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Nobody needs to "practice reading what people want to say". That's inference. You need to say what you want to say.Off course I learned how to practise, I am a 47 year old musician playing guitar, piano, drums know how to sing, play a lot of gigs all over the world, teach children etc etc. Maybe you need to practise reading what people want to say. If you want to learn music for example I will ALWAYS use the method of succes and thus I never start with the notes or the musical Alphabet. And I will never start by handing you out 'Prokofiev Pianoconcerto'. Why? It is important as a (beginning) musician not to become frustrated. That does not mean some people want to learn that piece. So I always give you the option. I can call myself a good musician but I still can't play such a piece like it is written and I probably never will unless I play 16 hours piano a day. BUT there are a lot of simplified versions of that piece so even a 10 year old can learn how to play it and enjoy the melody of that piece. So back to the game it would thus be nice that somebody like me can at least FINISH every offline race in GT7 after countless times of practising. I already practised a hell of a lot like 2 hours a day every day and STILL can't even complete the race. So all I wanted to say, nobody needs to do anything, it is only a suggestion but it would be nice to give the option and nothing else just the option to lower the bar a little bit. So no need to lecture me about life or allude that I got everything without practising etc etc. You don't know me so don't judge as I didn't judge you before you did. It makes things less enjoyable and that is not the purpose of this community. It is a fact that 99,999 procent of all games have the option to finish everything at a rookie level. That is why nobody screams from the rooftop that he has finished Call of duty on a rookie level but few do on the hardest veteran level etc.
You have the options for easy/med/hard in offline races, you have bronze/silver/gold in the CEs and licenses, so what I guess you're saying is that you want PD to put in a completely different physics model for you? Or that you want sub-bronze goals? What you're saying is still very hard to grasp as your suggestions make no sense at all in the scope of how games and normal difficulty scales work. You can finish at a rookie level all you want, that's literally what easy/bronze is... nothing is stopping you aside from a skill issue that you seem to think isn't an issue and seemingly can't be improved. This is the game, this is how it is.
It is WILD to me that you, as a music teacher, are somehow suggesting that you've "practiced enough". When does anyone stop learning or stop refining their ability? You know who practices a lot? F1 drivers.... and they're some of the fastest drivers in the world. Yet they still know where their shortcomings are and know that they need more time practicing their skill to get better. Max Verstappen literally gets on SIM in his trailer right after many races... to PRACTICE more. You know another cohort that values life-long practice? MUSICIANS. When your music students are having trouble moving from a simplistic to more difficult rendition of a piece do you tell them "this is ridiculous, the artist should have written a simpler piece"?! No! They keep at it and work on it until they develop the skills to complete the piece to their satisfaction.
What you're arguing for is what the game already gives you... low skill options. "Simplified pieces" are the same as easy/bronze, and they literally are the same exact concept as playing a simplified music piece. The current low bars are 100% suitable for "beginners"; them not working for you is 100% indicative of your lack of skill and unwillingness to change bad habits, nothing else.
You want the bar to be lowered, but it's already VERY LOW. To most of us a race on easy mode is literally so boringly low-skill and slow it's not even competition. You might need to take a step back and re-assess how you're "practicing", because I've seen MANY others who just fundamentally can-NOT drive, and don't have the slightest idea what leads to being quick in the first place. Somehow they think what they're doing is the way it should be done despite them not achieving the results they feel they "deserve". Usually because they refuse to allow others to critique them, refuse to examine others that are clearly faster, or are unredeemably obstinate and ignorant.
If you can't beat a race on easy mode, you need to fundamentally re-assess what you're doing, watch others and how they do it, and practice in a way that actually leads to results. Because easy here is eaaasy. Like, fall asleep at the wheel and still win by 30 seconds easy.
Age is also not a factor, I'm 42 and faster than ever. And I'm not special, many of the quickest out there are in their 40s and 50s.
If you go into the GT7 pages on FB the overwhelming majority of people "screaming from the rooftops" are low level players showing off low level accomplishments, while the fastest ones rarely post anything. This phenomenon is true for many disciplines, because when you're actually getting good at something you realize how much more there is to learn, how much more you can improve, and how non-interesting your low-level accomplishments truly are. To not realize this is concurrent with not improving, and staying at low-skilled forever.
Here's what you need to do if you're actually interested in improving: Do one of the races you're struggling with, when you're finished hit the "select' button, choose the record clip function, record a clip longer than the race, put it on youtube or share it in game, and let us see it. What's the worst that can happen? You get better?
I'll leave you with the famous Rita Mae Brown quote (NOT Einstein!): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results". Change things up... the game is already more than easy enough for any skill level.