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Why does one car i have loose and another car i have wins. *I play bspec manage my team. I have a car that I fully upgraded and it sucks compared to much lesser cars. The lamborghini race of the g model car. I forget name of car. I upgraded fully and the car has 795hp and comes in 8th if I just let him race. The other cars are all same model but much less hp. How can I loose so bad? It seems the CPU cars are upgraded or something. I don't see how they can be so fast. This goes also for other cars I have upgraded.

*What does the arrow mean next to the drivers name? Sometimes it points up, straight and down.

When driving a race it says you can use up to 2 drivers. what for? I selected 2 and I only saw one car of mine and one driver driving in the race.

when watching your driver race, what is the oil icon for? it's next to the triangle ! *Right above the headphones.

Where is a manual for this game that has everything in it? I don't know what most of the stuff in the game does, is for etc. I need to read a manual for the game.

Is there anyway to set up races to be full length like real life so you have to pit etc? All my questions here are for spec where you are the manager. that's what i play so far mostly.

What does strength and mental strength do/mean? Also that window it has your drivers name and the red and blue bar that the marker moves on. Can someone please explain this and how it affects the game?*

What would cause a car to always be at the max rpm and you have the rpm make a recurring loop noise like it's maxed out in gear? I have my driver drive races and sometimes you hear the motor like it's at the max rpm and just loops. This happens not in max gear, but lower too sometimes. It seems the driver drives much worse when this happens in certain cars. Is thugs because i upgraded the car too much and gave it too much hp or something?

what are all the upgrades for? like turbo boost. What do they do? low rpm, medium and high? Would i want all 3?

What about the engine and exhaust and all of those? How do you know when to upgrade or if it will help or hurt? I upgrade to max hp but it seems the driver is way worse the higher the hp sometimes. Sometimes it seems I have to be more then a hundred hp higher then the other cars to win.*

Why is my driver so stupid yet he's at level 23? He doesn't know when to pass or how unless i tell him sometimes. which is rare cuss i just let him drive without me doing anything. sometimes anyway. My driver gets on a guys butt and touches the car in front when clearly he can pass the car if he went to the side of the car.

When you tell yer driver to pace up, same, or down, what does this all mean and how does it affect the race? I notice pace up sometimes is the only way to get my driver to gain and pass. Sometimes i notice the only way he'll pass is if i say overtake. But then my driver smokes the tires a lot too and fish tis a lot.

When telling the driver to do something it has the timer icon. How long does your command last? If you say pace up will he only increase pace till the timer is done or what? Sometimes in order to have my driver catch up or stay in the lead i have to keep hitting pace up non stop, constantly. but this causes the driver to sometimes do worse. like his temper or whatever goes all the way to the right in the red.

Is it possible to have full length nascar races in spec where i am the manager? or any race for that matter when i am the manager?It royally sucks not being able to pit. That's part of racing.

I notice several bugs like with one screen giving you your cars hp, but another screen is different.*

how often is used cars area updated? does it mater the km for what i think means how many miles are on the car?

how do i know when to do maintenance on a car? like oil change, rebuild engine etc.

Why is it so hard to get cars for certain races? it seems you have to find them in the used cars area or be given one by the computer.*

is it possible to race on easy in arcade and have to pit if the race is long enough? i notice only medium and hard gets fuel depletion option i think.

In the pit strategy window, what is pit stop strength level?

Anyone notice miles driven for cars is broken? I've got cars with over 1000 miles driven yet that's impossible for me right now.*

So far I'm loving the game!! I just wanna get a good wheel and chair.
Thanks soooooo much for reading all this and helping. I totally appreciate it.
 
Sheese. No help at all. Sheese!!!!

Well to be fair you posted a bajillion questions in one post, many of which are answered in other threads. However, if you give me a minute I'll do my best to give my opinions on your troubles.
 
Sheese. No help at all. Sheese!!!!

If you can summarize your questions then that December post you have would have answers. Try it first then we will help.
 
Sorry. When I just posted a few minutes ago it wasn't to get help now. More of a I can't believe no one bothers to respond since last year. To show my frustration I guess. But now I know most of the answers, but for sure not all of them.
 
Not to sound crude, but why would you expect the forum members to go that much out of their way to answer that novel long list of questions?? The knowledge we have was learned the good old fashioned way, searching and perusing. Sure, a cliffs note for all things GT5 would be excellent, but most of the questions are answered in the manual that came with your game, and ALL that info is right at your fingertips in this board for you to thumb through at your leisure.
Cheers!
 
Why does one car i have loose and another car i have wins. *I play bspec manage my team. I have a car that I fully upgraded and it sucks compared to much lesser cars. The lamborghini race of the g model car. I forget name of car. I upgraded fully and the car has 795hp and comes in 8th if I just let him race. The other cars are all same model but much less hp. How can I loose so bad? It seems the CPU cars are upgraded or something. I don't see how they can be so fast. This goes also for other cars I have upgraded.

Check out the b-spec forum on GTP and you'll quickly see that, well, bob sucks at driving. Especially in the early levels. Even if your car is fully upgraded, a lower-level bob that's hot (that's what the red area is at the bottom of the screen) will fly off the track and brake early and get passed. Try when it gets red to have him "lower pace" until he's more in the middle. Also, many b-spec races require much cruddier tires than their respective a-spec series. This means a super-horse power car will not do so well with traction and whatnot. I'm not going to explain the whole thing about b-spec because it's covered elsewhere tho. The main thing is to stay out of really red or really blue.

*What does the arrow mean next to the drivers name? Sometimes it points up, straight and down.

When driving a race it says you can use up to 2 drivers. what for? I selected 2 and I only saw one car of mine and one driver driving in the race.

The arrow...good luck finding out how to alter that. It's the driver's mood, as far as I know, and when it's pointing up he's better mentally in the next race you put him in (I think). Though for me it's not possible to tell the difference. 2 drivers are for longer races, and only one drives at a time (unless rally, then the other just talks to you about turns). You switch when you pit, which is only an option on some races. Watch their mental and physical abilities to tell when you need to get another driver.

when watching your driver race, what is the oil icon for? it's next to the triangle ! *Right above the headphones.
it means you need to get an oil change in gt auto screen (where you rm cars or change wheels etc).

Where is a manual for this game that has everything in it? I don't know what most of the stuff in the game does, is for etc. I need to read a manual for the game.

It's built in and you can access it from GT Life screen and main menu, as frustrating as the interface can be...

Is there anyway to set up races to be full length like real life so you have to pit etc? All my questions here are for spec where you are the manager. that's what i play so far mostly.
You earn the endurance races after you complete the others all the way through extreme. However many of the non-endurance races are still decent lengths and allow pitting. Really you just have to wait until you beat more races and these things start to unlock.

What does strength and mental strength do/mean? Also that window it has your drivers name and the red and blue bar that the marker moves on. Can someone please explain this and how it affects the game?*
see above. Strength is physical strength. Mental strength is basically like their focus and ability to stay consistent. If strength goes mental strength plummets shortly after. When they're gone you need to switch drivers in pit stop if available. The red is "hot" as in pushing corners harder and being aggressive and blue is "cold" as in backing off and being generally a sunday driver. :) Too hot will run a crappy bob off the road. Too cold will get Bob eventually passed in a competitive race.

What would cause a car to always be at the max rpm and you have the rpm make a recurring loop noise like it's maxed out in gear? I have my driver drive races and sometimes you hear the motor like it's at the max rpm and just loops. This happens not in max gear, but lower too sometimes. It seems the driver drives much worse when this happens in certain cars. Is thugs because i upgraded the car too much and gave it too much hp or something?
It could have to do with Bob being crappy and your car being too much for him. My bobs sometimes hit the rev limiter, though they always shift after a second or two (hitting the top of the gear is the sound you hear). If your bob isn't shifting at all that's a glitch, and that's never happened to me.

what are all the upgrades for? like turbo boost. What do they do? low rpm, medium and high? Would i want all 3?
Most upgrades have explanations of what they do. They basically replace components of the car to make it more race-worthy. For instance low-rpm turbo gives boost in lower rpms, but gives you a lower total HP. high-rpm doesn't kick in until the latter part of the gear but gives you the most HP boost. Other stuff like suspension is trickier. If you totally upgrade a car and want to tune all that stuff check out the tune wiki. It is very helpful: http://www.gt5-tuning.com/index.php?title=Main_Page


What about the engine and exhaust and all of those? How do you know when to upgrade or if it will help or hurt? I upgrade to max hp but it seems the driver is way worse the higher the hp sometimes. Sometimes it seems I have to be more then a hundred hp higher then the other cars to win.*
yes, see all the above and remember that bob is horrible and it will be many levels before you see any decent improvement. You need to manage lower level bobs by keeping them consistent with pacing. Having a car of a much higher class than the competition helps.

Why is my driver so stupid yet he's at level 23? He doesn't know when to pass or how unless i tell him sometimes. which is rare cuss i just let him drive without me doing anything. sometimes anyway. My driver gets on a guys butt and touches the car in front when clearly he can pass the car if he went to the side of the car.
well b-spec is meant to be interactive, not just a replay video. You're meant to give bob instructions. It's how he learns. The frustration of b-spec goes on and on. We've all been there.

When you tell yer driver to pace up, same, or down, what does this all mean and how does it affect the race? I notice pace up sometimes is the only way to get my driver to gain and pass. Sometimes i notice the only way he'll pass is if i say overtake. But then my driver smokes the tires a lot too and fish tis a lot.
see above. Sometimes to pass everyone the driver needs to be hot (in the red) but not all the way, just most the way. This requires some annoying direction.

When telling the driver to do something it has the timer icon. How long does your command last? If you say pace up will he only increase pace till the timer is done or what? Sometimes in order to have my driver catch up or stay in the lead i have to keep hitting pace up non stop, constantly. but this causes the driver to sometimes do worse. like his temper or whatever goes all the way to the right in the red.
Yeah it seems to me he only does what you say for that amount of time. "maintain pace" is really useful when you already have a decent lead. It doesn't shoot you into the red, it just keeps you where you are (unless you are near other cars).

Is it possible to have full length nascar races in spec where i am the manager? or any race for that matter when i am the manager?It royally sucks not being able to pit. That's part of racing.
Yes and it's in the game as I mentioned above, it just isn't until later. NASCAR series in b-spec probably has pit stops, though I haven't done it yet maybe someone else can chime in.

I notice several bugs like with one screen giving you your cars hp, but another screen is different.*
yes this is annoying I noticed it too. I would just go by the tune screen.

how often is used cars area updated? does it mater the km for what i think means how many miles are on the car?

how do i know when to do maintenance on a car? like oil change, rebuild engine etc.
Some of these questions are answered just by a little searching, so I'm going to start to truncate: oil change when oil light comes on, rebuild engine when you loose HP, chassis when you lose rigidity (how you tell these things I don't know). KM is how many km on the car, yes. UCD updates every time a "day" passes in the game (you do a race, etc).

Why is it so hard to get cars for certain races? it seems you have to find them in the used cars area or be given one by the computer.*

is it possible to race on easy in arcade and have to pit if the race is long enough? i notice only medium and hard gets fuel depletion option i think.

In the pit strategy window, what is pit stop strength level?
check the online dealership for trucks and fgt. don't know about the arcade pit question but best way to find out is to slap on 10 or 20 laps and see what happens. pit stop strength level is an automatic pit stop to driver switch at x strength level. It isn't really useful probably better to leave it off.

Anyone notice miles driven for cars is broken? I've got cars with over 1000 miles driven yet that's impossible for me right now.*

So far I'm loving the game!! I just wanna get a good wheel and chair.
Thanks soooooo much for reading all this and helping. I totally appreciate it.

Glitch maybe? Good luck with the game and getting your rig. Just give it time and you'll learn everything. search around GTP and there are plenty of good sources of information.

*takes breath.
 
Genuine respect to Tower Turn for answering the original post question by question. Not that I read any of it tho hehe
 
holy crap that a load of questions! lol

Anyone notice miles driven for cars is broken? I've got cars with over 1000 miles driven yet that's impossible for me right now.*
Glitch maybe? Good luck with the game and getting your rig. Just give it time and you'll learn everything. search around GTP and there are plenty of good sources of information.

*takes breath.
fair play to TT for answering them all, but also for this question, any car you buy from the UCD (used car dealership) with automatically have XXX miles on it, regardless if you have drove it or not, so that may be your answer.

But if you have a brand new premium car for example that you never drove yet and it has miles on it then its maybe a glitch or someone has been playing your GT5 lol
 
OP you should send Tower Turn 13 some paint or something.
 
Geez, even I might consider sending the guy something, that's a heck of a lot of work right there, well done Tower!!!!
Add Rayzah
I'll send you some chrome or something :D
 
If you actually play the game, most of this is self explanatory ... just a fact of figuring stuff out for yourself .... hmm the oil light is on maybe i should change the oil?

By playing the game you can see what effect everything has
 
Holy ****....Big ups to Tower first of all. Second, I just don't understand why so many people have such a hard time figuring things out for themselves. GOOGLE, YOUTUBE, and most importantly the SEARCH function at the top of this site could have answered any one of those questions. Seems to me mothers are breast feeding too long these days.
 
Tower, thanks so much. Since I wrote my post last year I learned most of it. When I replayed with my Sheese, that was mainly meant as a way to vent my frustration at no reply. I didn't post to get an answer, but vent a tiny bit. However you have helped me and you have done a good deed and God will reward you and bless you for it. I believe he will anyway.

If you would like, may I please buy you any 2 cars you want if I have the credits? I have 1.2 mill for now waiting to cash in my bobs will give me maybe another 1.2 mill. Also how bout any 5 horns I may have? I never use horns and don't even know how. Any paint too if I have it can be yours.

Just let me know.
So I'm offering you,
2 cars.
5 horns.
2 paints.
 
Just a reminder about my wanting to give tower some stuff. :)
 
Just a reminder about my wanting to give tower some stuff. :)

I think Tower must have everything already - from the looks of his answers. Good GT player you both.
 
Haha ummm just noticed you guys replied. Give me a few minutes to figure this out.
 
EDIT: I just noticed you are offering from premiums and most these cars are standard. In that case the Ford GT LM Spec II Test Car and Aston Martin Vanquish are two I've wanted for a while but didn't want to spend the credits on. If they're too expensive let me know.

Paint: the only paint I'm looking for right now is gold chrome but I don't know if you have it or not. Otherwise I guess surprise me lol.

PSN is mockingbird00000

thanks again dude.
 
EDIT: I just noticed you are offering from premiums and most these cars are standard. In that case the Ford GT LM Spec II Test Car and Aston Martin Vanquish are two I've wanted for a while but didn't want to spend the credits on. If they're too expensive let me know.

Paint: the only paint I'm looking for right now is gold chrome but I don't know if you have it or not. Otherwise I guess surprise me lol.

PSN is mockingbird00000

thanks again dude.

I can send you those. :) just reply my friend request Thanks.
 
Ok thanks man people here are nice :)

I'm just not home at the moment so it might be a little bit before I can reply.
 
Ok thanks man people here are nice :)

I'm just not home at the moment so it might be a little bit before I can reply.

Same here, 3rd shift see u tomorrow by 8am. bored @work too - cool.
 
Isn't that Ford to much $ to send?
Im sposed to send something so please if tower says what he wants, please let me have first crack .
Add me too. buggs1a.
 
Isn't that Ford to much $ to send?
Im sposed to send something so please if tower says what he wants, please let me have first crack .
Add me too. buggs1a.

No problem - you have the honor.
 
OK buggs1a jeez thanks guys I really didn't do that much besides type for a while (I'm a writer so I do it a lot lol). Not sure the price of the ford GT. If it's too much then...hmmm...a premium Jaguar? I don't think I have one of those either.

So premium Jag and premium Vanquish if the FordGT is too much money to trade.

Again, muchas gracias.
 
Haha lol. A fight for who gets to send tower a car lol. I'll go check on pricing.
 
Ok thanks man people here are nice



No kidding. I had some guy who never once spoke to me before offer me a Gold Chrome and regular Chrome paint chips AND a Gold Chrome McClaren.

Just because I was a Texan like he was!

He also taught me about to accept gifts and give them back to people too.
 
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