So we're going to take a race modified car and run it on sports tires?????
I have to agree, its a "Race" modified car, give it the race tires imo.
The other cars non-race are fine with me.
You guys are focusing way too much on the "Comfort/Sports/Racing" labels that PD uses. Those are nothing more than convenient ways for PD to identify the nine different tire grades available in the game. The key word there is "game". We can never forget that we are playing a
video game and that the amount of grip and the rate of wear we experience for each tire grade is merely a result of calculations made by the GT5 physics engine. As players change the tire grades used, the variables in the calculation made by the physics engine also change. Here's a simplified example of how the variables for grip and tire life might correlate in the game:
- Tire Grade A - Grip=9 / Life=1
- Tire Grade B - Grip=8 / Life=2
- Tire Grade C - Grip=7 / Life=3
- Tire Grade D - Grip=6 / Life=4
- Tire Grade E - Grip=5 / Life=5
- Tire Grade F - Grip=4 / Life=6
- Tire Grade G - Grip=3 / Life=7
- Tire Grade H - Grip=2 / Life=8
- Tire Grade I. - Grip=1 / Life=9
Obviously, PD can't refer to these correlations as "Tire Grade A", 'Tire Grade B", and "Tire Grade C", so they refer to them in terms that we're more familiar with like "Racing Soft", "Racing Medium" and "Racing Hard" (and so on down the line).
I'm not saying the RM cars wouldn't be ok on the sports tires. If we're going after realism, who in their right mind would spend the money to upgrade a car to a race car and then slap some street tires on it to go to the track?
I never said we were going after realism, I said we were going after "
more realistic grip levels". The big difference between you and I is that you put a lot of stock in the accuracy of the labels that PD puts on the tire grades, while I share the opinion of the guys (
Vol, for example) who think that tires grades simply represent grip multipliers that are applied in a physics engine.
I will run whatever tires we are given as everybody has to run the same. I will say that the further it gets from realistic, the less interested I will be.
Okay, fair enough. If you have some time, would you mind running some laps in this week's Nissan Silvia SPEC-R Aero RM with both tire grades? First run them on Racing Hards, then run them on Sports Softs. Then try to forget about the labels of "Racing" and "Sports" that PD assigned to the tire grades, and ask yourself which tire grade felt more realistic to you.
To be clear, I'm not asking you to do this while claiming to know the answer myself. I don't have any real life racing experience while you do. I'm asking you to do this purely from the stand point of wanting to know what your opinion is. But again, the key part of my request is that you forget about the "Racing" and "Sports" labels and just keep an open mind about that.