General A-Spec Seasonal Events Discussion

[GTRufus]

Over 6 months have passed since the launch of the Seasonal A-Spec Events. I think it is time to see how it went so far. For now I must say PD does a nice job when choosing a good variation of tracks, despite of a few doubles. But when it comes to limitations such as Drivetrain, Manufacturer, tyre compound, etc. they seem to be too generous about that in some cases.

What are your thoughts? What would be your wish for "Christmas A-spec events"?
Which event was your favourite and which one did you hate the most?

 

[light driver]

Well those Seasonal A specs are mostly funny... Unfortunately the Beginner, and mostly the Intermediate too, are too easy, even for a person who just started to play the game. - The only exceptance was the Intermediate in London a few months ago. That one was really good...

Else it is allways the Expert challenge I have fun with...Oh and they too are mostly tooo easy to win...

Hmmm and Tsukuba is kinda getting boring, it was PD`s 1st choise ever since GT5 seasonal, they seem to be closely connected, PD and Tsukuba...Not a problem. Just a little yawn from me...

The hardest Seasonals in GT6?? Oh that´s always Nurburg... - The Nurrburg Race Car challenge back in august was pretty tough, and the Sports Car challenge about 6 weeks ago was also a little tough, especially when You tried to improve Your lap time after seeing what the Aliens could do...That allmost gave me an inferior complex...

My favourite is a little hard to decide, as I don`t recall them all. But the last one - 600pp Race cars on Silverstone - is a candidate, so is august`s Nurburg Race Cars, guess it was 600pp also...

The one I hated most? SO hard to say, really. None I guess

However; I think it is sad they allways come up with 5 lap races. Would like the Expert to be 8 - 10 laps instead.

My wish for a Christmas challenges?? Let see...OK it goes like this;

Beginner:
Normal Car - FR drivetrain - 425pp - Sport Hard tyres - no tire wear - held on Eiger Nordwand Short Track Reverse - 10 laps - weak penalty - AI to be a much better than normal for the Beginner challenges...

Intermediate:
Race Car - free drivetrain - 550pp - Race Hard Tires - no tire wear - held on Madrid full course - 8 laps - weak penalty - AI to be better than normal for the Intermediate challenges...
(The reasons I only want 550pp is that there`s a lot of race cars in the game that cannot get to 600pp at all, nor can the get to 550pp, but if You are good, some of those should be able to compete in the 550pp range. An example is the Lexus IS 200 GT RC...And many more....Oh and it`s "Intermediate" here, not "Expert"...)

Expert:
Normal Car - free drivetrain - 580pp - Sport Soft tires - normal or rapid tyre wear + fuel consumption - held on Apricot Hill Race Way Reverse - Time Change - 12 laps - weak penalty - AI to be a little better than normal for the Expert Challenges...
(580pp is a little overlooked these days, that`s why I chose this instead of 600pp)

Something like that would be great for the holiday.

 

[Thorin Cain]

Nice thread @GTRufus 👍

Where to start...I suppose by saying, besides the obvious complaints I've really enjoyed them. I've even gotten to like the obvious complaints.

The kamikaze A.I. amuses me rather than annoys me, I find the unpredictability a little refreshing after all these years of every car just holding station, taking no chances and just getting in the road in every corner until you pass them all and run away from them. Now they turn up the nitrous and hunt you down. I like the way they do take each other on and try to defend the corner....granted mostly unsuccessfully.

Are they too easy? Well for most of the members on here, absolutely. Not for everyone, I know. But It gives you the chance to see how big of a pp handicap you can still win with. The "How low can you go?" Challenge

Which brings me to my favourite so far. Expert Seasonal A-Spec: Ferrari Challenge- Ascari- 550pp from last month. I kind of liked Ascari but haven't really drove or raced there much at all, just during the career mode and the odd seasonal. And hardly ever on-line....But I love me a good Ferrari So I ran this one a lot. I went through the list, F430(It's always the first one! )-Check, Scuderia-Check, California-Check, GTO-Check, you get the picture. I ran through all my cars, then went around and checked out some of the other tunes about. I tried a couple of @mgo's and had some great fun and quite a bit of cash. Then went to see if I could find something fun in @Ridox2JZGTE's Replica Garage. A 450pp Dino??? Emmm, against Scuderias, 458s and an Enzo??? No way! I thought. Wrong! I ran at least half a dozen races in that car and won all but one. ( On a side note. After this seasonal finished I went back to my last Licence test in that lump of a Veyron, which I had as my only non-gold award from December and hadn't gone back to. Gold on lap 2 and a Platinum Trophy. Thanks for the 500,000 Credits SCEE! I probably didn't spend them wisely

My least favourite, you will be glad to hear is a far shorter answer....Anything on Willow Springs, Big Willow. Don't get me wrong...I think it's a stunning track, it's just that last corner really doesn't like me too much at the best of times...factor in kamikaze A.I.

My Holiday wishlist:

Beginner Event: 10 Lap race: Autumn Ring Reverse 500pp Rear Wheel Drive Challenge. Road cars only. Sports Hard or less.

Intermediate Event: 24 Minute Endurance event: Spa-Francochamps 650pp Race Cars ,Open Drivetrain choice. Open tyre choice.

Expert Event. 20 Lap Race : Cote D'Azur Formula GT Event. Full Open event. (Let us just go at it. It should have been in the game anyway!)
I look forward to seeing some of your Ideas of a good festive Seasonal Bonanza (Higher payouts, pretty please Mr Santa!?!?!?!?!?)

Happy Holiday Season

Thorin

 

[photonrider]

I'm just amazed that this game keeps on giving, and giving, and giving. Took a break for a few months and came back to find actual races sprinkled amongst the dozens of various TTs and was very happy.
I'll take any Race-type A-spec events for now (since every event teaches me something about a vehicle or familiarizes me further with a track) but I'd like more thematic races - for instance German Touring Cars at the ring or LMs at any high-speed track.

 

[GTRufus]

Wow, I actually thought this thread is dead (maybe because loss of interest), but I am glad that there are people who took 5 minutes and wrote their wish for the future seasonal events. THANK YOU all for you very detailed answers!

Since GTP and PD are connected in some way, I suggest that this should be reported to Kaz so they can bring us a christmas challenge we all wanted. Of course there are more posts required. So keep them coming!

@Thorin Cain
I have completely forgotten about the F1 cars in GT6. And also the track Côte d'Azur has been used only twice in the whole career mode. That's a good choice! 👍

My christmas wish would be something like this:

Beginners GT300 Race-Car Challenge

• Track: Fuji Speedway
• Category: Racing Car
• Tyres: Racing/Hard or less
• PP: 520 or less
• Laps: 10

Intermediate Touring Car Challenge

• Track: Nürburgring 24h (with Time/weather change)
• Category: Racing Car
• Tyres: Racing/Hard or less
• PP: 580 or less
• Laps: 5

Expert Le Mans 24h Challenge

• Track: Circuit de La Sarthe 2013 (with Time/weather change)
• Category: Racing Car
• Tyres: Racing/Medium or less
• PP: 700 or less
• Laps: 16

For the Seasonals, I disliked the Twin Ring Motegi East Course 500PP challenge the most. It didn't really feel like a challenge for experts and the East Course had a fixed daylight. They should have used the Road course since it has the Time change, to make it a bit more entertaining. My favourite Seasonal was doing the Le Mans race with the Prototype Racing Cars. I love that track somehow and racing on it with over 400km/h is very much fun. I have raced the career event 24 Minutes of Le Mans dozens of times, with many different cars.

 

[Thorin Cain]

Since GTP and PD are connected in some way, I suggest that this should be reported to Kaz so they can bring us a christmas challenge we all wanted. Of course there are more posts required. So keep them coming!

@Thorin Cain
I have completely forgotten about the F1 cars in GT6. And also the track Côte d'Azur has been used only twice in the hole career mode. That's a good choice! 👍

I'm hoping PD already have a nice little Xmas present ready for us but It would be cool to get some nice Seasonals to run over the holidays.

Yeah, I think PD have forgotten about the F1 cars and Cote D'Azur too. I'm pretty sure the track was only used 2 or3 times in GT5 as well. Not really befitting of one of the worlds most famous and iconic racing events In my opinion.

 

[P900]

The hardest Seasonals in GT6?? Oh that´s always Nurburg... - The Nurrburg Race Car challenge back in august was pretty tough, and the Sports Car challenge about 6 weeks ago was also a little tough, especially when You tried to improve Your lap time after seeing what the Aliens could do...That allmost gave me an inferior complex...

My favourite is a little hard to decide, as I don`t recall them all. But the last one - 600pp Race cars on Silverstone - is a candidate, so is august`s Nurburg Race Cars, guess it was 600pp also...

The only reason I still continue to play this game is because of the Nurburgring track, especially when it ends up in the seasonal event and make close to 400k

 

[Bluesman81977]

Hurry up new seasonal time trials! I can't wait much longer! Lol!

 

[NCRthree]

A couple topics to comment on here about the Overtake Challenges:

1. I wish PD would leave the Events in the race menu longer than 2 weeks. In GT5, I would go back and run older events quite frequently. It really expanded offline to have 10 or so Seasonal Events to choose from.

2. Difficulty levels. Seems like there's always complaints that the Beginner or Intermediate Events are too easy. No one is forcing the player to run the grippiest tires allowed or run a high pp car that's tuned. Same with driver aids. We don't have "official" difficulty levels so I make my own.

 

[nowcontrol]

No new A-Spec events this week yet.... but the previous lot are closed now????????

Never mind that, they've now popped up few minutes late.

 

[photonrider]

. . ..

2. Difficulty levels. Seems like there's always complaints that the Beginner or Intermediate Events are too easy. No one is forcing the player to run the grippiest tires allowed or run a high pp car that's tuned. Same with driver aids. We don't have "official" difficulty levels so I make my own.

Great analysis. The 'secret sliders' built into tailoring the simulator to ones individual needs (and strengths) should be obvious to all - yet seems to be buried so obviously that some cannot see what's right before their noses.

There is the opportunity to make the perfect race with most fields that are given in a race - even if one has a hangover.

 

[mustangxr]

Yeah, I would really like some seasonals that were almost a fixture, like in GT-5. I used to love one of the Eiffel circuits that was extremely high speed with long flowing curves that curved sinuously over gentle hills and valleys. It reminded me of downhill ski racing only with seriously fast race cars. It was so much fun that I didn't care if I won or not, and that inspired me to learn how to drive better and faster in an inspirational way.

It was nice to run the Nordschliefe too for pretty good credits, along with Indy road and others. If you needed to grind for credits, you could do it on the track of your choice pretty much.

The above would be my Christmas wish!

 

[Jaywalker]

My post from another thread:

Seasonal Grinding: Important to me 'cos I never did the money glitch & would like to own all of the 20M cars & the Red Bull grind hammers my wheel.

The seasonal races are disappointing compared to GT5. At least there we had the opportunity to race on many different tracks to earn decent credits. Now, as soon as they add 3 new seasonals, the previous 3 fall off, so you never have more than 3 track options. I just find I get bored with the limited tracks very quickly... 👎

 

[cjr3559]

I don't hate any of the Seasonal races, but sometimes they get a little repetitive; especially at the Beginner level as there seems to be a lot of Tsukuba going on. Maybe a 350PP max at Apricot Hill would get me to dust off some of the cars in my garage. That, or limit the tires to CS in the Beginner events.

My favorite Seasonals are country specific, or drivetrain specific. Also, throwing in some weather and day/night transitioning on the Intermediate and Advanced races is good.

So far my most memorable races were the rain race at Spa, the night race at Route 5, the Nordscheife races and though they were time trials, the 24 hour runs at Nurburgring and Sarthe were fun. Just wish they permitted us to choose our own car on those. I enjoyed the Ferrari festival at Ascari, and why not have an all RUF shootout.

All in all, I prefer the Race Seasonals over the time trials. They turn out to be a fun way to generate lots of credits and allow me to use a wide variety of cars in my garage.

 

[GTRufus]

Now, as soon as they add 3 new seasonals, the previous 3 fall off, so you never have more than 3 track options. I just find I get bored with the limited tracks very quickly... 👎

I couldn't agree more with this. I will be on vacation on March or April for 2 weeks and I want to have at least the opportunity to catch up what I'd have missed. They need to keep the races online for at least 6 weeks until we have 9 races available which we can do how often we like.

I don't hate any of the Seasonal races, but sometimes they get a little repetitive; especially at the Beginner level as there seems to be a lot of Tsukuba going on. Maybe a 350PP max at Apricot Hill would get me to dust off some of the cars in my garage. That, or limit the tires to CS in the Beginner events.

I agree with this suggestion. We have over 1200 cars and some of them have less than 350pp. Why not having a race with max 100hp for the beginners? Would be fun definitively.