GT5 - UK/EU Laws + Cops Room [YOUR THOUGHTS]

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Something that came into my mind, whilst playing on GT5 this evening...

What do YOU think about the UK/EU Laws Rooms?

Personally, I think they're annoying, but I don't want to race my cars, I want to drive them like I would drive them on the road, but, everyone in these rooms drives so badly and doesn't follow even one law, that I end up been bashed about (which makes me angry, especially with my OCD, that as soon as I leave the room, I get rid of the car).

All I ever wanted was a room, with cops, but with everyone driving like on real roads, with the occasional speeder, etc.

Your thoughts?

PS: If you know of any UK Laws Room that operates on a regular basis (preferably every evening or so), and NOT on Cote d' Azur, Le Sarthe, or Mt Aso, that doesn't have drivers that drive like idiots, please let me know! Thanks.
 
Sounds as much fun as......driving to the grocery store.

I don't hate the idea, I just find it boring to do something in the game that I, sometimes, dread doing in real life! I love driving, hate traffic :p
 
You should check if there's any server's on the London Circuit, - they tend to be the best.
 
Dean J
You should check if there's any server's on the London Circuit, - they tend to be the best.
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Played in a lot of those kind of rooms, but then people get bored, and get out Tank Cars, and block the track, which means you must stop, then you get either a Dodge RAM or Tank Car up the rear!-.-
 
Sadly, I have noticed many people choose to completely forget rules ever existed. Then the cops have to chase down those fully tuned lightning fast Murcielagos, and then the host sometimes won't kick the troublemakers.
Also, many rooms take place on Le Mans or Monaco. So much so, that when I test a new police car, I consider Cote D'Azur to be the benchmark for a PC's performance.
I think a great example of a cop room would be:

Track: Cote D'Azur may be a great cops track, with recognizable locations and a tight layout, but it's so overused it makes the MP40 on Call of Duty: World At War seem rare. I think a different track might be in order. I've served in a couple of London rooms.

Cars: Pace Cars if you want to, but designate a specific color for unmarked cruisers so people can have fast cars capable of keeping up with the type of machinery that speeders are pulling out. Maybe even race cars, if you're that serious about shutting down speeders...

Host: Should be active, and enforce the rules. He sets out sensible rules, selects the sensible cops, and kicks repeat and/or troublesome offenders. If the host is AFK, sets rules that are complicated and/or don't make sense, and lets racers rampage with no consequence, then you're probably not going to make a difference by becoming a cop in this room.

Police Officers: They should be honest, fair, and skilled in pursuit driving. They should be able to shut down speeders, and call for backup when needed. They should have a level of maturity; 10 year olds in Lamborghinis screaming in girly-high voices for you to pull over while ramming you at near Red Bull speeds do not make for good cops.

Suppose there's anything I could add to that list?
 
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". :indiff:
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. :dunce:
 
I've decided that soon (maybe once the most recent bugs are fixed), to run a Laws Room but in a Club format, so that there is a good host, and good cruisers...

Thoughts on that? Would you be interested?
 
Scaniabebe
I've decided that soon (maybe once the most recent bugs are fixed), to run a Laws Room but in a Club format, so that there is a good host, and good cruisers...

Thoughts on that? Would you be interested?
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A couple of us did that, and it was called the GTPlanet Good Cruisers Association. I don't remember ever joining a legitimate cops room with all the GTPGCA rules enforced since joining that group, but it's dead now. :(
 
That would be great! I would be interested, but if you allow me to run the black or white police cars that I make, I wouldn't be anywhere else!
Just FYI, these are the cars that I have right now:
White RS6 Avant
Silver 135i Coupe
White Camaro SS
Black Corvette Z06 (Ahem... "Slightly" modified...)
Black Corvette ZR1 (Also, ahem... Slightly modified...)
Black/White Challenger SRT-8
Black Mustang GT
White IS F
Silver Lancer Evo IX
Blue GT-R
Blue Impreza WRX STI
And undoubtedly, I will make more police specials. I could make a business selling these...
 
I would be very interested too. There are rooms, sometimes that are very good. I wonder where the host's have gone...
 
Doog
A couple of us did that, and it was called the GTPlanet Good Cruisers Association. I don't remember ever joining a legitimate cops room with all the GTPGCA rules enforced since joining that group, but it's dead now. :(
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I was wondering why there were no updates in the thread, and there were no cruises!:')

Firehound427
That would be great! I would be interested, but if you allow me to run the black or white police cars that I make, I wouldn't be anywhere else!
Just FYI, these are the cars that I have right now:
White RS6 Avant
Silver 135i Coupe
White Camaro SS
Black Corvette Z06 (Ahem... "Slightly" modified...)
Black Corvette ZR1 (Also, ahem... Slightly modified...)
Black/White Challenger SRT-8
Black Mustang GT
White IS F
Silver Lancer Evo IX
Blue GT-R
Blue Impreza WRX STI
And undoubtedly, I will make more police specials. I could make a business selling these...
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I would have to take a look, as I require specific paint jobs and will be issuing these to specific drivers who are active.

Dean J
I would be very interested too. There are rooms, sometimes that are very good. I wonder where the host's have gone...
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Well, Dean, hopefully I will get this into action in the later stage of October/Early November. I will also make a Blog/Website that people can visit to help promote the Cruise...
 
Scaniabebe
I would have to take a look, as I require specific paint jobs and will be issuing these to specific drivers who are active.
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OK. As a general rule, I use Nissan White or Chevrolet Black on my cop cars unless they already have those colors available from the dealer. I keep a varied fleet in terms of color, as some cop rooms require black cop cars and some require white cop cars. Of course, I do have exceptions:
The 135i is silver as it is a German cop car, and some German cop cars these days are silver as a base color.
The GT-R is in Inca Blue as a sort-of tribute to the NFS Undercover GT-R Super State PC.
The Evo and Impreza are in silver and blue to make them look less like cop cars, undercovers if you will (and because I had just watched Police Interceptors at the time...).
 
NEWS!

I am running a UK Laws Room right now, here are details:

Laws
70mph Speed Limit
Left Side of The Road
No Ramming
Keep Your Distance Between Vehicles
Only Overtake if Necessary & if Safe to do so
If You do Accidently Crash Into Someone, Apologize Before Continuing
Do NOT Drift
Do NOT Cut Corners
At Night, Keep on Full Beam
No Meeting up For Races, Otherwise You WILL be Instantly Kicked

If a Cop (Black Vehicle) flashes lights and sounds horn, please pull over. If you do not, we will begin a pursuit, and after a 1 lap pursuit, you will be kicked.

If you do stop, and you committed an offense, except the offense, and you will have 3 Warnings, once you get to 3/3, you will be kicked from the lobby.

Cops
I will be driving a High Performance Cop Car, and there will be 3 Cops for the room, which include:

- Police Cruiser (Subaru Impreza WRX Sedan)
- High Speed Enforcement (Lexus IS F)
- Super High Speed Enforcement (Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SuperVeloce)

ALL Cop Cars MUST be painted in Black.

Now, all that is important, but where will we be driving? Well, we will be driving on Toscana (Tarmac). The track does not have too many really sharp turns, but, does have a few!

The Room Will be Called:

GTPlanet - UK Laws

You WILL find this room under the Free Run category!

The pp limit will be 600pp.

Any other questions, then please send me a Private Message!

The Room is OPEN NOW! Feel free to come along!
 
Shame, it's not gonna be long until I leave the room, it wasn't too bad, but we did have some speeders and not many members (9 at the most)!

EDIT: ROOM IS NOW CLOSED!
 
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I used to go in cruise rooms a lot, but as mentioned it was just overrun with people in supercars that you wouldn't normally see on the road, only occasionally. I've hardly ever cruised in a supercar purely because I hate the things. I usually cruise in normal everyday cars that I've either stanced or just modified.

Police who abuse their powers annoy me too... I once saw a police officer blatantly pull out in front of someone who could do nothing but run into the back of him, and the officer gave him a warning for reckless driving.

As for a club, I'd be interested. I never had the chance of joining a GTPGCA room as it was on the brink of dying when I joined. And another car that I sometimes use to be an officer is the GT-R Black Mask in white. Has a combiantion of white and black like a police livery. :p
 
Be sure to tell me when the next room is on Scania! Oh, and I think Katie's onto something with the Black Mask GT-R, I might have to try that someday!
 
If they were governed properly then they'd be reasonably fun, somewhere to relax and just cruise... but I've yet to come across such a room, they're always chaos!
 
Personally, I like to use the GT Academy GT-R (the black one with all the livery, not the blue one) as my police cruiser of choice, not that I choose to be a cop very often. I've added some weight, softened up the suspension, and gave it worse tires so it handles like an American rear-wheel drive police cruiser. It's pretty fun to drive in pursuits, but it's also nice and quiet when you're just patrolling. Of course, I'm sure the black mask GT-R could do the same thing.
 
I'd be interested in joining as well, mostly because I've never done anything like this (on a fresh-start after 2-yr break).

It looks like the general idea is that the room is a 'cruise', with a speed limit that is enforced, break it or just be stupid and a cop should eventually get you, 3 strikes your out, correct ?

May be the only place I can fit my C6 'Vette without everyone getting mad (got kicked from a "Muscle" car room for driving the 'Vette :confused:)
 
Scaniabebe
I've decided that soon (maybe once the most recent bugs are fixed), to run a Laws Room but in a Club format, so that there is a good host, and good cruisers...

Thoughts on that? Would you be interested?
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Im in!
 
Hey, thanks for running a clean cruise room... a shame I couldn't join but I'll try if you do again in the next days.

Doog, your big post was nice and 100% true but telling to give up on cop rooms made me a sad panda.
 
diegorborges
Hey, thanks for running a clean cruise room... a shame I couldn't join but I'll try if you do again in the next days.

Doog, your big post was nice and 100% true but telling to give up on cop rooms made me a sad panda.
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The fact is, unless you've got a big group of people who all live in the same timezone who all have schedules that coincide, chances are you'll never find a good cops room. That's just the way it is. :guilty:
 
Doog
The fact is, unless you've got a big group of people who all live in the same timezone who all have schedules that coincide, chances are you'll never find a good cops room. That's just the way it is. :guilty:
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Yes I know... for example, kamikazi493 is an awesome cruise buddy, but as we are in completely different timezones, its rare to cruise together.
 
diegorborges
Yes I know... for example, kamikazi493 is an awesome cruise buddy, but as we are in completely different timezones, its rare to cruise together.
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He sure is; I've got him on my friends list. Like you, our timezones conflict, and we rarely cruise together. :guilty:
 

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