Hello.
I recently came across, what I would consider, a very serious flaw with SCC. On the opening lap of time trials/qualifying, the timing begins a few metres beyond the start line, yet the same lap time finishes AT the real start/finish line. This effectively means that up to around 0.6 seconds is lost on subsequent laps of the session. To achieve the best time, one must quit the session, re-enter, and even then just get a single shot at it.
I raised this on the Eutechnyx forum. The admin said that they were aware of it, but don't want to do a fix because they don't want to wipe the lap times database (as it would contain lap times which may be impossible to beat).
THIS IS A HUGE MISTAKE. Part of the whole point of the game is lap times, fastest laps, competing against thousands around the world for fastest laps in X cars multiplied by Y circuits. It's a huge part of the gameplay. If it's left as is, then the whole fastest laps thing is just pointless. Having to quit/re-enter Time Trials is just totally impractical. GT5 Prologue have wiped their lap times on multiple occasions, and furthermore the release of SCC is just in it's infancy - lap times will quickly fill up again. And furthermore again, many of the tables don't even have a single time set yet.
Can everyone please have a look out for what i'm talking about. Then if you see how serious it is, please go here - http://forums.eutechnyx.com/index.php/topic,1246.0.html - and help me to kick up an enormous fuss. If nobody complains about this, no fix will be put through for it, in which case the game has shot itself through the foot, for good.
I recently came across, what I would consider, a very serious flaw with SCC. On the opening lap of time trials/qualifying, the timing begins a few metres beyond the start line, yet the same lap time finishes AT the real start/finish line. This effectively means that up to around 0.6 seconds is lost on subsequent laps of the session. To achieve the best time, one must quit the session, re-enter, and even then just get a single shot at it.
I raised this on the Eutechnyx forum. The admin said that they were aware of it, but don't want to do a fix because they don't want to wipe the lap times database (as it would contain lap times which may be impossible to beat).
THIS IS A HUGE MISTAKE. Part of the whole point of the game is lap times, fastest laps, competing against thousands around the world for fastest laps in X cars multiplied by Y circuits. It's a huge part of the gameplay. If it's left as is, then the whole fastest laps thing is just pointless. Having to quit/re-enter Time Trials is just totally impractical. GT5 Prologue have wiped their lap times on multiple occasions, and furthermore the release of SCC is just in it's infancy - lap times will quickly fill up again. And furthermore again, many of the tables don't even have a single time set yet.
Can everyone please have a look out for what i'm talking about. Then if you see how serious it is, please go here - http://forums.eutechnyx.com/index.php/topic,1246.0.html - and help me to kick up an enormous fuss. If nobody complains about this, no fix will be put through for it, in which case the game has shot itself through the foot, for good.
but if the difference in the end for the fastest drivers is made by using lap 1 times only then it would be a kind of glitching, imo. It would be a real shame if a game with such a class driving model came down to that, and you can guarantee that it will if nothing is done. When everything gets pushed to the absolute limit of what`s possible someone will do lap 1 runs only, and then everyone will have to. And there will always be the doubt which you point to. 
