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4 races at B so far.
1 win (first one)
4th some absolute moron in a 155 decided that it was cage fighting not racing, got to the front from P9 in 4 corners, there was bodies along the way
1 win first a supra in first lost it
Quit: clearly a friend of the earlier Italian had no concept of racing, not even the illusion of racing just carnage
@Tidgney as I said in the comments I think these videos highlighting crappy driving, yours, murder of the weak stuff and all the shorts create unintended consequences.
There is a substantial increase in controller users (anecdotally) and they are definitely benefiting from the latest changes, but there is also a massive influx of people who aren’t “racers” but players.
The thing that is really really boiling my piss, is that I’m 493rd in the world for daily B, I’m in high B low A mixed lobbies, not starting pole. This is all fine this how we learn and progress.
Being absolutely murdered in to the first hairpin for the 3rd time tonight is not people “forgetting to brake” or not knowing there markers, they are top 1000 drivers, and that takes effort and laps. It’s become a tactic or some sort of bragging right. There is a lessening of race craft.
I’ll be completely candid, if we saw videos of “drivers of the week” versus murder of the week pleb of the week “we’d see more people want to emulate cool overtakes and recoveries” but people shown the negatives makes it a normal prolific thing that starts to creep in to acceptability.
There is a reason those videos do so well, people see themselves in them (metaphorically) and it’s easier to excuse and promote bad driving than it is to make good driving fun and less chaotic.
Correlation is not causation I know but more bad driving videos, more bad driving happens, it fuels the content pipe and hype, couple this with improved controller handling, more people coming back to the game post Xmas and some of these people probably left the game early at decent levels DR/SR wise.
As much as I appreciate the penalty efforts and reporting efforts, it’s the fundamental mentality of the players who just think this is the right sort of behaviour.
1 win (first one)
4th some absolute moron in a 155 decided that it was cage fighting not racing, got to the front from P9 in 4 corners, there was bodies along the way
1 win first a supra in first lost it
Quit: clearly a friend of the earlier Italian had no concept of racing, not even the illusion of racing just carnage
@Tidgney as I said in the comments I think these videos highlighting crappy driving, yours, murder of the weak stuff and all the shorts create unintended consequences.
There is a substantial increase in controller users (anecdotally) and they are definitely benefiting from the latest changes, but there is also a massive influx of people who aren’t “racers” but players.
The thing that is really really boiling my piss, is that I’m 493rd in the world for daily B, I’m in high B low A mixed lobbies, not starting pole. This is all fine this how we learn and progress.
Being absolutely murdered in to the first hairpin for the 3rd time tonight is not people “forgetting to brake” or not knowing there markers, they are top 1000 drivers, and that takes effort and laps. It’s become a tactic or some sort of bragging right. There is a lessening of race craft.
I’ll be completely candid, if we saw videos of “drivers of the week” versus murder of the week pleb of the week “we’d see more people want to emulate cool overtakes and recoveries” but people shown the negatives makes it a normal prolific thing that starts to creep in to acceptability.
There is a reason those videos do so well, people see themselves in them (metaphorically) and it’s easier to excuse and promote bad driving than it is to make good driving fun and less chaotic.
Correlation is not causation I know but more bad driving videos, more bad driving happens, it fuels the content pipe and hype, couple this with improved controller handling, more people coming back to the game post Xmas and some of these people probably left the game early at decent levels DR/SR wise.
As much as I appreciate the penalty efforts and reporting efforts, it’s the fundamental mentality of the players who just think this is the right sort of behaviour.
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Have to disagree with you there (imo) have done 2 races this week at brands, started 10, finished 4 at BS and just today had the first 4 cars including me with QT of 1.30.7xx, started 4, finished 2
Both clean apart from a chap today in 3rd blatantly blocking me from passing but dispatched fairly quickly just missed out on the win by about 8 tenths in the end
Come the weekend I’ll leave it and do race A, I guess race B will be carnage then
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It’s a fine track to race on, if you know how to apply pressure rather than lunge.
I’ve had my best and worst results here, highlight beating the entire A+ field in my lowly B rating at the time (tuning and pit on that B, weirdly 🤣)
Druids is probably the clearest overtaking space? Maybe, but you’ll be forcing it. Everything else is just pressure till they drive away or make mistake.
I’m gonna go one more and then give up for the week. Work do out tomorrow (piss up) and new bike to build and ride. Seems more fun than this regardless of results.
Edit: I’ve done my one more but my earlier quit hit my SR hard so going again
Just a weird state of racing we find ourselves in. I think I’m gonna step away for a bit after this week, the combos are fine it’s the people I don’t like.
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Yeah I've been ran off with a green country flag, a bunch last night! And another 1 dive bombed me, the next corner I did the same thing he did to me, and he settled down really quick, seems like when it happens to them, they seem to settle in a race right after that!
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Won the last 2 and then was t-boned by a recovering driver, honestly not their fault but I’d expect a slightly less 90 degree rejoin but wasn’t deliberate so annoying but fine.
Won the next 2, started pole and basically people are idiots.
I just don’t understand how they are so fast but can’t keep up or brake, it’s very much a conundrum if I’m being honest. .3 back QT so I’d expect them to run the same pace as me….nope…
As I go back to my earlier post, highlighting poor driving is going to be the tree that keeps giving. Will it improve standards
🤣🤣🤣
No it won’t when the top 10/20/50 percent of the game don’t feature.
Mellow said it earlier, there is some rage in the water at the moment and it’s pretty ****** to race in if I’m honest.
Won the next 2, started pole and basically people are idiots.
I just don’t understand how they are so fast but can’t keep up or brake, it’s very much a conundrum if I’m being honest. .3 back QT so I’d expect them to run the same pace as me….nope…
As I go back to my earlier post, highlighting poor driving is going to be the tree that keeps giving. Will it improve standards
🤣🤣🤣
No it won’t when the top 10/20/50 percent of the game don’t feature.
Mellow said it earlier, there is some rage in the water at the moment and it’s pretty ****** to race in if I’m honest.
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To be fair people forget to brake all the time, I've done that a few times to. But I do try highlight good driving with the stars of the week. I only mentioned plebs of the week due to the thing I'm doing that I want to submit to PD. I don't want them using the video series but something else I use in the background once it's finished I'll be happy to share.
Plebs of the week though is one of my worst performing video series, only reason it's continuing is that some people see it as a voice so I continue it and I have/do learn from it each week myself.
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Also everyone wants to be the best, and get there in the shortest amount of time also! Microwave time! Instead of putting in the work
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Would be great too if most people realize that what you do in qualifying isn't necessarily going to translate during races. Racecraft includes the ability to qualify well, but qualifying well isn't racecraft per se.
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Was away for a few days and I was looking forward to a couple of races at Brands Hatch this evening as I generally perform quite well there. I am not sure what is wrong but I just couldn't put anything like a good QT lap together at all. Just something seems off. Usually I find the Megane trophy to be an excellent car around there but today it just wanted to swap ends on me constantly and I was getting annoyed with it. I can't remember what my time was but it was poor enough, just wasn't feeling it at all. Anyway, tried 3 races and it was more akin to a pinball game rather than racing so I just gave up. I think 5th was as good as it got. The repetitive nature of these combinations is starting to grate on me now and the standard of driving is not helping either. I am no angel and getting myself annoyed is only going to make me as bad so I'm out until something changes. I pay good money for iRacing so I am going to concentrate on that instead, at least the driving is more consistent to a degree. I might chance a cup race tomorrow but it's doubtful. They really need to come up with another race, a longer endurance format with proper strategy and weather for the people like me who enjoy these types of races and not just 5 laps of utter chaos (or 11 laps of it at RBR)
The problem I have is that the qualifying tyre is so much faster than the race tyre. I think that causes issues because people aren't prepared.
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