Currently on your first time through GT3?

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That's what I'm thinking about doing! I just finished the Roadster endurance with the Miata LS I won, and now I have 100K. Too bad instead of getting the Formula 1, I got another Miata MX-5. :( I'm going to buy a Viper, and beat the Trial Mountain and Stupor Speedway Endurances though. Then I'll move on the the Stars & Stripes, N/A and GT World Championship! Everything is going great now!
 
Lamrock
That's what I'm thinking about doing! I just finished the Roadster endurance with the Miata LS I won, and now I have 100K. Too bad instead of getting the Formula 1, I got another Miata MX-5. :( I'm going to buy a Viper, and beat the Trial Mountain and Stupor Speedway Endurances though. Then I'll move on the the Stars & Stripes, N/A and GT World Championship! Everything is going great now!
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Cool, i haven't done the Miata race yet.
 
Great early way to get started. Not even 10% and you could have 100K and an F1! I ended up buying a Corvette and tuning it up. I did the Star & Stripes and N/A Cup, and now I'm doing the GT World Championship. I'm on the 7th race. The MR-S Apex has been surprisingly tough competition!

WOOT! 50 posts! Junior Member!!!
 
Lamrock
Great early way to get started. Not even 10% and you could have 100K and an F1! I ended up buying a Corvette and tuning it up. I did the Star & Stripes and N/A Cup, and now I'm doing the GT World Championship. I'm on the 7th race. The MR-S Apex has been surprisingly tough competition!

WOOT! 50 posts! Junior Member!!!
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Which Corvette? I originally did the GTWC in a Viper GTS (not the Oreca). Surprisingly, it keeps up well with the MR-S, but at tracks like Trail Mountain, their downforce will wreck you unless you add alot of power to compete down the straights.
 
I used a Corvette Z06, with weight reduction stage 1, oil change, and NA/Tune Up Stage 1.

First two races were pretty easy. Trial Mountain, I won cheaply. On the last corner on the last lap, the MR-S was ahead by about 2 seconds, so I cut through the grass and into the lead and won by .3 of a second. I also won Laguna Seca cheaply (I know, it's terrible) by using the MR-S as my brakes on the corkscrew...

Still haven't tackled SSR11, since I don't have PS2 access.
 
Lamrock
I also won Laguna Seca cheaply (I know, it's terrible) by using the MR-S as my brakes on the corkscrew...
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Did the race marshalls slap a fine on yo ass? :dopey:

I hope to do the Laguna Seca enduro again this weekend.
 
Parnelli Bone
Did anyone else find the Dream Car Championship in the Amateur league to be a major disappointment? Here i am in my Camaro RC qualifying 4th yet i won every single race. Not because of the 600 horses, but because the 4 leading cars take a stupid pit stop. And then i was left with the FTO LM (too slow). The ZZII did, however, give me a major challenge at Deep Forest. I won that race by .083 seconds. Wish i had saved the replay! :( All the other races were just mildly challenging, even with minimal downforce. I found the Test Track race to be kinda cool with Stage 1 tuning (754 hp)...the ZZ, RX-7, FTO, and i swapped places several times.......
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Me too Parnelli, I readied the Denso SARD Supra for a stronger fight than the Amateur GT World Championship. (I love that car, I chose it because I could drive it hard and still keep tires on it. Interesting thing I noticed after I'd been running it; it's a 4 cylinder turbo, not a six like the supras sent to the US. I won the Amateur GT World Championship without adding any more power or speed goodies than it had when I won it.) I bought stage 1 & 2 turbos and several tire compounds before I started, just in case... I did the first couple races qualifying 2nd and jumping to a narrow lead. Good Racing! Very dissapointing when everybody pitted. I was running hard compound tires and not driving so hard as to wear them out over the distance of a race. I qualified 5th for the test track, so I put on the big stage 2 turbo. and lowered the supra. I think the AI raised to my raise, the next qualifying session I managed 2nd, but instead of us all running 195mph on the straights we were all running 205 now. I jockeyed back and forth for the lead with the Sube and FTO. Leading out of the last corner is not where you want to be. (Like Daytona in the old days) It's tough to hold back and time that pass right. I did it very well for the last 4 laps except for the last. When I pulled out to make the pass, the FTO was behind me to the left. The speed I lost from the contact let him by. I was able to catch his draft and pick up enough speed to get by him but came up just short on the Sube.
I did get the Sube LM, Its pretty darn quick, insanely fast for rallies but unlike the Escudo it handles.
That also finished Amateur for me. That Oreca Viper is real sweet, it's fast but unlike the Corvette it seems easier on the tires.
 
So far, my favorite race series is the Pro-level GTWCup...the one with the Toyota GT-1, Esperante, and Mazda. I ran my Oreca in most of those races as hard as i could, and still had a pretty good battle with that Mazda, and the Esperante stepped up to the plate a few times as well! I can't wait to do these in the Camaro RC. Then i'll try these again in a Subaru Rally car perhaps.
 
Parnelli Bone
Cool, i haven't done the Miata race yet.
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I've taken my Miata LS that I won early in the game, put some super slicks on it and begun practicing for that one. I entered and qualified just to check out what the competition is like. Exiting messes up the win ratio but I don't care. Now I need to look for a nice block of time to race it. Too bad you can't save in the middle.
 
KAMKA-Z
I've taken my Miata LS that I won early in the game, put some super slicks on it and begun practicing for that one. I entered and qualified just to check out what the competition is like. Exiting messes up the win ratio but I don't care. Now I need to look for a nice block of time to race it. Too bad you can't save in the middle.
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Yah, my win ratio is all shot to hell! I got 4 games going and they vary from about 70% to the mid-eighties. I guess that's not so bad...my GT2 win ratios always ran in the 60's and low 70's because i would often start races over and didn't want to have to reboot the damn PS1!
 
Finally got back to this great game. Been given ultimatum by 11 yr old son, no more GT4 ( currently at 75% ) untill GT3 finished. Sat back down today, picked off TT9, it must be something about taking a break from things, took about half an hour on a test i had spent ages trying to do. Beat it by .020 of a second, now only TT10, Tokyo Enduro and Monaco Formula GT 78 lapper to go for 100%.
 
TT-10 is a strange one - when I played through GT3 the first time, it took me days and many thrown DS2 controllers before I got it - and then I only got it by a second or two.

I started out second time around by doing all the TT's first, and I started with TT-10. This time I got it in four goes, and beat the time by nearly 8 seconds. Like you say, frenzal, there is something strange about taking a break and coming back - I put GT3 up for a while to play GT4, so it was a couple of months before I started GT3 second time around.

I also didn't find Monaco all that hard. It was challenging, but I managed to win it first go. I used a new P001 with default settings, and I think the main advantage I got was from a good pit strategy. If you are even just a second or two per lap faster than the competition, and you can keep to the same number of pitstops as the competition, then you should win fairly comfortably.

Best of luck.
 
Haven't been gaming this weekend. But the weather is getting cold & rainy this week so i should return...
 
Thanks Shabb.
Knocked 14 seconds off time required in TT10, only need six seconds for gold.
Slowly knockin a couple seconds off here and there.

Haven't seen ya in a while Parnelli, how's your game(s) goin? How many drivers you using these days?


shifty_86
im at 40% now. im getting there
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Sweet Shifty, good luck mate.


its my first time through gt3 and im at about 93% and i cant be bothered doing the rest. its gt4 now baby
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And i'm guessin that anything over a two hour race in GT4 you're gonna B-Spec cos you couldn't be bothered with the effort. Havin trouble figurin why anybody would do 93% then walk away from it.
 
frenzal
Thanks Shabb.

Haven't seen ya in a while Parnelli, how's your game(s) goin? How many drivers you using these days?
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Let's see: right now i got about 15 drivers (i even got rid of a couple cuz i couldn't "define" them very well). The 15 drivers are represented on seven memory cards. 3 cards are GT2, 3 of them are GT3, and one is GT4.

Embarassing that i have to play my game according to driver stereotypes, but otherwise i'd just be randomly getting in and out of cars and there'd be no structure (don't ask!) :D
 
Some enduros, about half the pro level, and most of the arcade, rally, and time trials. That's alot!
 
fyfee
its my first time through gt3 and im at about 93% and i cant be bothered doing the rest. its gt4 now baby!
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I'm over 75% on GT3 now. I've got a nice start on GT4 and I'm not overly motivated to go back. I started working on my GT3 "S License" the other day and it's going very slowly. I find it very frustrating to put in a quick clean lap and come up several seconds short. (the one with the miata is making me nuts)
I've got the series races in professional, the endurance races, and time trials left. I really need longer blocks of playing time to kill those off.
I really like the small number of people in the GT3 thread and feel like too much of a newbie to chat it up in the GT4 thread. Yer a good bunch, guys.
 
The Miata test is difficult because the car is so slow its hard not to
put in what seems like a good clean lap. However it must be an exceptionaly
good clean lap with not one lost bit of momentem anywhere.
For example you can save time by taking the right hand turn at the bottom
of the hill,after the first tunnel, in 3rd gear vs 2nd. You need to be up on
the curbs every chance you get to save distance traveled. You also have to
be on the throttle as hard as you can as soon as you can. Nothing else will do it. One spot that can make or break a lap is the second tunnel. As soon
as you enter you have to let up a little and aim for the left side of the exit
just clearing the wall and stay close the the left side of the track as you
round the left hander. You should come out close to the right side of the next
tunnel. Don't get to close to the wall though. If you get your tire over that
line next to the wall it slows you down a little. (Don't ask me why) If you do
well in these corners you will probably get a bronze at least. If you want gold
every corner will have to be done cleanly. If you want better than demo time
all corners will have to be optimized.
 
That's the idea...they're supposed to be tough. Have you tried just buying a car appropriate to the test (like that Miata), taking it to Arcade time trials and doing laps for practice at the appropritate track? each lap you'll make small improvements eventually and get closer and closer to your goal.
 
The Miata test is about keeping your speed up in corners - since it's such an underpowered car, you don't have the acceleration to make up for mistakes in corners. It takes so long to regain momentum - and that's what eats up your time in the test. Parnelli Bone's suggestion is spot on. get the identical car to the license test and just run the lap until you've mastered it, and then do the license test. The only other way is to just run the license test until you ace it. If you choose this way, make a habit of watching the demo, then watching your replay to see where you lost time. Take note of the splits that the demo car achieves. Firstly this shows you which segments you are slower/faster in, and secondly it gives you a goal to aim for.

That's about all the help I can offer.
 
i havent even completed one of the s lisence test i have everything else.
Its been a while since ive tried them i mite have ago again tonight.
 
shifty_86
i havent even completed one of the s lisence test i have everything else.
Its been a while since ive tried them i mite have ago again tonight.
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Where are you in the game percentage wise? Have you done much actual racing yet? The reason i ask is because it sounds like you're following one of those guides that recommends getting all the licenses first...and unfortunately only experienced players will be able to do this quickly.

..i could be wrong, though, maybe you have been racing alot. Personally, i haven't done the S-license in GT3 yet, but i got mine in GT2 fairly easy because by the time i went for my S, i had driven the actual courses several hundred laps each in races. I doubt the S license in gT3 is much harder than the GT2 one.

It just sounds lik you're not so experienced yet, but i could be wrong...
 
If you can pass the GT-2 licences tests you can certainly do the tests
in GT-3 without to much difficulty. Some of those tests in GT-2 were
hard to get gold on.
 
KAMKA-Z
I'm over 75% on GT3 now. I've got a nice start on GT4 and I'm not overly motivated to go back. I started working on my GT3 "S License" the other day and it's going very slowly. I find it very frustrating to put in a quick clean lap and come up several seconds short. (the one with the miata is making me nuts)
I've got the series races in professional, the endurance races, and time trials left. I really need longer blocks of playing time to kill those off.
I really like the small number of people in the GT3 thread and feel like too much of a newbie to chat it up in the GT4 thread. Yer a good bunch, guys.
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I lied in that post I just hit 75% the other day after I did the miata enduro. I won the Purple F688/S Polyphony (I think that's right) for the enduro. Then got the Mazda 787B for 75%. These are the first of either high-end types of cars I've acquired. Dang they're quick.
 

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