Time Trial Discussion

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I actually enjoyed the X2019 at the Ring in the new challenge againt the AI (whatever its called), such a nice flow and much corners flat out, it's amazing in VR also, but knowing how aliens usually do at this track, especially our Japanese friends, I guess I'll be at least 10 seconds behind :D

Based on the leaderboard times for that challenge I'm about 30s a lap behind. Think I'll skip that one, getting even 3rd in the race was annoying enough.

Always have problems with the middle section of GVH using the Gr cars, so a good chance to figure it out in a nice slow car.
 
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I mean, it's harmless isn't it? The prize is percentage based, not placement based. If he was putting 3 people out of gold then you'd have more reason to be concerned but there's no prizes for top 100.

Top 10 I can understand being miffed at but that's it.
I think I have to side with @SPDN Stefano here. The "prize" for many people certainly in this thread isn't the credits that come with gold, silver or bronze, but the bragging rights of placing high on the leaderboard, also especially the GTP leaderboard. I'd rather see "people" compete there than "accounts". Then again I never really understood the appeal of maintaining multiple accounts in the first place (other than being able to re-play the single player campaign), but that's just me.
 
Yeah that is what it really boils down to. Competing with real people for position on the leaderboard, not battling a guy with three accounts and another guy with five. My PB on GT time trials is like 279th on Lake Louise. How many duplicate accounts were ahead of me? I don't know. It makes the statistics meaningless.
 
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I think I have to side with @SPDN Stefano here. The "prize" for many people certainly in this thread isn't the credits that come with gold, silver or bronze, but the bragging rights of placing high on the leaderboard, also especially the GTP leaderboard. I'd rather see "people" compete there than "accounts". Then again I never really understood the appeal of maintaining multiple accounts in the first place (other than being able to re-play the single player campaign), but that's just me.
I don't mind it in theory, but imagine if there were three or more @Dan_Tes accounts on the leaderboard... 😭
 
Don't know if that was intended, but it sounds like you're saying "I don't mind it as long as the duplicates are behind me" ;)
Ban them all before it's too late!

(Actually I think visually it's not nice to have 3 of the same person in a big group, if they are 100+ places apart then nobody would really notice - imo)
 
You know always look at bright side of life, so I am home sick, fever and things included in that..but Grand Walley wohoooo... Nice one...I mean until Jeddah joins since he loves this kinda of TTs and drop time by a second or two..
Anyhow, first session under fever, happy with that.
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Don't count your chickens yet. The X2019/Nordschleife combination (or whatever they choose) would be a separate TT under the World Series banner if they 1) do it and 2) repeat what they did for the three rounds' linked TT events.
Yeah, you guessed right. But we got one for humans too which is nice 🙂
(I understand sponsorship money and so on but not tempted to take X2019 for a spin on green hell)
 
I'm 12 seconds away from gold 🤣, Invalidated lap, but I'm miles away, I was following a gold ghost, and in every sector I was seconds slower.

Regarding the multiaccount subject, I don't understand the goal of doing that, I prefer see in the leaderboard one time per person, in the end is what it matters.
 
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I’m pretty certain I’ve reached my natural limit. No improvement on my VR account but I managed to improve the others to the same point.

My old account is now in the lead. Currently 57,60 and 63 on the global leaderboard.
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So is it an injection? Transdermal infusion? Or do they implant their DNA by "other means" when they abduct you? 👽
Just curious in case it ever happens to me.
 
Put up a couple bronze times with the controller for my daily marathon this morning. Potentially gold at Grand Valley. Not sure what the future holds in the X2019. Silver is 30 seconds off. Ugh. I'm not real happy about adding a bronze to the tally at Catalunya this morning but otoh my time was in the top 5% of all players which is higher than my average in the TTs so oh well.
 
I don't want to tell you or anybody else what they can or can't do on a videogame, but don't you think it ruins it for other people a little bit to put three gamertags in the top 100 of the leaderboard? (It doesn't really affect me personally because I am nowhere near the top 100)

I mean, it's harmless isn't it? The prize is percentage based, not placement based. If he was putting 3 people out of gold then you'd have more reason to be concerned but there's no prizes for top 100.

Top 10 I can understand being miffed at but that's it.

I guess it would depend on your perspective and mindset.

I can understand how you might think it is only important if it affects the Top 10, as by my records you have not been in the top 10 in GT7, but have been in the top 100 4 times.

SELECT a.evt_name, b.psn_id, c.psn_result from events a JOIN evt_results c ON a.evt_id=c.evt_id JOIN all_contestants b on c.uuid=b.uuid WHERE b.psn_id='Nebu-72' and c.psn_result < 100
evt_name | psn_id | psn_result
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Daytona Road Course - Porsche 911 GT3 RS (992) 22 | Nebu-72 | 83
Watkins Glen Short Course - Alpine A110 Première Édition 17 | Nebu-72 | 46
Grand Valley - South - Wicked Fabrication GT 51 | Nebu-72 | 88
Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit - Genesis G70 3.3T AWD Prestige Package 22 | Nebu-72 | 59
(4 rows)

Whereas for someone who has never been in the top 100 it might be very important.

SELECT min(c.psn_result) from events a JOIN evt_results c ON a.evt_id=c.evt_id JOIN all_contestants b on c.uuid=b.uuid WHERE b.psn_id= 'SPDN Stefano' ;
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1026

And to someone like me who suffers from 'imposter syndrome' ( as diagnosed by @crome )I can understand how it might be important to validate your time with multiple results.

As usual YMMV.

Ken
 
Yeah that is what it really boils down to. Competing with real people for position on the leaderboard, not battling a guy with three accounts and another guy with five. My PB on GT time trials is like 279th on Lake Louise. How many duplicate accounts were ahead of me? I don't know. It makes the statistics meaningless.
For my personal enlightenment and data integrity purposes.... I am not showing you as having participated at Lake Louise TT56, Did you previously have a different PSN id ? Thanks.
 
Did 3 exploration laps.
Did "exploration" laps as you say too. 5 of them. 3 of them invalidated, 2 by going too wide at turn 3 (lap 1 and 4), 1 by being a bit too much on the inside at turn 14 (lap 5...) :

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Not so far from gold, but I feel like I am already close to my limits and the gold time will go down quickly too, so not very optimistic.

Combo is nice though, not easy to maintain control over the car but fun.
 
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For my personal enlightenment and data integrity purposes.... I am not showing you as having participated at Lake Louise TT56, Did you previously have a different PSN id ? Thanks.
No I was referring to the recent Michelin TT at Lake Louise with the Hyundai. But I guess my PB there doesn't really count because it was Europeans only lol.
 
Thanks, that explains why I didn't see it or know about it.
I appreciate you taking the time to help me.
Ken
Yep, my record was also in that TT, but doesnt count as was Europe only

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Not bad my latest results for a B rating driver tho, my consolation prize haha.

Nurburgring is insanely difficult, if I can get silver will be a miracle.
 
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12 GTP guys in top 100, amazing :D
I only count as 1/3 of a person though.

What amazes me with this one is how we have all improved over our prior best placements.
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It is like the real fast people looked at this and saw EV and said nah. It makes you wonder where’s all the fast people went or why they didn’t do well at this one?
Then again I never really understood the appeal of maintaining multiple accounts in the first place (other than being able to re-play the single player campaign), but that's just me.
Easy. Originally had one (TheNormsk) that is NA based. Then created the other (Normsk Abroad) so I can play on Euro servers to race with different people (I don’t use this one very often and it was my go to Sport account for races I didn’t feel good about to protect my A rating on the other).

Then when I got VR I wasn’t very good at first and wanted to start the game over so I created a new VR account. That’s the account I mostly use now.
And to someone like me who suffers from 'imposter syndrome' ( as diagnosed by @crome )I can understand how it might be important to validate your time with multiple results.
That’s precisely it. I typically only use the VR account now but my results were so good I couldn’t believe it so I had to try the others. The fact they’re all about the same place means I can feel certain that this is my true ability.
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So is it an injection? Transdermal infusion? Or do they implant their DNA by "other means" when they abduct you? 👽
Just curious in case it ever happens to me.
Unfortunately is seems you get sour discourse. ☹️
 
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I'm doing the Grand Valley TT and holy moly are the track limits random and arbritrary in this game. What constitutes as a track limit violation differ greatly not only from track to track but from corner to corner.
 
I guess it would depend on your perspective and mindset.

I can understand how you might think it is only important if it affects the Top 10, as by my records you have not been in the top 10 in GT7, but have been in the top 100 4 times.

Daytona Road Course - Porsche 911 GT3 RS (992) 22 | Nebu-72 | 83
Watkins Glen Short Course - Alpine A110 Première Édition 17 | Nebu-72 | 46
Grand Valley - South - Wicked Fabrication GT 51 | Nebu-72 | 88
Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit - Genesis G70 3.3T AWD Prestige Package 22 | Nebu-72 | 59
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As usual YMMV.

Ken
Hey, it's five now! That's missing the Yaris TT!

I do of course understand both perspectives, I'm just throwing in my 2c.
My point on the top 10 is just because that's what GT natively highlights as the 'best' - up to only giving the top 10 ghosts. If they highlighted up to top 15, 50 and so on in the same way I'd also be bummed out to be pushed out of it.
 
Wow the S2K is a blast around GV. I love GV to begin with but this car works well here. I wish PD's Daily race group had half the imagination the TT group has. This would be a good one... reminiscent of the Mazdas at Road Atlanta.
 
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