Car Of The Month Club! EVENTS COMPLETE

[Marcus Garvey]

I can't comment on any of the shuffling as I have no experience there, but the network seems to not be very reliable lately. Disconnected twice in the last hour and a ton of lag during my last attempt. I don't usually experience these issues.

 

[VBR]

The "shuffle ratio" has to do with the car you get based on previous race finishing order. So if the number is 0 or 1 and you finish last in a turd, you have just as much chance of getting a turd in the next race. If the number is higher and you finish last, you are theoretically supposed to end up with a better car in the next race.

That's right. The higher the Shuffle Ratio, the bigger the difference in performance between cars, the lower the ratio the smaller the difference. Most serious rooms leave it on 0, because even with this setting there's still a 2 second lap time differential between some cars.

I'm glad you enjoyed the Shuffling Brandon, but I warn you it can be quite ADDICTIVE!


Best thing to to in a shuffle race is set the ratio to 0 & leave it, then start with lower PP's like 340, 360 & 380. That will ensure the room fills up with cleaner drivers, then go onto the higher values if you want to. My fav shuffle PP's are 380, 400 & 420. Once the room's full, throw in a spec race from the recommended list.

 

[LancerEvo7]

They need to ditch the old muscle cars though, Lancer got an old Charger at Monza and was a 110mph rolling chicane.

It was funny when me and the other Challenger ended up side by side down to Ascari and we became a true rolling roadblock and then everyone ended up in the sandtrap. Rest of it sucked though.

The room itself was very good apart from a few of the people in it.

 

[BrandonW77]

It was pretty fun but there was something that puzzled me, something I've encountered in the other room......absolutely no time to warm up and learn the car. The host was giving about 60 seconds to get your car and get on track before he started the race which meant there was no time to learn braking points in this random car. This caused me to rear-end a couple of people, even though I was approaching the turn cautiously I had no clue where I needed to brake and sometimes I wasn't cautious enough. That's frustrating, leads to bad racing and hot tempers. I had never driven any of the cars I received from the shuffle lottery, I needed at least a couple laps in them to figure them out and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I'm not proposing a 30 minute warm up or anything but at least enough for 2 or 3 solid laps. I've encountered this in almost every room I've been in this week, doesn't make sense to me.

At the very least it seems to be popular as the room was constantly full, so maybe (as VBR suggested) it would be good to start out with a few shuffle races to get a crowd going and then switch to some spec racing. Once people are in and see that the racing is good they'll probably stick around for whatever. Eventually (I hope) the room will get a reputation for good racing and attracting crowds won't be a problem. 👍

 

[Naptown25rs]

One of the rooms I was in yesterday alternated between shuffle and spec, it seems to work well.

Host would do a track vote for shuffle race and run a 3-5 lap event. The winner would pick a car from the recommended garage and we'd do a 3-5 lap spec event on the same track. The host would call a vote for new track and the winner of the spec would choose PP for next shuffle race.

Rinse and repeat.

 

[VBR]

It was pretty fun but there was something that puzzled me, something I've encountered in the other room......absolutely no time to warm up and learn the car. The host was giving about 60 seconds to get your car and get on track before he started the race which meant there was no time to learn braking points in this random car.

Most regular Shufflers can work out a cars handling characteristics in just a few corners, & even I am still getting cars I've never been in before, despite years of Shuffling. The trick to getting the braking points right is to use the braking indicator, you know; when the suggested gear starts flashing red. Doing this will avoid most rear ending incidents.

As for the yank-tanks that top out at about 114mph, if you get given them on Monaco you'll probably have an advantage & an epic win to boot!

Hope to race you guys in a Shuffle room one afternoon, which will be night for me. 👍

 

[carracerptp]

Most regular Shufflers can work out a cars handling characteristics in just a few corners, & even I am still getting cars I've never been in before, despite years of Shuffling. The trick to getting the braking points right is to use the braking indicator, you know; when the suggested gear starts flashing red. Doing this will avoid most rear ending incidents.

As for the yank-tanks that top out at about 114mph, if you get given them on Monaco you'll probably have an advantage & an epic win to boot!

Hope to race you guys in a Shuffle room one afternoon, which will be night for me. 👍

The trick to the "110" MPH cars is to not bounce off the limiter, and never brake at the same point twice, and do everything you can to kill your opponents exit speed, even if it means slowing down a bit to prevent them getting a run on you. Using all that they are almost all good for 5th out of a 14 car room.

 

[LancerEvo7]

The trick to the "110" MPH cars is to not bounce off the limiter, and never brake at the same point twice, and do everything you can to kill your opponents exit speed, even if it means slowing down a bit to prevent them getting a run on you. Using all that they are almost all good for 5th out of a 14 car room.

This was Monza though, everyone was gone by turn 1. Otherwise you're absolutely right.

 

[Marcus Garvey]

You're still screwed at Monza or Daytona or Indy with one of the old barges.

Shuffle racing is OK. That is my opinion on the matter.

 

[carracerptp]

This was Monza though, everyone was gone by turn 1. Otherwise you're absolutely right.

It works at mozna (edit, with chicane, without never mind me) if you are REALLY adventurous under braking. And treat it as a time trial. I think I have done 6th in 12 car room. I was very happy.

 

[BrandonW77]

The trick to getting the braking points right is to use the braking indicator, you know; when the suggested gear starts flashing red. Doing this will avoid most rear ending incidents.

I turned that thing off the very first day we got the option to turn it off, I found it to be more of a hindrance than a help and I've never looked back. Besides that, the new Fanatec blocks that part of the screen anyway so I wouldn't be able to see it even if it was flashing.

I still think it's smart to allow everybody to get 2 or 3 warm up laps before turning them loose in a race condition. I want to avoid first turn pile ups as much as possible and sending everybody into the first turn without any practice is a recipe for pile up. I don't see any harm in spending 5 or 6 minutes warming up before the race, I prefer quality of races over quantity of races. 👍

 

[LancerEvo7]

I prefer quality of races over quantity of races. 👍

You're the minority then. Most people want to race, especially in shuffle rooms where there's no reason to qualify since it's reverse grid.

 

[carracerptp]

I still think it's smart to allow everybody to get 2 or 3 warm up laps before turning them loose in a race condition.

Most of the seasoned hosts give 0-1 laps. Very clean races every time. There is about a handful of cars that actually need more than 1 lap to get used to. Mainly because they have abnormally bad brakes.

 

[BrandonW77]

You're the minority then. Most people want to race, especially in shuffle rooms where there's no reason to qualify since it's reverse grid.

Most of the seasoned hosts give 0-1 laps. Very clean races every time. There is about a handful of cars that actually need more than 1 lap to get used to. Mainly because they have abnormally bad brakes.

Wow, I suppose I really am a rubbish driver, half a lap is not enough for me to figure out how a car handles (or doesn't). I've only driven a small handful of the cars in this game and most of them have been race cars with some kind of aero, when I get plopped into a Tamora that's fast as snot, has mediocre handling and terrible brakes it's going to take me more than three turns to figure out how to keep from crashing into people. I got dropped into an old Dodge Super Bee at Laguna last night and ended up sitting out that race because I didn't feel at all comfortable in the car after 1 out-lap.

 

[LancerEvo7]

^You did get pretty unlucky B, you had a boat more often than not in that room.

 

[Naptown25rs]

Wow, I suppose I really am a rubbish driver.

You're not telling us anything we didn't already know...

 

[BrandonW77]

^You did get pretty unlucky B, you had a boat more often than not in that room.

That's kinda my point, it seems there will always be at least one or two drivers that receive a boat in the shuffle lottery and I'd rather let than have 2 warm up laps than have them plow into me in the first turn.

You're not telling us anything we didn't already know...

I'd like to officially invite you to my new league...........

 

[Naptown25rs]

Hope attendance is better than it has been as of late...

 

[BrandonW77]

Touché.

 

[OwensRacing]

Thursday Night Thunder at the Ring!!!


https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=283649

 

[BrandonW77]

Thursdays are poker night.

 

[dsgerbc]

My rig is partially re-assembled, good enough for PS3. Did some shuffle today w/o much luck. First there was a room with ABS set to 0 and like 2/3rds of the field spinning in the first corner due to this, then there was a "clean" room with people cutting chicanes like crazy.

 

[Marcus Garvey]

Thursday Night Thunder at the Ring!!!


https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=283649

Ah I completely forgot. Faded out hard near 7PM.

 

[BrandonW77]

My rig is partially re-assembled, good enough for PS3. Did some shuffle today w/o much luck. First there was a room with ABS set to 0 and like 2/3rds of the field spinning in the first corner due to this, then there was a "clean" room with people cutting chicanes like crazy.

I would never run a public room with ABS off for that very reason. Surprisingly, in the rooms I've been in this week there was little-to-no abuse of the track boundaries and on a whole the racing was rather clean. There's always bound to be some hooligans around but it almost seems that at this point the majority of riff-raff has moved onto to other games. That's a good thing. 👍


I may be online for some racing this evening but I'm not positive yet. I will be on tomorrow (mid-day US time, late evening UK time) and hope to meet up with some of our across-the-pond friends for some shuffle/spec racing.

 

[RDAardvark]

I may be online for some racing this evening but I'm not positive yet. I will be on tomorrow (mid-day US time, late evening UK time) and hope to meet up with some of our across-the-pond friends for some shuffle/spec racing.

Sounds good to me. Can I make excuses now? I am rather rusty as I haven't played much over the past few months. Still, it would be good to sit behind the wheel, even if it is just for the craic.

Now I wonder if Mikael will be about too?

 

[BrandonW77]

Sounds good to me. Can I make excuses now? I am rather rusty as I haven't played much over the past few months. Still, it would be good to sit behind the wheel, even if it is just for the craic.

Now I wonder if Mikael will be about too?

Hope so, I'd enjoy seeing you guys on track again! One good thing about shuffle racing: no preparation needed, just show up and drive!

 

[BrandonW77]

Did a couple hours of shuffle racing tonight, fun stuff. Rooms were always full and the driving was surprisingly clean........like, really surprising! I started to learn some of the cars you get at certain PP's, 320 was all the vintage Japanese cars we used to drive and that made me Ran into the muscle-cars-don't-have-enough-gear issue again. Are there certain PP bases that eliminate most of those so it doesn't happen?


I don't like the track voting, I did like the auto start timer at 6 minutes which was just enough time for a couple warm up laps (or a smoke or a wee) but prevented excessive dilly-dally. Seems like most rooms use false starts, I was only in one room that didn't use them. Is that the standard? I didn't mind them.

 

[BrandonW77]

Guess I'll have to ban-hammer myself for triple posting.


I plan on having a shuffle & spec room open by 2pm EDT today, hope to see some of you on track! 👍

EDIT: Shuffle & Spec room is open!

 

[BrandonW77]

And now for the very rare quadruple post.........


Anybody racing today? I plan on be on throughout the day.

 

[LancerEvo7]

I don't believe I have any races, I can stop in from time to time.