Gran Turismo OCD

[Tristan Jones]

Glad to see i'm not alone!

I started on notebook pages, writing down lap times with different cars.

I did it with a view to seeing which cars are faster on which tracks, so I could progress campaign quicker.

Excel was eventually needed to keep track of times before and after upgrades...but after the Supra (3000GT?) had a stage 4 turbo giving it over 1000hp, small differences went out the window.

I came across one of these old notebooks later on, and realised how many hours and hours I spent doing this!

I now have to pinch myself and rationalise why I am doing it before starting these projects, now that I have very limited time (2 kids and a full time job), if I am not going to use the information to change what I am doing, there is no point collecting the information...without a use it is just data, not information.

 

[GBO Possum]

Any time I see postings which involve spreadsheets, my possum ears prick up. To me, data can be just so interesting!

Going down a slightly different path, I was looking at the statistics of those on my friends list, and selected out players who had put in some serious miles, hours and contributed to climate change.

I wanted to know how fast my friends drive, and what sort of variance there might be in fuel economy. The result raised more questions than it answered. The color coding is from conditional formatting in Excel to highlight the outliers.

Why are there two players with really low speeds? And look at the variances in fuel consumption! I know this is totally unimportant, but it is data, isn't it! Have fun hypothesizing, spreadsheet people!

PS I left off the names in Column A to protect the innocent

 

[Mires]

Sneak peek at my Time Trial sheets prepared. All i need to add is the car and model, session count and split times, all other calculates by itself. Car sheets will search for best times for each track from these ones.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

I think your time would be better served utilizing the same approach to track notes rather than car collecting. I know how it is though, it's hard to control and direct your points of fixation, so obviously just do what you enjoy.

 

[Jump_Ace]

My personal GT OCD is constantly pressing the rear view button. When I'm really stressed out I do this at least two times after each and every corner.

Please tell me I'm not alone in this...

And I too love Excel and have an OCD, so much so that pre-kids I had a fan site I created in php/mysql called consoleracing.net. A place to catalog and sort cars, have a car ownership garage for users, store tunes and the like. It never took off because at the same time Kudos Prime was doing theirs and they already had a rep built up (and I didn't want to sink ad money into a free site).

So now, I just have a simple Google Sheet to catalog which cars I need to buy still (just mileage ones) and which to upgrade with mileage points (all upgraded, yay!). I also have sheets for each car class to store about 100 tunes for each class. Much easier to maintain than a website, haha. It's pretty empty so far, but you get the idea:

GT Sport Toolkit


Jerome

 

[VictorViper]

I'm gonna be REAL popular with this comment, but folks suffering from OCD (a legitimate, debilitating mental health disease) would probably appreciate you guys using different verbiage to describe what is, ultimately, just meticulous attention to detail.

Cheers, and keep spreadsheetin'!

 

[Mires]

I'm gonna be REAL popular with this comment, but folks suffering from OCD (a legitimate, debilitating mental health disease) would probably appreciate you guys using different verbiage to describe what is, ultimately, just meticulous attention to detail.

Cheers, and keep spreadsheetin'!

You confuse yourself - mental disorder "(a legitimate, debilitating mental health disease)" is something totally different. You don't need to be Mentally ill to be clasified wit OCD.

 

[VictorViper]

You confuse yourself - mental disorder "(a legitimate, debilitating mental health disease)" is something totally different. You don't need to be Mentally ill to be clasified wit OCD.

My friend, the intent of my post was to ask people to make a simple verbiage change for sensitivity's sake, no more, no less. But man, are you wrong.