What happened to online racing

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I have just started playing gt5 online again after a 6 months stop dew to the poor wireless signal in my new house, and I found myself clicking refresh 3 times before I found a room that was actully racing not drifting, drag race or messing about.

Does any one actually race online on gt5 any more?
 
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I think most of the serious racers are involved in leagues, which are mainly held in private lounges. Also take into account your timing, most good clean race rooms open up in the evenings for whatever time zone. After you find a room that host's the type of racing your looking for and add some participants to your friends list, you should have no trouble ever finding a good race. Myself, I'm online almost every evening racing PP limited 'Street Car Only' races, I've got about ten people in my friend list who do the same and there's almost always a couple of them racing whenever I'm looking for a room.
 
MC_PEA
I have just started playing gt5 online again after a 6 months stop dew to the poor wireless signal in my new house, and I found myself clicking refresh 3 times before I found a room that was actully racing not drifting, drag race or messing about.

Does any one actually race online on gt5 any more?
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Were good clean racers come and join my series!
My link is below and theres tickets to be won.
 
I clear my cache, then go online, then leave after I finish, then my PS3 crashes.

I now am focusing on trades, licences gold and Seasonal grind. Until the next update hopefully fixes my issue.
 
I race online about 10 hours per week and 99% of the time dont meet idiots, join a lobby with clean racing in the title with a pp limit. You should be ok then
 
Its hard to get a good race in public lobbies now. Well, not just now its always been that way. To get a good race it usually has to be an organised event I've found. Which isn't hard to find on here.

Since the last update though online has been terrible for me, keeps freezing in my garage, car setup screen etc, and then when I leave it freezes up so I've not had a good online session in ages!
 
MC_PEA
I have just started playing gt5 online again after a 6 months stop dew to the poor wireless signal in my new house, and I found myself clicking refresh 3 times before I found a room that was actully racing not drifting, drag race or messing about.

Does any one actually race online on gt5 any more?
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Since when is drag racing "messing about"?
 
berty1979
He said drag racing OR messing about.
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In context he seemed to allude to the fact that certain events such as the one described required little to no skill to preform; a statement in which I take offense to...

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Thats more like it :)
Pedantic comments aside, he was insinuating that drag and drift are low skill races. IMO drag racing is low driving skill but good tuning skills to win. Drifting is very skillful.
 
I raced online tonight for a couple of hours and was mostly in a Nascar room that was civilized believe it or not. I have been trying to find a racing series that fits my busy workload and home life but so far have had no luck. I did race twice in a Le Mans series with a cool group of people but the race times don't work for me all the time. Anyways in order to find structured and clean racing on a regular basis, join a league.
 
smellyeti
I raced online tonight for a couple of hours and was mostly in a Nascar room that was civilized believe it or not. I have been trying to find a racing series that fits my busy workload and home life but so far have had no luck. I did race twice in a Le Mans series with a cool group of people but the race times don't work for me all the time. Anyways in order to find structured and clean racing on a regular basis, join a league.
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I have one @ 7.30pm BST if your interested?
 
The funny thing is I see so many people ask this. I've been willing to set up racing series for anyone to join that don't want to race a singular series. However I only see one person that posted here willing to join...and no one else seems to care. So yeah, there are plenty of people willing to set up clean fun racing I believe but you need to look around. As for hoping to find it at random online...you wont and the only actual racing is the demolition derbies known as Dirty Nascar and sometimes clean nascar.
 
If you want a good race then go to the Nurburgring Nordschleife with 500 - 550pp as a power restriction. Should keep you busy for a little while.
 
I never race in open lobbies anymore. Too often the rooms are nothing but idiots and the black screen of death. I have a ton of cool people to race with in lounges so that's where the majority of my time online is spent.
 
berty1979
Thats more like it :)
Pedantic comments aside, he was insinuating that drag and drift are low skill races. IMO drag racing is low driving skill but good tuning skills to win. Drifting is very skillful.
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Only someone expecting everyone they ever meet to be insulting them could possibly read the OP's statement as saying anything other than "people are doing things I don't want to do." He said no one is doing "actual racing" i.e. circuit racing, but instead are "drifting, drag racing or messing about" i.e. things he's not wanting to do. No statement regarding skill or the inherent value of those things is anywhere in that post.
 
Do you search for games with SRF disabled? That filters out a lot of nonsense. PP-limited races with sport tires are almost always guaranteed to be clean in my experience.

But it also changes like the weather... some days are good, some days are bad.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
So how do I get into these secure lobbies?
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Well like some mentioned join a racing league if you would like but I personally just start certain PP lobbies online and kick anyone who races dirty or unfair, or i'll look for a lobby that has "clean", "GTP", or "no BS" stated somewhere in the title.

The racing leagues have to many rules and regulations IMO, I think a bump here and there or some rubbing won't hurt anyone once in a while, and the races are set for specific times most of the time so if your in the mood to race and the race isn't at that time you'll have to wait until the next one comes along.
 
Well Crazed I've tried for the past 4 months to get into a series, but working during the week when most events are held is one issue I have. Those events are usually held in other parts of the world so where I live it ends up being when I work. I also have been put on a couple reserve list. I agree with you too many regs and really bumping is going to happen in races professionally and virtually.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Well Crazed I've tried for the past 4 months to get into a series, but working during the week when most events are held is one issue I have. Those events are usually held in other parts of the world so where I live it ends up being when I work. I also have been put on a couple reserve list. I agree with you too many regs and really bumping is going to happen in races professionally and virtually.
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Like I said earlier that's why I like just starting one on my own time when I feel like racing, I do agree with you on the bumping and rubbing part, it's going to happen whether you like it or not and if there is absolutely no contact then it's probably not a good race. ;)
 
Only someone expecting everyone they ever meet to be insulting them could possibly read the OP's statement as saying anything other than "people are doing things I don't want to do." He said no one is doing "actual racing" i.e. circuit racing, but instead are "drifting, drag racing or messing about" i.e. things he's not wanting to do. No statement regarding skill or the inherent value of those things is anywhere in that post.
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Yes but are we not agreeing to leave pedantic comments aside :)
I suppose it could be construed that he was insinuating that these races were low skill even though he did not say it directly (as you correctly pionted out)
 
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