So what you're saying is that people who have paid good money to buy this game and don't spend 5+ hours a day playing it shouldn't be allowed to race online because it upsets the GT elite when they lose?
Incidently I usually put all aids off but it sure as hell wouldn't bother me if I got beat by someone who feels they need a helping hand to compete. After all GT is only a video game and they've hardly robbed me of a place on the podium spraying champagne and waving to my adoring fans!
Now don´t be silly. I couldn´t check out the online mode of gt5 yet, since I don´t have internet in my new apartment yet (which sucks hard actually). But I assume that you can set certain rules for a race that you create like in every other racing game/sim?
If that is the case then I assume that there are races that allow aids, and some that don´t.
you can race against all the others that use aids as well, and imo this is the majority of racers out there.
I personally do not want to race against drivers that use driving aids because it makes the fact of beating them or get beaten kind of useless. Compare it to doping if you will. I am proud of the fact that I can race car x on track y with pretty quick times consistently. I know that it would be easier with traction control, since I wouldn´t have to be as careful with the throttle. But I choose not to because I like the challenge of taming the car and learning to drive it.
Now if I race against people that did the same thing and they beat me, than I am perfectly fine with it and congratulate them. Maybe chatting with them after the race quickly about driving lines and braking points in order to find that extra 0.3 of a second. We share one mindset, we take simracing and motorsports in general seriously.
Now using driving aids is making the game easy enough for you to handle, this is a completely different mindset. You want to race with a murc, and because you think its to hard without the aids you just turn them on. Ok, I get that.
But I race these BECAUSE they are hard. I like to learn to drive them and to learn to anticipate its movements. And I personally want to measure myself against others that do the same.
And someone mentioned that Driving aids actually make you slower in GT5. Well for some special circumstances this may be true. But if you race with abs alone, you do have an advantadge. Include traction control and you do have a big advantadge. The point is not necessarily that your laptimes get faster, but that your mistakes do not translate to a slower lap.
You can´t oversteer a bit in that tricky corner in lap 5, because you got on the throttle a tiny bit too early, because the traction control prevents wheelspin.
If you drive without aids, you allways have to stay sharp. It´s a different ballgame. And I prefer racing against people who take their racing as serious as I do.
If you could manage 10 laps of that under on-line pressures you'd have no problems managing the Enzo on sports tyres.
