Excuses for losing in round 2, start now!

[Deadpool]

That's the worst excuse by far, lol. Why bother with GTA? If you're any good, you could pay for a season or two in a ladder series for that kind of money (MX5-Cup would be perfect) and launch a career yourself.

Unless of course you 1, aren't any good - like most PCA members or 2 are old.

Sick car though, have fun!

Yeah it is a pretty awful excuse heh. But it's our company car that we plan to drive for a year and sell. So not mine, def can't afford that, but I do get to put it through it's paces haha.

I hate PCA, I think it's a joke. "drivers education". I can hold my own on the track, and my FIA license might be a problem in the contest.

 

[Peluski17]

Mine would be simply resting for too long from round 1 to round 2. I haven't touched GT for 3 weeks.

 

[scir16v]

Mine would be simply resting for too long from round 1 to round 2. I haven't touched GT for 3 weeks.

Kind of in the same boat, but I think I'll pick it back up pretty quickly.

 

[realfrankdux]

because the combination of R34 and Indy makes me want to pull my hair out

 

[zr1chris]

I got one,

I run my quickest lap (just quick enough to put me in the next round) at 11:59pm on Sunday night so i exit out real quick and it says "sorry unable to locate servers".

 

[quattrophonic]

My G27 is in the shop - Blew out the clutch.

 

[chriz00]

Hmmm, I'll be realistic:

I won't make it through Round 2 because of time (grr, started school this week)...and frustration from trying to chase the top guys' ghost.

That and using GTP when I should be practicing, lol.

 

[k20redline]

cause my sim set up involves having the pedals ductaped to a desk that moves. -_- lol I am loving this community btw.

 

[xxiceman2403xx]

because I only been using a steering wheel since early december

 

[PoTtHeD]

well seems how noone else said it, ill prolly be knocked out cause everyone started cutting corners

 

[NWMann]

well seems how noone else said it, ill prolly be knocked out cause everyone started cutting corners

Ill be knocked out cause I didn't find new grass to mow!

 

[Dr_Watson]

pretty sure I have the flu. :/

 

[chriz00]

well seems how noone else said it, ill prolly be knocked out cause everyone started cutting corners

Yep, mentioned it in the "cutting corners/indy thread" lol

 

[scir16v]

My John Deere broke down, and the Dixie Chopper is on order but not here in enough time.

 

[Deadpool]

I only have two days left.....which means maybe 3hrs to try and put down some times. This week was the worst possible for me. Next week would have been glorious.

 

[midiman007]

My John Deere broke down, and the Dixie Chopper is on order but not here in enough time.

I wish that was my problem ... I need about 12 more months

 

[GT Motion]

I am severely lacking motivation, I can easily get within a second of the top times, but from then on its grinding to find time and be consistent which I hated doing. I wish they would have said "do your best out of 10 laps", but noooo they give us a billion laps so I feel when I sit down I need to lap until I reach my goal...then my day is gone.

I don't even want to go back on, but I need to drop my time, I might not make round 3, I don't know if I feel like trying to find the time. I feel I have natural talent to go fast, but finding the most extreme line takes too much time with me and doesn't come as natural to me as it does to some of you guys.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I am severely lacking motivation, I can easily get within a second of the top times, but from then on its grinding to find time and be consistent which I hated doing. I wish they would have said "do your best out of 10 laps", but noooo they give us a billion laps so I feel when I sit down I need to lap until I reach my goal...then my day is gone.

I don't even want to go back on, but I need to drop my time, I might not make round 3, I don't know if I feel like trying to find the time. I feel I have natural talent to go fast, but finding the most extreme line takes too much time with me and doesn't come as natural to me as it does to some of you guys.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Hit the nail on the head for how I feel right now. I hate the new Eifel/R34 combination so much that I am giving up right now. I will spend no more time at that track. If I drop out of the top 16 because of that, then so be it.

 

[midiman007]

It's frustrating to go hour after hour and not make any headway. I've started trying what Steve suggested and run one track for a couple of hours and then the other. It does break up the monotony somewhat. Knowing that I don't have a prayer to make it into the next round makes it seem senseless to keep going, but I'm going to go on until the end, and see what times I make it too. It was fun, even Eifel, in a demented sort of way.

 

[Dr_Watson]

They keep changing the effing tracks

 

[zr1chris]

They keep changing the effing tracks

+1
I spent all the time in the begining of the week and have no time at the end of the week to grind it out. This is pure bs.

 

[SohnVonStig]

2 days.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I'm loving the track change!

 

[SohnVonStig]

I'm loving the track change!

Haha I'm not too excited about running rome reverse again, but looks like all our practicing on madrid last week might pay off after all

 

[CodeRedR51]

I knew Madrid was going to show up somewhere.

 

[SohnVonStig]

I knew Madrid was going to show up somewhere.

Lol I expected it in round 2 not as the 5th course lol

 

[fizzer]

Well my original excuse is gone with the track changes. Works for me since I only has this weekend anyway

Need to work on a new one - hahaha, but doing ok so far. A couple early morning hours because I can't sleep with the jet lag and I'm 8th in the NE.

The jet lag sucks, but it gives me an excuse to be up till the crack of dawn and have uninterrupted racing while the gf sleeps

 

[RSnider]

I'll be knocked out because I have an old PS3 that doesn't quite match the processing power of newer units. How's that for an excuse?

Cue #1 ranked driver to reveal he's playing on a 20 GB release model and make me look like more of a fool.

On a serious note, I've often wondered if it's possible for hardware discrepancies between models to account for minutely different run-time environments in GT5 resulting in tiny variations in grip and whp between different ps3 version. I'm not talking seconds in a lap; more like miliseconds. At a track like Rome Reverse with the Super GT, it's looking like it is going to come down to miliseconds...

I'm no programmer by any means, so would any software gurus like to debunk my hypothesis?

 

[blindsidefive0]

I'll be knocked out because I have an old PS3 that doesn't quite match the processing power of newer units. How's that for an excuse?

Cue #1 ranked driver to reveal he's playing on a 20 GB release model and make me look like more of a fool.

On a serious note, I've often wondered if it's possible for hardware discrepancies between models to account for minutely different run-time environments in GT5 resulting in tiny variations in grip and whp between different ps3 version. I'm not talking seconds in a lap; more like miliseconds. At a track like Rome Reverse with the Super GT, it's looking like it is going to come down to miliseconds...

I'm no programmer by any means, so would any software gurus like to debunk my hypothesis?

I don't know much about the software, but I can tell you that I bought my PS3 from a friend who had it since it was released. It's a first generation 40gb box that is as old as they come. Maybe if I had a new slim machine I would be #1?

 

[Dr_Watson]

only thing the hardware can do for you is give you a smoother frame rate.
input sampling and all the math in the background won't change.