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All right. The Intermediate Ticket I keep it for the next round.
NP, steve. đź‘Ť Thanks for understanding; everybody has their own peculiar 'PD' settings that they are used to - for instance those that don't use Assisted Steering Management or Anti-Skid Braking Systems find it difficult if we lock it on as a 'must' - some players are slower, some can be faster - it's all a matter of what the player is used to - and in here we provide the same latitude in settings that the programmers thought fit to include as global settings for the game. Because the contests in here are globally available (since GTPlanet is international) we traditionally have let participants play as they would play the game at home.
This does not mean you are forbidden to run with lower tires and all aids off. I change my settings according to the contest - sometimes running with only ABS1, at other times running with SRF on, at other times with only TCS and ABS, and a couple of times without TCS and ABS because it may be a 'Muscle' event and I like to throw a muscle car around that way.
One more caveat is that settings may affect the time (bring it down or take it up) but the rabbits will still pace the player.
Therefore, if we practise to play with no aids at all, consistently, we will be good enough to actually win the races (at a much slower pace - players just won't be able to match the aids abetted times) but challenged to play with any other settings available would leave that player in the dust because of not being able to handle a vehicle capable of excessive gaming speeds.
There is one more wrinkle to this:
We do arrange 'secret'
events that only Licenced Hunters are permitted to enter (and you are a Licenced Hunter, too, now - so you will get that chance.)These events are 'extreme' - heavily under-powered or 'stock' cars, or default settings, or lower tyre compounds (the kind that blow as soon as you touch the brakes
)We've had two so far and soon another may be arranged - where we can race in the rain with the ragtop down, mash the brakes without blowing the tyres, spin the wheels without losing any rubber, etc, etc .... good fun because it still remains only a game after all.
Doing so in IRL would only destroy the vehicle, get us in all kinds of trouble and we wouldn't be able to get away without some broken bones.
So we have no pretense about the game in Gran Turismo.
I'll make sure another 'extreme' event is organised soon where we can show off our skills at 'driving' with all off except four electronically simulated contact patches that will effect all players in the same way whether they are used to handling it that way or not.
Meanwhile, using the level playing field, do your best (and if you're good with all aids off on on lower compounds, the theory is that you should be better with some aids on) and we'll see how the chips fall. Everybody has an equal chance - and you're showing you can be very good with whatever settings you are using.
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