Division 4 Season 5

Extra mega spewing as while mucking around today i tested my times around Tokyo,and F%*& me i was doing 1.35.8's on the softs without too much effort,really like the physics since the update,much closer to i-racing's,and now that they backed off the engine volume,you can hear tyre squeal/scrub so much better. I feel i've gained 1/2 to 3/4 of a sec across the board in all cars just cause i can hear the tyres properly!!!
Anyone else noticed the change in physics? Seems like the weight transfer is more realistic now under braking and acceleration,it's not as vicious,more progressive like the dampers are actually tuned properly and doing their job,so here's a rarity.
Well Done PD,you got it right!!!

I won't comment on the incident as i haven't got a replay(wasn't there,so hard to have,lol), but for future reference @fubbles888 ,you must redress regardless of intent in the incident or if caused by lag or not. I'll be on tonight with a lobby for practice,come in and i'll have a chat with ya about how you can try to stop the lag,there can be a number of causes so we'll go through and check one by one and we should be able to sort it if it's not a network/exchange issue. Try to find out today what ADSL profile you are set on,it could be as simple as changing it to a faster one with less firewall checking.

My chances of promotion are pretty much over now.... Il be away for the sprint round due to racing in a 3day invitation only meeting. So guttered but hey that's life lol

Well done to tonight's podium, I just couldn't get a handle on my car tonight when the grip went down. Was all over the shop. Finished my race with blowing by the braking zone at the bus stop and had to let Ad back thru & Stumbles also who was catching from behind.

Went for the alternate strategy and started from ninth on the hards. Qualified with a 2.18.4 which was my quickest hard time to date.

Found myself in 7th after Eau Rouge due to a couple in front having an incident, but was reeled back in by the 3 guys on softs behind me within 4 or 5 laps. Was about a second a lap off my planned pace, only doing 20's instead of 19's, but I was only just under 40 seconds behind the leader before they pitted.

I pitted end of lap 11 to give me 10 laps on the softs. Stupidly, I pressed the accelerator entering the pits just as the selection box come up, so I was stuck on the hards again. Back in very next lap to get the softs on, and by this point I was way dead last.

Started to reel off some good times and caught up to some guys in front, managed to snatch the fastest lap from Watto and also managed to get about 4 guys, including a last lap back straight run on Dek (nice last ditch dive, but your hards just couldn't take it), so I managed to salvage 9th spot.

Only 40 seconds behind first place, so I can only imagine what would have been if I didn't get that extra 30 seconds or so in the pits. I would have been in contention for top 5 at least i think.

Oh well, onto the sprint!!

Gratz Watto, Ad & Stumbles

Had a great battle up front with Jim and Ad for the first half of the race. jim nailed me once by accident going into the bus stop but apart from that it was great clean racing. I tried the undercut pitting at the end of lap 9 but when I spun in my outlap that was the end of that. He rest of the race was watching the little blue dots reeling me in from behind. When I slid wide at Eau Rouge on the last lap gaz and Mario sailed by and I was back to 8th.

My strategy backfired yet again, I was too slow on the soft tyres at the start and I simply couldn't recover. At least strategy won't be a thing in the next round. It could be anyone's race in that case.

Very happy with the outcome last night.
I knew I had to push hard in qually as Grassies had laid down a 13.6 in pre-race practice so was stoked to nail a 13.7 to secure pole.
Race start and I saw Grassies diving down the inside into T1 but managed to get through in front with Jim right behind me heading into Eau Rouge. Couldn't believe my luck when I saw Jim run wide and ghost which gave me a small gap and then noticed blue arrows going everywhere which turned out to be Grassies followed by Dek coming together. I concentrated on putting down good solid laps with no spins until on lap 10, I noticed Jim pit which I thought would help me as his hard tyres would fade late in the race. I pitted on lap 11 with teammate Ad not far behind and set off for 10 laps on the hards. I managed to maintain about a 6 second gap with Jim and Ad battling behind me which I hoped would slow them down a little. On the last lap, I had to concentrate on every corner making sure that I didn't make a mistake as Ad and Stumbles would have pounced but thankfully managed to bring it home. Great result for GRT with the 1-2.

Just want to say a big sorry to Tank for ruining his night.

I just tapped Mario on the left, and swerved a bit too violently to the right to not hit him again, straight in to your path sorry tank. Was a clumsy move.

Once again our struggles with the PSN played its role in the race room.
The result I and half the room dcd whilst a room refresh was undertaken no big problem exept having two of the same cars to choose from I accidently choose the wrong one (had RH tyres) jumped straight into to qualifying 2 laps in realised not in my (RS) selected car so I jumped out changed car rejoined the track and pulled over netting me the last spot on the grid.
Was tough trying to get threw the pack on there hard tyres first and on lap 8 whilst attempting to overtake our resident Lag Punter it was my turn to cop a sledge hammer hit sending me backwards and busting left front wheel and the engine driveline honestly that was the 3rd round and its been explained well before regarding this issue to this Div 4 driver. Mods team advised preseason bad net that affects others will not be tolerated so Please address before sunday or im gonna crack the shiets and return the damage.
Anyway continued on pitted at end of lap 10 to hards found my rythem and started reeling in as many as I could untill after the 21st lap Id managed 5th place and was happy with that after starting 13th.
Finally a big respect shout out goes to Gary who accidently whilst in thick traffic made contact lap 1 sending me of track he then waited the 25 odd seconds for me to come back ruining his chance of a podium thats the sign of a true gentleman and what this racing series stands for thanks mate.

Cyber Rant V1.012
Post Traumatic Race Disorder
I do not claim to know a lot about Cyberspace, I do know that the older and fatter I get I am taking up more of it. I will try not to bore U all stupid, however I offer up these thoughts and observations and hope to generate some further discussion.
I have now done a few online races with U guys and have nothing but praise for the organisers and participants. I am attempting to make some constructive criticism here and in no way wish to offend anyone.
Sony Servers were dismal on Sunday night. I was particularly looking forward to Spa as I can not say round one or two were my favorite places to race. In div 6 we had a stable room with everyone in – until the host re-set the room. It would appear that this is standard practice – it would also appear that it causes serious stability problems within the room server. After several attempts to get it sorted @CPTNPEACH kindly set up an alternative room. That was the beginning of my undoing. After several attempts to get in – I finally did. Went to go on track - was told my car did not comply – it still let me on track and then dumped me – Black Screen – forced re-set – file check -the whole kit and boodles. It was not until later I remembered that I have never been able to get into a Ctn Peach room – such is life.
Now as I said I am somewhat of a Techno phobic Luddite – to which I believe @DekGT5mad can agree. I am pretty certain that my system meltdown was not caused by a fault at my end but at Sony PD server. It requested sending fault info to Sony.
This caused a great degree of Cyberstress. Which I believe may be caused by Server Stress, and leads to Racer Stress. I would appreciate any feedback from @NAACS and @DekGT5mad as they may be able to shed some more light on these issues.
Are we as a group contributing to Server Stress???
As per: GTLOZ Official Lounge Settings
Race quality should be set to high and voice chat disabled.
Is this causing issues – in my experience having Race Qual on high can cause issues, Would it not be a better idea to have it set to standard. Not all of us have the same quality net connection and the room needs to try and cater for that.
In div 6 our rooms have also had voice chat on High – I am sure this uses bandwidth and affects room stability. It should be Off. If it is deemed necessary at least have it on Low.
Trying to have 16 users in the room is maxing out the server capacity. It could possibly be a good idea to limit room size to 10 or 12 drivers and have more divisions.
We are also dumping about 100 extra users onto the same track at the same time. It could well be worthwhile having the dif divs rotating through the track. By that I mean if div one starts at track 1, div 5 starts at track 5 etc. That way we would only have one or two divisions on each track at one time.
I suffered terrible Post Traumatic Race Disorder and Driver Remorse as a result of Sunday night. I offer these ideas if they may help in any way. All comments good or bad encouraged.
I have posted this in a few spots to try and get input.
@stucar17 - Your thoughts mate.
Cheers Cyberstig.

Valid points there Stiggy

My thoughts on a couple of yours if I may. This is only about the 2nd season in all of ROOZ history to have somewhat full rooms. Even when divisions were limited to 12 participants, there were exactly the same network issues experienced by various people.

The room reset was brought in to ensure that a valid qualifying session was recorded, and starting places would accurately reflect the times posted. It would wipe any and all practice times.

I honestly don't think rotating the tracks between the divisions will do anything as at any given point in time, there are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people worldwide using the same track, no matter what it is.

Some of the other more experienced network/hosting guys can add some further comment.

Cheers

Damo (Disturboed)

I actually felt like quitting the race, but that would be unsportsmanlike