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This started out in the Post-Race for Tuesday's Welcome to G3, but it turned into a bitter rant (against myself, not any other drivers... was a good event in that regard). Figured I wouldn't clog up that forum with my whining... again. Welcome division was supposed to be 'easier.' I guess I'm just going backwards. I was really surprised by the number of Vipers. I assumed (based on nothing more than baseless gut feeling) that the Porsche would be the popular car (it's frequently dominant elsewhere I think). So I figured I'd be taking an unpopular car and wouldn't have to bother with keeping up with fast kids. Boy, was I wrong. And unbelievably wrong about how fast I thought I was (comparing offline practice to what I saw online... yikes!). I couldn't even race with the other Vipers! Boooring. I'm not real excited about driving by myself for a whole race. I can run laps on my own anytime. Top it all off, I had a sneezing fit during a whole lap, and never recovered my concentration. Frustration compounded mistake after mistake, in worse fashion each time, and so I finally decided to park it. And don't you know it, I leave the pavement a bit too hot and smack the wall, bursting into flames. *sigh* I'd be less frustrated if I knew what I was doing wrong. It's easy to say that tons and tons of laps will yield results, but that's not always true. Tons and tons of laps *repeating the same problems* is no way to overcome them, let alone get ahead. I need a coach who can ride along in spectator mode and can point out where I'm making mistakes, and suggest corrections. That, and I need to figure out how to have fun doing this hobby. It always turns into frustration for me and I forget why I'm driving in the first place. |
What I would like to add is do some off-line watching of the AI to see and hear what they are doing. I do this when I am at new tracks for a good baseline/raceline. Also set your AI to 120% and aggression to psychotic, these settings are what you will most likely see on-line, anything less your kidding yourself. But laps and laps is what it takes to become more consistent, and the more consistent you become will bring the lap times down. | ||
If you practice online, you will find that most of us would be happy to do just that. I know I would anyway.
Just go online and "ask" hehe. Too bad sometimes you have to wait around for someone to show up though. Using the ghost car in testing mode works good too. I would suggest that you turn the AI down to your pace though. Forget what Jeff says....he's nuts. You can't follow their lines if you can't keep up with them. Sounds like you want help racing, not beating the resident aliens! :) | ||
@Jeff - I've done ride-along with the AI to learn new tracks, but I find their throttle/braking control to be too erratic to learn from. So I'm left with learning the line more than anything. It's good for orientation, but not much else (at my level, at least). And I've tried upping the AI speed/aggression, but end up only left in the dust, still unable to learn anything from them. I know I don't need to turn the AI down... I am competitive against most of them at 100%, and still trying to beat a few of the 'alien' AI. This is the level my skill is at right now. Stock, 100% speed, Realistic aggression AI. How to advance from here to R2P level is where I'm stuck. The problem, like I said, is identifying where my mistakes are. Until I know where I'm doing things wrong, I can't fix them... I just become perfectly consistent at making the same mistakes. ;) I suppose I could compare via MoTeC my own self-driven laps, and then let the AI take over for a few runs, and compare the overlays. Hmm... that might not be a bad starter, come to think of it. @Dean - thanks for the offer! My best driving has always been in lead/follow mode, chasing each other, but always within reach, and passing, being passed, back and forth, etc. To me, that's the best part of racing... the close dueling... not the leave-em-in-the-dust all out competition. And you nailed it right on the head... I'm not looking to hunt any aliens. I just want to get to a level where I'm actually matched with some others and can race with them in an event, rather than orbit the track alone. It's been quite a change for me here at R2P since the competition is so fierce. It's really hard to learn in a race situation. I'll have to keep my eyes open and hope to find some folks on the server. Thanks for the input guys. | ||
I am not nuts :P
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