Originally posted by akina_86
i tired of these people.........to me i think the people who use sim tires aint got enough skill to drift with slick........they can handle it cause to the it would eventually grip. whatever that exibition drift i say sucks...it aint nothin without the speed......speed is the most thrilling thing about racing.........sim. tire cut that way out of the picture.........sim tire suck for drifting and racing........too slow........
peace out!
Simulation Tires are put in the game so that racers like you and me and other people can feel what a car would do under certain conditions. If you think that using slicks to drift is a lot faster, that's good for you but you have to remind yourself about this: THIS IS A GAME. If you say that people who drift with simulation tires suck, you might want to look at a few pictures before you start saying such criticism such as this. There are many people in this forum that use Simulation Tires (like myself) that are happy to see that the car is drifting with the car as sideways as it can go without spinning out.
Of course, speed is the essential idea of racing. People want to race with as much speed as they can get. If you want to drift and then expect to go as fast as you would taking the racing line, you might want to think about that again. The tires in the game are supposed to give the racers a feeling of the game and not real life. Games that parallel so close to reality gets so boring. That's why games like Starcraft and many other good games are different from the real world so that people can imagine. That's what Gran Turismo 3 is: it's using real life cars and giving it a "game-feeling." For people who want to get as close to reality as possible, they would use Simulation Tires so that they can drive with the feedback that is as close to reality as possible that the game can handle.
Exhibition drifting is drifting that makes people excited to watch. People like to watch cars go sideways as much as the car can handle and see if it can still be controlled. There is no crime in that. And of course, exhibition drifting is nothing because there isn't so much speed, but you didn't consider the feeling of watching cars burning rubber and the excitement in the air that it creates when cars drift with style.
Here's something that everyone should remember: Drifting is
NOT about speed. It's about controlling the car to stay on a line before the fine line of control breaks. If you think that drifting is all about speed, you might want to think about it again. Drifting that people are looking for most of the time around GTPlanet.net are the ones that have lots of smoke with the car as sideways as much as it can be when it tackles a corner. Although you can four wheel drift and go faster through a turn with that kind of tactic, there is a difference between drifting and taking the racing line. If you try to drift one car on a track and then take the racing line with the same car on the same track, you may notice that the time may be higher when you drifted compared to when you took the racing line. Try it and then start talking about drifting. Drifting could help you in a few corners, but if you want to take the racing line, you'll save only a couple tenths of a second on a lap.
The other tires in the game are supposed to give the game the actual "gaming experience." It was never given the name "SIMULATION HARD" or "SIMULATION SOFT" because the game needs to have a feel where the racers can be able to choose different tires. They weren't supposed to represent reality because drifting ~60 MPH is already tough enough to control the car. If you drift in the game >85 MPH, then you should be racing professionally.
Also, I hope that the people in GTP Forums have enough respect for other people's opinions because: 1) People around the world log on to this website and 2) Many people have different ways of drifting.
Whatever you post in this forum, it shows a lot of you: how nice you are, how you are willing to talk with other people, and how people look at you.
akina_86, you might want to reshape your status on GTPlanet because if you do more harsh remarks, it just shows how much you are willing to accept other people's ideas. From the other replies you posted, it shows your immaturity. There is a chance that this can change, but that's all up to you.
and i think sim "TIRES" are the best. you can drift REALLY long with them. unlike super soft, you cant do much unless the car is FAST! like the supra get's over a 900Hp i think. that is when you use super soft.
