Suzuka Surpise Night 2!!! Mon 7th March....All Welcome

[asdfg11]

I am literally going to chose a car from the garage list on the night...will be one I have never driven...which is pretty much all of them..I guess they all come 'out the box' with standard tyres???

asdfg...you have hosted a few races..What's the best way to set the hosting up on the room? From memory there are 2 options aren't there...one where you fix yourself as host and another where the hosting is shared...it seems I am nat type 2??? Any suggestions welcome.

If you pick and restrict to one car, it will allow us to select any tyre we wish up to what you have placed in the tyre restriction box.

The two types you speak off, one is a public lobby which you soley control

The other is a private lougne which anyone can make changes too.

Public, shows up on the main list so you will get lots of randomers joining
Private, you must add the people you want to join to your PSN and hopefully becuase of this have a cleaner race and people shouldnt mess with your settings although they could

I am nat type 2 and rarely have any problems, sometimes I need a reboot of my router if things are going wrong.

 

[DJAbacus]

mmmm...I'll have to think about the tyres...I really want everyone to have identical cars so may just tell everyone to pick the same ones...I am going to set up a room on Sunday night just so everyone (including me) is totally cool about what to do ready for Monday night...All welcome to come and have a race round or just show up, say hi and see you tomorrow...whatever...it will give me a chance to make sure I am cool with all the room settings etc.

 

[madwi]

Im for sure down! no matter the time or place, I had my first online race the other day and im hooked! Id love to get in a race with you all. If nothing else think of me as moral support for those that think you will finish last lol.

 

[DJAbacus]

Im for sure down! no matter the time or place, I had my first online race the other day and im hooked! Id love to get in a race with you all. If nothing else think of me as moral support for those that think you will finish last lol.

Hey madwi....thanks for signing up....don't am too sure about coming last though...see you online...

 

[piti]

sunday night?? i would like to join on sunday too, i don´t have a headset as i´m buying it on monday, but i´d love to make sunday too

 

[DJAbacus]

Ok, here is the plan for tonight!!

First, it has been recommended to me that people delete their system cache before going online. You do this 'in game'....go to first menu...options...scroll down to miscellaneous....the network....clear system cache...this deletes temporary data downloaded from the internet no important saved data is deleted and may help keep the online experience 'lag' free, it does no harm so definitely worth doing...anything to reduce lag is good as that can ruin the online experience. Also switching your PS3 off and on before going online is also meant to help.

I will set up a lounge at 9pm GMT. I will post here when it's set up.To get there you go to your home page....then community....click on the coffee cup...and you should see my lounge listed (as long as we are friends) and select it...if you don't quit game and try again...I don't think it's 100% perfect atm...now I am not sure whether I need to accept you or not but whatever it will be easy. Post here if you have any probs. We have some more experienced guys here who may be able to come up with a solution.

It's a practise session but we may as well race so I will select a car to race though this will not be the same as Monday nights car. To be honest there isn't a lot of choice when it comes to FF drive vehicles in the garage. There is more choice from 4WD vehicles so that can be next weeks surpise if people what to do this again.

The first race will be at 9.10pm...and will start if there is at least one other person in the lounge with me...it will be 3 laps of the suzuka track...then I will keep restarting the race until we all have had enough.

All are welcome, even if you aren't down for Monday night. You will have to add me. See ya online....DJ

 

[250 GTO]

If youre still racing at 9.45 I may look join in tonight. I just have to watch episode two of The Pacific first

 

[DJAbacus]

Good little run around in the Renault Megane....really found that more difficult to control than some others of the same power...yuk...I was planning to drive with aids off but I might have to switch them firmly ON to be competitive at all...

Has anyone else got a mic? It would be good to chat....I know you can hear me...lol

Just be be clear...you have to select me from the friends list, then you enter my space..then you can join my lounge...

See you guys tomorrow...a friend of mine Whitters will be joining us...

 

[madwi]

I bought a new mic the other day and it doesnt seem to be working grrr. Them little FF cars are a pain to drive lol. Thought if I stayed on your bumpre youd get nervous and go off course DJ. I didnt want to pass you on those curves as I could see that ending in both of us in the walls

 

[Otsdarva]

Alright, sure thing. It'll be fun! Can't wait to see the car I gotta run.

 

[DJAbacus]

I bought a new mic the other day and it doesnt seem to be working grrr. Them little FF cars are a pain to drive lol. Thought if I stayed on your bumpre youd get nervous and go off course DJ. I didnt want to pass you on those curves as I could see that ending in both of us in the walls

Have you paired it properly? Go to accessory settings -> audio device settings...mess about with the settings to see if you can get it to work!!

 

[piti]

well i had fun, but in that last race i had a problem, i could only see DJ and me racind, and as i was leaving the room i noticed CSSDK said that i knock him while he was overtaking me and i don´t really know because i could not see him.
is that a common thing to happen?? not see people you are racing with?? if that happens tomorrow in the race could be really bad, just hopping that doesn´t happen tomorrow again.
by the way, sorry CSSDK

 

[madwi]

Well that was a good idea! Just had to turn on the usb headphones in the settings! I must be showing my age, gone are the days of just plugging something in and it works lol.

 

[madwi]

well i had fun, but in that last race i had a problem, i could only see DJ and me racind, and as i was leaving the room i noticed CSSDK said that i knock him while he was overtaking me and i don´t really know because i could not see him.
is that a common thing to happen?? not see people you are racing with?? if that happens tomorrow in the race could be really bad, just hopping that doesn´t happen tomorrow again.
by the way, sorry CSSDK

I thought it was just CSS, DJ and I on the track If I hit you or ran you off the road, my bad I couldnt see anyone but them.

 

[DJAbacus]

I bought a new mic the other day and it doesnt seem to be working grrr. Them little FF cars are a pain to drive lol. Thought if I stayed on your bumpre youd get nervous and go off course DJ. I didnt want to pass you on those curves as I could see that ending in both of us in the walls

haha...thanks for not overtaking me...you are a true gentleman

...btw...no problems with lag with 5 of us on the track..2.GB, 1 Spain, 1 Denmark, 1 US.....all good...remember to empty those system cache..

 

[piti]

I thought it was just CSS, DJ and I on the track If I hit you or ran you off the road, my bad I couldnt see anyone but them.

so it was not only me, i feel less bad person now

i didn´t get hit at all, i gess you can only get hit by people you can see on the track

 

[DJAbacus]

well i had fun, but in that last race i had a problem, i could only see DJ and me racind, and as i was leaving the room i noticed CSSDK said that i knock him while he was overtaking me and i don´t really know because i could not see him.
is that a common thing to happen?? not see people you are racing with?? if that happens tomorrow in the race could be really bad, just hopping that doesn´t happen tomorrow again.
by the way, sorry CSSDK

Apparently that can happen I read it on a post about not seeing others...did you not see CSSdk in the race results either??? There was 4 in the last race..piti, CSS, Me and IDK

 

[DJAbacus]

so it was not only me, i feel less bad person now

i didn´t get hit at all, i gess you can only get hit by people you can see on the track

lol....I might have blocked you overtaking me on that hairpin in an early race..what a dirty driver...

 

[madwi]

I never saw piti listed in the race results...all the races only had three of us that I could see.

 

[piti]

i dind´t see them on the results either, i cleared the cache before i went online, any other tips??

 

[piti]

lol....I might have blocked you overtaking me on that hairpin in an early race..what a dirty driver...

i don´t mind blocking, it keeps it interesting

 

[DJAbacus]

I never saw piti listed in the race results...all the races only had three of us that I could see.

Did you see piti in the lounge? Piti did you see CSSdk in the lounge?

 

[piti]

yes, in the lounge i saw him, but never in the race

 

[madwi]

yeah I could see him listed in the lounge. i thought he was just kinda weird and watching us all race

 

[Otsdarva]

yeah I could see him listed in the lounge. i thought he was just kinda weird and watching us all race

I lol'd

Let's hope this problem doesn't plague the race tomorrow I'd hate to find out I cut someone off on entering a turn.

 

[DJAbacus]

yeah I could see him listed in the lounge. i thought he was just kinda weird and watching us all race

lol

Yeah, I think there are online issues with this...there seems to be confusion over where people have finished etc. in some other threads I have read...never mind..lets not take it too seriously and have a bit of fun...see you tomorrow

 

[piti]

let´s hope for the best see you tomorrow guys

 

[250 GTO]

well i had fun, but in that last race i had a problem, i could only see DJ and me racind, and as i was leaving the room i noticed CSSDK said that i knock him while he was overtaking me and i don´t really know because i could not see him.
is that a common thing to happen?? not see people you are racing with?? if that happens tomorrow in the race could be really bad, just hopping that doesn´t happen tomorrow again.
by the way, sorry CSSDK

Wel that explains it then no biggie.
And FYI, it was when you spun out a little after the first turn on lap three that I was about to pass you, but instead I got bumped into the sand, as you returned to the track

 

[piti]

Wel that explains it then no biggie.
And FYI, it was when you spun out a little after the first turn on lap three that I was about to pass you, but instead I got bumped into the sand, as you returned to the track

so while i was trying to keep the car on the road, you were having a battle for the first place, i hope i can have a proper battle with you today

 

[Jhodas]

I'm in for tonight if there's still space! Should be a good one. I love Suzuka.