Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30967537-20190423000527/@comment-31044517-20190501153407

SeedSpeed wrote: Formula Emre wrote:

ME7 wrote: I chose to be happy with my improvement, even though I didn't get back to group A. Just 10 minutes before it ended I had one final good shot at it. I was headed to the last corner with a 0.25 lead on my ghost. I tried to be a pinch conservative and was too conservative. I finished 359th.

Twice I had a 0.4 lead on my ghost after the 2nd hairpin... and my finger slid off the accelerator. 10+ times I arrived at the last chicane with a 0.25 lead, only to lose 0.4 because I wrecked that corner. That taught me that I needed to relax more, not make silly errors!

After about 8 hours of much effort I was able to consistently get in the low 58's. That is an accomplishment for me. I placed very well at one of my worst tracks. Out of about 308,000 people who raced, I did just fine.

So for all those who fell short of their goal, success is sometimes where you find it. Look on the bright side. Well, I think the key is to try to take each single turn as fast as you can no matter how much lead you got on your ghost, without caring one single bit whether you're gonna actually make it. "If it's gonna happen it's gonna happen. If it's not gonna happen it's not gonna happen" is the right attitude I think. The moment you try to be a bit conservative in a turn you blow your run at the "miracle run" lol

Since I play on an emulator (Leapdroid) with my mouse on Wheel Control, I have no choice but to use High Steering Assist otherwise the car just doesn't take some sharp turns even though my steering sensitivity is at 10. Therefore I have a shot at Group A only in Melbourne, Hong Kong and New York where No Steering Assist Tilt B Tablet guys can't go off track to set better times. Even then, I find it too much work. Trying to push every single turn harder and harder and harder for hours and hours and hours to finally nail the "miracle" run is not for me. I don't have the time for that.

I enjoy OMP much better. People can't push every single turn for a full week there. It's much more balanced and realistic. You screw a single turn while trying to push it too hard and you're screwed there :D Skill is way more important in OMP as you have one single shot at a race each single time, as opposed several hundreds of shots people give at a single race in WTTT. I can hit top 100 in OMP every single time in a 2-hour session while totally having fun along the way. But I would need at least several hours to hit top 100 in WTTT last week while getting extremely bored doing it. I like OMP much, but always thought it is not worthy to tryore after reaching 10 Gold prize. Never really looked thoroughly, and understood points system. Do you play always with FU car? When you are almost at top 100 and finish second, how much races you have to win after to regain lost points?

I always fully upgrade my car in OMP temporarily if it's not already FU. I don't care about the measly gold coin returns. I play it for fun. But a lot of my cars are FU anyway so I don't have to fully upgrade those temporarily. So I get to keep the 20+ gold at the end the week if it's already FU.

The game keeps matching you with 7 other similarly rated people. So coming 2nd doesn't make me lose ratings usually when I'm in top 100. It's really fun racing against 7 other guys with at least 1000+ ratings.

I usually end up mastering one of the three tracks better than the other two in a specific car to score consecutive wins in it. And it propels me to top 100. But I race all tracks available nonetheless, except the ones where people do course cutting like Porsche Test Track Dynamic Circuit or Sillverstone the Bridge Circuit.

The key is not to get any time penalty while pushing hard enough in turns. The moment you get a time penalty you can kiss goodbye to your ratings lol.

I keep my nerves well enough I guess under pressure and am able to push hard enough without going off track to get a time penalty. That's why I do well in OMP. And I get a ton of thrill and pleasure from it. It's like a pure skill engagement, having to show your skill in a lap or two. You can't afford to make any major mistakes, just like in a real race.

It's much more like a real race in that aspect. In a real race you got one car and you can't crash it and you can't afford to go off track to get a penalty. And going off track will ruin your tires also. So you're under pressure to push hard but also to be careful not to get a time penalty from race stewards. And of course you can never afford to crash your car.

In contrast, in WTTT you have to crash or fly off track at each single turn several hundreds of times to nail the absolute limit of each turn in your search for the `miracle run` to place in top 100. And I don't enjoy doing it for more than 2 hours.

For me 2 hours is about the limit to study a track in a specific car. Anything more than that feels like splitting hairs to me and I don't enjoy that.