GT7 Daily Race Discussion

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GrumpyOldMan
Has anyone else noticed that on Sundays, on the US servers, we seem to get yellow connection bars more often than other days of the week? It could just be my imagination, but I've been thinking about this for months. Or maybe it's just confirmation bias on my part.

I've often wondered if PD pulls a few servers offline to start setting up the next week, but I suspect that's ridiculous.
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Maybe more European drivers on their ALTs racing in NA? I know what ever I go to the US I have yellow bars
 
GrumpyOldMan
Has anyone else noticed that on Sundays, on the US servers, we seem to get yellow connection bars more often than other days of the week? It could just be my imagination, but I've been thinking about this for months. Or maybe it's just confirmation bias on my part.

I've often wondered if PD pulls a few servers offline to start setting up the next week, but I suspect that's ridiculous.
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I think that is highly likely. A couple of weeks ago the European cloud that they run off was hit hard and connections to the servers and races pretty ropey.

I'd imagine that cloud zone for the western US gets restarted, patched and recycled before the EU ones. APAC seems to run to its own schedule and much better overall connectivity generally.
 
This is interesting!


I don't have an XBox so my biggest hope is that the online for Forza Motorsport is so good that it forces PD to get their head out the sand and actually do something to improve the laughably poor DR/SR system that GT7 has.
 
For the first time in months I did some online racing today at Spa. I’ll be honest, as I don’t race very often, it’s all a bit daunting at the weekends as I’m conscious many drivers are pretty warmed up 6-days in. Raced a bit, qualified a bit, crashed a bit 😂 but the racing was clean and respectful. Tried a few different cars but settled on the GTR over the 650S, 911 and Supra (which insists on trying to kill me). Managed a couple of events on pole and had 3 podiums. Improved my DR a bit but a few track limit penalties in the earlier races dropped my SR from S to A. Had fun!
 
TheNormsk
What I have seen are a lot more racers from South America today and some race B lobbies that weren't full.
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Sundays, at least Sunday after noon, seem to always be poorly populated. I almost always end up near the bottom of DR A/A+ lobbies.
TheNormsk
I don't have an XBox so my biggest hope is that the online for Forza Motorsport is so good that it forces PD to get their head out the sand and actually do something to improve the laughably poor DR/SR system that GT7 has.
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I was gonna say you could always buy an XBox too, but now that I think about it, I don't think my rig would work on an XBox, so that would suck.
 
TheNormsk
This is interesting!


I don't have an XBox so my biggest hope is that the online for Forza Motorsport is so good that it forces PD to get their head out the sand and actually do something to improve the laughably poor DR/SR system that GT7 has.
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FM7's online system is already better than GT7. They won't change anything.

The only thing GT has above FM7 is a rating system. Everything else about FM7s makes GT7 blush.
 
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GrumpyOldMan
I was gonna say you could always buy an XBox too, but now that I think about it, I don't think my rig would work on an XBox, so that would suck.
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Actually, soon I will be building out a PC. Guess it'll work with that using Steam and no licensing issues with my Fanatec...
 
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GrumpyOldMan
Sundays, at least Sunday after noon, seem to always be poorly populated. I almost always end up near the bottom of DR A/A+ lobbies.

I was gonna say you could always buy an XBox too, but now that I think about it, I don't think my rig would work on an XBox, so that would suck.
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I'd consider buying an Xbox again it if there was VR for it. Before PSVR2 I used to avoid anything Gr 4 and slower for online races because the cars just felt boring, but VR just makes everything fun to drive in it's own way, not to mention absolutely ruining any racing on a flat screen for me.
 
TheNormsk
I rely on the DR to show my state of progress. It is what motivates me to compete. Seeing that bar progression is ver reinforcing of the desire to race. Conversely, yet it hurts when you see it drop. For a while I had been bobbling along in the lower B ranks and I figured that would be where I would stay at my natural ability. Then I had a run to the mid-upper B ranks and, deluded, I begun to feel like perhaps I could begin to get close to A. It's always been a subconscious goal to get to A but I never really felt I had the skill. Sorry if my postings on this and the DR gain annoyed you but then, why are you here? This thread is all about sport and DR is integral to that.
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From this perspective, the DR fixation does indeed make a great deal of sense.
When I first dove into online racing back when GTS was released, I immediately decided I would add to my friends list any drivers who were clean and quite well-matched to my pace. I would use them as a guide to see what times I should have been aiming for in the Daily Races. It serves as a great motivator!

Problem is, there is mentality known as "win at any cost". In the respectful environment of motor racing it can be more accurately described as "bringing a gun to a knife fight". Morons to whom the act of gaining DR through nefarious means is no problem whatsoever. This is where the system falls flat on its face, and it's the reason I choose to accept the whole thing as purely a matchmaking tool.

And I still think there should be a special tier reserved for people with a pristine SR score.
 
The devastating thing is I traded in my Series S and Switch for the PS5, I didn't want to go Series X because the games weren't any different in terms of selection and I really wanted to get on GT7, after making it into DR B tonight and SR A I thought I wouldn't last long but I had good first race and made up 5 places, second race I made up 3 places until I was sent into the barrier that caused engine issues, it's never happened to me before! That video is making me regret my choices if their penalty systems work. I miss the cars ghosting if GT auto detected an intentional crash.



Race after this I made up places and got a clean race, these idiots need 1 minute penalties, 5-8 seconds doesn't put them behind us from this sort of stuff. I might have been aggressive on the pass but they were slowing me down.
 
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MillerGT
Race after this I made up places and got a clean race, these idiots need 1 minute penalties, 5-8 seconds doesn't put them behind us from this sort of stuff. I might have been aggressive on the pass but they were slowing me down.
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Just thought I would humbly offer a tidbit of help after watching the video. You're
costing yourself time and speed shifting into 6th gear on the straights.
 
Ok, after my connection issue earlier this evening I got a massive DR bump, I mean a lot, double DNF in 30min...not good.
So I waited all the evening before getting back...and everything worked fine, except for the users.
You know the rule, never race after midnight and before 6AM, it's the kind of time when there's a 90% chance of getting in a mix lobby due to the strange hour mixed up with low SR and maybe some kid away from school, other back from clubbing and so on....obviously I needed to put some race in this sunday to lift my spirit after the bump and got bumped again: people were just waging war against each other, I tried to stay away but....guys, you know, I'm slow, incredibly slow, but they were slower, they just kept smashing each other to get ahead so I tried to pass and got burned, from 5 to 12th....
....and I go to bed as a low C from an almost B :dunce:

ps.I don't give about the ranking, I honestly tell that I look at it only when goes up, and not when it goes lower....just to lift my spirit when races goes well, but in general it doesn't mean anything, we're just having fun
 
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Race A is Clio Trophy

Race C is 12 laps, soft tires, mandatory stop.
 
Edit- get wide wheels and a rear wing for your Clio in the new Race A. With BOP it shouldn't make a difference, but with them installed the car is much smoother to drive therefore can be thrown around more without losing grip. Powersliding through turn 1 seems to be fastest and in every turn use all of the track especially going into the long last turn.
I can still gain time through the first two sectors
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but this track more than maybe any is about keeping momentum up through the whole lap, so maybe I can get 7 or 8 hundredths faster eventually. Luckily I can do the last sector between 18.32 and .34 seconds consistently so I might try to improve tomorrow but this isn't the most fun car to drive so I will see.
Here's my new lap that as of editing is fifth place worldwide.
 
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Sprnova44
When was the last time we got race A with specific pp open race?:boggled:
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It's been way too long. I figured since the Weekly Races were starting to repeat that the new Race A was going to be the FR 246 hp 2425 lbs race from late last year and races like that are probably as close as we will get to a pp restricted race again.
 
Great week at Spa. Had a blast racing and thought I was doing a good job keeping clean and having fun. Friday early afternoon ended-up being a great time to go racing (US, EDT). But then I fired-up the game to play again on Saturday...

Sr. = B

***** is going on here??? I had a couple missed brake points and caused a ruckus on two separate occasions and a couple unfortunate racing incidents where the person in front/couple cars up lost it and caused a 💩 storm. But knocked down to B? Was shocked as I hadn't checked before closing out the night before given I didn't think I had done anything THAT egregious. Well then, was gonna go racing but now I gotta babysit my Sr. Sorry but that one means a lot to me. I quit watching Dr when it started sucking the fun out of my races. The Sr, though, that I (try to) defend vigorously.

Five races later I was back to S. Then I got knocked back to A almost immediately. All this said, has anyone else noticed the Sr being a bit more sensitive? I didn't think I was driving any differently but I don't typically struggle with Sr this way. I feel something changed and, if it's me, I can work on it. If it's 'them', I first need to figure it out, then I can adapt.😁

Appreciate any insight that can be lent!!:cheers:
 
mellofello9
Great week at Spa. Had a blast racing and thought I was doing a good job keeping clean and having fun. Friday early afternoon ended-up being a great time to go racing (US, EDT). But then I fired-up the game to play again on Saturday...

Sr. = B

***** is going on here??? I had a couple missed brake points and caused a ruckus on two separate occasions and a couple unfortunate racing incidents where the person in front/couple cars up lost it and caused a 💩 storm. But knocked down to B? Was shocked as I hadn't checked before closing out the night before given I didn't think I had done anything THAT egregious. Well then, was gonna go racing but now I gotta babysit my Sr. Sorry but that one means a lot to me. I quit watching Dr when it started sucking the fun out of my races. The Sr, though, that I (try to) defend vigorously.

Five races later I was back to S. Then I got knocked back to A almost immediately. All this said, has anyone else noticed the Sr being a bit more sensitive? I didn't think I was driving any differently but I don't typically struggle with Sr this way. I feel something changed and, if it's me, I can work on it. If it's 'them', I first need to figure it out, then I can adapt.😁

Appreciate any insight that can be lent!!:cheers:
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Not that im aware of, but my sr has been locked at S since I started.
 
Made the choice to pit early at Deep Forest a couple of times now and each time it's like being placed in the naughty group, will have to learn that lesson. The punt opportunities seem too much for a certain type of player to resist.
 
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mellofello9
All this said, has anyone else noticed the Sr being a bit more sensitive?
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It's something that seems to be specific to Spa for some reason.

My SR is always S, when we had the wet/dry races there a couple of weeks ago my SR very quickly went to A and then B. During last weeks races at Spa it went from S to A, then B and, very briefly, to C!

It then seemed to be impossible to get it back above B 😕
 
bone_tone
It's something that seems to be specific to Spa for some reason.

My SR is always S, when we had the wet/dry races there a couple of weeks ago my SR very quickly went to A and then B. During last weeks races at Spa it went from S to A, then B and, very briefly, to C!

It then seemed to be impossible to get it back above B 😕
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Appreciate the responses and I guess I just need to be a better driver. Maybe it's the nature/layout of the track that highlights weaknesses...yeah, think I'll go with that. Regardless, if I can keep it clean here, then, I should be golden.😁

Happy racing, all! :cheers:
 
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