How many people competed in the time-trial

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experiotick
Hello everybody,

I'm curious about the number of people competing in the time-trial challenge.
I am nr.115 in the Netherlands and nr. 2592 worldwide but it doesn't mean anything when you can't tell how many competed in my country or worldwide.
The only thing I know is the game is downloaded more then 1 million times in Europe only.
Does anybody know?
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Well according to the congratulations email I received for top 20, it says this.


CONGRATULATIONS!
Over a million fellow gamers around the world have downloaded the GT5 time trial and they’ve spent hours tearing around real-world circuits in the hope of making it a reality.



So more like 1 million downloaded it, played it for 5 seconds and went this is to hard.
 
I personally believe that for example in Australia, there would have been maybe 500 people who took it serious enough to put more than a hour in..... and that could very well be optimistic!
 
I read somewhere it was downloaded 1 million times in europe only.@zdenko: 90 procent of the people in the rankings have a steering wheel and nobody buys a steering wheel to go "this is to hard" after 5 minutes. Maybe I should ask a different question: does anybody know how many people have steering wheels?
 
osrg
I personally believe that for example in Australia, there would have been maybe 500 people who took it serious enough to put more than a hour in..... and that could very well be optimistic!
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I think it's way more than that.

Half-hour laptimes in Australia:

Normal 9800
Tuned 15,500
Combined 7900

rounded to highest 100.

A friend of mine spent hours and hours on it, played most days from inception and was around 800th with a last-gasp to 650. Not very impressive by the standards of this forum, but to get where he did took him some effort and he's not a completely uncoordinated driver. So given there are nearly 8000 people who took the time to register both laps, and for many even completing a valid Normal lap would be a challenge, let's say 5000 of them minimum put in a few hours, which is still quite a few. So your achievement is very impressive, at least in my view.
 
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raceur
I think it's way more than that.

Half-hour laptimes in Australia:

Normal 9800
Tuned 15,500
Combined 7900

rounded to highest 100.

A friend of mine spent hours and hours on it, played most days from inception and was around 800th with a last-gasp to 650. Not very impressive by the standards of this forum, but to get where he did took him some effort and he's not a completely uncoordinated driver. So given there are nearly 8000 people who took the time to register both laps, and for many even completing a valid Normal lap would be a challenge, let's say 5000 of them minimum put in a few hours, which is still quite a few. So your achievement is very impressive, at least in my view.
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I put a few hours of attempts and practice`s in. Spent more time with the stock car than the tuned one and came in around 4600 something i think. More time with the tuned car would have helped my results. I`m low 600`s for the stock car in aus though :sly:

Has GTP_Holland gone through or been disqualified? He is good but cutting THAT corner might have gone against him??
 
That was discussed elsewhere....the feeling is that as long as the computer says it's a valid lap by not turning the counter red, then it's a valid lap and goes up on the scoreboard. If PD wanted to prevent people cutting the corner they could have just made it an out of bounds zone as in fact it is if you cut it too far. For me it's just a little something that some players discover to advantage, and some don't. So he'll be fine.

It's interesting, my final position was just inside the top 100 and while I'm pleased with that about 90 of the people ahead of me are regular posters here ;-)
 
I think that if it was legal in the demo I see no reason why he should be disqualified.
 
premhz
Has GTP_Holland gone through or been disqualified? He is good but cutting THAT corner might have gone against him??
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WTF?

That corner is but one corner on the whole lap. Providing some part of the car is on the rumblestrip, it's valid. If the lap has been registered and is on the board, it's legal. End of Story.

Go and have a look at anyones laps that are quick....... exactly the same line.
 
Competed? No, I just tried it out, nothing serious about my time at all :) Just waiting for the real thing...and waiting and waiting.

Jerome
 
osrg
WTF?

That corner is but one corner on the whole lap. Providing some part of the car is on the rumblestrip, it's valid. If the lap has been registered and is on the board, it's legal. End of Story.

Go and have a look at anyones laps that are quick....... exactly the same line.
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Sorry there champ but i have to disagree with you on that one. I feel it`s not legal and it`s a shame that you can cut corners that much and be allowed to continue on a valid lap. If the situation was in real life i`m sure the stewards would have little restraint in throwing the black flag out to you for excessive corner cutting.

Sure the two tyres on let`s say the right hand side of your car on the ripple strips of a right hand corner is fine, how ever the left side (or inner) tyres running on the same ripple strip on the same corner is excessive cutting pure and simple.
 
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premhz
Sorry there champ but i have to disagree with you on that one. I feel it`s not legal and it`s a shame that you can cut corners that much and be allowed to continue on a valid lap. If the situation was in real life i`m sure the stewards would be have little restraint in throwing the black flag out to you for excessive corner cutting.

Sure the two tyres on let`s say the right hand side of your car on the ripple strips of a right hand corner is fine, how ever the left side (or inner) tyres is excessive cutting pure and simple.
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Two different points.

You're arguing it *should not* be legal.

OSRG and myself are saying it *is* legal as far as valid laptimes are concerned, which is a fact not an opinion, and we haven't voiced an opinion about whether it should or should not be legal.

FWIW my opinion is that the game permits that corner to be cut a little too far, so I agree with you on that score.
 
Sure you are correct raceur in what your saying and i agree with it. It is a shame that PD allow so much to be legally cut from that turn. It provides a bad example of what everyone will see as being the correct line/way etc.

Interesting to see what the fallout will be when GT5 goes to online racing,can you imagine how cranky you would be if you`ve taken the correct line in the lead on the last lap and someone else bulldoze`s you out the way on the inside on that turn because thats how they learnt to take that corner "legally" in the tt demo.
It teaches people cutting is ok so long as you can get away with it.

As for Hollands lap(for example) i haven`t seen if it`s been accepted or not? Does anyone know of anyone in the top 20/30 who has been disqualified as yet?
 
GTP_Holland is one of the fastest drivers around. He only cut the corner to get an even better time for the world ranking. He would also have been #1 if he did not cut the corner. EOD! :D
 
Oh no doubt he is a excellant and fast driver... i`ve seen the videos. Just curious to see whether he or anyone else in the top 20/30 has gone through or not??
 
premhz
As for Hollands lap(for example) i haven`t seen if it`s been accepted or not? Does anyone know of anyone in the top 20/30 who has been disqualified as yet?
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No one has been disqualified...... if the lap is on the leaderboard, it's legal.... or "accepted" if you will. There's no pouring over the replays by staff of PD/Sony after the deadline to see whether a lap falls into a so called "grey area"........

Once more now: If the time is on the leaderboard, it's legal.

premhz
Just curious to see whether he or anyone else in the top 20/30 has gone through or not??
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By now (in Australia anyways)..... i would say everyone who is in the 20 should have been contacted by Sony....... my travel arrangements for example will be emailed to me by close of business Monday 1st Feb at the latest.
 
Is this thread about the number of people competing in a particular region or about the legality of a particular driver's lap ? I'm confused :scared:

About a month ago, I did a VERY slow lap in the Tuned version (can't remember the exact time) just to see how far down the board went here in the US. My lap was ranked at something just over 70,000th so me thinks there are many people racing here in the States :)
 
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Is this thread about the number of people competing in a particular region or about the legality of a particular driver's lap ? I'm confused :scared:
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Yes this WAS a totally different topic but some people seem VERY troubled by somebody's corner cutting.
I'm getting curious what corner this might be?
I suspect it is the last corner where there is concrete on the inside of the ripple....
Because I cut that one also. :O
When it is, I would say: cut it.
There are no stack of tyres on the inside like in corner one where there is also concrete on the inside of the ripple.
Because it is to set a lap time.
When it's a race there should be a stack of tyres on the inside to prevent the corner to be cut.
Also your car likes it better when you would not do that say 50 laps in a row.
Can somebody show me the corner being actually cut? video? :lol:
 
It`s turn 11. The first right hander after the right/left chicane it has a small section of ripple strip at the beginning and end of the corner with a large open section of concrete in between the two ripple strip sections. There is acutally a thread on it and the complaints against cutting it. It has some replay still shot`s showing what the issue is aswell.

If it had a stack of tyres on that corner like turn 1 then no one would be attempting to cut it.

As for orsg`s comment about sony reviewing replays,there was a discussion in the corner cuting thread about concern`s over investing huge amounts of time to be in the top 20/30 only to have sony/PD disqualifiy the top 200/300 times due to corner cutting issues after reviewing replay footage. Obviously they haven`t given which drivers were awarded advancement to the next round.

Sorry if it has drifted of topic in this thread.
 
premhz
It`s turn 11. The first right hander after the right/left chicane it has a small section of ripple strip at the beginning and end of the corner with a large open section of concrete in between the two ripple strip sections.
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Ahh you mean the tyres made from a titanium/steel/concrete alloy!

When I hit those tyres I'm annoyed but slightly bemused by their apparent solidness....lol
 
I did play the TT game but really really didnt like it. In my honest opinion it was massively bias to people who like the track and the the same goes for the cars. I for one cant stand either.
 
thefraggle
I did play the TT game but really really didnt like it. In my honest opinion it was massively bias to people who like the track and the the same goes for the cars. I for one cant stand either.
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in what way would this answer my question?
 
Sorry my bad it`s actually a continuous ripple strip at turn 11 not a two piece as i stated earlier.
 

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