UK and or Europe hosted Drag rooms?

[Maccer_42]

After falling into the trap of thinking learning to tune on the SSRX speed test will give me a fast tune for online use (and realising it doesn't), so just looking to see if there are any players who host drag rooms from the UK or Europe? I have a hard time finding any when searching for public lobbys.

Nothing personal against USA or Australian players, judging by the flags under user names on here most of you seem to be where the top competition is. But its impossible for me tune in their lobbys when I join im either booted straight away incase I cause lag, or if there is more than 4 players in the room including me im getting left at the line by at least half a car from the launch on ghost lag due to my connection.

So just looking for some friendly fun so I can learn to tune for online, no serious competition and not looking to prove anything, just hoping to learn and get better.

EDIT: Looking for For 1/4 mile rooms,
I mostly like to run slower cars or mid range cars or FF's

 

[dr_slump]

1/4mile?

 

[Maccer_42]

Yes 1/4mile sorry should have stated will edit now to state that.

 

[Master__Shake_]

After falling into the trap of thinking learning to tune on the SSRX speed test will give me a fast tune for online use (and realising it doesn't)

While it doesn't give you the absolute fastest tune for online, Route X does help significantly more than solely running online to see what effect the minuet changes to suspension cause. The 0-60 and 0-100 times can really help when setting up the transmission as well, although final top speed usually has to be changed because Indy is slightly shorter than 400m.

The simple fact is that connection lag & reaction time have a much bigger factor than anything else. You can have a slower car overall but, with a better reaction time, you will usually win. Also, depending on how close you are to the yellow hash-marks on Indy, your tire grip may not be optimum. Try moving further away from them and see if it improves your launch.

 

[Maccer_42]

While it doesn't give you the absolute fastest tune for online, Route X does help significantly more than solely running online to see what effect the minuet changes to suspension cause. The 0-60 and 0-100 times can really help when setting up the transmission as well, although final top speed usually has to be changed because Indy is slightly shorter than 400m.

The simple fact is that connection lag & reaction time have a much bigger factor than anything else. You can have a slower car overall but, with a better reaction time, you will usually win. Also, depending on how close you are to the yellow hash-marks on Indy, your tire grip may not be optimum. Try moving further away from them and see if it improves your launch.

Oh yeah I know SSRX can help with the development in a setup, but for it to be truly competitive online changes will have to be made to the setup I asume due to the slightly different physics between online/offline.

Thanks for the tip about keeping a slight gap between back tyres and the yellow marks on Indy, I always used to line up as close as possible to them without touching them.

My reason for this thread was just to find some other players I can tune/race with to learn how to setup my cars for online use that I wont have huge ghost lag with, as all i've done upto this point is tune chasing leaderboard times and in doing that 99% of my cars are setup to launch after the 3..2..1.. to get a matching/faster time for whatever car im tuning, but in doing that im just left with useless tunes for online.

 

[r4a2g0]

I keep all my tunes for SSRX. They arent useless at all, reaction time is half the race.

 

[Master__Shake_]

My reason for this thread was just to find some other players I can tune/race with to learn how to setup my cars for online use that I wont have huge ghost lag with, as all i've done upto this point is tune chasing leaderboard times and in doing that 99% of my cars are setup to launch after the 3..2..1.. to get a matching/faster time for whatever car im tuning, but in doing that im just left with useless tunes for online.

In order to get the best "online" scenario launch, just practice full-throttle launch while on Route X. And the online physics aren't nearly as different as people would have you believe. Again, it's mostly reaction time, your ping vs the ghost's ping, and the grip of your tires. It's hard to say exactly the distance on the game, but I'd guess roughly a 1/2ft or 1ft of "game distance" from the back tires to the yellow.

 

[viperbeatsvette]

After falling into the trap of thinking learning to tune on the SSRX speed test will give me a fast tune for online use (and realising it doesn't), so just looking to see if there are any players who host drag rooms from the UK or Europe? I have a hard time finding any when searching for public lobbys.

Nothing personal against USA or Australian players, judging by the flags under user names on here most of you seem to be where the top competition is. But its impossible for me tune in their lobbys when I join im either booted straight away incase I cause lag, or if there is more than 4 players in the room including me im getting left at the line by at least half a car from the launch on ghost lag due to my connection.

So just looking for some friendly fun so I can learn to tune for online, no serious competition and not looking to prove anything, just hoping to learn and get better.

EDIT: Looking for For 1/4 mile rooms,
I mostly like to run slower cars or mid range cars or FF's

Look out for team IDC they're mainly 1k but put up a good competition on the 1/4.

Look put for people like langy69 (uk) and brainblower (Spain)

 

[d24689]

I keep all my tunes for SSRX. They arent useless at all, reaction time is half the race.

But when pro's tune with pro's that reaction time Means you either win or lose. Most of time if you get someone on the tree your going to win no matter how good your tune is because the other pro's tune is just as bloody good.