Seasonals Encourage SRF

[bluecharger]

Great job @bluecharger , you've managed to unite @Dalone and @GTP_CargoRatt by being a common enemy. You have no idea what a monumental achievement that is. Well done sir:tup:👍

Uhhh, would you mind putting in a call to Putin and Yatsenyuk and get that whole Ukrainian mess sorted out?

I'll get right on that:tup:. As for the rest, I've posted I'm done with the subject, so whatever.

 

[Dalone]

bongoplyr; "As Gertrude Stein said, "An aid is an aid is an aid."

And as everyone else in the world would say, "Is legal is legal is legal." The owners of GT6 decide what can or cannot be used, and we, the great unwashed, must acquiesce.

 

[UnkaD]

Oh man. I didn't want to start a war. I was just putting forth an observation. Let me just say that I'm not against aids. ABS and TCS are fine by me, even though I don't use them myself. Just my preference. I don't know about Active Steering and ASM, but those just make me slower somehow.

This is where the problem is, though. With the other aids off, a player will be able to make the same lap times that he could with them on, given that skill and driving style allow consistent lap times either way. But switch on SRF, and boom, instant 3-5 seconds faster for any driver of any skill. No matter how many hours or days I spend, I'll never come close to a best lap that I set with SRF on if I'm now driving with SRF off.

But once again, I don't care about that. What I care about is the fact that the challenges are being set at an unreasonable difficulty based on an unrealistic aid that should be an option rather than a necessity. And I hate to admit it, but after 5 hours of trying I finally caved and used SRF to gold an SRF-optional event. That Tajima lap was just insanely difficult.
On the other hand, in the current GTR event on Autumn Ring with SRF forced off, I am a whole 6 seconds up on the gold time and sitting in the top 100. (Woohoo) And you know what? It's not fair to say that this event is too easy now, because there are still an amazing amount of players that still can't get even that time. A couple guys say that it's elitist to be anti-SRF. I hate SRF, but I don't think I'm better than anyone. What I think is elitist is jumping on here and casually saying things like "This was easy to gold, I don't know what's wrong with all of you..." I don't remember who said it, but I read it somewhere on the previous page. But this is off topic.

Anyway, SRF-optional events are very difficult without SRF compared to SRF-off events. It's plain to see, it's not an opinion, and that's all I was saying. Cheers, guys!

 

[Morgoth_666]

Are we certain that qualifying times are being carefully configured to take SRF into account?

By my best calculations and record research, the difficulty of both timed challenges and races in GT have been wildly variable since roughly... GT1. Sometimes you can be half asleep making mistakes and clear things easily and other times you have to be fully focused and even pushing yourself a little to be fast enough. There doesn't seem to be much predictability to how hard anything will be, although certain tracks just seem to always have more demanding requirements. Events on Eiger in particular have often tended to be much more difficult than most tracks.

I'd probably chalk most of this up to PD being a bit daft and wildly inconsistent rather than PD being really careful and subtly manipulative.

If I can't gold a TT without SRF I try a little more then move on to another one. I might come back and try again or I might not. There's other places to make money, and other places to have fun.