I became infected with this bug several months ago. As far as I know, there is no cure!! The CDC is currently investigating. I've given them plenty of blood samples, but I think I may be infected forever!!
In all seriousness, I know "replica tunes" catch a lot of flack around GTP from a lot of members. I understand their point. GT6 is not accurate enough for us to think that using all real world specs will make the cars "100% true to life". Of course not... But, I have found that the tunes Ridox publishes tend to give each car a unique personality. And that personality is usually
similar to what I read about the real world version.
If the real version is an understeering car, Ridox builds our GT6 replica to understeer. Likewise, if the real car tends to have a lot of lift-off oversteer, we get a replica that has lift-off oversteer, so on and so forth. Now, I find that most tuners try to make each car that they are tuning as perfect as possible so it can be as fast as possible. That's okay too, if that's what you're looking for. I'm not looking for that in GT6. I want each car in my garage to be as close to the real thing as possible. Since we know that PD doesn't give us the cars even close to how the real cars are set-up, I've put my faith in Ridox to deliver what I've wanted from PD in the first place. Frankly, I wish Ridox couldn't do what he tries to do. I wish the cars just came to us with proper weight, spring rates, camber, toe, gearing, power & torque values, etc... but, 99% of the cars in the dealership are wrong in at least one or two specs, at a minimum.
I still keep several cars in my garage with non-replica tunes. I'm not against driving set-ups like that. In fact, I just built a Skyline R33 from DolHaus's Garage. The car is freakin' fantastic. One of the best suspensions I've felt in GT6 so far. No doubt about it. I look forward to racing that car in A-Spec events or with friends. I'm sure I'll build more non-replica tunes in the future. My preference, however, is to drive the cars that I know Ridox spends hours and hours, sometimes days researching to build for us. I just have more fun with them. The cars have quirks. They have flaws - like real cars do. They won't always be the fastest, but for me they are the most enjoyable. I'm really glad to see another GTP'er with the replica bug,
@lilcat89! đź‘Ť
Let me hop off my soapbox.