My 2 minute method to auto-grinding...

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FullSpe3d98
Can you do this without a keyboard?
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Only if you want to hit the X every 5 minutes to collect your money, XP, and start another race.

BTW, I turn off the rumble, put a dime between the directional controller and left stick then use a rubber band to put the right stick forward. Works like a charm.
 
I swore I would never do something like this, but as I just hit Lvl's 40/40 on my own (haven't done Nurburgring 24h yet) I thought I would try it to earn some cash to give all my F1 an LM cars an engine rebuild and chassis rebuild. Works great. Couple points for people though:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=161147&highlight=grinding
1. Check out one of the original threads. He describes in detail how to do it.

2. Make sure you have all the "assists" ON, which minimizes the car bouncing around.
3. If you are using a controller DON'T use rubberbands (or gumbands, as we say here). Take a post-it note (or any sheet of paper) fold it a couple times and wedge it into the space around the edge of the joysticks, then push them "up". ( FYI, you don't need to tape the "X" button--the right joystick is throttle as well). The advantage of this is that you can more easily do fine refinements of steering angle. Set up the race and watch -- if your car bumps square into the rear of a car on the straight, goes to the LEFT of the car, then back to the wall, you are set up properly. (This is at Indy, Like the Wind))
(edit) As you run along the wall on the straights, G-force should be at roughly .4g to the OPPOSITE side)
4. You are going for speed, not handling -- reduce all downforce, straighten out camber, etc.
5. You should be getting lap-speeds at a MINIMUM of 43 seconds, sub-42 seconds if car has recently had chassis/engine refresh.
6. Remember to give your car a break by stopping every once in a while to change oil or do engine rebuild.
7. Turn the volume off. There is no sound more sickening than hearing a $40 million car being scraped against a wall at 450 kmph.:ouch:
(edit) The best "lineup" I have found for the fasted race / least amount of bumping is the one where the orange 737 is to your front left, and the blue/green/white playstation 2 audi is to your front right. As you pass the first turn a Toyota 7 will be the only car in front of you, which will be passed at the end of the second turn.
 
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FullSpe3d98
Can you do this without a keyboard?
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Your other option for automatic race cycling would be a turbo controller. A keyboard is about $40 cheaper than a turbo controller.


axolotl
Been running this way since for about 16 hours now. Its working great.
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I've been running this way since Sunday morning (it's now Wednesday evening). I went out of town for the week for work and started it up when I left. My wife (my very kind and patient wife, I might add) has been intermittently saving the progress every 8 hours or so and spending down the cash on 20 million credit cars once per day, as well as an oil change in the morning and the evening.

As long as the power doesn't go out, I should be all set when I get home at the end of the week. :)
 
I set mine up to do it with just one rubber band. Not for any real reason, just because I wanted to see if it would work. I kept all the normal controls the way they are, but also assigned the left joystick's "up" position to the accelerator. So with a rubber band holding the left stick all the way up and a little to the right, it's both accelerating and turning to the right.

And yeah, turning off the force feedback keeps the controller from "walking" all over the place when you leave it unattended.
 
I'm trying to sticky tape the X button, but it pops up slightly and doesn't register on the ps3. Can someone help me out?
 
Bloodstriker -- Don't use sticky tape -- wedge a piece of thrice-folded paper into the joystick. (I found that) it's easier. The right joystick is for throttle, left is for steering.

I would post a pic, but bizzarely I can't find a thread telling me how to do it (post a picture). Any help here would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Not positive exactly how to post a pic here, but on most forums it goes like this:

- Host the picture somewhere online (ImageShack, PhotoBucket, etc.)
- Get the URL for the image from the hosting site (you usually get options like "Share image" or something similar)
- When you go to paste it in your post, use image tags (img),(/img) - except instead of parentheses (), use brackets [].
- That should be about all you need to make it work.


BTW, I don't think he's trying to stick the button down with tape to use it as the accelerator; I think he's trying to stick the "X" button down so it will keep hitting "enter" at the beginning and end of the races.
 
Thanks Kwicko for the tip on the pictures and good point regarding Bloodstriker's problem.

Bloodstricker -- I was never able to get the "X" button to work as an "enter" button. I'm not sure that you can do it that way. I'm using an old usb keyboard with a stack of pennies and a rubberband holding down the "enter" key. If you don't have one, you could probably pick one up for five bucks or so at an electronics shop, or maybe even Wal-Mart.

Good luck!
 
Is there any way to combat the annoyance of the car ending up burning up its tires while trying to push a wall into the centre of the track?

I've tried this out now and it works fine except that a lot of times when I go check on progress after a couple of hours, the X1 has been standing still making smoke for 45 minutes. Once it had happened right after I started, so 2.5 hours of burning rubber...

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Is it better to have a bit more right turn or something?
 
gambleboyen--

I found that the starting lineup matters a lot. Some lineups have more "bumping" in the beginning than in others -- more bumping is more opportunity to find yourself face-up against a wall. My advice would be to watch a few races to see how fast your car gets ahead of the pack. The best starting lineup I have seen is with the orange 787 in front of you to the left, and the blue/green playstation 2 audi to your front left. See my notes above for more details. But starting lineup does matter. Some have me crashed within the first 1/2 lap.

-K
 
gambleboyen
Is there any way to combat the annoyance of the car ending up burning up its tires while trying to push a wall into the centre of the track?

I've tried this out now and it works fine except that a lot of times when I go check on progress after a couple of hours, the X1 has been standing still making smoke for 45 minutes. Once it had happened right after I started, so 2.5 hours of burning rubber...

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Is it better to have a bit more right turn or something?
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If your car is spinning out after contact with other vehicles then you don't have your steering stick adjusted properly.

You should be showing about 1/4-1/3 of a G on the straights. You should hit 250-260 by the end of the straight. If you're not hitting either of these then you're steering too much into the wall.

On the start, you should make contact with the wall before you make contact with the car ahead of you in the starting grid. If you hit the car before the wall, you don't have enough steering into the wall. After a couple hits you're going to plow into one of the walls in a turn nearly head on and lose control.

Adjust the stick so you make contact with the wall first and still hit 250-260 in the straights. Some fields are easier than others, but in 6 days of doing this I have yet to come across a field that I can't beat with the controls adjusted correctly. Some races you're bumping through lap 3 while others you're in the lead halfway into lap 1. Either way, you cross the finish line first.

Make sure you change the oil once every 12 hours or so, otherwise you'll lose HP.
 
I set this up a few days ago with the FGT and it worked pretty well on the Dream Car Indy race (as long as that Jag wasn't in the line up). Usually after 8-10 hours I checked in and the FGT would be down to getting 6th or so place. I'd do an oil change, relaunch the race until I didn't get the Jag, and then let it run for another 8 hours or so.

Well this morning I finally had a chance to sit down and bronze the last Vettel race, so now I have the X2010. It only took me about a half hour to bronze the first two Vettel challenges earlier in the week, and about 45 minutes to get the last one this morning. Wow — this thing is way less maintenance for auto-grinding!

I was already at level 35, so I'm just doing this for the credits to buy cars. My first 20MM car was the Ferrari 330 P4 '67! I have a whole car list I'm working on now. :)

Thanks for the tip! 👍
 
you need it if you want to come 1st. I'm just using my Veyron, always finish 11th lol. I make about 12m/24 hours of grinding.

Note: i just ended up using a USB keyboard like everyone said to do.
 
Lowering your gear box ratio for a higher topspeed is also an option
and the settings on page one.

1. downforce all to 50
2. zero out the tow settings, both front and rear
3. rear camber = 0
4. front camber = alot
5. tighten up all aspects of the suspension.

Laptime around 41 seconds and topspeed straight 272mpH or 435 Km/h
Than your race line is ok.
 
twan
Bought one, the enter key does not register on this device to restart the race while it does work in other menus. BUST!
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Really I was going to buy one say the truth

Edit Can some one with this keyboard reply to this and say me if it works thnks
 
So where do you receive most credits when auto-grinding? Like the Wind or the first race from the Dream Car Championship?
 
Like the Wind = 70,000cr for 5 laps
Dream Car Championship = 86,000 for 10 laps

So I'd say LTW

On the subject of setting up your controller, I have my throttle/brake on the right thumbstick for authentic rubberbanding and a small lump of blue-tac on the left side of the left thumbstick which makes it easy to adjust the steering effect required. I've seen laps as low as 41.5 using this and it also means you can still easily use the controller for the occasional UCD check (if I'm at home, I go back in every half hour or so).

Also, try to avoid races where the Ecsudo is participating, for me, this seems to be the car that causes the most crashes.

PS I'm only comfortable doing this now I'm level 40 - I don't mind grinding for credits, but the xp gain didn't seem right.
 
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when psn is down,ive basically nuth to do at hm..rampage my storerm..n came up with my version of grinding-a cloth peg to clamp the 'x' n a hammer to hold dw the enter on cheapo usb keybd..the tail of the hammer is as such restin against the inner side wall of my small tv cabinet..every 10-20 laps oil change x1 to ensure it killing off the others.. while im watching tv on my sofa.. hehe
 
I'm thinking of setting up a real remote grind machine, consisting of CCTV IP cameras, looking down at my TV and one at the controller, and settup a cnc robotic machine with some programmable logistics , with the gamepad secured to a table, a java applet from work so I can actually do the races myself.

nah, I might resort to a USB keyboard.
 

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