I know what A-spec Points Do!

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It seems to me that someone, somewhere must have figured this out.

Yet oddly, I've never seen it stated before, but we tested it on the Gamefaq's GT4 board and have determined, that two drivers, in the same exact car, on the same exact track, with varied A-spec Point counts had different outfits on the Drivers.

I can go find the pictures and post them in a second, unless this is common knowledge and I just didn't notice that when I searched for A-spec topics.

From the GT4 Board:

From: pnx11 | Posted: 5/19/2005 7:39:19 PM | Message Detail
Game Version: PAL (UK)
Car: Mazda MX-5 1600 NR-A (J) '04 (Classic Red)
A-spec points: 21086
Picture: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/pnx11/21086_A-Spec.jpg

From: pnx11 | Posted: 5/19/2005 7:59:22 PM | Message Detail
And using my second memory card:
Same car, same situation (Photo Drive at Midfield)
A-spec points: 664
Picture: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/pnx11/664_A-Spec.jpg
 
True...but...the original drivers outfit is kind of ugly...so it's nice that there is a little hidden reward...

I think maybe they meant it for online, to give visible difference of your A-spec points.

Then they took online out, but left the outfit coding in maybe?
 
well, good to know that they do infact do something

but ya, something a little more rewarding would ahve been nice.....
then again, the whole way they are calculated is a bit haphazard and doesnt necessarily reflect race difficulty....so whatever :indiff:
 
hitman146
the outfits are random a spec points have no use at all
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Uh.

Did you see those pictures I showed?

People also posted pictures of them in a Caterham, a Miata, and an S2000, all with the top down, with High A-spec points from one memory card, and low from another.

Every single time I drive my Miata NR-A with my Nurburgring game (like 160 A-spec points) he has the same exact outfit.

The only cars that change this are classic cars, like a 1965 Alfa Romeo has it's own base outfit that may or may not change with more points.
 
Hey hang about.... Could the efficiency of your pit crew perhaps also improve with a-spec points? Has anyone noticed pit times improving as you progress through the game? I can't say I've measured it myself, but I haven't noticed an improvement personally, but it's worth a look I suppose.
 
Interesting and senseful theory. Indeed worth a look. Myself am at 49.9% for now, and haven't done any endurance or pit races yet.
 
This is kinda cool. I never noticed that you could actually see the drivers face inside the helmet. Nice little detail there. I always thought the outfit changed when your completion percentage goes up. oh well.
 
vtec_guy
This is kinda cool. I never noticed that you could actually see the drivers face inside the helmet. Nice little detail there. I always thought the outfit changed when your completion percentage goes up. oh well.
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Yeah, I would have to worry about that, but the guy I had test it out had one very early save game, and I know in my deleted game I had like 38% completed but only a couple thousand A-spec points and my driver looked about the same as he does now with 160 or so A-spec points.
 
maybe the a-spec point were for the canned but planned online mode for gt4, just like the checksums on the time trials tracks. you dont go to the trouble of including things like that without a reason. maybe the reason will become apparent in the near future, or maybe when gt5 is eventually released.
 
That's what I figured, that they had it as a visual demonstration of your A-spec point count for online races.

You see a field of modified cars and then some guy in a otherwise stock AC 427 but his guy has a suit you've never seen before, you know you should watch him.
 
Onikaze
From the GameFaqs GT4 Board:
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From: pnx11 | Posted: 5/19/2005 7:39:19 PM | Message Detail
Game Version: PAL (UK)
Car: Mazda MX-5 1600 NR-A (J) '04 (Classic Red)
A-spec points: 21086
21086_A-Spec.jpg

From: pnx11 | Posted: 5/19/2005 7:59:22 PM | Message Detail
And using my second memory card:
Same car, same situation (Photo Drive at Midfield)
A-spec points: 664
664_A-Spec.jpg
 
Well, in the spirit of experimentation, all of the variables most be elimated except for the one you control thereby affirming that the one variable and that variable only is the reason behind your theory/hypothesis.

Experiment: Run a previously conquered/completed track with a new-ish save with low completion and earn a ton of A-spec points. Maybe if you saved this save to multiple memory cards would be a good idea since you'll have the same stats etc. but you can modify them if you accidentally save or are forced to save when you win a car. When you run this race, though, make sure nothing changes, not even your win ratio. Now check the uniform.

I'd do it, but I'm engrossed in work, school, and the WRS. That and a metaphorical hell known as the end of the school year/moving into a new school. *shaking fist*
 
Well, when I get the Pedals to my DFP, I will do the Driving Missions to get a big boost in A-Spec points without a lot of Completion and see what happens.

Then I'll go on an A-spec points binge for a little while, checking with convertibles after each race to see if any changes happen.
 
Maybe the racing suits are just random. I thought the A-Spec points were just to show how you compare to your B-Spec driver
 
Yeah seriously. No offense Nscale4, but that was probably the dumbest thing I've read today, but its not your fault. School makes me read "intelligent" junk :(
 
I'm not sure if it's just the car, as I didn't get a chance to check, but when I hopped into my first Suzuki GSX-R/4 my driver had a Red helmet...I know I broke 200 A-spec points for the first time with this game...so that may be it...but it seems awfully drastic....so I suspect the car might affect it in that case.

That Caterham drivers outfit looks similar to the one I had in my corrupted file...i think I had like 2350 A-Spec points in it...

Someone, anyone who knows Route 66, ask him for a pic of his A-spec driver with the 100,000 point total.
 
Very interesting find! Thanks for that! 👍 Now to go check what kind of outfit my driver has. (closing in on 20k a-spec points) :)

Cheers!
 

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