GT4 Challenge 3.6

[RazaBlade]

The winner for Challenge 3.5 is: Max_Power

Position this week: name: time: total points (points for this race): overall position:

1st. Max_Power----------------------0'57.583--------22 (11)------3
2nd. shockwaveracing----------------0'57.771--------47 (9)-------1
3rd. RazaBlade-----------------------0'57.809--------45 (7)-------2
4th. lordofDskyline-------------------0'58.581--------19 (5)-------4
N/A FIREFOX_RULES-----------------------------------5 (5)-------8
N/A Radoman-----------------------------------------7 (0)-------5
N/A HondaNSX ---------------------------------------7 (0)-------5
N/A vantage-v8---------------------------------------5 (0)-------8
N/A painterr-------------------------------------------5 (0)------8
N/A magracer-----------------------------------------2 (0)-------10



The Rules:

GT4 Challenge 3.6 will start on Wednesday 26th April 2006.
GT4 Challenge 3.6 will end on Sunday 7th May 2006 at midnight in your respective areas.
All times must be submitted by this deadline.

All times submitted must be from Arcade Mode.
The winner of the previous comp. will choose the car, track, tyres, aids of the new comp, and also the date for entry submissions.
All future comps will allow unlimited Quicktuning and softest tyres in Arcade mode.

You will PM your best time to RazaBlade.
You MUST PM your time to me if you wish for it to be included.

The one with the fastest time will be the winner.
If you have a time that you think will win, take a picture as proof. If you win you will have to present this photo as proof.
If the time submitted by someone is unreallistically fast it will be excluded.
If I find out that any time is false, goes against any rules, or is done through any use of unfair play or cheatery, the user will be banned from the competition for one week and will be stripped of all their points.


Scoring goes like this:
1st place receives 10 points.
2nd place get 8.
3rd gets 6.
4th gets 4
5nd gets 2.
Everybody else who submits a time receives 1 point.
There will be a secret time that, under the rules, should be easy to obtain. This will be called the target time. If you meet the target time you will receive an additional 1 point.

The target time this week, as set by Max Power, was 1'01.000.


Congratulations Max-Power, another win in the bag!



GT4 Challenge 3.6
Track: Clubman Stage Route 5 Normal
Car: Callaway C12 '03
NO DRIVING AIDS

[RazaBlade]

Very close times there, showed how little margin there was in the track. Would be nice to see a few more entries, although I can understand with it being the exam season.

So Max_Power, where to this time!!

[Max Power]

Nice!
It was dificult to get that lap time but I'm glad my efforts payed out.

So,for the next challenge it would be great if you guys could help chossing the car and track.
I think it's better to have a fast car on a short track.The reason is simple:if you do 1 lap on the Nurburgring you do 7-8 laps on Tsukuba,thus more attempts and more possibilities to get a good lap time.

[RazaBlade]

Yeh I agree. Its nice to have a long track, but with lots of people short for time, its best if we stuck to the shorter tracks.

Off the top of my head, can only think of High Speed Ring, but thats a bit dull.

Could do the F1 car on New York! Just ideas!!

[Max Power]

I haven't unlock the F1 car yet...
But challenge with a race car would be cool.

[RazaBlade]

If you're edging towards a race car, how about an American one? We've picked a few German and Japanese ones, only challenge I can think of with an American race car was with the Corvette around Le Sarthe....

[Max Power]

If you're edging towards a race car, how about an American one? We've picked a few German and Japanese ones, only challenge I can think of with an American race car was with the Corvette around Le Sarthe....
Yeah,good idea.An American car on an American track would be great.

[lordofDskyline]

did someone say racecar. You all know I like to drive race cars right

[RazaBlade]

hey Max-Power, come up with the challenge yet? Its Wednesday! :)

[MrKipling]

Autumn Ring I reckon - that's a great circuit between 1' 10s and 1 '30s depending on the car. Lots of potential lines too.

[RazaBlade]

hhmmm dont mind autumn ring, but not too keen on it at the moment. Must make a mini database of what track-car combos have been already done post-exams.....

Sounding very spoilt, but GT5 better have lots more tracks! Id sacrifice half the cars of GT4 if they doubled the number of tracks. More variations... what happened to the Red Rock Valley in GT2, and Special Stage R11?? That was such a cool track, loved the endurance race on that back in GT1, with my 930bhp Mitsu GTO!!!

[RazaBlade]

Im guessing MaxPower is busy, so Im gonna have to step in and set the challenge for this time.

GT4 Challenge 3.6
Track: Clubman Stage Route 5 Normal
Car: Callaway C12 '03
NO DRIVING AIDS

Challenge will end Sunday 7th May 2006, as we're starting so late anyway. Best of luck everyone.

Hopefully you'll like this one, give it full throttle in 2nd gear to get the back out and around the corner! Gorgeous sounding engine too....

[shockwaveracing]

thank you for the time given for this race, i really needed i this week, have 3 other races to complete as well... :(

[RazaBlade]

No worries dude, I think we all need as much time as we can. I got exams in May!! :eek:

[RazaBlade]

Just thought Id give everyone a heads up, this challenge ends on 7th May, and my first exam is the 8th! I hope you can understand that Ill be posting the new thread late-ish on the Monday... to help things run more smoothly, I will PM the winner before the thread is up, so they can prepare their stuff.

Also, is everyone happy setting 2 weeks per challenge for the forseeable future, while everyone does their exams and stuff. Best case scenario would be 3 weeks, but doubt people would agree!! It will be quite difficult for me to do it every week. Once thats over, normal service will resume!

[lordofDskyline]

I have no problem with the two weeks per challenge, anything you all want to do just keep the challenges coming

[RazaBlade]

Came up with another idea yesterday, add a bit of variety to the challenges!

How about a Quickrace in Arcade Mode, so instead of submitting a fastest 1 lap in timetrial, it would be the fastest you can do a 2 lap race against opponents! Again, all same rules would apply of full quicktune etc, and the AI cars would be on level 10. Not only do you have to get past them, but also set two fast laps consecutively...... would add a bit of spice to the proceedings?

Another idea we've already had mentioned before was 2 different cars around the same track. Your overall time would be the additions of the two separate times. To make it interesting we could have road car and race car of the same model, or two different drive types so FR and 4WD....... obviously these are just ideas, its up to what everyone feels about them.

Hows this challenge going? Havent tried it competitively yet.

[lordofDskyline]

Man RazaBlade this car is really getting me angry the handling sucks next time dont choose a car like that

[lordofDskyline]

if your going for variety how about a gran turismo mode challenge where you drive your own tuned car and can use NOS. We'll call it no rules challenge, what do you all think. but of coarse you can rale slide of cut through the grass or sand

[RazaBlade]

Hhmm sounds fair enough, would need to do maximum tuning on it too though. Sliding over grass is already ruled out!

Done a low 55.xxx.... on the last corner, plenty of space to power it around.....

[RazaBlade]

If you're having a bit of trouble dude, just thought Id tell ya how I did my lap. Brake late on the corners, and then go hard on the throttle, and as the back end goes off, then feather the throttle to control it. On most corners, the car is in a bit of a slide but not too much. By the end of the corner, I was trying to straighten it out.... hope that makes sense. Im sure people have gone for different approaches, I just thought this one made sense for me and the car/track combo.....

[Radoman]

Hmm, I'll have to try that, Raza... I hate the handling. It's either horrid understeer or it's sideways into the wall. Too much high-end, not enough mid-range, too.

I keep missing these challenges due to laziness :mad:

[shockwaveracing]

Came up with another idea yesterday, add a bit of variety to the challenges!

How about a Quickrace in Arcade Mode, so instead of submitting a fastest 1 lap in timetrial, it would be the fastest you can do a 2 lap race against opponents! Again, all same rules would apply of full quicktune etc, and the AI cars would be on level 10. Not only do you have to get past them, but also set two fast laps consecutively...... would add a bit of spice to the proceedings?

Another idea we've already had mentioned before was 2 different cars around the same track. Your overall time would be the additions of the two separate times. To make it interesting we could have road car and race car of the same model, or two different drive types so FR and 4WD....... obviously these are just ideas, its up to what everyone feels about them.

Hows this challenge going? Havent tried it competitively yet.havent raced the challenge yet, but the ideas you have suggested are cool, i have done them before in other racing comps so i have no problem with them...

[RazaBlade]

havent raced the challenge yet, but the ideas you have suggested are cool, i have done them before in other racing comps so i have no problem with them...

excellent, if we manage to do them, you can help with the set up as you know what works/what doesnt work!

[MrKipling]

Definitely in favour of those ideas.

Also like the idea of being able to race our own tuned cars. It could be done like a GT4 Tuner GP: 1/4 Mile; Lap of the Nurburgring; Lap of Autumn Ring (or similar smooth-surfaced race track, or top speed); no race cars, top 8 (?) times on each event get points to add togerther for a final score. It's a good all round test and three events means you won't run out of set-up slots!

Whadya reckon?

[shockwaveracing]

excellent, if we manage to do them, you can help with the set up as you know what works/what doesnt work!

a 2/3 lapper would be plenty for a challenge here, would allow users to have the AI set to whatever they want, would turn tyre wear on just to have a little fun, wouldnt mind what kind of car we used, and would probably run it on a longish track like twin ring motegi or le sarthe...

have just completed an 8 lap challenge with the BMW McLaren F1 GTR, on Le Sarthe (without chicanes)... proved very difficult, due to having tyre wear set to mild, which effectively rendered the RSS tyres useless, coz they were shot to pieces in a couple of laps, so we had to minimise pit stops whilst maintaining as much pace as we could. we were also allowed to set AI to whatever we wanted... results aren't up but i hope to get a top 3 finish... i thought i was kicking ass till one of the other racers that i race against (who is an absolute freak/alien on GT4) belted my time by nearly time into next week (the guy is exceptionally good one of the fastest guys on the planet - he is hoping to race in the ESWC this year and if he does he will do very well) click on link if you want to know what the ESWC is...

http://www.esworldcup.com/2006/

other than that i would have no problems helping organise a multi lap race or a GT mode race (coz we also do those races every couple of weeks on the other site i race on - gtplanet.net if you must know, in the weekly race series)

http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=117

[shockwaveracing]

Another idea we've already had mentioned before was 2 different cars around the same track. Your overall time would be the additions of the two separate times. To make it interesting we could have road car and race car of the same model, or two different drive types so FR and 4WD....... obviously these are just ideas, its up to what everyone feels about them.

we actually did one of these about 6/7 weeks ago, in which we raced one car around the track in a forward direction, and then another car around the same track in the opposite direction... however we could only submit a combined time made up of one lap in one direction with Car A plus one lap in the opposite direction with Car B... we could run both directions around the track with each car, but our final time could not be with both cars going around the track in the same direction...

i suggest we dont make it quite so complex here if we do it, more likely, just grab 2 cars run them around a track in the same direction, and combine their times to get the best combined total time... preferably run that in arcade mode...


had a crack at this weeks challenge, quick 20 or so laps and TIME SUBMITTED, this car has the nost moonshot gearing i have encountered, but pretty easy to drive other than that...

a GT Mode race would be fun, but would require a bit of brainstorming to come up with a suitable race to do...

[MrKipling]

we actually did one of these about 6/7 weeks ago, in which we raced one car around the track in a forward direction, and then another car around the same track in the opposite direction... however we could only submit a combined time made up of one lap in one direction with Car A plus one lap in the opposite direction with Car B... we could run both directions around the track with each car, but our final time could not be with both cars going around the track in the same direction...

How about doing it with a supercar in one direction and a supermini in the other?

[shockwaveracing]

How about doing it with a supercar in one direction and a supermini in the other?that is a corker of an idea!!! i would do that in a flash...

[h00t_h00t]

TVR Speed 12 & Citroen 2CV?

[RazaBlade]

hey guys, hope this challenge hasnt been too irritating for you! just a reminder that times need to be submitted by this Sunday. Good luck!