Automobilista Time Trial Challenge - Season Completed!

I don't know if I should be happy I passed or disappointed I barely made it with 55.043..!

Anyway, are you guys going to announce officially the limit of the 107% rule or we're just at 51.815*1.07=55.442?
Will you have a table counting people's entries somewhere?

 

Better be Well played, chap.

I'm quite satisfied with P3, and a P2 setup, out of 515 entries. Only a tenth and a bit off, too. Not bad running all in all

 

I really didn't mean to wait until the last moment to set a time but I also didn't want to share my setup too early and risk someone beating my time with it. I hope we will eventually get the option to disable setup sharing.

 

I figured this was the case as to why you'd not set a time for most of the week, and I completely agree with you. Once Matty beat me in the middle of the week I decided that I'd adopt this strategy too.

Sorry to the guys lower in the order who benefit from the setup-sharing feature, but a huge competition is not the place for this to happen. Just to save waffling on about it yet again, my extended thoughts here.

 

I spent 3 hours last night lapping repeatedly and I couldn't even get within 1 tenth of my previous best with either setup

What's going on with the round 2 leaderboards? Error on the web leaderboards and no TTOW in game.

 

The TTOTW leaderboard appears to be broken.

 

The combo F-v10 + Kansai "GP" is not avaiable in the time trial lists in game.
It should be Kansai Full

 

Hey "Tim O'"

Are there any AMS cars you are not able to drive to the front of a leader-board? Or any tracks that give you trouble? It doesn't appear so from your results!

 

Brought a tear to me eye mate. Bloody good show from me Logitech direction-disc and go-stop-stompers to allow me to goon me computerized rollingham to the podium

dog save the queen

 

I concur. It would be fairer to announce the car/track of the week, disable the car setup download button on Day One of that combination, then open up downloads of TTOW Car Setups immediately after that week's challenge has ended.

This helps make the competition fairer and gives casual racers like me a chance to see how I really do against the competition, and then later how much better I perform by downloading others' car setups.

I don't think it is too late to implement this rule amendment.

The participation prize gives me incentive to keep trying each week even if I don't have the skills or car setup to reach the top of the leaderboard, although I think it could be opened up to 115% - 120% as casual racers like me love the game but are just no good at it but still want a chance to win. This would incentivise participation.

If this Time Trial Challenge was to run in perpetuity there are enough different Reiza car / track combinations to last the lifetime of any game.

 

Lol I knew this would happen. For once setups don't completely rule me and everyone who can't do setups out of the competition before we've even tried and now it's going to be reversed half way through after I've wasted many hours on the first two weeks. I may as well have just set 1 lap and forgot about it, there's zero chance of me winning.

I get why people don't want to waste their time gaining a competitive edge for others to then use against them, but can we not for once have a time trial comp without the secret potions? Just disable setups then everyone has the same tools and it's all about the driving. I thought that was the whole point in this competition.

If you want to allow 115-120% people to get points you may as well scrap that part altogether and just enter all participants into it, I mean 120% is miles off the top time, anyone could do it, it would enter 508/515 of last weeks competition.

 

Please don't block permanently. Just block for the duration of the week's Time Trial competition (i.e. still record the setup, just disable the ability to download it temporarily).

 

It would be nice if we could see how many laps each driver have done.

 

Agree. If the top player turnoff your setups shares I wont have reason to play this challenge. I am very grateful for the setups shares in this week, but even so I stayed 2s ago and stay 6s at now. If the setup sharing turnoff I will stay above the 107% cut off time

 

If the game or virtualexperience could have this option, Reiza could create a limit for the driver to download the setup. Maybe the Driver must be have at least 50 laps to be able to download the setup.

 

There's a difference between "can't" and "won't". It's not rocket science. I thought it was, but you'll quickly see how simple and logical the adjustments are if you just try. Your "zero chance" is a choice.

If you want to be successful in serious simracing competitions with prizes on the line, then put the effort in. I cannot understand how you want to win this entire competition, with a clear conscience, by freeloading off others' efforts towards the same goal and only fighting half the battle.

In fairness, I do agree that if the intent of this competition was 100% focus on driving ability, then it would be better overall if it was fixed-setup for all. I feel like these competitions should be all about ability in both driving and setup, though, to find the overall well-rounded drivers, but I digress.

Renato has said what he's said, and I'm sick of talking about it, so that's my final word on the matter.