Started messing around in PC2 again last week or so. I finally managed to finish the WSCR series in Career, as I had played through a number of championships some months ago when I last played and then started on this one and burnt out. Got that out of the way and then didn't feel particularly enthused on doing more career stuff.. so I started trying out Multiplayer.
Very conflicted with this game. Is GT3/GTE the only thing anyone ever hosts? There's plenty of rooms, not many car type varieties, and the GT3 lobbies are the only ones with decent number of people in them. It's kinda annoying. I'm more interested in doing Vintage stuff I guess, and I want longer races with weather and day/night etc. Half the lobbies I join are ruined by some idiot just smashing into everyone at T1 on purpose.
Anyway, playing this in VR is great and the behavior of the cars and my inputs feels so much better than GT Sport.. except GT Sport has some actual matchmaking and daily races that I can just plop into if I want. It seems like some kind of online league is the only way I'd get something better in PC2 but I kinda just want to have.. less structured fun? By that I mean, lets have like a whole 6 race Vintage championship on 1 day, rather than having one race every couple weeks or whatever. I want multi-class racing. I want to just click a button in the game and I'm in some on-going group. Or I go into a room and idiots are kicked and banned immediately. UGGGHH what do I do..
Also, because I just started Multiplayer, my license rating thing is rock bottom and doing races seems to hardly effect it even though I'm running with much higher rated people at the front of the grid usually.
Edit: And they should update/add more of the Motorsports Preset events. Rather than it being "Endurance!" it should be a bunch of different decades of GT car types that are based in reality.
GT3/GTE is basically the only thing anyone does online with any kind of consistency. If you can get online in peak hours on the weekends, you might find some TC, GT4, LMP, Formula Renault, and maybe some Group A, VGTA. Those aren’t super common though. During the middle of the week though, if you’re talking about just jumping on at random hours for a couple quick races (as opposed to camping the open lobby all day long), then GT3 or GTE is pretty much all you’ll find.
Most people who host lobbies go with super basic settings, rarely messing around with things like time change. You’ll find the odd lobby host who knows how to setup some cool weather and time scenarios, but because it takes a lot of messing about to get a hang of those settings, most people just skip them. Furthermore, races that change from wet to dry, or dry to wet, are extremely rare online, mostly because the community gave up on them after online pit stops turned out to be a complete gong show.
On weekends, it is possible to find longer duration races, sometimes lasting up to an hour. Often times, these lobbies have long practice and quali sessions before the race. The room will fill up to 16 people, most of whom fail to notice the hour long race. The race will start, there will be the usual massive crash at T1, and then 1/2 to 3/4 of the lobby will quit. In over 2000 online races in PC1 and PC2, I’ve seen maybe 5 open lobby races over 20 minutes in length finish with 10 or more people remaining in the race.
For unstructured fun, I’d say you’d have to find a league or series that does those type of events. Pretty much the only lobby you’ll find in the open lobby is quick race shuffle rooms (either track shuffle, or track and car shuffle). Sometimes, hosts won’t even change track....Monza or Leguna Seca all day er’day.
To get your license up, you have to focus on two things. The letter, that’s you’re safety rating. To increase that, don’t get track limit penalties, don’t make contact (even if someone hits you, you get a negative rating for the collision), and focus on getting clean overtakes. The easiest way to cheese this stat is to do races with manditory pit stops, start at the back, pit at the end of lap one, then pass everyone as they take their manditory stop. These count as “clean overtakes”.
The number is your “skill rating”. It will drop by massive amounts (I’ve seen as high as 50) if you quit a race (even to spectate), get DC’d from a race, or the best one, if you get kicked (I think they removed the kick option, so now it’s impossible to remove trolls from lobbies). To increase this number, you must finish ahead of drivers who have a higher rating. Beating drivers with a higher rating causes it to go up. Beating drivers with an equal or worse rating causes it to go up one or two points, or stay even. Getting beat by drivers with a higher rating will cause it to go down one or two points, or stay even. Getting beat by drivers with a lower rating will cause it to drop. The larger the grid, the more people who finish behind you, the more points you’ll get. The points you get are based on the number of people in the lobby when the race ends....meaning if you start 16th, pass 14 people, and then they all quit....you could still potentially lose points if the guy in first has a lower rating than you.
Then I of course noticed the Snail Racing in your sig.
I never been a fan of oval track racing but in pc 2 i find myself doing endless laps around Indy, Daytona, Texas with my gtr of course 
