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What did you do in GT7 today?
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Size doesnt matter....
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Very hot here and the " plan " for today will be quite short i believe.
Just one lemans for the daily bla bla bla , ill buy a second roadster for cycological reasons and then ill open my saved Aston invitation just in case the new Valkyrie belong to the invitation cars.
@Eggstor" put " me these thoughts in another thread and since i have it ,ill use it just in case.
Will expire before the update anyway........
Irelevant now , but i wonder, how many laps at Lemans Valkyrie could do at FM6 ?
One and a half ? Two and a half ? half and a half ?
Will find out soon and i hope to be from wrong.....to very wrong .
Usually the " carrot " didn't come along, the " whip " is somewhere around and isn't noticeable with the first sight.
Just one lemans for the daily bla bla bla , ill buy a second roadster for cycological reasons and then ill open my saved Aston invitation just in case the new Valkyrie belong to the invitation cars.
@Eggstor" put " me these thoughts in another thread and since i have it ,ill use it just in case.
Will expire before the update anyway........
Irelevant now , but i wonder, how many laps at Lemans Valkyrie could do at FM6 ?
One and a half ? Two and a half ? half and a half ?
Will find out soon and i hope to be from wrong.....to very wrong .
Usually the " carrot " didn't come along, the " whip " is somewhere around and isn't noticeable with the first sight.
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Ground towards buying that old Alfa. Currently at 13 million. Also won the 1 hour Spa race with the Ford Roadster I've had sitting around since last year and the same Porsche used in the CE with only 700 PP. I golded all of that CE except the full lap.
All that was done on flat screen due to the frustration of the CE.
All that was done on flat screen due to the frustration of the CE.
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I did the WTC700 at LM in the Ferrari 458 GT3 (a standard grind race) but it is not that easy when it stays dry.
I managed the win, but only just.
I figured on a 2-stopper (as usual), 3 laps, 3 laps then a splash and dash before the final lap... but, the AI uses a split strategy - Haywood always does a 1-stopper, and the rest do 2.
Normally, a 2-stopper using FM1 is the best strategy and will beat Haywood's 1-stop strategy, but I didn't figure on the tyre wear making the car more of a handful, and I nerfed it at the first chicane on the back straight twice.
That left me no option but to switch to a last-ditch strategy change and to stay out on my worn RS tyres and to switch to FM6 and hope Haywood wouldn't catch me.
It turned out that I was able to hold him off - he was much quicker in the straights, but slower in the corners... and I had enough fuel left to switch it back up to FM3 around Indianapolis.
So a well deserved and quite entertaining race, but it is definitely not a gimme for me any more.
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I decided not to go for the 917K this time, even though I love it... I'm going to go for the CLK and the 330P4 for 2 million less than the 917K.
I managed the win, but only just.
I figured on a 2-stopper (as usual), 3 laps, 3 laps then a splash and dash before the final lap... but, the AI uses a split strategy - Haywood always does a 1-stopper, and the rest do 2.
Normally, a 2-stopper using FM1 is the best strategy and will beat Haywood's 1-stop strategy, but I didn't figure on the tyre wear making the car more of a handful, and I nerfed it at the first chicane on the back straight twice.
That left me no option but to switch to a last-ditch strategy change and to stay out on my worn RS tyres and to switch to FM6 and hope Haywood wouldn't catch me.
It turned out that I was able to hold him off - he was much quicker in the straights, but slower in the corners... and I had enough fuel left to switch it back up to FM3 around Indianapolis.
So a well deserved and quite entertaining race, but it is definitely not a gimme for me any more.
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I decided not to go for the 917K this time, even though I love it... I'm going to go for the CLK and the 330P4 for 2 million less than the 917K.
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So far, engine swapped a Firdbird "Sleeper Cell".
Wide body and rims. Wide offset brought the PP down so no to that. Put 4 different transmissions in. The OE transmission with a Gear Vendor OD and 3 Other TKO transmissions in it.
Should be a hoot to drive.
959 #1 got the racing air and exhaust treatment as well as a suspension for off-road racing.
Wide body and rims. Wide offset brought the PP down so no to that. Put 4 different transmissions in. The OE transmission with a Gear Vendor OD and 3 Other TKO transmissions in it.
Should be a hoot to drive.
959 #1 got the racing air and exhaust treatment as well as a suspension for off-road racing.
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Bought more paint. Obsessed. Going for the 100% Paint acquired trophy that doesn't exist and it never should.
^ show me your bored without saying your bored^
^ show me your bored without saying your bored^
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The CLK will do 4 laps at Le Mans on fuel 1.
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Today I made it to 75M so since I'm waiting on 4 LCD cars I'm not spending right now.
@smoothbore12 Its gonna be good being back to 100M again.
Also I'm so excited for the Valkyrie next week this will be a long week waiting for the update.
@smoothbore12 Its gonna be good being back to 100M again.
Also I'm so excited for the Valkyrie next week this will be a long week waiting for the update.
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10 laps at WG TT
A good improvement that could have been a great improvement, have I not butchered an easy turn at the end of the lap, went down from -1.2s to -0.8s on the previous best lap of the session, which would have put me below 1:57.000. Finally 1:57.111.
Another light improvement later with 1:57.012 on lap 9.
Optimal 1:56.173...
Lap count 67.
Butchering a good lap (go to 1:35 if you don't want to watch all the lap).
Forgot to set the display for race info (should be on by default).
DW 4* -> 30k 😔 there was (among all better prizes, a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 '11)
A good improvement that could have been a great improvement, have I not butchered an easy turn at the end of the lap, went down from -1.2s to -0.8s on the previous best lap of the session, which would have put me below 1:57.000. Finally 1:57.111.
Another light improvement later with 1:57.012 on lap 9.
Optimal 1:56.173...
Lap count 67.
Butchering a good lap (go to 1:35 if you don't want to watch all the lap).
Forgot to set the display for race info (should be on by default).
DW 4* -> 30k 😔 there was (among all better prizes, a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 '11)
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Ran the ‘92 NSX swap and the Ford Roadster swap. Ran a handful of TT’s with the G70. Snuck into Bronze, hate the car. Got an exhaust from the wheel.
Just been grinding and doing some Circuit Experiences lately. I decided that I want to get a million collector points so I’ve been buying a lot of cars from the LCD and UCD. I’ve now got 6 962C, 3 917K, and 4 CLK-LM but I have the credits for a 5th CLK and I’m waiting for the F1 road car and I’m getting number 3 and 4 of those whenever they drop and I’ve had the 40 million credits for what seems like forever now.
I’ve been getting silver in the sectors for the CE and just settling for Bronze for the lap. I couldn’t manage silver in the Rally courses nor the final sector of Le Sarthe. I have not tried Nurburgring or Asia yet either but I finished all the American courses and most of Europe.
Got a 4-star ticket that spat out the 458 Italia engine and I already have the only swap for that already so I’m not too excited about it.
I’ve been getting silver in the sectors for the CE and just settling for Bronze for the lap. I couldn’t manage silver in the Rally courses nor the final sector of Le Sarthe. I have not tried Nurburgring or Asia yet either but I finished all the American courses and most of Europe.
Got a 4-star ticket that spat out the 458 Italia engine and I already have the only swap for that already so I’m not too excited about it.
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@Touring Mars, nerfing a soft-shod Gr.3 car enough to grind Sarthe doesn't sound like a great strategy, especially since the Gr.4 AI drivers that run soft tires do change them at least once in a dry race and a fair number of stock Gr.3 cars can now easily grind it with just rain tires waiting behind pit wall because they're under 700 PP. Back before the big Gr.3 PP reduction a few updates ago, I made a BMW M3 GT3 (hopeless at Sardegna even before Fraga's superhuman exploits became part of the AI's bag of tricks) a rather capable Sarthe grind car by taking away some power and adding some weight to get it under 700 PP. If memory serves, it did the standard 3 laps on fuel, could almost do 7 laps in the dry before the clock ran out, and sometimes I didn't even change the hard tires (back then, some of the AI on hard tires did change them in a dry race).
@smoothbore12, I merely suggested that the Valkyrie could be the first expansion of the dreaded invite system, especially since in real life, it is only by invitation from Aston Martin that one can get a Valkyrie. I also noted that the Bugatti Chiron wasn't ensnared in PD's implementation despite its predecessor being a part of it. As for using it as a grind car, if memory serves, the less-powerful Vulcan requires fuel saving beyond simply setting FM 6 to get through 5 laps at the Sardegna grind. Also, I strongly suspect that trying to get the Valkyrie under 700 PP would take away too much performance.
@05XR8, that's why when I was on vacation, I limited Remote Play to recording the UCD and Hagerty's changes. It is such a bandwidth hog that it failed multiple times in marginal LTE environments.
Anyway, back to racing. On the GTP account, I did some poor, yet fast (only 4.13% off the record as I type), laps around Brands Hatch in the rented mule. I should be collecting 1,000,000 Cr. in 2 weeks even though I don't like either the car (too tail-happy and too heavy) or the track (that first turn is a killer). My time around Watkins Glen remained solidly in the silver bracket as well, so I didn't hit that track again.
For the cash and the 4-star Wheel of Despair (for a racing muffler for the AMG safety car), I tried the Vulcan again. It indeed requires additional fuel saving to make 5 laps, it requires a set of tires (as I found out the hard way while trying to work lapped traffic on lap 15), and isn't fast enough to handle a Fraga that is on his game. Instead, I went back to old reliable - the 2008 Honda NSX GT500.
On the Plus account, the 26:55 (and barely sub-1:43 best lap) turned in the 1998 Toyota Supra GT500 wasn't good enough to beat a hopped-up Fraga, who won by 5.3 seconds. The Supra will go almost 6 laps on fuel, and will go 15 laps on tires, but if one gets the wrong Fraga, there's no hope.
The 9th 3-star Wheel of Despair of 17 on this account and 15th of 34 overall this month (guaranteeing a more-than-3-in-10 rate between the two accounts and a more-than-1-in-3 rate for the Plus account), which makes for 55 of 144 on the year for this account, puked out, for the 7th time this month the lowest-possible 5,000 Cr. If I get that one more time this month, or I skip one more day, that 5,000-Cr. booby prize will have been awarded more often than the ticket that is supposed to award it 40% of the time is supposed to appear.
@smoothbore12, I merely suggested that the Valkyrie could be the first expansion of the dreaded invite system, especially since in real life, it is only by invitation from Aston Martin that one can get a Valkyrie. I also noted that the Bugatti Chiron wasn't ensnared in PD's implementation despite its predecessor being a part of it. As for using it as a grind car, if memory serves, the less-powerful Vulcan requires fuel saving beyond simply setting FM 6 to get through 5 laps at the Sardegna grind. Also, I strongly suspect that trying to get the Valkyrie under 700 PP would take away too much performance.
@05XR8, that's why when I was on vacation, I limited Remote Play to recording the UCD and Hagerty's changes. It is such a bandwidth hog that it failed multiple times in marginal LTE environments.
Anyway, back to racing. On the GTP account, I did some poor, yet fast (only 4.13% off the record as I type), laps around Brands Hatch in the rented mule. I should be collecting 1,000,000 Cr. in 2 weeks even though I don't like either the car (too tail-happy and too heavy) or the track (that first turn is a killer). My time around Watkins Glen remained solidly in the silver bracket as well, so I didn't hit that track again.
For the cash and the 4-star Wheel of Despair (for a racing muffler for the AMG safety car), I tried the Vulcan again. It indeed requires additional fuel saving to make 5 laps, it requires a set of tires (as I found out the hard way while trying to work lapped traffic on lap 15), and isn't fast enough to handle a Fraga that is on his game. Instead, I went back to old reliable - the 2008 Honda NSX GT500.
On the Plus account, the 26:55 (and barely sub-1:43 best lap) turned in the 1998 Toyota Supra GT500 wasn't good enough to beat a hopped-up Fraga, who won by 5.3 seconds. The Supra will go almost 6 laps on fuel, and will go 15 laps on tires, but if one gets the wrong Fraga, there's no hope.
The 9th 3-star Wheel of Despair of 17 on this account and 15th of 34 overall this month (guaranteeing a more-than-3-in-10 rate between the two accounts and a more-than-1-in-3 rate for the Plus account), which makes for 55 of 144 on the year for this account, puked out, for the 7th time this month the lowest-possible 5,000 Cr. If I get that one more time this month, or I skip one more day, that 5,000-Cr. booby prize will have been awarded more often than the ticket that is supposed to award it 40% of the time is supposed to appear.
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Yesterday evening, just before sleeping
1. Improved my PB at Brands Hatch at 1:43.076.... with a 0.5 penalty
So, I should be able to gain 1 second to get closer from the yellow medal if I drive correctly 
Still need to gain 0.3 to get a safe gold on WG.
2. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ : F8 Tributo '19 😍 Already have one but I've decided not to sell this gift.
1. Improved my PB at Brands Hatch at 1:43.076.... with a 0.5 penalty
So, I should be able to gain 1 second to get closer from the yellow medal if I drive correctly Still need to gain 0.3 to get a safe gold on WG.
2. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ : F8 Tributo '19 😍 Already have one but I've decided not to sell this gift.
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9 more laps at WG TT with the Silvia
Finally in the 1:56's 😃 with a lap that could have been much better... a few missed apexes here and there. 3 laps in the 57's. At least 2 laps with penalties up to 1s.
The last turn and the first one are so important (and a bad last turn makes it impossible to get a good turn 1 even if getting it right), most of laps feel pointless once you missed turn 1.
Best lap :
Lap count 76.
DW 4* -> Lexus RC F '14, not bad. An Aston Martin invite on the wheel...
Finally in the 1:56's 😃 with a lap that could have been much better... a few missed apexes here and there. 3 laps in the 57's. At least 2 laps with penalties up to 1s.
The last turn and the first one are so important (and a bad last turn makes it impossible to get a good turn 1 even if getting it right), most of laps feel pointless once you missed turn 1.
Best lap :
Lap count 76.
DW 4* -> Lexus RC F '14, not bad. An Aston Martin invite on the wheel...
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I decided to go for the “Firm Favorite” trophy that requires you buy 10 of 1 car so I have 10 Porsche 962C’s now! Each one has a different livery I downloaded. I was worried about the price increasing since it’s supposed to go to auction IRL and I couldn’t think of any other car with a better price to coolness ratio than the 962C so here I am. Got a 4-star ticket that gave me a Civic Type R (FK8) that I already had in the same color even. Oh well…
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I have observe that every time we get closer to an update ( a week and a bit more perhaps) the weather is full of heavy rain at Lemans.
Might not last more than one and a half lap ,but is quite heavy .
Also during that month,many times the rain started on 5th or 6th lap which was quite unusual before.
Don't know what " control " the type of weather you get every time you play but isn't as was 2-3 months ago for example .
The only thing am sure now ,is that a week or so before an update (or during the end of the month) the rain hits harder reaching very often the point you see the blue line on top of rain indicator.
Since i run there almost every day and usually more than one time , am almost sure for that .
Don't know if anyone else noticed that but heavy rain ( the one with blue green and yellow spots at weather radar ) occurs mostly during the last days of the month, before the upcoming update.
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You may well be right. Now that I think about earlier this month it would be very light rain or no rain at all. Yesterday was the heaviest rain it's been in a few weeks
