Personally I'm much more excited by seeing a car roll through a turn at the maximum possible speed it can before it starts to slide... knowing those settings were tweaked and tuned over time to best suit the driver and the car. That takes a certain sensitivity to pull off and that's how people can do such amazing lap times. Now if you decide to drift you have already thrown any chance at that limit pushing away because you have already broken it simply so your car will slide. It's along the lines of the Dukes of Hazzard or something, screeching tires on dirt roads, jumps, big clouds of smoke and dust. It's a spectacle, the motorsport equivalent of tastelessly causing a scene.
Also, I have only very rarely found settings on the internet to help me. I need to try out different things myself and experiment until I like it. And that's what all you drifters should do, too, rather than being lazy and fishing for easy answers. At the end of the day, you still can't tune a car.
. Better setups help too.
. Tirewear is very unrealistic especially for endurance sportscars. No gas mileage is taken into account which should be. I.E. a car with a turbo kit may have more power, but will burn gas quicker requiring more stops. Secondly there is no telemetry or data acquisition. The tire wear indicators can help in tuning and balancing a chassis but what about temps and wear side to side for camber adjustment. The anylizer is very nice but what about a G-force anylizer for chassis performance. A corner weighting scale for bias in the chassis would be nice as would independent adjustment at each wheel for further fine tuning and oval racing. My last complaint is how ****ty the AI drivers are. They brake way early and in weird spots, corner slowly, and easily punt you from the track. Some series they seem to have 1500 hp and blow by me on the straights like I'm standing still. I think the opponents should be more in number, smarter and based on a percentage of the cars capability. For instance, in beginner they should pace at 80% of the cars capability, in amateur they should go 90%, and expert like 97%. This would make the game much harder and thus more fun. Each series should have a very clearcut allowance for weight and modifications too, in order to prevent just blasting away the competition with power or vice versa. Alas, for players like me the common player wouldn't know how to use these and they'll never be included. The only thing I could hope for is expansion discs with material like this or something of that sort. They have good ones on the computer but I don't feel like upgrading my computer and buying a wheel and pedals just to play a computer game.
