Notice of Account Ban measures

[SirAlanClive]

Except it's impossible to use hybrids in the time trials now.

...because of the hybrids. The irony just kills me

 

[NFSCARBON1]

No hybrid or "hacked" cars any longer. Everyone knows that every new TT now is BS......! Hacked cars rule to achive better lap times with no effort.

Correct me if I am wrong, not long ago if you were an averege driver you would be 1.3 to 1.5 seconds slower then the 1st.

Now it's 9 sec.... and the worst: You can't tune!

So Thumbs UP for SONY on this one!

Of course, and GT5 reinforces, that motorsports is all about the car!
But I believe in training, skill improvements and seek for the best car avaiable, otherwise where is the fun?

I think that the reason for the time difference is simple. SRF (sorry I know everyone moans about it). I'm finding the TT's nigh on impossible with it turned on, because I'm constantly trying to correct slides that get cut out by the SRF anyway (causing me to countersteer off the track )
Those who always use SRF will have an advantage and of course the fastest drivers can easily alter their driving style to suit.

 

[Voxalizer]

All this talk about hybrids makes me sad. Even more so the people defending hybrids. Saying things like: "I only hybrid offline or in private lobbies!" and/or "Yeah but I'm only creating REALISTIC hybrids!". BS, how selfish! What you people fail to grasp is that the mere possibility of being able to create hybrids is hurting the game. Just look at the TTs nowadays.

In my opinion being able to create a hybrid by modding gamefiles is not worth the cost of having dumbed down TTs. As host of a public room I don't want to have to deal with cheaters. As participant in a TT I don't want to get a car that I can't tune. I don't want this modding in my favorite game!

 

[thelvynau]

All this talk about hybrids makes me sad. Even more so the people defending hybrids. Saying things like: "I only hybrid offline or in private lobbies!" and/or "Yeah but I'm only creating REALISTIC hybrids!". BS, how selfish! What you people fail to grasp is that the mere possibility of being able to create hybrids is hurting the game. Just look at the TTs nowadays.

In my opinion being able to create a hybrid by modding gamefiles is not worth the cost of having dumbed down TTs. As host of a public room I don't want to have to deal with cheaters. As participant in a TT I don't want to get a car that I can't tune. I don't want this modding in my favorite game!

So if a person keeps it offline how does he hurt the TT series?

 

[Com Fox]

So if a person keeps it offline how does he hurt the TT series?

Keep cheating offline, is what I say. If you're a Mario Kart 7 player, you'll remember the Maka Wuhu cheat that 🤬 people off.

 

[NFSCARBON1]

All this talk about hybrids makes me sad. Even more so the people defending hybrids. Saying things like: "I only hybrid offline or in private lobbies!" and/or "Yeah but I'm only creating REALISTIC hybrids!". BS, how selfish! What you people fail to grasp is that the mere possibility of being able to create hybrids is hurting the game. Just look at the TTs nowadays.

In my opinion being able to create a hybrid by modding gamefiles is not worth the cost of having dumbed down TTs. As host of a public room I don't want to have to deal with cheaters. As participant in a TT I don't want to get a car that I can't tune. I don't want this modding in my favorite game!

I like the hybrid cars and have made a few myself, and have used many of the phrases above before to explain why. If you keep hybrids to yourself there is no problem. However I understand that unscrupulous people are using them for cheating, which has spoiled hybriding of the game and tarnished the reputation of those who make them with the non modding GT community. (Also making replicas of real cars, or cars you like to build can be fun, but using such cars to cheat the time trials seems pointless? What reward is there in that?)

It's nice though to see someone relatively new here who actually tries to justify why they dislike hybrids. There are countless posts from those who don't like hybriding along the lines of 'HAHA you're going to get banned', 'Stupid people getting what they deserve' etc, which are just immature and pathetic.

P.S I'm expecting someone to say 'welcome to the internet' for that last bit

 

[Johnnypenso]

Just an FYI...outside of a couple of cars testing for a shootout, I've driven nothing buy hyrbids in open lobbies and lounges since Monday with no trouble and everyone I know of on my friend's list is doing the same with no problems.

 

[thelvynau]

Keep cheating offline, is what I say. If you're a Mario Kart 7 player, you'll remember the Maka Wuhu cheat that 🤬 people off.

That is what I dont get.

Leave the fact that its against the TOS. People seem to be insulted by people even doing it offline.

Sounds like hybrids have urinated in these peoples cornflakes online or offline.

 

[DiersZee1]

I think that the reason for the time difference is simple. SRF (sorry I know everyone moans about it). I'm finding the TT's nigh on impossible with it turned on, because I'm constantly trying to correct slides that get cut out by the SRF anyway (causing me to countersteer off the track )
Those who always use SRF will have an advantage and of course the fastest drivers can easily alter their driving style to suit.

Seasonal Time Trials do not have SRF on

Only the Events have the SRF on since Christmas, IIRC. As for folks being 9 seconds slower because of no tuning, that is an error too. It just takes practice to get near where you might of been used to from previous rounds where you could tune. Then again, if you sneaked a hybrid in and did well... answer is simple enough too.

 

[BlazeTheCat05]

So out of curiosity, I decided to unlock the Secret Menu on a dummy account. Wow...This completely adds an entire new level of fun to my GT5! It's great to watch my B-Spec play catch-up with 11 other X2010s on the Nurburgring. Talk about edge-of-your-seat intensity! Just finished up A-Spec Like The Wind racing a full field of Fiat 500s with a stock fiat 500. I never thought 65mph could get this exciting before.

Oh yeah, to clarify, this dummy account hasn't been banned yet. I'll keep ya'll updated. 👍

Also I bolded 'my' for a very good reason...

 

[NFSCARBON1]

Seasonal Time Trials do not have SRF on

Only the Events have the SRF on since Christmas, IIRC. As for folks being 9 seconds slower because of no tuning, that is an error too. It just takes practice to get near where you might of been used to from previous rounds where you could tune. Then again, if you sneaked a hybrid in and did well... answer is simple enough too.

Sorry I'm getting my wires crossed
I'm too tired, I better get off to bed and stop talking 🤬

 

[Skuh]

If the hybrids have stopped tuning in TT, for me that's a plus. Never liked being able to tune in TT. Always thought the TT's were supposed to be about driver ability not tuning ability. Think this is much better myself.

 

[MiuraSV777]

Ok guys, I have someone willing to make me a hybrid or two for me, but Im still slightly unsure whether i should get it/them or not, just because I havent heard of anyone getting banned yet, but pd hasnt made any more announcements. Its also because I am very curious about hybrids, as I have never touched one before.... So, just to see what you guys think I should do, vote in my visitor messages, and NOT my private messages, because they are getting full. Vote +1 for yes, i should, and vote -1 for no, i shouldnt. Thankyou to everyone who decides to vote!

I am actually leaning towards no, but im still unsure

*NOTE* Please do not reply to this, as then it would probably turn into an off-topic disscussion.... Pm me if you want to discuss. Thanks!​

 

[Com Fox]

If the hybrids have stopped tuning in TT, for me that's a plus. Never liked being able to tune in TT. Always thought the TT's were supposed to be about driver ability not tuning ability. Think this is much better myself.

+1 👍.

 

[Musolini187]

so, anybody actually been banned yet?

 

[skyhighguy86]

so, anybody actually been banned yet?

umm there will be soon as a player has a hybrid in number 1 on DT59 #1 IT IS CLEARLY MODIFIED and this event has no tuning available

 

[JK83]

umm there will be soon as a player has a hybrid in number 1 on DT59 #1 IT IS CLEARLY MODIFIED and this event has no tuning available

That is soo damn stupid from PD to add your current TT and DT cars to GT5 save file.Even I could make myself to TT or DT #1 with editing bit my save..

Why it's so damn hard add cars only online share from PD?



Oh just noticed it's way too easy to edit borrowed car...

 

[skyhighguy86]

That is soo damn stupid from PD to add your current TT and DT cars to GT5 save file.Even I could make myself to TT or DT #1 with editing bit my save..

Why it's so damn hard add cars only online share from PD?



Oh just noticed it's way too easy to edit borrowed car...

oh no look like there is no way of keeping these cars off the leaderboards then

 

[JK83]

oh no look like there is no way of keeping these cars off the leaderboards then

I send you pm mate since I dont want speak public any word about that 👍

 

[Ridox2JZGTE]

If the hybrid at DT is true, even after banning of accounts, it will be an incentive for PD to pull even harsher action, I hate to see locked save file in the next update.

 

[BlazeTheCat05]

Updates in regards to my dummy account with Secret Menu: Online and seasonals are still accessible. OCD is still accessible, and gifting still works. I'm pushing my luck though I think, as I've now been using the Secret Menu to play around in the Seasonal Event races, which require the GT5 servers to play. Real Circuit Tours with Go-Karts is quite the rush I'll tell ya.

Also, note that this is only an experiment to see if PD is in fact banning those with the Secret Menu, and NOT an attempt to cheat my way to 100%, or ruin online TTs or DTs.

Next update will come either in a week's time, or if I'm banned beforehand.

 

[Lock2Lock]

If the hybrid at DT is true, even after banning of accounts, it will be an incentive for PD to pull even harsher action, I hate to see locked save file in the next update.

If they do that it would make a lot of people mad hybriding or not.

You should NOT have to pay for PSN Plus to back up your save data. And the save data should be allowed to move to whatever account you want to.

When they started to block the save data from being able to be used on different accounts. I actually called Sony and they said it was because of the trophies. Which to a point I do understand. But not everyone cares about trophies. That's why i hate Sony sometimes but besides that I couldn't care less.

 

[GTP_CargoRatt]

You can tell its a hybrid car because its a different color than the car supplied by PD for this event. So it looks like someone has figured out how to alter PD supplied cars. Just watched his replay and he only scored like 528 pts, how is he the damn leader? Am I missing something here? He doesn't even run the whole track. Very weird replay.

 

[Com Fox]

^Seems like GT5 has fallen to same fate as Mario Kart Wii with it's Time Trials.

 

[MSTER232]

If they do that it would make a lot of people mad hybriding or not.

You should NOT have to pay for PSN Plus to back up your save data. And the save data should be allowed to move to whatever account you want to.

When they started to block the save data from being able to be used on different accounts. I actually called Sony and they said it was because of the trophies. Which to a point I do understand. But not everyone cares about trophies. That's why i hate Sony sometimes but besides that I couldn't care less.

I couldn't care less about the trophies, they mean absolutely nothing to me and they don't do anything gameplay wise.

Also, I didn't think they blocked data from being used on different accounts just because of the trophies; I thought that they blocked it because it would make the duplicating of cars easier for people who like to exploit that (which is why there is a 1 car/day limit and cars valued over 1,000,000 Cr. cannot be gifted).

Of course, I still wish you could use data on different accounts because if for some reason you forgot the password to your current account, or your account becomes corrupted, then it would be easy to transfer the things that you had before you started having problems with your account over to your new account.

 

[NFSCARBON1]

You can tell its a hybrid car because its a different color than the car supplied by PD for this event. So it looks like someone has figured out how to alter PD supplied cars. Just watched his replay and he only scored like 528 pts, how is he the damn leader? Am I missing something here? He doesn't even run the whole track. Very weird replay.

Is it possible that the car isn't hacked but the replay/score has somehow glitched, resulting in the car appearing a different colour and the whole replay not showing?

 

[Lock2Lock]

I couldn't care less about the trophies, they mean absolutely nothing to me and they don't do anything gameplay wise.

Also, I didn't think they blocked data from being used on different accounts just because of the trophies; I thought that they blocked it because it would make the duplicating of cars easier for people who like to exploit that (which is why there is a 1 car/day limit and cars valued over 1,000,000 Cr. cannot be gifted).

Of course, I still wish you could use data on different accounts because if for some reason you forgot the password to your current account, or your account becomes corrupted, then it would be easy to transfer the things that you had before you started having problems with your account over to your new account.

Yep same here.

And i wasn't just meaning this game. Sony started blocking save data on most games from being able to be sent to user to user a long time ago. Way before GT5.

That is one of the reasons though were the trophies. Say you got someone save data that had platinum. You upload his/her save to your PS3. Then sync trophies and you will have a platinum thropy

 

[Com Fox]

I don't give a 🤬 about Trophies, they're a waste of hardware.

 

[MSTER232]

Yep same here.

And i wasn't just meaning this game. Sony started blocking save data on most games from being able to be sent to user to user a long time ago. Way before GT5.

Seriously? Being able to sync trophies so you could get any trophy instantly isn't game-breaking and yet this is where Sony is putting all of their sole focus into by stopping user-to-user data transfers?

 

[Lock2Lock]

Seriously? Being able to sync trophies so you could get any trophy instantly isn't game-breaking and yet this is where Sony is putting all of their sole focus into by stopping user-to-user data transfers?

Yeah that is one of the reasons. Some games from a long time ago didn't have this lock.