Worst you've dealt with online...

[Bushby_23]

Ive come to the very effective conclusion that usually gets rid of rammers in clean lobbies: hit them back. Im just going to start following the principle of treating others how you would wish to be treated, only its the other way round.

I joined a clean or kick shuffle race lobby the other night, and there where a few euros who drove in 12 car races like they were the only ones on the track. First incident came when on the last lap of a 3 lapper at Monza. I was second coming out of the first chicane, and rapidly closing in on the leader going into the second chicane. I pulled up beside him in the braking zone, making sure I was slow enough to still give him room to complete the corner as well. He tries to hit the apex, running into my car in the process as I was trying to pass him. I leave enough room for him to take the apex in the second corner in that chicane, only for him to t bone me somewhat into the sand. Sick of being nudged around by this bloke, I got a much better run than him through the first lesmo, pulling along side him and nudged him into the sand, where he ran into the solid brake markers. After the race I copped some abuse from him, and told him how that his racing is nothing to be praising. After the host told him to nto be so agressive as well, he left.

Same track, 2 races later, another problem arose between me and another euro. Frist lap coming up to the braking zone of the first chicane, after only pulling along side me, thinks he can then duck in front of me right at the braking zone (one of my real pet hates; DONT pull directly infront of someone at the start of a braking zone, its always going to end in tears). Of course, he wasnt in front of me so he ran my car half onto the grass, and while braking, the car speared off to the other side of the track. Luckily enough, I didnt hit anyone as I shot off to the other side of the track, on the out field. Rejoining the track without getting in any ones way, I thought I was in the clear. Wrong. He hits me again, into the sand trap, after not considering the fact that one of the other nine cars may have been on the outside and that you shouldnt run so wide as if it were a quali lap (he already knew my car was there, he wouldve seen it as he hit it twice before the third time which put me in that sand). So I catch up to him by the second lap at Curva Grande, and decide to use up all his racing room, and lightly force him off into the sand. Coming out of Ascari, he runs into the side off me, trying to force me into a wall. When I come out of Parabolica infront of him, he rage quiuts the race, and hurls abuse. I again explain to him why I did it, before he calls me crazy and rage quits the lobby.

Sick off seing people like this, so Im just going to start fighting back now.

 

[breakbeatfreak]

if everyone would handle it like you, we could all play NFS instead of GT5...

 

[Bushby_23]

if everyone would handle it like you, we could all play NFS instead of GT5...

Mate, Ive been doing this for well over a year now, and frankly I've grown tired of those who jump into a Clean lobby, and barge their way past everyone. When the host does nothing, thats when I start to take things into my own hands.

Simple fact is, only push as hard as you are willing to be pushed back. If thats too much of a problem, then leave. Race clean against me and apologize for the ocasional tap, then you have no gripe with me, and I shall race as clean as I possibly can against you.

 

[chuyler1]

Good story Bushby. I've had countless similar experiences. Always remember to give people a second chance though. Lag can make the best drivers look like idiots. But for some, it isn't lag, it's just personality. They expect you to give them full corner rights but when you are in the same situation they refuse to back off. They fail to see the correlation between their previous actions and your planned and properly executed reaction.

Also, many online drivers still use something other than bumper cam...which of course means they won't see your car coming up from behind until it's too late.

But regardless, bump me once, shame on me. Bump me twice shame on you. If there is a third time I am beside you, rest assured I will have the inside line and there will be no outside line that doesnt involve some grass mowing.

 

[Bushby_23]

Good story Bushby. I've had countless similar experiences. Always remember to give people a second chance though. Lag can make the best drivers look like idiots. But for some, it isn't lag, it's just personality. They expect you to give them full corner rights but when you are in the same situation they refuse to back off. They fail to see the correlation between their previous actions and your planned and properly executed reaction.

Also, many online drivers still use something other than bumper cam...which of course means they won't see your car coming up from behind until it's too late.

But regardless, bump me once, shame on me. Bump me twice shame on you. If there is a third time I am beside you, rest assured I will have the inside line and there will be no outside line that doesnt involve some grass mowing.

I usually do, but watching their cars throught the races I saw that they were doing the same to everyone else. I was the exception that just fought back. And thats true about the cams, but normally they can see whats directly to the side of them in those situations :indif:

 

[chuyler1]

If you watched the 24hrs of Daytona last week you would have caught quite a bit of action between the lead cars. McNish squeezed out Allmendinger exiting turn 1. A few laps later McNish really squeezed Allmendinger down low on the oval. Dinger lost a bit of grip and creeped up the track enough to tap McNish at 160 mph. MicNish retaliated by ramming into him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aqucU7U0HMM#t=30s

My point being....dirty racing is still racing. Drivers do it in real life, and drivers do it in the game. Once you learn someone's pattern, you just have to adjust for it, and dish it back out when the time comes. Just like your B-spec bobs, you gotta stay cool and in control.

The sad part about your story is that the driver couldn't handle anyone else driving dirty against him, because surprise surprise, it isn't as much fun when someone pushes you off the track. When I host, I usually set reverse grid. As I pass drivers, if anyone gives me grief or punts me on the next turn, I punt them back (out of the lobby that is). As a host, you really don't know what is going on if you start at the front of the grid every race.

 

[Bushby_23]

If you watched the 24hrs of Daytona last week you would have caught quite a bit of action between the lead cars. McNish squeezed out Allmendinger exiting turn 1. A few laps later McNish really squeezed Allmendinger down low on the oval. Dinger lost a bit of grip and creeped up the track enough to tap McNish at 160 mph. MicNish retaliated by ramming into him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aqucU7U0HMM#t=30s

My point being....dirty racing is still racing. Drivers do it in real life, and drivers do it in the game. Once you learn someone's pattern, you just have to adjust for it, and dish it back out when the time comes. Just like your B-spec bobs, you gotta stay cool and in control.

The sad part about your story is that the driver couldn't handle anyone else driving dirty against him, because surprise surprise, it isn't as much fun when someone pushes you off the track. When I host, I usually set reverse grid. As I pass drivers, if anyone gives me grief or punts me on the next turn, I punt them back (out of the lobby that is). As a host, you really don't know what is going on if you start at the front of the grid every race.

Oh squeezing I'm fine with, its when it becomes continual physical contact, thats when I start to have an issue. Funnily enough, I'd already seen that video, but didnt really catch any of the race as such. Oh well...

 

[MOTORTRENDmitch]

It bugs me when people are racist...

 

[HP]

It bugs me when people are racist...

now that's just typical of a Mitch to say

 

[Snaeper]

I've had some bad instances with bad people and that's to be expected.

Recently though, I was racing in a good shuffle lobby with a good host who raced clean and seemed to want to foster competition well... but then he made one of the strangest decisions I think I've ever seen anyone make.

For some reason or another, a rally track popped up as the course for us to race on. I'm a fan of rallying, even online. I know that things get messy, people get bumped and s*** flies, I expect it. I think that if you want to help deter the problem you can turn on SRF to help driver control, penalties can be on weak or strong and damage can be on light.... but not heavy. Heavy just doesn't make sense.



He set the damage on heavy.



Needless to say I was pretty ticked but I went ahead with it anyways... still wondering why someone would set damage on heavy when there isn't even a pit area to get it fixed. When there's not enough laps to help things be fair. Sure the motivation is to teach the idiots who run into walls a lesson, but what about me? What about the guy who wants to race clean? What am I supposed to think when a Subaru spins out right in front of me without me knowing due to the large amounts of snow that are kicked up in front of my face? I had the Mitsubishi Tarmac Rally Car! I was a shoe-in for the win! Now I have to lope around for the rest of the race with a bum engine and wheels. All because I got bottle-necked into t-boning some rookie who couldn't keep his car going forward for half a lap. I don't even get to have a decent chance.

Yeah, I let him know how I felt about his idiotic decision for the next couple events. No, I didn't hold a grudge because outside of that he was a pretty good guy.

The Lesson:

The most common and unfortunate solution to this problem is that people avoid rallying online. This is a shame because you cannot get better if you don't practice. The more people play on the dirt, the better they'll get.

If you do want to race on dirt/snow online and want to put a leash on the rookies, do anything... ANYTHING except setting damage on heavy. It's just not worth it.

 

[MedigoFlame]

Thread-digging to ask, why does it have purple wheels anyway?

The reason my Skyline 370GT has purple wheels because I did it as a bit of an experiment. I grew a little bored of my usual style of visual tuning with subtle looks and decided to go outrageous. I never really liked the 370GT in the first place, so I decided to play around with it. Was going more towards the outrageous drifter look for the car and I quite like it. Is there really something wrong with someone trying something different or going a different route?

 

[Tonystew42]

People who bring Nascars into a SSRX room should be burned at the stake.

 

[Schwartz]

People who bring Nascars into a SSRX room should be burned at the stake.

How about a "nascar on steroids" race? Is that okay? Or do you mean just a normal SSRX lobby with other cars?

 

[White & Nerdy]

The reason my Skyline 370GT has purple wheels because I did it as a bit of an experiment. I grew a little bored of my usual style of visual tuning with subtle looks and decided to go outrageous. I never really liked the 370GT in the first place, so I decided to play around with it. Was going more towards the outrageous drifter look for the car and I quite like it. Is there really something wrong with someone trying something different or going a different route?

If you painted the rims a stupid color because it's a stupid car, that's fine... but the 370GT isn't a stupid car. The Tesla and iMiev are.

Standard stylistic practice is that rims should be black, white, or somewhere in between. Maybe a dusty gold depending on the main body color.

 

[JKcreativeworks]

If you painted the rims a stupid color because it's a stupid car, that's fine... but the 370GT isn't a stupid car. The Tesla and iMiev are.

Standard stylistic practice is that rims should be black, white, or somewhere in between. Maybe a dusty gold depending on the main body color.

Thats just your opinion.

Why do people complain about some peoples choice of colour/wheels?!

A few days ago, i ran around in a lobby called "skyline cruise", where people ran around in Nissan GT-R's... Anyway i took my R34, cruised and some English little shat started to call me a ricer because of my off-coloured wheels? I mean why does he even care, it's not his car i've "ruined". Then he proceeded to curse and shout at me with his lack of decent english, txt talk and such. And i got kicked out, ah well, Some people...

 

[ChoShoTamashi]

Thats just your opinion.

Why do people complain about some peoples choice of colour/wheels?!

A few days ago, i ran around in a lobby called "skyline cruise", where people ran around in Nissan GT-R's... Anyway i took my R34, cruised and some English little shat started to call me a ricer because of my off-coloured wheels? I mean why does he even care, it's not his car i've "ruined". Then he proceeded to curse and shout at me with his lack of decent english, txt talk and such. And i got kicked out, ah well, Some people...

Maturity of some people these days. The best thing to do is meet a few online friends at GTP, someone make a public room, and everyone have fun over there while meeting new people. If someone races dirty, you can boot him off easy. Racing with complete strangers is kinda a double edged sword as you don't know what to expect.

 

[Snaeper]

If you painted the rims a stupid color because it's a stupid car, that's fine... but the 370GT isn't a stupid car. The Tesla and iMiev are.

He never said it was a stupid car, this makes no sense in relation to his post. He simply said he didn't like the car. I went crazy with my 370GT paint job too, and for the exact same reasons as he stated. I wanted my car to look like some wild Japanese drift/show car. Same goes for my Lexus ISF which I never drive and don't care for, it's got Purple on Purple Chrome.

Standard stylistic practice is that rims should be black, white, or somewhere in between. Maybe a dusty gold depending on the main body color.

He (I think) and I would both agree with you. However, if you follow the "standard stylistic practice" on every car you own and you own 500 cars... it can become a little redundant and boring. I like painting cars in a simple body/wheel color combo for most of my rides (I even try to avoid using metallic colors some times 'cause they can look gaudy depending on most applications), but like I said above, things can get boring and I'll waste a car with a few colorful paint chips "for the lols".

 

[MedigoFlame]

If you painted the rims a stupid color because it's a stupid car, that's fine... but the 370GT isn't a stupid car. The Tesla and iMiev are.

Standard stylistic practice is that rims should be black, white, or somewhere in between. Maybe a dusty gold depending on the main body color.

Funny enough, I've actually grown to like the 370GT. After a bit of tuning, it's become one of my favorite drift cars in GT5. I agree on the "standard" styles of painting wheels, but there are those who like to express themselves differently rather than following the norm. One statement that I came across on the internet is something I quite like and go by. "Tuners tune their cars the way they like it, ricers modify their cars the way they think other people like it." It's mainly about the individual and how they want to work things out, either as an experiment or a personal interest in that specific style. As Snaeper said, it can become rather boring looking through your garage and find how much of a similar style they are. Most of my cars are a dark grey, white, black, blue, or dark red... And I decided to change things up. Probably best we close this issue and get back to the main idea of the thread...

Just to show you what it looks like...I'll post it here even though this isn't a photo thread. >_>

 

[Morgoth_666]

^^ Looks like rhubarb.

Rims can be painted any color someone wants, nothing wrong with that. Lugnuts are by convention silver or black too but I've seen yellow, pink, purple, and blue on real race cars. Not all hood pins are silver, black or color matched to the hood either.

As long as it looks good to the owner(or they're going for an intentionally gaudy look) it's fine. Even more so since we only have two things we can colorize to make our cars look our own.

I've only painted one set of rims and they're goldish-yellow, to match a real race car.

 

[sumbrownkid]

I was accused of having a "boost controller" (LOL WHAT?) while dragging my Toyota supra RZ against an R33 GT-R late last night.

I mean he could be right. It couldn't have just been me knowing when to shift.

 

[Morgoth_666]

I was accused of having a "boost controller" (LOL WHAT?) while dragging my Toyota supra RZ against an R33 GT-R late last night.

I mean he could be right. It couldn't have just been me knowing when to shift.

Stupid cheaters with your stupid turbo controllers ruining it for everyone else.

 

[t_w_a_h]

If you painted the rims a stupid color because it's a stupid car, that's fine... but

You would so despise my pink Evo with lime green rims. 👍

 

[MasterLeaf]

I had a scrub come into a SSRX lobby in a Veyron and demanded the race started. Then 2 more joined. I got out my '05 Pescarolo and dominated them at 265mph.

 

[Evolvedsoul]

I was accused of having a "boost controller" (LOL WHAT?) while dragging my Toyota supra RZ against an R33 GT-R late last night.

I mean he could be right. It couldn't have just been me knowing when to shift.

What's a boost controller? How would that help in GT5?

 

[Snow_leopard]

What haped to me is i enter a honda acura drag "ff" i was in a civic ek fully tuned no rm and i beat the one that created the lobby using a ek whit rm and he say he miss a gear so we races again i beat him for the second time and he just kick me out of the lobby

 

[JKcreativeworks]

Stupid cheaters with your stupid turbo controllers ruining it for everyone else.

Haha.

 

[White & Nerdy]

WOW. Where's my unsee button?

You would so despise my pink Evo with lime green rims.

You are indeed correct. I hate it when people purposely contradict good taste just to get attention. Dark red + black rims would be worlds better on that car.

 

[TopGearFTW]

WOW. Where's my unsee button?



You are indeed correct. I hate it when people purposely contradict good taste just to get attention. Dark red + black rims would be worlds better on that car.

You know it's all personal taste right? I personally think the gold chrome looks silly, others might think it looks good when used on certain cars, it's all taste, and not necessarily "just to get attention".

 

[White & Nerdy]

You know it's all personal taste right? I personally think the gold chrome looks silly, others might think it looks good when used on certain cars, it's all taste, and not necessarily "just to get attention".

No one above the age of 8 thinks lime green and pink look good together.

 

[TopGearFTW]

No one above the age of 8 thinks lime green and pink look good together.

Lime green and pink sweets usually means lime + strawberry flavour. I think that looks very good.

But I agree with you thats it's not exactly as conventional as greyscale rims are, doesn't mean no-one out there likes it though.