Gran Turismo 7 Regulation Settings Discussion

Unfortunately, in GT7 it is not currently possible to properly enforce this via lobby settings. To set 100% power/weight for cars where PD applies a BOP, tuning would need to be enabled, even then there are caveats:

Spoiler: Results from testing

As of last week, there is an expanded option for BOP/Tuning, this is what I found:
If this is set to ON:
- The car will have the game's BOP applied (if it is Gr.1, Gr.2, Gr.3, Gr.4, Gr.B) or power/weight will be fixed to stock level
- All car settings will be fixed to whatever the game determines as BOP/standard, apart from the MFD options that you can change in-race
- The host can selectively enable options like Brake Balance, Anti-Roll Bar, Final Gear, etc. (this is new)
- Some other tuning options (like engine swap) can be enabled/disabled but these are canceled out by the BOP setting
- This ensures that everyone turns up in the same car

If this is set to OFF:
- BOP (Gr1-4, GrB) is not applied, settings aren't fixed
- The new setting where the host can selectively enable some car settings (like BB, Transmission, other settings) cannot be used.
- Power/Weight/PP limits can be set, but:
- All car settings can be changed according to parts that are applied to the vehicle
- Wide Body cars are enabled
- Some tuning parts cannot be prevented from being added, there is only "unrestricted" or "Extreme or lower"

BOP needs to stay on. The cars are tuned for bop, gearbox included. If we go playing with 100-100 then we run the risk of the cars handling outside of the box and gearboxes not being optimized.

1 hour races sound interesting. I wouldnt mind 2x 45s, 3x 1hr, 1x 90min, 1x sprint round in a season. That would be nice in change in terms of strats and stuff.

Brake balance +1. Good idea to flick that back on.

RM & RS tyres, balanced so that RM can make it a race distance at 45mins, and fuel balanced so that it benefits small savings that could last the race, but those on RS and sending it are still in contention as well.

Qualifying on starting tyres is a must too. Those gambling on a RM race should be made to quali on them too. It will get people committed to a strategy.

I think 45 minutes is a good sweet spot as the whole race can be contained within 1 hour (10min Q, 45min race). Most races run to 48+ minutes currently, as the current settings are for Div1 lap times. We do cater for a wide range of timezones (+8 to +12)

Definite yes to brake bias

I would love to see an increase to 1 hr for the races. Keeping sprints and enduros at once per season. Although, im absolutely open to more endurance races as they have consistently been my favourite race for the season.

Tyre wear is that constant annoyance where we want it, then we dont, we want to bring strategy in but everyone just picks the quickest one anyway because the others aren’t viable, i think it is a losing battle but if there is a way to make it work, fantastic.

overall pleased with how rooz on gt7 is progressing. It is the most fun i have had at rooz since GT6 which has been a long time coming

I can assume BB will be on, as almost everyone on here has said yes! It's a welcome addition back to GT7.

I have been setting up various events I run within another group, and personally I always side on the heavier fuel usage, lighter tyre wear. Still have the wear there, so when you pit in to fill up, you should change tyres also... But I prefer cars to be still able to drive nicely and with grip through to the end of the stint. It's certainly a hard one to ballance - Generally it's x2, x2 or x2 Tyre, x3 Fuel...

I'm sure something will be decided that will fit all

Very late to the thread so I'm not going to request any changes for Season 51 however I have general feedback


Night racing -
Might be on my own here but I'm not a fan of night racing at all, I like seeing where I'm going and I don't believe the game does a great job of modelling the light beams coming off other cars when you're behind them either.

Rain -
I like wet weather when its available - I think it would be worth having races where there's at least 15% of the weather slots as wet weather, with that being communicated to the entire Sunday League. I'd be open for a race that's completely wet as well, I think it would be worth trying.

I think it's fair but I think there's a grey area here - if a cloud passes over one corner of the track and only one person notices or claims the track is wet, does that make it a wet race? (Thinking of S50 Suzuka Div 1 type conditions here)

I love the random weather, but I think if it's going to be open every race, we keep the tyres to a singular compound outside of wets e.g. Mediums/Wets only

After a gap of 18months my main thought is don't change the format too much.
Where possible it would be good for the tyres to be the reason to pit, not fuel. This adds to strategy and avoids most pitting on the same lap. I think it is more realistic to reward tyre care over fuel management.
To make room mergers smoother it should be compulsory to like the attendance post by say 7.00pm. I admit I have not been doing this since returning. I would rather race in as full a grids as possible. Some of the best battles in racing here I have had have been in the middle to rear of the field.
Finally, to make Div placement easier, would take a little time to do initially, maybe you could do a ranking for all drivers 1 to XX in Gr3, Gr4 and Road Cars. Updated obviously at each seasons finish.

You could run qualification sessions on chosen car/track combos, 5-10 laps on 1x fuel / tyres and get people to screenshot their optimum times and rank on that. A bit of admin involved, sandbagging issues and potential inflated rankings for more inconsistent drivers, but no system will be perfect

I think the solution has to be better matching before the season starts. GT Sport Season 13 had variable divisions which I don't think really worked. The Division 2 season winner did only two races in Division 2, and a few times Division 1 drivers were dropped to Division 2 and won them easily with competitive Division 1 race times.

As a rule of thumb, maybe something like the following?

1. The top 3 finishers in a division get promoted for the next season
2. The bottom 3 finishers (adjusted for average finishing position) in a division get relegated for the next season
   
3. Points 1 and 2 can be overridden based on the following at the discretion of the organiser/s:

• Meet'n'Greet performances
  
• Previous championship results
  
• Number of full-time participants in that division

On the meet'n'greet itself, the short races are pretty pointless in my opinion. Invariably, people don't/can't practice enough for all 7 tracks, then make mistakes, spin, crash other people off (or get crashed into), and at the end of a lot of races you don't end up with a representative time anyway. Happy to hear suggestions on this.

Additional feedback, the enduro cannot/should not be at the end of the season.
Three of the four divisions were already won before tonight, so on top of the regular drop-off for the end of the season, motivation wasn't really that high to do a 90-minute race.

i second this.

round 1 is normally the most practiced round, so having this as the enduro would make sense

I think we need to bring back a qualifying time submission for next season like we did for GT7 Season 1

Gran Turismo 7 Season 1 Qualifying Time Submission Thread | RACEONOZ | Forums

I don't think a Meet and Greet is a good way of doing this as it currently stands because people won't practice for a whole seasons worth of tracks to set representative times for an evening of seven minute races that dont count