Gold Licenses - How good must you be?

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I did look to see if there was a thread based on this but I couldnt find anything, my apologies if there is one I didnt see.

I've been playing the game for a year now, on and off obviously, I've got all my licenses but never once have I got a gold.

I've got 40 silver and bronze and I actually consider myself really good at the game but clearly in the grand scheme of things I am a little behind :grumpy:

So whats everyones opinion on obtaining golds, how good do you really need to be?

After I've done a few driving missions I will go back and try to get some golds to get better cars unlocked.
 
Have you looked through this forum deicated to the licence tests? There is lots of help in there to get Gold, especially in the stickied thread at the top of the forum with a VERY detailed guide through every single licence test.
 
Yeah I have seen that and it will no doubt help a lot.

I was just wondering what the general consensus was.

By the looks of it there are a lot of very advanced users on this forum.
 
ferrari_number1
Yeah I have seen that and it will no doubt help a lot.

I was just wondering what the general consensus was.

By the looks of it there are a lot of very advanced users on this forum.
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Have a crack at the WRS and you'll see where you fit in the scheme of things. Just click here and have a read to see what it's about 👍
 
I reckon an average player would probably be able to get 10-15 of the 80 licensed golded without too much trouble. Above average maybe 20-40 without too much trouble and very good maybe 50-65 without too much trouble. However, given enough time I think most players would be able to get 40-50 golded and above average could probably gold almost everything up to the S license. There are a lot of people who have 80 golds, so it can't be that hard (not saying I could do it though :lol: ).
 
I haven't got many myself. :lol: I haven't got the patience to do it sometimes. Either I get too frustrated or I just can't do it at all. I take my hat off to the players that do; so full of skill. :)
 
ferrari_number1
Yeah I have seen that and it will no doubt help a lot.

I was just wondering what the general consensus was.

By the looks of it there are a lot of very advanced users on this forum.
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HAHA Yippee! I got my first gold.

Absolutely excellent advice lads *thumbs up"
 
Getting gold is often simply a case of opening your mind and trying out a different approach to a corner or section of track. I've found some tests where I've been doing what I thought was best for ages then just by accident taken a corner "wrong" and found I've got a lot closer to the gold time, tried again a few times and got gold for it. Some gold's are very easy to get some are very hard, it depends on your skill, the test and how you naturally approach that situation I guess.
 
to be honest i dont retry a test to get a gold. i just went through the tests as quick as to enable me to race with no limitations on what a can and cant do.

but since i am nearing the end of the game and have all the driving missions(yes and misson 34 on the 3rd try:sly: )
i will go back and try to get gold an all
 
I've been splitting my GT4 time into half for golding licenses, and half for racing. Its taken me quite a few hours but I have 21 golds :D. 2 away from golding B. It can be pretty nerve-racking :D
 
They're not that hard.
You can have them all if you're patient enough.
Just try to understand how you can go faster by analyzing every corner, and trying to find out which line will get you the best exit speed.
Also, try to be smooth all the time, helps a lot.
In fact, nothing compares to Mission 34 (yes, the one with the 123 second handicap), that is a Real challenge. Getting all the golds is Easier than Mission 34.

A funny thing is the test with the slalom, somewhere in the IB. There are 2 versions, one with the assists, one without.
I had no problems with the one without the assists, and I barely couldn't get gold on the test with the assists!
 
I don't think it can be that hard. I've never driven a real car, I started playing GT at the beginning of March (got GT3, then got GT4 and a non-pro Driving Force a week or two later), and I've golded all the way through IA and I'm about half way through S now. You're not going to get golds if you're just trying to finish the licenses; you have to keep playing each test and only move on to the next when you get gold. You have to play it several times, find the right line for every corner, and push until you find the limit, then get a clean run through the whole test. In GT4 I'm not using the demos or the racing line guide you can get in the domestic licenses by pressing R3 (well, I watched the demo on the license test with the Mini at Tsukuba, but that's it) - in GT3 I found the line useful, but somehow in GT4 it seems easier to learn by yourself. If you want encouragement, go to db.gtrp.de and look at the records: for almost every test the record is WAY below the gold time, so just think how much you can screw up, compared to those guys, and still get gold :)
 
G.T
I haven't got many myself. :lol: I haven't got the patience to do it sometimes. Either I get too frustrated or I just can't do it at all. I take my hat off to the players that do; so full of skill. :)
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ditto...i have tried to get em but i get frustrated. also i have a lack of time. im trying slowly tho.
 
Well I originally stopped going for Gold when I got to the slalom tests, I had spent somewhere in the vicinity of 6 hours on just one of them and not getting within 0.1 of gold so I gave up. I then raced for a few months in the WRS and when I came back to the golding challenge I got all the remaining ones within a day or two 👍 Practice really does make perfect :sly:
 
Alot of good points are mentioned here. Skill is definitely a factor but so is experience and related, time. I did the tests very early in the game, where I think I had my S license by the 3rd or 4th real day of me having the game. I got about a dozen golds, some silver and many more bronze just flying through as fast as possible with most being 1-3 attempts. Only a few gave me a real headache like the Nurb lap. It was my first time seeing the 'ring and learning it while following that idiot pace car was a test of patience. After about 8 attempts I got silver (I would have taken bronze but my first win was silver) and left it at that. After alot more experience at the game and especially that track I went back for laughs and actually got a gold on my 4th attempt.

While better skill = faster golds, I think most people are capable of getting 90% or more golds. It's just a matter of time and it can be a horrific amount of time if you are willing to invest it. Much like the missions. I think missions like 11 and 34 are worse then any gold license exam but I can't say for certain since I don't have all golds, nor will I ever be willing to put in the time to do so. I'm just not that bored and I am not a GT god who can do it on 1-3 attempts for them all. Golds do not affect % completion like missions do so I just never bothered.
 
Once you can get silver check your run against the demo - it will usually be only one or two corners that you are too slow on. In my case it usually meant braking earlier and exiting faster.

Worst test: B16 - Tsukuba Circuit, Spoon Corner; BMW 120D '04
This 🤬 test took me more attempts that anything else in the game by a long shot - I think I got gold by less than 0.01 seconds. Absolute 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 of a test.
 
for me, it just took practice. i dont have all golds and dont think i ever will, but if you practice each test, keep your line and maintain speed you should do well
 
I have all my liscences and i only have 1 gold. Then again i have no ambition to get better than just the liscence. I do kinda want that pace car though. . .
 
G.T
Either I get too frustrated or I just can't do it at all.
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I'm a bit like that too.

I rate myself an average-above average racer, yet I absolutely hate the licences (and I'm not especially flash at them either). I can drive fast when there are no limits, but slap on a time limit, or no slight wall contact etc, and kapow! I go from handy to rather quite rubbish.

That's why I only have 3 golds (all on the B licence, mind you), for the other values see my profile.

If I knew someone with all gold licences, I would buy the gold cars off them. But I don't, and I've got my S licence, so I don't bother with the licences any more.
 
Well what have you got left of B License?
It's not gonna be too hard.
Maybe do the hardest ones first.
I haven't got all gold in any license but I do have some golds.
 
Has anyone mentioned the R3 button yet!?
The magical button that reveals the fastest way around the tests.
This only works on licenses B and A.
Who finds that they just wanna ram that Pacecar up the backside!?
I swear it slowed me down by about 1 second once on Opera Paris I think. I'm not sure.
On the Costa Di Amalfi pace run I full throttled the steep downhill and then he stops heaps early. I tried to stop but I still hit him at over 100 km/h!
 
I liked the line guide in GT3 but not so much in GT4. I believe it shows the exact line taken by the demo run, so on a test where the demo run only beat the gold time by a few tenths or hundreds, if you try and follow the line guide you have to be pretty damn accurate to get gold. After reading about it I tried it for a couple of tests (I was already halfway through A at that point) then realised I did better with it turned off.

I'm in the middle of golding S now - it's odd, some of the tests are very tough (so far the hardest for me have been Special Stage Route 5 and Suzuka, special mention to Seattle Circuit in a Ford GT - the time isn't actually that hard to get but there's something about the car and the horrible slippery tarmac that just tees me off), but some are incredibly easy; I made Trial Mountain, Citta D'Aria and Costa di Amalfi in less than five tries each. It's not as completely tough as you expect it to be...S16 will be fun when I get there though, I guess.

edit: forgot to mention, on the Amalfi guide lap, I found the best way to deal with that annoying part was to act as if I was going to overtake the pace car - don't follow it, move a car width inside and outbrake it into the corner...but don't really overtake, brake too much so you wind up side by side and he passes you again right as you both go back on the power. That way you don't rear end him (you might tap him a bit on the side, but it lets you get away with that) and you don't lose too much time or pace out of the corner. Worked for me anyway.
 
You may find daan's site useful for golding licences. All the licence test times on there are gold, but not so gold that you can't see where to improve your own time. It's not a complete library - I don't think his bandwidth would stand it :D - but you could do much worse than saving a few of them to your hard drive...
 
canfield, you get the pace car for winning all of the races in the real circuit races in extreme hall, not for getting all golds. If you really want that car that should help.
 
wildbillk
While better skill = faster golds, I think most people are capable of getting 90% or more golds. It's just a matter of time and it can be a horrific amount of time if you are willing to invest it.
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Hit the nail on the head there 👍

It's not so much as 'How good must you be' more so 'How desperate are you' or 'How much time have you got on your hands' I've managed to 'gold' the licences where theres a prize car that i want - the licences with cars i'm not bothered about i've just done a time to pass the test, if i happen get a gold or silver then great.

I'd go through a stage of wanting to 'Silver' all the tests - but then again i've always been an underachiever :lol:
 
I'm living proof that even workmanlike drivers can gold the license tests. I am absolutely in the bottom half of the OLR world, and have no special achievements in GT3 or GT4. But I managed to gold all of the GT3 licenses and am currently sitting at 38 gold / 42 silver licenses in GT4 with 45% completion. I find it useful to press on until I get at least all silver on a given license, then revisit it a little later in the game to finish up the golds.
 
NOSBLAST
Has anyone mentioned the R3 button yet!?
The magical button that reveals the fastest way around the tests.
This only works on licenses B and A.
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I found the guideline being pretty useless if you try to improve your time ... as someone already said, you'll have to be damn accurate to get gold if you exactly follow the R3-line.


Who finds that they just wanna ram that Pacecar up the backside!?
I swear it slowed me down by about 1 second once on Opera Paris I think. I'm not sure.
On the Costa Di Amalfi pace run I full throttled the steep downhill and then he stops heaps early. I tried to stop but I still hit him at over 100 km/h!
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The License with the E190 Evo II (road-going version) around Nür lets you push the pacecar around on the long straights ... makes for some great pics at last.

The strange thing about the Costa di Amalfi-mission is the fact that you have to drive a Peugeot 206 RC - being an FF-car - and the pacecar brakes at points where you could go way faster because of the FF-layout. I had hit the pacecar several times there until i got one clean run (and got gold).
 
They added many more golds in this installment, but they are way easier than GT1 golds (some of them atleast). I've missed license tests by .001, .003 all that garbage, just hang in there and they will come. Now I can pretty much gold on command. Now when it comes to coming more than a second below the gold standard that is kinda tough. But it sure is fun tho! And if you have tried Tourist Trophy, you know just how EASY those tests are, OMG it was easier than GT4Prologue! lol. Sure you cant put one tire out of bounds but the tests are pretty generous imo.

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