Theace37
Scaniabebe
I used to frequent cops rooms after I discovered them last summer and found them to be the best thing since Cherry Coke. Of course, that was back in a time where Gran Turismo's online community was vastly larger, and subsequently, cops rooms were far easier to come by. I later realized that I really preferred to just cruise, and I've done so ever since, and have been quite happy with it.
Cops rooms, when done right, can be a hoot. But done wrong, and most of the time they are, they're hell. You could blame douchebag cops that prefer to ram you for being an easy target, or the guy that likes to speed up when you want to overtake him, or kids on mics annoying everyone. But really, I've found it comes to a combination of two things. One, it's the people that make up a room. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Gran Turismo's online community is filled with scumbags that want to go 250 miles per hour, all the time, regardless of where they're at. Then there's the drifters. I get it, drifting can be fun (personally, I don't like it, it's too hard, though just casually sliding around can be fun), but there's always one or two drifters in a room, making it hell for everyone else. I have a friend who frequents my rooms who prefers to drift 90% of the time, and I let her; she doesn't get in the way of others, and she doesn't tell everyone about it. The problem with these drifters is that they're telling everyone that they're drifting, and you're constantly being smacked into walls because they're under the impression that they own the road.
Another issue is the choice of cars amongst online players. 9 in 10 players I encounter in a cops room will be driving a car with more than 600 horsepower, it's guaranteed. Of course, with great power comes great temptation, and 8 out of 9 of these people end up speeding around and being law-breaking hooligans. There's nothing like cruising at the speed limit, only to be rammed by a Lamborghini that was going 250 miles per hour, with a racing exhaust that you heard from a mile away. And usually they speed away, without saying anything. If you call them out on it, they either say "ur gay", "F U", or "🤬 off".
The issue isn't just with the people that join the room, because even a room with perfect people abiding the law cannot work if the host is a brain dead moron. The host plays an equal factor in maintaining the quality of the room. Almost all bad cops rooms are bad because the host is either:
- Afraid of kicking people, and goes to tremendous lengths not to.
- Doesn't care and lets the room remain poor.
- Or, they're just not there.
Of course, a host can do all they want to set reasonable rules, enforce the rules, and do away with the people that don't follow the rules, and the room can still be bad, if the people in the room are bad. If you've got a good host, you've got crappy people in the room, and if you've got good people in the room, you've got a crappy host. It's a losing battle for whichever side is in the right, and it's impossible to find a room that has a good group of people and a good host. My advice is to just give up on cops rooms, because there just aren't any good ones anymore.
