So satisfying! At first annoying but.....

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Well that's dumb. All around dumb.

While you can point the finger at the other racer for pushing to the right, your choice to push them as far to the left as possible is also very bad, especially considering once they've failed to push you far enough right, you seem intent to push them off track to the left.

There's a point in this exchange (when you cross the middle of the track) where it goes from trying to defend yourself to becoming retaliation. You're not solving the problem of people forcing other drivers off the track, you're adding to it.

Edit - let's expand on this as a few people have given the ol' poo emoji response, so let's look at this from both angles.

Car 1 (the lead car) could have intended to edge Car 2 (chase car) to the right a little. It's known that the radar and hit-boxes for the cars aren't exact, so contact could have been completely unintentional as Car 1 could have thought Car 2 was further back than they were.

At the point of contact, Car 1 may assume that Car 2 is now trying to pit-maneuver them, Car 2 may assume Car 1 is trying to ram Car 2 off of the track. The result is both drivers intentionally making contact to retaliate.

The end result is Car 1 spinning off and Car 2 thinking they've "won" the battle. Car 1 is going to be frustrated and quite likely think that the next time someone makes contact with them (regardless of whether it was intentional or accidental), they'll make sure they push them off track. Car 2 is going to think that whenever someone moves over to block them or make contact, again intentional or not, they'll teach them the same lesson they did Car 1 (this is shown as OP thought their "victory" was worth uploading and sharing).

Neither racer has learned to drive cleanly. They're both going to be wary of other drivers and react aggressively to contact from others. That's not solving the problem of dirty drivers. It's adding to it.
 
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I see no problem here, the troll driver repeatedly tried to ram him into the wall, the OP counter steered to prevent that from happening. He did not push the troll driver off track, in fact the other driver still trying to ram him caused his own car to oversteer and go into the wall.
 
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That first bit of contact seemed incidental (depending on what view you use, it's impossible to see that rear quarter-panel of your own car and it's a blind spot), but that caused his car to start to lose a bit of control which is why he hit you the second time... which still wasn't even that hard. Pinching another car is a very common move when going side-by-side on teh straight. You then made it 100x worse by purposley pushing him to the outside and PIT maneuvering him.

Cool story, bro.
 
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And I'll just ask... anyone who drives with all these assistants doesn't have a clean racing style themselves and is rather afflicted with many problems... moreover, you can only see a very small section of the race here... WE don't know what everything is in advance already happened.. whether YOU were already unfair.. or whether the other driver was already negatively influenced by the behavior of the other players.

What I can say though... you wouldn't have survived the situation without an assistant, but if you're the better driver, you could have defeated him later.

I don't want to sugarcoat anything.. I'm also irritable/frustrated quite easily and get involved in messy actions, but I want to work on it because at the end of the day it's just reducing my points through poorer race results.
 
You do not need to "stand up for yourself", or "get revenge" or anything else, it's just a game. If someone is being dirty try to beat them fairly, sometimes their dirty driving will cause you to take them out accidently, sometimes you'll beat them anyway and other times they'll be so dirty it will be impossible to get by, that's just how it goes. You gain very little by joining the idiots and just make it worse for everyone else on the track.


:gtplanet::cheers:
 
Ohh yes, especially in this race the available vehicles are so close together in terms of performance that the driver is much more important and at least in the driver class where I am driving, 99 out of 100 unclean drivers are not really fast and have to resort to nasty actions. So hit them with Racecraft or stay behind and stroke their ego...maybe. they become more lovable.


The bottom line is that duels always cost more points than they bring in....
And it's supposed to be better for karma just to give in and be smarter.
 
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Well...... I dunno. Watching it again without the posts in here influencing me, it rather looks like the offender got caught in his own petard. Still, intentionally taking a brat driver out is just as naughty. Not like I'd ever do that... :P
 
I'm with the OP (if there isn't more to it that we don't see on the lead up to the vid). The other driver was asking for it. Who's to say without the OP driving to the left he wouldn't have ended up in the wall. Don't want to be treated like a clown, don't drive like one.
 
So there is an online componate to this game? Wonder why I've never tried it?

It can actually be really fun, way better than racing with the AI, depending on who is hosting the lobby of course, as it's their job to keep the riff raff out.

And what do you do if a driver was rammed by another... he hits your vehicle as a result... but you didn't see who he was pushed before... right you take revenge on the one who hit your car... . SUPER really great...

Then, you acknowledge it was probably a mistake and continue with the race. I obviously wasn't talking about those circumstances though.
 

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