NFS-Shift Weekly Online Racing Thread

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Well tonight went OK... Kind of!
Our first effort at the Nurb went badly as everyone d/c :lol:
My Nurb race was going alright until I spun, got 8 seconds behind, and then got further behind whilst trying to close the gap due to scrappy driving.
The Glendale race was alright, I got taken out by Femki but no hard feelings mate 👍
The Brands Hatch race went alright for me as I got a podium, thanks to Femki for binning it into the wall on the last lap :lol:
I have got photos of teh results on my phone and will post them up tomorrow morning if noone beats me to it.
Although, for the Nurb race, I managed to take a photo when it was at the cars name and best lap by accident :ouch: So remember your results from there, I was last for definite.
Overall, another tremendously fun night and the chat room worked well! Thanks guys

yea great race the chat room really did work well once i got my PC keyboard.
 
It is never on purpose with these guys, in shift it is hard to detect if you have touched someone especially during two abreast in the corners, and with the wheel users you cant see left or right :nervous:

1 thing i am sure of ,
nobody here punts on purpose
peripheral vision on this game is not good
personally i check rear view mirror often, but sooner or later you are in someones blind spot, or they are in your blind spot .
so at least here we can all take comfort in the fact that any collisions or contact are accidental.

Really enjoyed todays series, my apologies to anyone i made contact with today.
 
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Congratulations to THE HOG, NC_2_VA, and NITROVIOUS! 👍 Nice driving guys!

Our races went fairly smooth, but I had some slowdowns on the second and very bad slowdowns on the third race. EA really needs to figure out how to optimize this game for online racing.
Oh, and I'd like to send out a way to go for the new guys. You guys did really well, (of course femki isn't really a rookie, more like coming back out of retirement!):lol:
 
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Ah thats great Manny 👍
I was worrying if I was the only one taking photos people wouldnt know who came where in the first race :lol:
 
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Congratulations to THE HOG, NC_2_VA, and NITROVIOUS! 👍 Nice driving guys!

Our races went fairly smooth, but I had some slowdowns on the second and very bad slowdowns on the third race. EA really needs to figure out how to optimize this game for online racing.
Oh, and I'd like to send out a way to go for the new guys. You guys did really well, (of course femki isn't really a rookie, more like coming back out of retirement!):lol:


yea i got 2 podiums instead of booted :lol: love the 1st 2 races cannot wait for next week

I also made a video of the glendale race on my new camcorder to test it out i will post it if people like ?.
 
Good races all, I want to officially apologize to hog for the paint trading on bhgp, we traded places a few times, I had a blast finishing in last place. We had two different lines that came together, I thought of it as a racing incident and not done in malice. I did not stop but now I know the race league etiquette and it won't happen again. I thought the race chat lobby worked out great. However I do think we need some rules for what qualifies as a restart. Maybe a time window from when the race started, a minimum number of people to drop, or a lap limit. Just an idea. And in reguards to my first win tonight, I just want to thank my team, without them I couldn't have done it :). Good races all can't wait til next week.
 
yea i got 2 podiums instead of booted :lol: love the 1st 2 races cannot wait for next week

I also made a video of the glendale race on my new camcorder to test it out i will post it if people like ?.

That sounds great mate! I would like to see the first lap or so. If I ever get to play these races on the tv in the living room Im up for trying to record it to dvd :P
 
Good racing guys!Very fun!

I would like to propose a rule on reseting your car.(Do not USE!!)
Twice I rearended some one that goes off track then magically resets and I end off the the track losing valuable time.I never use it and if we can't use any aids then there should be no reseting your car.
Thank you.
 
I had a lot of fun tonight. I'm sorry if I bumped into anyone or hit them off the track. I enjoyed the intense racing and battling for positions. I'm looking forward to next week.
 
Good races all, I want to officially apologize to hog for the paint trading on bhgp, we traded places a few times, I had a blast finishing in last place. We had two different lines that came together, I thought of it as a racing incident and not done in malice. I did not stop but now I know the race league etiquette and it won't happen again. I thought the race chat lobby worked out great. However I do think we need some rules for what qualifies as a restart. Maybe a time window from when the race started, a minimum number of people to drop, or a lap limit. Just an idea. And in reguards to my first win tonight, I just want to thank my team, without them I couldn't have done it :). Good races all can't wait til next week.


ok mate sorry i forgot you are a newbie to this


That sounds great mate! I would like to see the first lap or so. If I ever get to play these races on the tv in the living room Im up for trying to record it to dvd :P

haha ok mate i will post it up tomorrow after i load it to YouTube, you can see you on the video, i come about 3 cm from your rear bumper :lol:
and there is a nifty spin out by manny that i thought was my fault but i see now it was not :lol::lol:
 
Good racing guys!Very fun!

I would like to propose a rule on reseting your car.(Do not USE!!)
Twice I rearended some one that goes off track then magically resets and I end off the the track losing valuable time.I never use it and if we can't use any aids then there should be no reseting your car.
Thank you.

The way I work with re-setting the car is this:

If I screw-up and run myself off the track, I try to drive back on the track.

If I get bumped off because of contact. I reset the car.

The whole point is to have good close racing, so I see no point in doing donuts in the grass, while the pack receeds into the distance. Particularly if you are off as a result of racing contact.
 
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haha ok mate i will post it up tomorrow after i load it to YouTube, you can see you on the video, i come about 3 cm from your rear bumper :lol:
and there is a nifty spin out by manny that i thought was my fault but i see now it was not :lol::lol:


Yes, I'm fully capable of doing any number of nifty spin-outs without any help whatsoever. Thank you. :lol:
 
WTF is up with some people, I was rammed of the track about 6 times! Twice by Kemp when I cleanly overtook him, if thats the way its going to be count me out from now on!

Thanks to the ones who raced cleanly!

Same as me, I will wait until I can get pass someone, not just ram them off. I can get a better race from the Public rooms. I think some are not using Pro mode either. :odd:
That's it for me, thank you all for the races, catch you another time.
 
Same as me, I will wait until I can get pass someone, not just ram them off. I can get a better race from the Public rooms. I think some are not using Pro mode either. :odd:
That's it for me, thank you all for the races, catch you another time.

MrB I know how you race, fast and always clean. If there are people who aren't racing that way trust me they won't be invited back.

Our group had some banging around, but it seems more incidental than what you're describing. You are exactly right. This is what we are trying to get away from.
 
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1. race Nordschleife, i start from the last position, OHHH how ironic is that. The guy who's done so many laps at green hell receives from fate such a fair position. some how i felt like invisible voice said on my shoulder.... Do you want to win this 5 laps race DarkoS ?? Then fight for it, fight to the very end. And just for a 3 seconds before Karussel turn i was second in the race, and a few second after in Nurburg section of the track i finally was FIRST. Some how fate decides to play at my nerves and just before Antonbridge i was DISCONECTED !!!
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For this reason there is no picture of results from Nordschleife. maybe some one else did take pictures. Now i see that's having two guys with camera is much safer way to results show up after each race.
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But anyway this was the not entire lap done by me that i enjoyed every moment ! Because there was no problems with frames and cars jumping along the track, the race was perfectly clean until some unavoidable crash before Aremberg Bridge. Everyone race close to each other, and some one lost control and went sideway, some one else crashed into him and i did hit the brakes but i was to close and hit him, sorry for that. This could be a beautiful race because earlier that day i did 3 laps of practice with HOG and we did great Times there. 7:27:xxx. Congratulations for him, it seems like practice paid off. 👍


There was nothing much to do but waiting, so i went to chat room and meet with others struck by fate this night.

2. race Glendale West After get invited again, second race was clearly easy to win, but i have no pictures from results. I have no idea who's done the fastest lap. I did set my camera to auto and when i did take picture FLASH appear and disrupt photo, by the time i fix setting in my camera the results where gone. Only picture i did manage to take was from Total Time. Again there was no problems with video frames.

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3. race Brands Hatch GP Oh my god !!! What i have to pulled out from my skills to catch StevO1965 was indescribable. That was classic ! Lambo versus GT-R V Spec. There was parts of the track that i couldn't get close because his car was so brutally fast, but he did slow down before tight corners more then my self so slowly i did push and push and push. The gap between StevO and my self keep get smaller and smaller, but you have to understand that it was a little more than 2 second between him and me. We fight for 8th laps for those 2 seconds !!!

And finally on 8th lap i think i get so close that he make mistake and went too wide sliding too much, i did overtake him but that was not the end, suddenly i realized that Stevo wont give up so easy, and he didn't. Was still there behind my back and only moments that i could escape just a little, was in the corners because in straights his Lambo Teleported immediately behind mine GT-R. To the very last piece of road we fight for desperate Victory, not knowing who's done the fastest lap. Just see how close that was !!! :drool: But that race for me has a little problems with video frames. Well personal car would probably cause those problems and we cant avoid them.

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In the end i could only say that this was another GREAT event, well organized and without bigger problems. We finally split into two group's, we manage to race without video frames problems except little one in Personal car Race. What a great night. I'm not even mad because disconnection at Nordschleife, I'm just saying to my self, even the best like Schumacher had mechanical problems so there is nothing to cry about. But sadly race results suffer because that mechanical problem :guilty:

Hmm, I didn't know darkos ever slept? I thought he just drove The Ring in a semi-trance all night. :dopey:

No, i am sleeping just like regular person, but my hands and feet move in my sleep practicing the Ring.
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Going out this week to get a beer hat, one that holds a beer on each side, complete with straws.
Was getting so thirsty on the ring, managed to get a quick sip on the long straightaway, but i can do better as far as beer is concerned. :)
 
Does anyone else from Group B know the finishing results of the first two races?



Going out this week to get a beer hat, one that holds a beer on each side, complete with straws.
Was getting so thirsty on the ring, managed to get a quick sip on the long straightaway, but i can do better as far as beer is concerned.

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I cant rember properly but i think my positions were

Race 1 - 6th
Race 2 - 4th?
Race 3 - 2nd

We will have to have two cameras at the next event?
 
All I remember is that I got 1. in ring with total time 38.x min, best lap 7.29. 3. place glendale.

I came 2nd on the ring and kemp came in behind me with 3rd.

Glendale I was 7th with SteveO1965 in front of me with 6th.
 
video of the Glendale race the quality is not so go but YouTube say it may get better once the video is fully processed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6vJ73pdlzE

it was a great race i thought, if only i could have got the lat 3 corners rite i may have got closer to nc.

That was great HOG. Really well driven by you and NC. 👍 Yes, you didn't spin me. I think we touched, but then bbcnascar2 spun in front of me and I couldn't avoid him. No worries though.

And it really is true what they say about the camera adding 1000 lbs. The rear of my GT-R looked huge. I'm so embarrased... :lol:
 
That was great HOG. Really well driven by you and NC. 👍 Yes, you didn't spin me. I think we touched, but then bbcnascar2 spun in front of me and I couldn't avoid him. No worries though.

And it really is true what they say about the camera adding 1000 lbs. The rear of my GT-R looked huge. I'm so embarrased... :lol:

:lol::lol: yea i came up the inside to take you but should have really thought on that i was in your blind spot.
 
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