Be Excellent To Each Other

Thankyou sir!

I shall have a play.

Yes, those could fuck off.

Also I didn't know you were on there. Yes, I'm that Dudley too.

It's a different forum these days but if you're not still around you'll find most of the same people at http://www.gtxf.net

OK, quick fiddle myself (missus), basically equalising the front and back settings in most cases gave me a 45.229.

Now to try Mr Snappa's stuff.

44.587. How much from the setup and how much through re-acquiring skills I've lost in 6 months not playing I don't know, especially as I struggled to match my own setup at first.

No assists and joypad btw.

That's going to be an imponderable though. There's an element that you could get better by yourself. There's a danger when handed what you think is a panacea that you will overdo things and have to relearn the track and car anyway. You could argue that anything you apply that makes you approach things from a fresh angle will alter the way you play and that may be for the better. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that the car is not ideally suited for racing and no amount of tuning is going to turn it into a benign on rails lap record beast.

Bottom line is that you're 6-7/10ths of a second faster - anything that helps helps - why the fuck am I defending my tuning devices when you guys play this game far more than I do and I'm never going to get close to your times with this car and tune.

That's hardly unique to this forum, that statement could be applied to all walks of life. Add people == hell, to paraphrase Sartre. Bottom line, we're all fundamentally competitive selfish cunts when you scratch the veneer away. It may be a crass analogy but it's worth nodding at.

Anyway, this'll be fine. Some of us will take it more seriously than others and part of that seriousness will manifest itself in forthright opinions on how it should be done online here. I propose we just do it and see how it pans out. The success of the entire endeavour cannot be measured when we haven't finished the first bloody week, no?

You're all of .365 behind me though, you ARE that close, to my times at least.

Are you sure? Don't know whether I can be arsed to look at the Forza's site as my connection seems to be going through one of it's inexplicably slow periods.... I'll reBOOT my modem in a mo.... yup, you're right.

The Forza site doesn't have the time I did yesterday when I got booted offline, which is about 44.833 or soemthing like that.

Just had another go across lunchtime and I improved quite a bit by relaxing and concentrating.

So, wheel and pedals, all assists off apart from the racing line.

43.975

Not going to be as fast as us my arse.

Someone suggested something casual, fun and informal?

Yup. That was all hard work, making up for, like you, not having played the game for months and months. Don't think I'll better that, but will have another couple of cracks at AABs time before the end of the challenge.

When I was playing lunchtime today I noticed that if you select the identity of anybody on the leaderboard there are options to download ghosts and even car set-ups. That should, in a single blow, remove any questions of people gaining secret advantages by cunning use of tuning. It won't do the lap for you though, natch

I think you can choose whether or not to share your setup.

That is only true for the people who allow their tuning to be uploaded to the game...although ghosts and replays are always available. (Edit. Due to my dad calling around the house mid-post, MarkG beat me to it.)

I had a few goes earlier on today and couldnt beat AAB using no assists (not sure if thats cos Im not really used to using no ABS or whether AAB is just a plain ace) however switching on ABS I managed to get a 43.350 on my 6th lap which was pretty good.

I wouldnt be surprised if AAB bettered that before too long tho, esp. since there were little bits where I could have done better.

DBSnappa, I didnt realise you could change all them tuning options on this particular arcade time trial...I'm sure I could only change tire pressure on mine?

I suspect you're right.



I think it depends on a car by car basis, but I'm speculating here. Anyway, the only things you can't change on this car are, I think, aero downforce and something to do with the brakes.

You can't change the brake balance, which is absurd. I can change the brake balance on my Mazda, ffs.

Rich bloke running gag FTFY.

I'm thinking I might try TC on this car just to make up for it being gash.

Actually true FTFY.

This is as good a place as any to let you know that I've handed everyone their arses on the Semi Pro 450HP event.

I suppose, but at least it had some kind of restriction, unlike the earlier events.

Ferrari 330.

It's a brilliant car, despite being 40 years old. A lot of people hate it, however.

I have upgraded it to S-class, though (998).

I made a mistake: it was the 500 Semi-Pro Panoz Cup, not the 450.

I can't believe you're ⁸/₁₀ths of a second quicker than me. I just can't do it any quicker.

He's only 8/1000ths quicker than me...swine.

Nice lap chap...I'm gonna have to have another crack at it now. (At this rate we'll be 1 and 2 in the world before Friday!)

Let's all share our setups then.

So who won this then? What shall we do this week?

We've done that. It wasn't much fun.

I don't think you won anyway, Ace. Ramsea told me he'd managed to beat your time...

Anyway, don't fret. Choose something that's going to be fun for us to do, as I won't even bother with King Cobra.

Something insane round the short Maple Valley might be a giggle.

Or the shorter Road Atlanta.

Enzos round Maple Short then?

Well I was thinking something more race flavoured but an Enzo's good.

I'll do a table for the Tsukuba one later if no-one gfets there first.

I'll create a new thread to keep it tidy.

I'll have you know that I'm perfectly in control when I punt someone off the track.

Does anyone else find the career mode a bit... easy? You just pimp your car up so it's better than everyone else's and stay in first position all the way round. Even in the ones with HP limits, you can just lighten your car and give it kick ass tyres to make it way better than the competition. Does it get harder later on? I'm level 20 now.