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First of all big thanks to @jasguer for creating this site, it is great and I am using it more and more, thanks a lot for spending the time to create this wonderful piece of information!

May I however also place a few wishes:
  • The usage of the menus is in my opinion a bit confusing and not very straightforward. With that I mean especially the "Races" menu. I mean it is fine that you can directly click on it and get to the races, however not so smart users like myself will think this is only a drop down menu, and then keep looking and looking for the actual daily race info and not find it and then after a few minutes think they have gone crazy, because they are sure they have seen it before, and then start crying and running around in circles :lol:
    So it would be great that despite having the Races "menu" clickable to get to the races (which is fine and should stay) to also have a separate "Races" submenu menu item, so that the idiots like myself will also find it ;)

  • This has been asked before, but I would also like to see the info about the car, not just the class - if it s possible of course. EDIT: I read up about this, so seems it isn't possible :boggled:

  • As you are listing the average race info it would be nice to also see the individual race info (I would guess you already have that info and just need to display it, or do you only get the average stats from the GT like it is listed on the site).

  • For some pages (especially the "My Track Records" page) it would be nice to have alternate sorting options (especially descending by date would be nice, so I could see my latest times at the top).
In any case thanks again for creating this fantastic site!
 
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One more question about the track records: it says here in the thread this will be by weather and car class.
Is this also only from qualifying times from Sport mode (daily only or only from FIA races?) or could this be from any mode?
If it is only from Sport mode qualifying times: if a race recurs, let's say last there was a Gr. 4 daily in Suzuka a few days ago and I set some time, and then in a couple of days there is another Gr. 4 in Suzuka and I set a different time: will it only list the best time overall, or the best times for each daily race?
 
First of all big thanks to @jasguer for creating this site, it is great and I am using it more and more, thanks a lot for spending the time to create this wonderful piece of information!

May I however also place a few wishes:
  • The usage of the menus is in my opinion a bit confusing and not very straightforward. With that I mean especially the "Races" menu. I mean it is fine that you can directly click on it and get to the races, however not so smart users like myself will think this is only a drop down menu, and then keep looking and looking for the actual daily race info and not find it and then after a few minutes think they have gone crazy, because they are sure they have seen it before, and then start crying and running around in circles :lol:
    So it would be great that despite having the Races "menu" clickable to get to the races (which is fine and should stay) to also have a separate "Races" submenu menu item, so that the idiots like myself will also find it ;)

  • This has been asked before, but I would also like to see the info about the car, not just the class - if it s possible of course. EDIT: I read up about this, so seems it isn't possible :boggled:

  • As you are listing the average race info it would be nice to also see the individual race info (I would guess you already have that info and just need to display it, or do you only get the average stats from the GT like it is listed on the site).

  • For some pages (especially the "My Track Records" page) it would be nice to have alternate sorting options (especially descending by date would be nice, so I could see my latest times at the top).
In any case thanks again for creating this fantastic site!

  • I understand what you mean about the menus, it frustrates me as well, I've been busy with other things but hopefully I'll be able to make that work better soon.
  • Yep, unfortunately, the car info isn't in the data set. I am planning on adding the optional functionality for users to manually add which vehicle was used.
  • I'm only listing the averages for now but individual race information will be coming soon!
  • Good idea about the sorting option, I'll add that to my to-do list.
Thank you very much for the feedback!
 
  • I understand what you mean about the menus, it frustrates me as well, I've been busy with other things but hopefully I'll be able to make that work better soon.
  • Yep, unfortunately, the car info isn't in the data set. I am planning on adding the optional functionality for users to manually add which vehicle was used.
  • I'm only listing the averages for now but individual race information will be coming soon!
  • Good idea about the sorting option, I'll add that to my to-do list.
Thank you very much for the feedback!

It literally gets better and better! How do you access the per race info? It is all stored in the GT servers?
 
Yep, unfortunately, the car info isn't in the data set. I am planning on adding the optional functionality for users to manually add which vehicle was used.

I am not convinced this is a good idea - I guess it is quite a bit of effort to integrate this into the user interface and at the same time despite it being a really great site probably only small a fraction of the GT players will know/use it, so I have my doubts that many will enter the information :(
Would I be able to only set the car for myself, or also for other players (which I could see at least from the in game top 10 list)?

I don't know how exactly you are retrieving the data, but getting in touch with PD to add this info might be the better option, even if it might be a very long shot.
 
Presumably it would just be a text box which is pretty basic?

Yeah but you need the back end also, validate the data, store it in the DB, prevent people from doing crazy stuff with potential security issues...
I work for a company that has as main product a web application (totally different one tho :)) and I know from the dev guys that it is always complicated to even add the tiniest additional user input (yeah I know they are also blowing it out of proportion, but there is some truth at the core).
 
Yeah but you need the back end also, validate the data, store it in the DB, prevent people from doing crazy stuff with potential security issues...
I work for a company that has as main product a web application (totally different one tho :)) and I know from the dev guys that it is always complicated to even add the tiniest additional user input (yeah I know they are also blowing it out of proportion, but there is some truth at the core).

OK, so you mean like reverse validation.. I'm thinking just a plain old manual text box that I could just put "911" or "Cayman" for example. Different levels of standards eh :lol:
 
It literally gets better and better! How do you access the per race info? It is all stored in the GT servers?

Roughly the last 20 races are available and it updates about once a day, but the tricky part is the data is only referenced by I'd numbers so finding out which track and which drivers were in the race requires historical information. Good thing is that I have quite a lot of data.

I am not convinced this is a good idea - I guess it is quite a bit of effort to integrate this into the user interface and at the same time despite it being a really great site probably only small a fraction of the GT players will know/use it, so I have my doubts that many will enter the information :(
Would I be able to only set the car for myself, or also for other players (which I could see at least from the in game top 10 list)?

I don't know how exactly you are retrieving the data, but getting in touch with PD to add this info might be the better option, even if it might be a very long shot.

You'd only be able to update your own. The intent would be that you could see how well you do with one car versus another, which I would see as being really valuable for determining which manufacturer to select depending on the races that are scheduled for the next manufacturer series.

I wish there was some way I could get in touch with someone at PD to discuss my access of this information but I haven't been able to find contact information othevthan general support. I know at least 2 people from PD have viewed the site but I haven't heard anything from them.
 
OK, so you mean like reverse validation.. I'm thinking just a plain old manual text box that I could just put "911" or "Cayman" for example. Different levels of standards eh :lol:

I was thinking more along the lines of a drop down list based on the car category for the race to eliminate the possibility of someone accidentally entering a Gr1 car for a race that was actually Gr4. :D
 
Roughly the last 20 races are available and it updates about once a day, but the tricky part is the data is only referenced by I'd numbers so finding out which track and which drivers were in the race requires historical information. Good thing is that I have quite a lot of data.

OK, good work!

So what happens when we get to race 21 onwards? We lose the data or are you storing it?
 
OK, good work!

So what happens when we get to race 21 onwards? We lose the data or are you storing it?

I'm storing the data but one thing I haven't been able to determine is if the data set contains 20 races and updates at 1pm on Monday, then I do 25 races between 1pm on Monday and 1pm on Tuesday, will there be 5 races missing or does the data set rotate every 20 races. I'll have to wait and find out what happens. I'll be sure to let everyone know though.
 
One more thing: is there a way to show my stats to others, I mean like my link to the kudosprime stats?
You have a link in your signature, but his leads to *my* own stats :)

I think it would be a good way to promote the site a but more (indirectly) if we were able to link to our own stats on your site in the signature (if you want that of course and if the server can handle more load).
 
I'm storing the data but one thing I haven't been able to determine is if the data set contains 20 races and updates at 1pm on Monday, then I do 25 races between 1pm on Monday and 1pm on Tuesday, will there be 5 races missing or does the data set rotate every 20 races. I'll have to wait and find out what happens. I'll be sure to let everyone know though.
Sweet 👍
 
Sorry it does not end with my ideas today, here is another one:
what would be cool is if on the "My Track Records" page you could "drill down" to a list of drivers/times by clicking on the number like highlighted here in the first row (maybe show 100 per page and give option to change the page +/- 100):
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Sorry it does not end with my ideas today, here is another one:
what would be cool is if on the "My Track Records" page you could "drill down" to a list of drivers/times by clicking on the number like highlighted here in the first row:
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Not many players in Austria then :p
 
Another little thing for you here @jasguer....

Yesterday's Skyline race at BH is showing as a 'car from garage' but it wasn't

Yeah the N100 and N200 from my screenshot above (Maggiore Center and Miyabi) were also from the daily one make race A with the "specially provided" car (what is the point of these anyway, what kind of peasants can't afford these ~20.000 CR cars, the only effect it has is that you can't put on liveries and that you constantly have to reset and reset and reset the TC and BB settings - one of the biggest annoyances in the game IMHO).
 
Another little thing for you here @jasguer....

Yesterday's Skyline race at BH is showing as a 'car from garage' but it wasn't

Yeah the N100 and N200 from my screenshot above (Maggiore Center and Miyabi) were also from the daily one make race A with the "specially provided" car (what is the point of these anyway, what kind of peasants can't afford these ~20.000 CR cars, the only effect it has is that you can't put on liveries and that you constantly have to reset and reset and reset the TC and BB settings - one of the biggest annoyances in the game IMHO).

Hmm, looks like I misunderstood what the value means. I'll need to figure out what it is actually indicating.
 
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