Qualifying...Why Not?

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There is optional qualifying in online races, but it could be improved a lot.
Optional qualifying for A-spec and B-spec would be a nice addition.
 
I should end this thread on one point: Qualify.
Do it Polyphony Digital. And also.. end the stupid "always end a crash 180 degrees out". A mild scrape of the wall does not justify being tossed immediately backwards into traffic and ALWAYS facing backwards.

EDIT: "Do it Polyphony Digital"... means "add a Qualifying session".

The rest is self explanatory.
 
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Polyphony "does that mean multi-phony?" You would think that from a psychological standpoint that the ability to recover from some unreal crash scenario would be a benefit to a game. Yet your current model denys any creative way to recover.
 
Qualifying would allow:

1. Testing the track/car/setup
2. Ability to run with exactly the same car/setup/pp as the opposition

for a simulator, it's barmy not to have it, unless you're always starting at the back, as with seasonals.
 
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Its specially annoying in a championship. If you were leading a championship in GT3 or 4 you started pole.. in GT5 its just in the middle every 🤬 time..
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That's not a realistic scenario though. Vettel doesn't automatically start in pole because he's won (or throughout the season was winning) the F1 Championship. You still have to qualify for each round...

They should bring qualifying back. It was a good chance to set your car up for each track and test as opposed to making a couple of changes, racing and then making more changes for the next track. :-)
 
In GT4 i tried to take a car that was as close to AI pace as possible. The qualifying made this a possibility and i could have a close race even though the AI wasn't very fast.

In GT5 the races are just car chases. If your car is capable of reaching the first place car it's also fast enough to make the pass a trivial matter. There really is no real a-spec races in this sense... :(
Edit: One exception i could come up being endurance racers where the race is long enough that with even a tiny advantage you can compete with the forerunners.

Yes for qualifying! :)
 
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I don't think that PD should add qualifying because they'd get absolutely no thanks for it. Half the people would find the qualifying too hard and be upset because they can't get pole and everyone else would complain that it's too easy and there's no challenge.
So then there'd need to be levels of difficulty in qualifying and different regulations etc.
It'd just be a wasted effort. As it is you can choose a different car to make races easier or harder and you can do time trials to prove your one lap skills.
 
I reckon qualifying handicapped by pp difference. Don't know how- but obviously if you qualified in a Minolta for a Sunday cup (I know you wouldn't but for the example) pole could be handicapped by time proportionate to the PP difference.

PD could do the maths involved, that's why they're on the big bucks. That way you'd still have to be quick relative to the cars you're versing. But what's the point?

Maybe qualifying could apply only to cars within a pp limit within a set range of AI competing.

Also rolling starts- when I raced in real life- when the pole car went, so did all of us. You didn't wait to cross start/finish line watching front runners sailing off in the distance. Pole guy set the speed and determined when you all went.

Anyway, I agree, there should be a qualifying. Not very realistic not having it.
 
Give us the option to set the A1 competitiveness from 1 to 12 then give the option of qualifying. (For ALL A-spec events)
 

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