Online coming alive?

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Ardius
Had a good race tonight with none other than Saarinen69, he asked me to tell you lot his new PSN: MHailwood.
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that's interesting cause I commented with Pietr that Saarinen69 was very fast and I thought he was now racing as MHailwood and I was right!
 
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Funny enough, I was just going through my friend list the other day and noticed that he hadn't been online in over a month and wondered what happened to him. MHailwood, huh? LOL! Good choice. Does he have a bowtie on his car? ;)
 
jjaisli
Medical Car, now on track: ;)

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Your rival Ambulance company decided to release there new amublance in response to you new ambulance.





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:lol: Well done! All we need now is a police car and a fire truck. And maybe a post car as well. 👍
 
If someone makes a Postman Pat themed Ferrari they deserve medals (or bullets, depends who you are I suppose lol).
 
Flinx
I just opened a lobby for some action in virginia, using the 250 GTO.
Feel free to join.:)
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I was still at work when you posted this. But I logged on this morning to check messages and was looking at some of your times with the 250TR. VERY impressive speed Flinx! 👍

And for the rest of you, be afraid, be VERY afraid. :nervous:;)
 
I was still at work when you posted this. But I logged on this morning to check messages and was looking at some of your times with the 250TR. VERY impressive speed Flinx!

And for the rest of you, be afraid, be VERY afraid.
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I saw Flinx online last night racing the GTO & invited him & Slickstone to a 10 min Testa Rossa race at Mugello, thinking I'd have a relaxing cruise around the track against these "newbies". As it happens, I started first & quickly built up a big lead, but after a couple of laps I began to notice I wasn't pulling any further ahead & after a few more laps, was starting to lose ground. Sure enough, at the end of the race Flinx had a faster lap time than me.

Following that we ran a 10 min race at Spa. We all ran off at Eau Rouge at the start of the race :embarrassed: & following that debacle, I went on to build up a big lead. But again, after a few laps I noticed that Flinx was gaining on me & although I finished far in the lead, Flinx actually ended with a faster lap time than me. After closing the lobby I went to the leaderboards & noticed Flinx has set a few very fast lap times with the Testa Rossa.

So welcome to the club Flinx - I notice you are a "newbie" who actually joined GTPlanet back in 2001, but has recently returned to the fold - it's nice to have another fast FC driver around. I would like to nominate you for membership in the (prestigious) FCDA. 👍
 
thanks for the invitation and the kind words.
As i have done a tour on the bicycle with several stps at some points of interest (or points of drinking if i remember corretctly) i´d ask for some gentle sleep and a meeting on the track tomorrow.
Which would be, as i am as old as some of the cars we´ll race, a true oldtimer and vintage race.:D
 
Since I posted a thread a few weeks back about no online activity I have been able to do some racing online. Sometimes I get paired with folks worse than me so it ends up being a crash fest or I ended with pros & get smoked like a pack of Kools. But at laest I'm getting a chance to race. I'm trying to practice so I can hold my own online.
 
Well, this is pretty amusing. Hun200kmh and I practicing last night for the 250 GTO event at Homestead. According to my PS3, I won, according to Hun's PS3, he won. Even the standings screen couldn't decide. According to the timing, we finished the race and crossed the line at the EXACT same time.

And the game takes a King Solomon approach to the win. :)

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(my screen)


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(standings screen----look at the win ratio for both players...Hmmmmmm)
 
both at Misano and Virginia I crossed the line side by side with MHM66 and our times were dead even too but I guess Jason's screen showed MHM66 ahead :indiff:
 
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Hmm, Interesting. Mario--when you get a chance, ask JoaoPereira_P if he remembers who was shown as the winner on his screen. I guess that would be the deciding factor. I never thought to ask. (And he got so bored with the two 'geeks' taking pictures of our screens that he left) :lol:
 
I just finished playing FC online. I raced 250TR at various tracks with SEGEL and other fast guys (one from UKOG). I was again suprised how fast I can drive in 250TR compared to best FC players. Some tracks I driven first time in 250TR and I was still approx. 1 second faster than SEGEL and the rest of the guys. So I'm really proud of myself. So this car seems to really suits my driving style.

After racing I even received a message from SEGEL. Something like: "Good racing, super".
 
I have a theory on this PiotrB and I don't know if it's correct or I'm totally off. But I believe the classic cars (250 TR / LM / GTO and even the 365) are comparatively easier to drive and control with a wheel vs the Sixaxis. Maybe that's the wrong way to put it--I don't know if it's easier with the wheel. But I really do believe that this game, under certain circumstances, favors sixaxis drivers. But this advantage is negated with the above mentioned cars.

I notice, for example, that my lap times in the classic cars are much more competitive than they are with say, the F430 vs people who drive with the controller.

Maybe it's just 'wishful thinking' on my part but I see more and more evidence of this.

Incidentally, I hope you'll take part in the 250 GTO event this weekend. :)
 
Good point jjaisli ! I'm also totally off the pace in F430 Challenge car. I think that dead zone issue is biggest in 430C so this may be true.
 
I think it's "speed" vs "feel". The pad allows very quick reactions + no dead zone which favours fast, precise handling cars. The wheel favours cars like the wobbly classics which require a more delicate touch around the corners. For the same reason, I think the pad works better with tracks that feature a lot of chicanes, which require suddden changes of direction, while the wheel works better with tracks that feature sweeping turns & hairpins which require constant control.

Of course, the amount of experience in the car remains the most important factor. I had posted many of the fastest lap times in the 250TR time trials...
until SEGEL noticed & systematically crushed my times. :irked:
 
jjaisli
I have a theory on this PiotrB and I don't know if it's correct or I'm totally off. But I believe the classic cars (250 TR / LM / GTO and even the 365) are comparatively easier to drive and control with a wheel vs the Sixaxis. Maybe that's the wrong way to put it--I don't know if it's easier with the wheel. But I really do believe that this game, under certain circumstances, favors sixaxis drivers. But this advantage is negated with the above mentioned cars.

I notice, for example, that my lap times in the classic cars are much more competitive than they are with say, the F430 vs people who drive with the controller.

Maybe it's just 'wishful thinking' on my part but I see more and more evidence of this.

Incidentally, I hope you'll take part in the 250 GTO event this weekend. :)
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I'll give you same more evidence. ME
 
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GTP_ENERGIYA
I'll give you same more evidence. ME
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Perhaps, perhaps not. I know you're not a big fan of the classic cars Jason and that in itself may have more to do with your relative pace than anything else. But your point is taken. No doubt we'll see more this weekend but I think we're probably close in the TR/LM while you're easily >1 second a lap quicker in the F430. I may have snuck a victory in on you in the 348 Challenge or 360GT here or there, but I think it was more a matter of me being lucky and you being unlucky.

Biggles is probably on to something when he mentions chicanes vs flowing corners and the dead zone issue being partially at fault. And Sarrinen69's post about his "Lap of Monza" where he listed his braking points struck me dumb. Using the wheel/pedals, there is simply no way I can match his braking points and keep the car on the track. Further more, I noticed, when I wasn't stumbling over myself, that during the World Championship event, some of you guys were able to brake much later than I could. And ironically, I noticed PiotrB, also a wheel user, was off the track in the braking zones several times.

I would like to cut/paste this below, written by the Forum Administrator on the Eutechnyx site, in response to wheel vs pad:

There is no physical difference in the cars handling / set-up depending on which controller device is used. It is how the input is interpreted and applied to the front wheels. Wheels provide a direct input and actually have a lot more control and flexibility than the pad, but because of this require greater skill to extract the maximum from the car. There isn't a delay whilst the front wheels turn using a wheel but there is with a pad, the relationship is far more direct. However with a pad, because of the limited range of movement, we have to help the player especially during counter steer or they wouldn't be able to control the cars at all.
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I think this is a thinly veiled way of saying that there are some difficult to quantify advantages when using the pad. But specifically what, how much, how so, remains misty.
 
i think I can add something to this discussion, because I did two full careers, first using the pad (my wheel at the time - Logitech DF 200º - wasn't properly supported) and second using my current wheel (G25).

I cant say anything about braking distances (both "careers" were split by a few months of getting back to GT5P) or overall behaviour of cars. But I will say something that is not quite compatible with what the eutechnyx forum admin wrote:

"Cornering (entry - during - exit) and especially controlled power-drifting on exit in FC was definitely easier for me when I used the pad"


There. I said it. :D
 
"Cornering (entry - during - exit) and especially controlled power-drifting on exit in FC was definitely easier for me when I used the pad"


There. I said it.
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yeah, but is it due only to the deadzone, or are there other factors at work?
 

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