Round/Square Trophies [aspec/bspec?]

[Dave^]

i've tried searching but nothing turned up......

when i enter any of the race catagories [ie Japanese events/endurance hall/etc....] some of the trophies are in round 'windows' and others are in squares.....

why is this? is one type for aspec'd and the other for bspec'd?

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[Famine]

Round windows are for individual races (where you can only do the races one by one), square ones indicate a Championship Race is available (where you can do the races back-to-back).

 

[Dave^]

ah i see..... cheers.....

is there anyway of deciphering which races were done aspec or bspec?

 

[Famine]

Only by way of your diary, I think.

 

[BobK]

Only by way of your diary, I think.

Here are two entries from my diary, the first was a B-spec "driver training mission", the second from an A-spec only race:

Participate in the Nurburgring Nordschleife family cup. Champion.
Time: 8'39.068

Participated in Capri Rally (Easy) (Costa di Amalfi) . Champion.
Time: 2'26.092

Note that the first says "Participate" (without a "d") and the second says "Participated" (with a "d").

As for what you won the race with, or how many points you got, etc, well, no way to know unless you've been keeping records with pencil/paper, notepad, excel, whatever. However you can re-enter the race and it'll tell you what's the most A-spec points you've ever received in that race.

 

[Dave^]

excellent - thanks....

you'd have thought they'd have programmed in a way of easily noticing which races were done aspec/bspec.....

ah well, maybe next time......

 

[BobK]

excellent - thanks....

you'd have thought they'd have programmed in a way of easily noticing which races were done aspec/bspec.....

ah well, maybe next time......

Yes, one would certainly think so. However, viewing it as a former software engineer, it looks to me very much like the whole A-spec points thing was a last-minute addition to the game. Consequently it wasn't as well thought out as most of the rest of the game.

Not to mention some of the glitches in the A-spec thing. Can you say "Dodge Ram Laramie"?

 

[Dave^]

Can you say "Dodge Ram Laramie"?

lol, very true.....

it's a good idea...initially..... but like you said, it seams to be a last minute rush job to implement it......and it should take into account more than just bhp......

 

[Metar]

And weight, too. Dodge Ram Laramie.

It would be nice to have a way to tell. I'm still without my IA licence, so there are many races I do in B-spec. Same for the A licence and IB licence - I did the races in B-spec before A-specing them again, so it'd be nice to know which one were what.

 

[BobK]

A followup on diary entries and A-spec/B-spec.

Seems I was incorrect when I stated that A-spec races say "participated" and B-spec races say "participate".

I just ran two Family Cup races on High Speed Ring, the first in A-spec and the second B-spec, and two Sunday Cup races on High Speed Ring, again one A-spec and one B-spec.

For the Family Cup races it used the word "participate" for both races, and for the Sunday Cup race it used the word "participated" for both.

Participate in the High-Speed Ring family cup. Champion.
Participated in Sunday Cup (High-Speed Ring). Champion.

So it would appear that there's no way of knowing if a race was done A-spec or B-spec from the diary entry alone.

 

[Dave^]

the only way i've noticed is to enter the race, and in the top right hand corner, it tells you the maximum number of a-spec points earned for that race.....

so obviously, if the points are at 0, you haven't won it a-spec.........

bit of a pain this way, but the only way it seams