paused the game, and took my time to talk to my friend. When I was about to resume I saw that my X2010 was on its way off course, so I pushed right (using a DS3) while pressing X to resume game. But of course I pressed right just before X and accidently pressed the restart race button.
Worst of all was that I was about to take a parking hour, this was supposed to be my last driving lap.

Conclusion:
MAKE A DAMN "ARE YOU SURE BUTTON?". what if this was in the 20th hour of a 24h event?!
 
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In the past, GT games have been criticized for having too many menus, and making it seem like the player was unsure of anything. (Would you like to change this part? Install now? Are you sure? Wouldn't you rather have this one? You're absolutely sure? Ok, fine.)
It seems they haven't changed anything about that except for restarting races, which is utterly stupid. I'm glad I haven't experienced that yet.

Mostly, I get annoyed when I try to restart something, but it goes over two clicks, to the options thing. For some reason you can't go back to the pause screen without first unpausing, which can be annoying if you're barreling towards a wall at 100 mph and don't want your car to take extra chassis wear.

PD definitely made some weird decisions with the menus.
 
Solution: make a habit of always pressing START to unpause.
I tend to just hit the back button, I think. Or does that just move your cursor to the continue button? I know that's what I did in past games.

I hate the start button on the DFGT. On the DFP I could slide my finger over the button and it would press it, but if I do it now it just bends the button. It sticks out way too far and has too sharp edges. But this thread isn't about that, I suppose. :dopey:
 
Dang, that's gotta hurt.
Off-topic but at the weekend I'd been grinding Indy all day and then had a powercut. Since I'd been spamming the 'race again' option and never returned to the main screen it never saved. So I lost a good few hours work and Cr.2 million.
So yeah, I feel your pain.
 
Dang, that's gotta hurt.
Off-topic but at the weekend I'd been grinding Indy all day and then had a powercut. Since I'd been spamming the 'race again' option and never returned to the main screen it never saved. So I lost a good few hours work and Cr.2 million.
So yeah, I feel your pain.

Wow lol, that happened to me but after only 3 american indy events and i was annoyed :S
 
or disable the pause button for the endurance races mwahhhhah:lol:

i would like to see an are you sure on exit or restart, i put my cursor on the settings when paused incase one of my cats decide to put me out the race when i'm not in the room, if it was on pause (paws?) over the continue one of them might sit on the accelorator and meeeeooow i'm down christ knows how many laps
 
People are always going to complain.

If they had something that asked you if you wanted to restart, people would complain that it took to long to restart a license test or race. They don't have it and people complain.

If they didn't have an "are you sure" option before you bought a part, people would complain they bought a 10,00cr turbo, and those idiots at PD should have included an option that asked us.

Regardless, it sucks that it happened, but it could have been avoided by you, without PD having to include another menu. You can either make sure that you are on the continue button, or you can just hit the circle button to go back to the race.
 
People are always going to complain.

If they had something that asked you if you wanted to restart, people would complain that it took to long to restart a license test or race. They don't have it and people complain.

If they didn't have an "are you sure" option before you bought a part, people would complain they bought a 10,00cr turbo, and those idiots at PD should have included an option that asked us.

Regardless, it sucks that it happened, but it could have been avoided by you, without PD having to include another menu. You can either make sure that you are on the continue button, or you can just hit the circle button to go back to the race.

I seriously hope that you can see the difference in wasting 10,000 cr on a tuning part compared to several hours for nothing but wear out my car. This was also the only time this week I had time to do such a long race.

Adding an option in Endurance races doesn't say they have to add it in license-tests. It's completely retarded that an endurance race can be quit by just two clicks with an accident. Pressing "restart" instead of options is in fact too easy.

I make 1,2m cr an hour driving a-spec, and I don’t care about wasting minors on tuning parts.
In fact I bet 99% of GT players would be reliefed if they removed all the "pop-ups" in tuning shop.

A little bit off topic - but there should actually be a way to install all the wanted/best parts/tires with just one click. I always purchase the same, and it always take 2-4 minutes.

I'm sure you would understand me better if this ever happens to you.
I'm not here to troll or come up with many ridiculous reasons to hate GT5.
I LOVE GT5. FACT.

EDIT: Yes, it was retarded that I managed to do this, but I did. And that should NOT be possible.
 
People are always going to complain.

If they had something that asked you if you wanted to restart, people would complain that it took to long to restart a license test or race. They don't have it and people complain.

If they didn't have an "are you sure" option before you bought a part, people would complain they bought a 10,00cr turbo, and those idiots at PD should have included an option that asked us.

Regardless, it sucks that it happened, but it could have been avoided by you, without PD having to include another menu. You can either make sure that you are on the continue button, or you can just hit the circle button to go back to the race.
Sorry, but this is just not right. There are a lot of complaints about GT5, but has the thought ever crossed your mind that there might be something to them? The sheer number of complaints might hint that there is quite a lot wrong with this game. Not all of them are justified, and a lot of them fueled by personal taste or even hate. But they can't all be baseless.

Looking at the case at hand, let's compare buying a part to accidently restarting a race.

Buying a part includes the following steps:

  • entering the part menu choosing the part
  • moving the cursor from "cancel" to "buy now"
  • confirming that you want to buy the part
  • confirming that you would like to install the part now
  • confirming that the part was installed

Restarting a race includes the following steps:


  • entering the pause menu
  • (accidently) moving the cursor to "restart race"
  • pressing X to restart, race restarts
Accidently buying a tuning part has a double safety net, but throwing away 23 hours and 59 minutes of a real time 24h endurance race happens at the accidental click of one button.

I'm sorry, but I don't see the proper perspective here. I find the double-confirm in the tuning shop annoying because I tend to buy a lot of parts at once. I also don't see the point of having a message which confirms that the part was installed, because an installation can not fail. If I can buy the part for the car, I can always also install it. And I bet I'm not alone with this opinion.

An endurance race however is not only one of the hardest tasks in GT5, it is an extremly demanding task for any game. Which game demands you to play 24h straight to complete one single task? (if they had wanted you to do such a race with pauses, they'd have included a save function). And here, they decide not to ask you even one question? "Warning! You are about to restart the race. All progress will be lost. Are you sure?". How hard can that be?

My apologies to you, but how someone can defend that is beyond my understanding.
 
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Sorry, but this is just not right. There are a lot of complaints about GT5, but has the thought ever crossed your mind that there might be something to them? The sheer number of complaints might hint that there is quite a lot wrong with this game. Not all of them are justified, and a lot of them fueled by personal taste or even hate. But they can't all be baseless.

Looking at the case at hand, let's compare buying a part to accidently restarting a race.

Buying a part includes the following steps:

  • entering the part menu choosing the part
  • moving the cursor from "cancel" to "buy now"
  • confirming that you want to buy the part
  • confirming that you would like to install the part now
  • confirming that the part was installed

Restarting a race includes the following steps:


  • entering the pause menu
  • (accidently) moving the cursor to "restart race"
  • pressing X to restart, race restarts
Accidently buying a tuning part has a double safety net, but throwing away 23 hours and 59 minutes of a real time 24h endurance race happens at the accidental click of one button.

I'm sorry, but I don't see the proper perspective here. I find the double-confirm in the tuning shop annoying because I tend to buy a lot of parts at once. I also don't see the point of having a message which confirms that the part was installed, because an installation can not fail. If I can buy the part for the car, I can always also install it.

An endurance race however is not only one of the hardest tasks in GT5, it is an extremly demanding task for any game. Which game demands you to play 24h straight to complete one single task? (if they had wanted you to do such a race with pauses, they'd have included a save function). And here, they decide not to ask you even one question? "Warning! You are about to restart the race. All progress will be lost. Are you sure?". How hard can that be?

My apologies to you, but how someone can defend that is beyond my understanding.

Nowhere in my post was I "defending" PD's decision. If there was another menu that asked if you were sure if you wanted to restart, I guarantee that there would be threads on here complaining about it.

You said you find the constant confirmation messages in the parts menu annoying, and in that same vein someone else could find a restart message annoying. I'm not defending any point, I'm simply stating there will always be people complaining, as you can't please everyone. Case and point, you would prefer there to be no confirmation in the tuning menu, while my wife does like that feature. Doesn't mean either one of your views is correct.

I would actually prefer there to be a restart message, but there is an easy way to avoid it without a message being there. Hit circle instead of X, and you'll never accidentally restart a race.
 
This would probably lead to something getting broken if it ever happened to me. It shouldn't though, because I can't see myself ever running the endurances (not until I've got 2 PS3's).

I think most are in agreement about the totally ridiculous menu structure in the game though. It must have been a last minute job.

I'm glad they were rushed though as we could be still waiting if PD had taken the time to refine the interface and still get the physics and feel(which for me is most important) right. That game is GT6.

However things I'd like to see updated in GT5 are:
Obviously the removal of the delivery truck thing (What?)
The ability to PURCHASE tuning parts from within any race menu(Online/A-Spec/Practice)
And for you OP, of course, an "Are You Sure?" button.
 
Well there is a resume button, and it's meant to be selected. So why put a restart button right next to it? With a tiny marker showing what you are about to select it is just WRONG when you don't get a second chance if you accidently select the worng one.
 
This would probably lead to something getting broken if it ever happened to me. It shouldn't though, because I can't see myself ever running the endurances (not until I've got 2 PS3's).

I think most are in agreement about the totally ridiculous menu structure in the game though. It must have been a last minute job.

I'm glad they were rushed though as we could be still waiting if PD had taken the time to refine the interface and still get the physics and feel(which for me is most important) right. That game is GT6.

However things I'd like to see updated in GT5 are:
Obviously the removal of the delivery truck thing (What?)
The ability to PURCHASE tuning parts from within any race menu(Online/A-Spec/Practice)
And for you OP, of course, an "Are You Sure?" button.

I agree 100% with that. I don't understand what PD was trying to implement with that, but it is extremely unnecessary. Prize cars should just be out in the garage.
 
Nowhere in my post was I "defending" PD's decision. If there was another menu that asked if you were sure if you wanted to restart, I guarantee that there would be threads on here complaining about it.
In all honesty, I don't think so. If PD put a confirmation dialogue on restarting endurance races, I don't see how anyone would see a point in complaining about that. It just requires a couple of seconds in an activity of hours and is for your own good.

People saying that other people will complain about everything mostly don't even begin to listen to their arguments. Instead, they just facepalm at the act as such, which I find poor form. I don't agree with every complaint either, but I try to understand the situation of the individual people, and I must say I do find a lot of foundations for their rants.

You said you find the constant confirmation messages in the parts menu annoying, and in that same vein someone else could find a restart message annoying. I'm not defending any point, I'm simply stating there will always be people complaining, as you can't please everyone. Case and point, you would prefer there to be no confirmation in the tuning menu, while my wife does like that feature. Doesn't mean either one of your views is correct.
I agree that there is no "correct" view as such, it's all opinions. However, I haven't read of anyone liking the extensive confirmation detour in the tuning shop either. At best, people don't care, but that's mostly because they don't come across it very often.

I would actually prefer there to be a restart message, but there is an easy way to avoid it without a message being there. Hit circle instead of X, and you'll never accidentally restart a race.
The game encourages you to resume the race by pressing X, because it places the cursor on the resume button when you pause. Using one of the different ways mostly only occurs to people when they accidently restarted a race already.
 
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