Pinball and Bumper Cars!

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OK, so I bought an Evo VI RS, and cranked it up to be a little beast. I was expecting some competition.
:rolleyes:
I won the Beginner 4WD cup. I was totally sandbagging. I even took the turbo upgrades back off the car to level the field a bit. I was hotdogging, following the field to watch their lines, touch-n-go practice passing the same cars over and over again, etc. Trying to drive very consistently for smoothness. I crossed the finish line in reverse for one race.
:D
So then I went to the Beginners Evo Meeting. I didn't bother to qualify; just started at the back. Again I was expecting competition that just wasn't there.
:sleep:
What I didn't expect was getting pecked to death by ducks !
:eek:
The Evo drivers are total lunatics! Every time I was near them, they dogpiled on me in every corner. I got spun more than once by somebody packing my fudge halfway into a corner, and then bombarded by all the dimwits charging up behind. Half the time the leader would run hugely wide on the exits, carom off the armaflex, and zoom back into the pack, scattering the other cars like pigeons.
:lol:
It was total pandemonium. It was a lot of fun, but it was pandemonium. If the SCCA was sanctioning this series, they'd all get their comp licenses suspended. They need precision driving lessons from the Yaris/Vitz pilots...
 
LOL... I've had that happen on more than one occasion. ;) The Elises in the Lotus Elise Cup at Rome seem very notorious about doing that... :lol:
 
I think its some sort of Road Rage thing they put in the game cause the more aggresive I drivr the more i get hit. Also when you cut some one off they feel the need to go full speed into on the 90 degree turn.
 
Well, that's what I thought, too. But I purposely try to drive very cleanly and avoid bunting people. I even started an Evo race in 6th and stayed behind everybody just to watch them. They were on each other like a pack of wild dogs.
:blackeye:
On Trial Mountain, they would fly off the outside of most of the turns, banging back and forth off the rock walls and each other. It's like they were drunk!
:drink: :drunk:
 
I'm running back through the game now and just started the MR Challenge in Amateur. Those cars hammered each other for the entire race at Tokyo! Usually, the ZZ-S doesn't pit from what I remember, but after going fender-to-fender for four laps with a Motorsport Elise, even *it* had to drop in for a new set of tires. I coasted my MR2 to a 2" victory over the NSX in the end (managing to keep my mediums throughout 5 laps), though it came after me and tried to put me into the wall throughout the better part of the 5th lap.

There is no denying that the AI uses an emotion engine... and that that emotion is HATE! :)
 
i was watching some land speed record thing today on the tv and they had this man showing off his jet engine car against a racing viper....

the presenters and the jet engine driver were like look how fast it was compared to the viper...

but considering one was a jet engine car the viper wasnt that far behind !!

i mean the jet engine car was really fast but **** the viper was quick....
 
The thing with jet powered cars is that to a point, the rate of acceleration increases with speed. Therefore, a Viper should be quicker than a jet car up to about 60 - 100mph, but then the jet car will roar past it.
 
yea thats how it was but what im saying was it only just roared past it because it was running out of track so it didnt completely blow the viper....
 
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