PD, please post complete, raw data for Time Trials on your website.

[Hastatus]

I’ve read much discontent about the cars we are able to use in time trials and praise when it is restricted to a single model. Personally I would like to see my results compared to other Canadians or those people driving GTRs. A major part of the problem arises from having only 256 places recorded on the leader board. I would like to propose the following:

PD should find a way to display on their website the raw data they’ve collected from the time trials.

What I mean is that obviously their server records all the statistics regardless if you make it in the top 256 or not because the game always records what position you got and your specs for that placing, and so it should be possible for the final results to be put into a spreadsheet or something similar on their website following the close of a time trial. People could then examine the results on their own looking at what they want: car, country, manual/automatic transmission, controller/wheel, etc. The data is there, so they should just make it available, even if it’s just raw data in a simple spreadsheet, so that they need not worry about any programming with the GT5 game itself. I’m sure it would be easy for someone on their end to just cut and paste the data online and there are enough people playing GT5 that someone on GTP or some other site would organize and find ways of presenting it; or is it more complicated than this?

 

[Obsidian-2]

I’ve read much discontent about the cars we are able to use in time trials and praise when it is restricted to a single model. Personally I would like to see my results compared to other Canadians or those people driving GTRs. A major part of the problem arises from having only 256 places recorded on the leader board. I would like to propose the following:

PD should find a way to display on their website the raw data they’ve collected from the time trials.

What I mean is that obviously their server records all the statistics regardless if you make it in the top 256 or not because the game always records what position you got and your specs for that placing, and so it should be possible for the final results to be put into a spreadsheet or something similar on their website following the close of a time trial. People could then examine the results on their own looking at what they want: car, country, manual/automatic transmission, controller/wheel, etc. The data is there, so they should just make it available, even if it’s just raw data in a simple spreadsheet, so that they need not worry about any programming with the GT5 game itself. I’m sure it would be easy for someone on their end to just cut and paste the data online and there are enough people playing GT5 that someone on GTP or some other site would organize and find ways of presenting it; or is it more complicated than this?

More data would be nice, I agree. I would especially like to be able to sort by car used.

 

[Bwootzabaa]

I would like to be able to sort by time trial times which are slower than mine.;l

 

[Lustika]

Good idea It would be fun to see how many people who does the tt and dt. I am thinking if I should open a new account and drive the tt in slooooow speed and take the last position just to see how many there is outthere playing this

 

[starcarper]

I did the kart trial at Kart Space. I took just over 3 minutes

I also did the other one available at that time. I think it was the one with Kaz's 24 hour car. I took just over 6 mins at the Nurburg GP track.

With one day remaining I was just over 300,000th at Kart and over 250,000th at the GP track.

 

[Obsidian-2]

Good idea It would be fun to see how many people who does the tt and dt. I am thinking if I should open a new account and drive the tt in slooooow speed and take the last position just to see how many there is outthere playing this

I have done this a couple of times from a sub account. At Spa I drove a Beetle to 170,478th position, so that made my real 315th place seem much better in perspective.

At Chamonix I also did a super slow lap on purpose and got 114,221st spot.

Those are probably not the dead last spots but should be pretty close, I don't think I could have gone slower without stopping on track.

The results on the GT5 website also used to go up to top 1000, not sure why or when they trimmed them to top 250 only.