Growing Pains: Online Drifting

[BenBurroughs]

I won't lie, I'm painfully new to drifting. I wanted to start taking advantage of the drift seasonals for what I thought would be relatively quick cash, back when French car were feature, and I failed MISERABLY. I gave up. Here now British cars are featured and I adore my V12 Vantage, so I thought I would give it a try again. I had a little more luck this time thanks to the bigger car (I used a Renault Clio V6 the first time around) and ended up barely squeaking into 2nd place (prize, not rankings). So I decided to actually LEARN how to drift by heading into some Tsukuba lobbies. I figured it couldn't hurt, right? Boy was I wrong. With no power, weight, tire, or drivetrain restrictions, others wouldn't allow me to stay on the track long enough to actually learn anything. I'm going on my 6th day of actually focusing on my drifting abilities and have found some spotty luck here and there, but I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for finding decent lobbies and actually learning something new?

 

[projects2k]

Join me any time.

 

[JR86]

When joining lobbies you should look out for team lobbies. Especially the lobbies of teams here on GTP. Also make sure that the room owner is active and fair. For example when I run my lobby I make sure people aren't being annoying and because it's a team lobby the usual people joining are great drifters who don't stuff around. Find some good drifters and befriend them so they can help you and make sure to use CH or CM tyres.

 

[Bluntified]

Seeing that it's only your 6th day of "actual" drifting, you'll find it a bit hard to mesh into some of the rooms. Most beginner rooms, aren't really all that for "beginners"! It's best to find a room with a few people, maybe 5 or less, and try to keep up with them. It's harder to learn in a room that's full of intermediate-pro drifters, with people wizzing by you, you'll want to give up, I've been there.

ALSO, one last thing, seeing that you're new to this, if you see people coming up behind you really fast, I'd recommend pulling over to the side! People don't like to be bumped into because it messes up their flow (which is what drifting is all about "flow").

 

[Blurr905]

I would recommend practicing your drifting offline. You wont have to worry about pissing anyone off or bumping anyone. Once you get a basic idea to get yourself around the corners on tsukuba then find a good lobby and look for advice. I found when i was starting out I would try to follow what people told me, but I couldn't get it to work right because I didnt actually know how to drift at all.

 

[projects2k]

I would recommend practicing your drifting offline. You wont have to worry about pissing anyone off or bumping anyone. Once you get a basic idea to get yourself around the corners on tsukuba then find a good lobby and look for advice. I found when i was starting out I would try to follow what people told me, but I couldn't get it to work right because I didnt actually know how to drift at all.

Dont do what he said. The physics are diffrent.

 

[BenBurroughs]

How do they compare to the physics in the seasonals, though?

 

[Robbyelder]

How do they compare to the physics in the seasonals, though?

They are not the same a car that drifts great ofline seems to lack proformance online best to tune all your cars in your lounge or online lobby read your messages and send me that friend request

 

[BenBurroughs]

I appreciate the input from everyone and more is very welcome, but I want to acknowledge Robbyelder and the assistance he was able to provide, he really got me straightened out, or sideways as it were.