So in my recent thinking/discussing/planning at work of ways to keep GT5 fun for me (what, am I supposed to be working??) I believe with WolfPack's help we landed on a somewhat handicapped GT500 series that should hopefully be fun for all involved!
Basically for anyone who's joined one of my public rooms you know I enjoy running race cars, and I'll usually just set a PP limit and let anyone run anything that fits and go wild. While this is fun, I find myself changing cars every single race, every single track, and never completely tuning a single car fully. I'm basically running general top-of-the-head tunes which are decent, but now I'm looking to make something with a bit tighter competition, and a bit more personal love for one special car.
SO without further ado, here's the big ol' general outline I've arrived at so far...
The DaysAs they're presently event free, looking to run this Wednesday's either weekly or bi-weekly. I'll try to push for later start times (like 9pm EST) for the westerners
The TracksWill vary week to week. I can either act as sole decision maker or take suggestions.
The CarsThe final list is here
http://tinyurl.com/3ns4v5n As mentioned, roughly anything that fits into the GT500 class, and possibly some custom tuner cars that should fit in as well. NO LM CARS!! The cars will be run at stock HP and weight! No turbo's, no weight/engine upgrades (not sure how many of these even have them available) STOCK with oil changes/rebuilds allowed.
The Car SelectionCars will be chosen and once assigned, used for the duration of the season, so choose wisely! Since there's a decent range of stock PP with these vehicles, it's not going to be first come first choice. Also with such a large selection, I'm not planning on assigning 2 people the exact same model (want to have some awesome looking replay's here!) So how do you get the car of your dreams? There will be a qualifier. I'm hoping I can expect you all to keep honest here so I don't have to ask for 16 (assuming a full grid) best lap time replay videos to be sent my way. Instead I will pick a practice course in practice mode, and a practice car (standard, non-tunable) and tell everyone to run 5 consecutive laps and tell me your average lap time (I hope everyone knows how to average here!) I'm also expecting that no one's going to sandbag the qualifier (some of you I've raced with so I know how friggin fast you are!) Based on those lap times, your car choices will be made available to you. Basically the SLOWEST time will get first and full pick of the list. IT'S NOT ALWAYS BEST TO CHOOSE THE HIGHEST PP AVAILABLE!!! I say this because at present the Nomad Diablo is one of the cars with the highest PP, but I think it's also one of the more difficult cars to drive so just because you can choose it doesn't necessarily mean you'll want to. Then depending on differences in best lap times, the list will be scaled down until we get to the fastest racer, who will have the most limited selection of lowest PP cars. This will hopefully keep the pack close, and we'll see a LOT of overtaking and back and forth battles!
Event SettingsAll assists other than ABS will be DISABLED
Driving line will be OPTIONAL
Edge grip will be REAL
Boost will be NONE
Damage will be LIGHT although it may switch to full at some point, I'm just not sure if I want to do cautions or not...
Penalties will be NONE (no ghost cars)
Tires will be RACE
The RacersSo now it's down to you guys (and anyone else you'd like to share this with). I'm open for questions and suggestions, and hope this sounds interesting and fun enough to get a full sign up! Hoping for goos times and a fun evnet!
1. TunaPhreak (PSN PsychoPhreak)
2. WolfpackS2K (PSN dawson864)
3. Valrik
4. PKR_Cipriani99
5. Feldynn
6. GTP_Rylvir
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