What kept the madness going was the tease that my optimal was 47.029. So close to the 46s but I never connected it all. So many times I was .2+ up after Graham Hill, only to mess up my braking coming out of Surtees throwing off my entry and exit of Clarkways to end up .4 down. You can lose soo much time on that corner if you don't enter right and it is my nemesis. Chasing top ghosts I can pace the world top guys, even catch up though to Graham Hill but after that is where I lose it...
Change things up.
Dude make sure you appear OFFLINE on PSN - I got a bunch of work-mates as friends so, on occasion when I am sick (which coincidentally, always happens when a new game I like is released) - I always make sure to not appear online! In their eyes, if you're well enough to play, you're well enough to work lol 😉
I still think this is true and if I am finding my times consistently off, exiting out and coming back in (after checking oil) usually helps resolve that.
I get that, I was doing peak time in the UK moved over to earlier (1pm EST) and it was thin.
It's also still the middle of the work/school day here. So only unemployed and sick people are playing and they can't afford to play as they have to sell their gear to pay for hospital bills and... food, because CAPITALISM!
To add to this, when I have had Monday's off I have found good full A lobbies during the day. I think, as it the week progresses it gets quieter for the day time crowd.
Naw, most of the top guys either just don’t do dailies, and save their high DR accounts for GTWC races only, or they have an alt or two that they do dailies on. Once you get to 60k+ DR, there isn’t much left to gain in dailies, but there is months and months worth of DR to lose if someone decides to do something dumb in your race. It’s just not worth the risk at that point, unless it’s an alt account. At a certain point, you can actually lose DR even for winning a race, if your DR is high enough, and the lobby your in is low enough. Outside of EU, you don’t get stacked A+ daily lobbies very often, if at all, outside of GTWC races.
Oh I don't know as I have seen some atrocious racing on my EMEA account. Of course that could be the time of day I use it as well but certainly I don't trust the racing to be higher quality than the US. Both have their ups and downs.
That makes a lot of sense, I think Drifter and Cyrus run EMEA accounts regularly. So you are right.
Oh, we were in the same race! Think that's a first for me and GTP folk.After the Race C calamity, I put some time at Brand's Hatch and it's amazing how a thousandth of a second makes such a difference in the LB. Well done, all! Did one race and went well, +2 positions, clean race and genuine overtakes! One guy behind did out-brake himself towards the end, but I saw him coming and avoided an accident. It was unintentional so all good, though
Did a few laps at Deep Forest again today and shaved 0.2s so feeling good as well. Will try again later today.
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This week, I'd say Yes for sure. I think the fact I'm in the top 500 QT says volumes about how few people are playing this week. But not every week is like this - I think a lot of people don't want to do this race - I felt that way until I actually spent some time on it.
You shouldn't be doing that tbf... All it does is create desync for other players & make it more difficult for them.
G70 and the @praiano63 tune still working great for me - 3 wins out of 4 races for me today (and I was leading the 4th before I threw into the gravel at T1 on lap 2!). That's even with there being a lot more G70s in the races than there were earlier in the week.
It's like everything else - if it works for you, use it. If not, don't. There have been plenty of races where I couldn't get the meta car to behave for me no matter what I did.
yeah I am at 47.2 in the Alfa, just those G70 qualifying times are juicy.
Quite the contrary......not doll but a shrine
Quite the contrary......not doll but a shrine
