Suzuka 1000km Bupper Cars

[Justdiver]

So I put my favorite bobs in the race last night before going to sleep. Woke up this morning and there's about 10 laps left.

I got up just in time to see the rain, which had been pouring heavily since the beginning of the race, stop and all the racers (including my own) switch from rain tires to Racing Hard tires.

Needless to say, the tracks are still wet and I have been watching what looks more like a bumper car race than a Gran Turismo race. Cars are sliding all over the tracks into one another. My own driver spun my FGT 4 times in a row only to put it in the sand on the next turn.

This has been one of the most amusing things I've seen from this game yet. Thought I would share.

 

[SlyckTires]

A similar thing happened to me. It's like the ai can't handle the transition between wet and dry. I dropped inters on and spent the next 15 minutes overriding the automatically generated pit stop instructions until it was safe to drive on hards.

I had another weird occurence doing the 9 hours @ Tsukuba, where I'd set the ai to pit when the drivers were at 10% strength. Towards the end, it seems they weren't recovering fast enough, so they replaced each other, left the pit on less than 10% and immediately flagged a pit stop. In effect, every lap included a pitstop! Good job I'd used a massively overspecced car!

 

[Zenith]

Yup. Suzuka 1000km. I put Bob on Racing: Wet to start with, then on the first lap he pitted himself to put on Racing: Intermediate. Then about half way through the race all the drivers went into the pits again to put on Racing: Hard (even though it was still raining) and everything went to crap from there. Drivers were sliding all over the track, and when I told Bob to come back into the pits to put on Racing: Intermediate, his pit light came on the moment he left the pit. When I gave him the "Cancel Pit Stop" command, it just refreshed the very next lap. Since all the Bobs were using Racing Hard, I just let him go and went to sleep. Woke up in the morning and he had golded it.

 

[KaffeineKeiser]

Amazed how many times I've started a race in the "Dream Car" championship while it's pouring buckets, and I'm the only one who puts on wets.

By contrast. Last night it was raining in Monza, seemed to be light so I mixed inters with wets. Got my doors blown off for first lap. Managed to get around to the pits half a lap down. Pit boss wanted racing hards, I chose softs. Chased for the remaining 21 laps and won.

Laughing the whole time.

OMG, it's happening again on Nurby 24hr course in same Championship. I've got inters and the rest obviously are on hards. Pit boss wants me to put on hards, I am choosing wets as it's barely chugging on inters.

Silly boys.

Kaffeine

 

[thefasterstig]

I made the mistake of running this one last night with only two bobs. I woke to find that I'd finished THIRD in a FGT?!? I was so frustrated that I had to go back to sleep!!

 

[KaffeineKeiser]

I made the mistake of running this one last night with only two bobs. I woke to find that I'd finished THIRD in a FGT?!? I was so frustrated that I had to go back to sleep!!

Lesson here, don't skimp on the Bobs.
Kaffeine

 

[thefasterstig]

The others were busy on loan when I started and I knew that sleep was imminent.

A lesson harshly learned.

 

[KaffeineKeiser]

The others were busy on loan when I started and I knew that sleep was imminent.

A lesson harshly learned.

TheFasterStig,

Far from being critical of the way you treated your Bobs, just underlining for other B-Spec noobs such as myself, the perils of economizing manpower for endurance events.

BTW, my guys are doing their first 24 hrs le Sarthe right now and I forgot to turn off the network connection. This despite have read of the dangers of updates occurring and thus interrupting races. We all gotta learn lessons for ourselves right?

Have fun,
Kaffeine

 

[thefasterstig]

BTW, my guys are doing their first 24 hrs le Sarthe right now and I forgot to turn off the network connection. This despite have read of the dangers of updates occurring and thus interrupting races. We all gotta learn lessons for ourselves right?

Further proof, if any be needed that there is in fact, no God

 

[KaffeineKeiser]

Further proof, if any be needed that there is in fact, no God

Amen to that.
Kaffeine

See what I did there?
And in case you question where I stand on this, please read the below link.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/19/a-holiday-message-from-ricky-gervais-why-im-an-atheist/