Although I was surprised at how well the tournament was setup on GT5, I think there are some major issues that could easily be changed for future rounds. I didn't come up with these issues because I'm struggling to get into the top 128 as I held top 10 after only 20 minutes driving Tsukuba (32 now I think). These are just issues that I think would make it more fair, and more importantly for some of us, not end up waisting our time (as explained later).
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Problem 1: Able to download top 10 replays
I see this as a problem because it takes the fun and the skill out of discovering the fastest driving line. I didn't know you could download these replays until after I set a fast time, but if I knew you could I probably would have just downloaded a few top times and tried to copy what they did. Then all it comes down to is if you can physically use the controller or wheel to mimic their line. To me, finding the best driving line is a huge part of what makes a race car driver better.
Solution: Don't allow download of replays until the round is over or after you have done your maximum number of runs (explained later).
EDIT: just found out you can load up a ghost from those top 10s to follow yourself. What? Again, I think this is a huge problem even more now that you don't just have to watch a replay you can literally follow their line while driving.
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Problem 2: Unlimited number of tries over 4-5 weeks time
Whether you download and study the replays of the fastest times or not, if you have all the time in the world (which I know some of you do being on break from school), and you realllly want to go on to the next round, you're probably going to put in hundreds of runs to get a faster time.
During this time, you will probably spin out or restart many times, for me I did it probably every other run in between completing a full lap. You're basically striving for the fastest time possible, which means you're on the limit the entire time which is why you spin out or restart often.
Real race car drivers don't drive this close to the limit or they'd be spinning out and crashing as often as you are.
Solution: Maximum number of runs/laps allowed
I think there needs to be a 'practice session' where you enter it the same way as you do now, but it says 'practice' and you can do as many laps as you want. There you can practice enough to know where the limit is and how fast you can do a lap depending on how close to the limit you want to be.
Then once you feel like you've had enough practice, you go to the real thing where you get a maximum number of attempts (somewhere between 10-50?).
I see this as very helpful because hopefully if you're good, you set a decent time in one of your first few attempts, then after that you can go closer to the limit to set a faster time until you run out of attempts.
The other good thing about this is once you're done you're done and you don't have to worry about it anymore. Where as the way it's setup now you might spend countless hours in the first 3 weeks to set a time in the top 50, but in the last week you get bumped out of the top 128. Well, you just wasted a lot of time and I see this situation likely to happen to many of you.
For me with the way it's setup now, I'll spend a little bit of time seeing what times I can set then wait until the last day to try again, because likely by the last day the top 128 times will be more secured, so if I see I can't break into that, there's no sense in spending hours and hours trying. Those of you that already spent a couple hours on this competition and not in the top 10, you're probably wasting your time and should just wait till the last day.
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Please comment so hopefully we can get a better idea of what other's think about this. Hopefully it doesn't turn into an immature argument between 12 year olds girls.
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Problem 1: Able to download top 10 replays
I see this as a problem because it takes the fun and the skill out of discovering the fastest driving line. I didn't know you could download these replays until after I set a fast time, but if I knew you could I probably would have just downloaded a few top times and tried to copy what they did. Then all it comes down to is if you can physically use the controller or wheel to mimic their line. To me, finding the best driving line is a huge part of what makes a race car driver better.
Solution: Don't allow download of replays until the round is over or after you have done your maximum number of runs (explained later).
EDIT: just found out you can load up a ghost from those top 10s to follow yourself. What? Again, I think this is a huge problem even more now that you don't just have to watch a replay you can literally follow their line while driving.
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Problem 2: Unlimited number of tries over 4-5 weeks time
Whether you download and study the replays of the fastest times or not, if you have all the time in the world (which I know some of you do being on break from school), and you realllly want to go on to the next round, you're probably going to put in hundreds of runs to get a faster time.
During this time, you will probably spin out or restart many times, for me I did it probably every other run in between completing a full lap. You're basically striving for the fastest time possible, which means you're on the limit the entire time which is why you spin out or restart often.
Real race car drivers don't drive this close to the limit or they'd be spinning out and crashing as often as you are.
Solution: Maximum number of runs/laps allowed
I think there needs to be a 'practice session' where you enter it the same way as you do now, but it says 'practice' and you can do as many laps as you want. There you can practice enough to know where the limit is and how fast you can do a lap depending on how close to the limit you want to be.
Then once you feel like you've had enough practice, you go to the real thing where you get a maximum number of attempts (somewhere between 10-50?).
I see this as very helpful because hopefully if you're good, you set a decent time in one of your first few attempts, then after that you can go closer to the limit to set a faster time until you run out of attempts.
The other good thing about this is once you're done you're done and you don't have to worry about it anymore. Where as the way it's setup now you might spend countless hours in the first 3 weeks to set a time in the top 50, but in the last week you get bumped out of the top 128. Well, you just wasted a lot of time and I see this situation likely to happen to many of you.
For me with the way it's setup now, I'll spend a little bit of time seeing what times I can set then wait until the last day to try again, because likely by the last day the top 128 times will be more secured, so if I see I can't break into that, there's no sense in spending hours and hours trying. Those of you that already spent a couple hours on this competition and not in the top 10, you're probably wasting your time and should just wait till the last day.
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Please comment so hopefully we can get a better idea of what other's think about this. Hopefully it doesn't turn into an immature argument between 12 year olds girls.
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