GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

[Stormbreaker]

Finally into the Top 100 👊🏻

 

[Dan_Tes]

I did a clean lap I did a clean lap!

Plenty of time on the table but I’m sure like everyone else tying an entire fast lap together is almost impossible.

Stupid tyre choice again

I’m calling this one a lemon so fingers crossed for a worldie tomorrow!

 

[MP81]

Well, I guess at least I went faster...probably within the first 15 laps...the other ~90 miles after that were a waste. Was only able to clock a 2:12.313, despite my optimums dropping to an even lower 2:11.920. Any lap that had a chance of being good seemingly was ruined by the car suddenly being unable to turn in certain corners that it had done fine every other lap, so...it truly seemed like I was not allowed anything faster. Whatever. This one was fun at first, and then it really wasn't. At least I didn't clock exactly the same time as before like yesterday, but I still was hoping for something better.

My force feedback didn't randomly disappear, so that's good, I suppose.

 

[TomBrady]

The alfa romeo TT was a lot of fun. Hope it had a lot of participation so they do more TTs like that in the future.

 

[Stephan]

 

[nickf1gr]

One and only event that we can use this car...

 

[zaxs]

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Again, after shocking Yas Marina, totally technical track - ok, no chicane add little towards speed one.

Not home, going to doctor to exam.

But cant wait to try it - what tires and how much is car cost?

 

[Stephan]

Again, after shocking Yas Marina, totally technical track - ok, no chicane add little towards speed one.

Not home, going to doctor to exam.

But cant wait to try it - what tires and how much is car cost?

The U9 costs 350,000 credits and time trial uses sports softs.

 

[half_sourly]

what tires

SS

 

[SPDN Stefano]

Now that Chinese smartphone companies are producing cars like this I wonder what kind of future traditional European supercar brands have.

 

[bliprunner]

Got to say the YW is actually quite nice to drive, some understeer of course but a lot of grip and you can turn it nicely under brake and throttle.

A nice easy Sunday drive in comparison to the F50.

 

[half_sourly]

Some bad news - it appears today's update included a change to the API, which means that @crome's magical scraper no longer works and there is no workaround. This is linked to the comment a few days ago about sometimes not being able to see past page 1 on the results pages (but even if you log in and can see the navigation drop-down, scraping is still blocked). You'll notice DG Edge also has no results yet for this event, so they may be affected too.

So, until further notice, but likely permanently, there will be no weekly results.

 

[Lightsider74]

Only had a quick go once the servers came back online but I also found it a decent car to drive.

1:47.632

 

[Lomic]

Some bad news - it appears today's update included a change to the API, which means that @crome's magical scraper no longer works and there is no workaround. This is linked to the comment a few days ago about sometimes not being able to see past page 1 on the results pages (but even if you log in and can see the navigation drop-down, scraping is still blocked). You'll notice DG Edge also has no results yet for this event, so they may be affected too.

So, until further notice, but likely permanently, there will be no weekly results.

That sucks, if we are not able to patch something that should be in game from scratch...

 

[crome]

Some bad news - it appears today's update included a change to the API, which means that @crome's magical scraper no longer works and there is no workaround. This is linked to the comment a few days ago about sometimes not being able to see past page 1 on the results pages (but even if you log in and can see the navigation drop-down, scraping is still blocked). You'll notice DG Edge also has no results yet for this event, so they may be affected too.

So, until further notice, but likely permanently, there will be no weekly results.

Same is true for my plug-ins. There is maybe some hope that DG can play their "we're a big part of the community" card to get PD to reverse course, but tbh I have no idea how official DG's affiliation with PD is. And even if they do figure something out, it might be something that only pertains to them.

 

[Metalgear9493]

Very neat little combo, only problem is its difficult to find braking points during sector 2.

 

[Dan_Tes]

Some bad news - it appears today's update included a change to the API, which means that @crome's magical scraper no longer works and there is no workaround. This is linked to the comment a few days ago about sometimes not being able to see past page 1 on the results pages (but even if you log in and can see the navigation drop-down, scraping is still blocked). You'll notice DG Edge also has no results yet for this event, so they may be affected too.

So, until further notice, but likely permanently, there will be no weekly results.

Same is true for my plug-ins. There is maybe some hope that DG can play their "we're a big part of the community" card to get PD to reverse course, but tbh I have no idea how official DG's affiliation with PD is. And even if they do figure something out, it might be something that only pertains to them.

What an absolutely moronic thing to do, do we know why they did it?

Sometimes the updates that PD are do are baffling when things that need fixing don’t get fixed and then they do something like this which makes a big difference to the community …

 

[snc]

What an absolutely moronic thing to do, do we know why they did it?

Sometimes the updates that PD are do are baffling when things that need fixing don’t get fixed and then they do something like this which makes a big difference to the community …

Because PD is clueless.

 

[crome]

What an absolutely moronic thing to do, do we know why they did it?

Sometimes the updates that PD are do are baffling when things that need fixing don’t get fixed and then they do something like this which makes a big difference to the community …

There's no statement from them that I am aware of, but it seems designed explicitly to prevent usages such as ours, presumably in an effort to reduce load on their system. The way it previously worked was that you could just go to an event page like this: https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/gt7/sportmode/event/13923/ and browse through all of the result pages, and this worked without logging in. This was facilitated by an API that allowed access to every page, and that API was used by our tools and very likely by DG EDGE as well. Now all you get as an anonymous user is the very first result page (the first 100 positions) via a different API. The full experience is now restricted to users logged into PSN (you can check this for yourself if you visit an event page with and without logging in).

Sarcasm mode: so the good news is that we can continue to have the leaderboard in place as long as everyone places in the top 100.

 

[Vule]

Sarcasm mode: so the good news is that we can continue to have the leaderboard in place as long as everyone places in the top 100.

Just what I was about to say, we can all be in top 100 and the new update won't affect us?

 

[crome]

Just what I was about to say, we can all be in top 100 and the new update won't affect us?

Right, @half_sourly has to throw out some 20 users, and the rest of us simply have to "git gud", as the kids say

 

[newmedia_dev]

@crome @half_sourly

I have sent you a DM that might be useful.

 

[DDK-Racing]

Right, @half_sourly has to throw out some 20 users, and the rest of us simply have to "git gud", as the kids say

🤣

 

[MP81]

So...

This sounds like Microsoft offered PD some of their famous advice: make updates for no particular reason that only make the product worse.

 

[NevilleNobody]

Dead set taking the mickey naming this car, sounds like something a group of 12 year old boys would come up with.

 

[newmedia_dev]

Dead set taking the mickey naming this car, sounds like something a group of 12 year old boys would come up with.

Anyone know which button to use to jump over other cars?



🙃

 

[Lightsider74]

Anyone know which button to use to jump over other cars?



🙃

Can just imagine the chat in the daily races thread. "We were 3 wide into turn 4 and out of nowhere some ******er landed on my roof and ruined my race. What's worse they only got a .5 penalty!"

 

[MP81]

Can just imagine the chat in the daily races thread. "We were 3 wide into turn 4 and out of nowhere some ******er landed on my roof and ruined my race. What's worse they only got a .5 penalty!"

More realistic: The people who got landed on would receive the penalty.

 

[Tidgney]

This weeks guide for those interested! A very fun car this, more fun than I was expecting!

 

[bliprunner]

Looks like DG Edge have results working again