Forza Motorsport 6 Challenge - 2016

[McPhil]

Right, now that we're back to racing...

Do the puddles and standing water on the circuit ever change, move, clear? Or are they always going to be in exactly the same place and size regardless of how many laps I do in a session?

And am I right in assuming that the most suitable tyres for the track and conditions are automatically fitted to my car? I can't find a tyre choice setting.

Yep as Solitude said, puddles are constant. They don't change.

And yes, the tyres automatically change to wet weather tyres. You'll see if you take a open wheel machine the tyres are wets.

Back to racing! It's a pity they don't allow gifting of cars anymore. Otherwise it would have been nice to gift certain cars to the gamers who are not as far in the game so don't have the credits to purchase the ideal cars for the challenges.

 

[Solitude]

As for yesterday's discussion I can't help but smile. [MENTION=16362]Flex[/MENTION] is a good guy and you can see he was friendly when he raised his concerns and it must have been frustrating for him last night to want to race but not being able to upgrade the car that he wanted to upgrade. And [MENTION=385]diabolus[/MENTION] got frustrated because he set a challenge that he liked but it was being questioned and [MENTION=9789]DieGrootHammer[/MENTION] got frustrated because he saw other people being frustrated.



That's what forums are for. It's for discussion. DieGrootHammer, it's not necessary to scrap hard mode. People were raising their concerns and it's a natural thing to do. If they don't do that then how would you know what their concerns are? Would you prefer to set the rules and let everyone just drive with no input from their side? I'm sure we can all do that.

But being the friendly really cool people that we are, we gave our input.

So I though; hey, why not introduce a Bonus challenge where the challenger can add a COMPLETELY OPTIONAL set of rules that will be added to the current challenge. And to sweeten the deal for that, I'll award 5 points to each person that does the challenge. Simple right?.....

Your post feels very condescending.

But we will race! Whatever the rules.

 

[Flex]

Sorry [MENTION=9789]DieGrootHammer[/MENTION] for the inconvenience caused. Guess most of that post was directed at me. Will not raise concerns again or ask a creator of the challenge for assistance. Enjoy the day further guys, and happy racing.

 

[BeoTeK]

Not exactly sure what's going on here as I haven't had time to partake in the challenge and hence have not kept up to "speed" (see what I did there?) with this thread.

TL;DR - looks like some shit went down.

 

[Blazzok]

Not exactly sure what's going on here as I haven't had time to partake in the challenge and hence have not kept up to "speed" (see what I did there?) with this thread.

TL;DR - looks like some shit went down.

Pick car (Class R max) and go vroom around a wet Silverstone.

If you pick old car (1950's) and go vroom around a wet Silverstone, you get moocho extra bonus points.

TL;DR - VROOM!

 

[DieGrootHammer]

So, yeah, I was wrong, sorry everyone. I was frustrated and stressed out of my mind due to some IRL stuff, and I shouldn't have taken it out in this thread. It was unnecessary of me to be as condescending as I was.

Okay, so here it is. This challenges has never been a dictatorship with my word being law. I've always asked input from everyone else, so I'd like to get confirmation from the group:

Do you want to have the additional bonus challenges? Should we just approach this with the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid)? Should we all have a group hug, point and laugh at Hammer for being such a little bitch, and settle things on the track?

 

[Solitude]

Sorry [MENTION=9789]DieGrootHammer[/MENTION] for the inconvenience caused. Guess most of that post was directed at me. Will not raise concerns again or ask a creator of the challenge for assistance. Enjoy the day further guys, and happy racing.

Nah I also commented about things.

So don't disappear and don't stop posting! It's difficult to believe now but this thread was originally conceived to generate discussion. Besides DieGrootHammer may say he dislikes the discussion at the beginning of his post but towards the end he says we should talk things out. So see, it's just some inner conflict.

He wants things to be easy to manage but adds complexities because it gives an extra dimension to the racing. Ideally everyone would agree and get on with it. But with extra complexities come extra complications. People race with the wrong cars. People think that having two challenges at once is overkill (that's me ). People have thoughts and ideas and feelings and it's wonderful.

But as things are humans react to circumstances differently and we ended up with some conflict which happens. It happens.

So for DieGrootHammer it is extra stress because he doesn't want to police things. But he will have to decide if he wants rule discussions or not.

See, I'm the logical sort. I can see the point of having a hard mode but didn't particularly agree with the way it's implemented. To me it felt like two different challenges squeezed into one. Why not just have the race as a certain class and a certain year range? Now we have both in one race. I felt it was convoluted and so did Flex and we said as much.

This is not complaining. It's reasoning. it's discussion. And in my opinion it's the logical thing to do.

So no Flex. You didn't cause inconvenience. You are welcome to raise your concerns and I sure hope you continue to post in this thread.

We are here to race, We are here to have fun. And we are here to discuss.

So says I. The Mighty Batmobile racer.

*edit*
Sorry DieGrootHammer, your post appeared while I was writing mine. You are a good fellow.

 

[GregRedd]

Ahh, have a manly, friendly, fully clothed, bro hug DGH.

I reckon we should keep the bonus challenges. But totally optional, and perhaps set them up in a way that is easy to adjudicate and is within that weeks' challenge settings of Circuit, Class, Car/s.

Bonus points to the driver that successfully completes the Challenge in the oldest car, or to the driver that completes the challenge in the car with the lowest PI rating. Something like that perhaps?

 

[Flex]

So, yeah, I was wrong, sorry everyone. I was frustrated and stressed out of my mind due to some IRL stuff, and I shouldn't have taken it out in this thread. It was unnecessary of me to be as condescending as I was.

Okay, so here it is. This challenges has never been a dictatorship with my word being law. I've always asked input from everyone else, so I'd like to get confirmation from the group:

Do you want to have the additional bonus challenges? Should we just approach this with the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid)? Should we all have a group hug, point and laugh at Hammer for being such a little bitch, and settle things on the track?

Thank you for the message bud. Do Appreciate it. i think you know what [MENTION=20]Solitude[/MENTION] and myself vote KISS and make up

 

[Blazzok]

I don't have so much time to play, and only really have time every second weekend. So the bonus challenges don't really affect me. If they are there, cool - perhaps I can earn me some extra points because I definitely won't end up top of the log.

If they aren't there, that's fine too. I'll still race for them sweet points

I would like to see who can do the fastest lap in reverse though, just don't know how that would be checked

 

[Flex]

I don't have so much time to play, and only really have time every second weekend. So the bonus challenges don't really affect me. If they are there, cool - perhaps I can earn me some extra points because I definitely won't end up top of the log.

If they aren't there, that's fine too. I'll still race for them sweet points

I would like to see who can do the fastest lap in reverse though, just don't know how that would be checked

Oh I do that every second race. So i am a seasoned veteran at reverse racing

 

[Blazzok]

Oh I do that every second race. So i am a seasoned veteran at reverse racing

Lol. I forgot to mention the car has to be on its roof.

 

[Flex]

Lol. I forgot to mention the car has to be on its roof.

Oh Sorry, i forgot to mention that is how I usually do it!

 

[Meteor]

Back to the racing, with regards to setting weekly challenges, we can find other ways to filter cars, just the ones that i can think of at the moment are, select cars that are

only german, jap, american cars.
modding not allowed.
either fwd/rwd/awd cars only
only turbo cars/non-turbo/supercharged. (aspiration change not allowed)

combine that with the current rules, and we could get a challenge like,

Nurburgring, american cars only, RWD, class C, no mods allowed, 80's era only.

This way we have rules that are relatively easy to admin, yet there is still variety in what we can choose.

 

[Flex]

Back to the racing, with regards to setting weekly challenges, we can find other ways to filter cars, just the ones that i can think of at the moment are, select cars that are

only german, jap, american cars.
modding not allowed.
either fwd/rwd/awd cars only
only turbo cars/non-turbo/supercharged. (aspiration change not allowed)

combine that with the current rules, and we could get a challenge like,

Nurburgring, american cars only, RWD, class C, no mods allowed, 80's era only.

This way we have rules that are relatively easy to admin, yet there is still variety in what we can choose.

Raising concern, but very cautiously this time....

That is an idea yes. But some people will not know how to do that. So using filters that the game already have might be the best way to go ahead as the challenges started and were intended. Age, FWD/RWD/AWD, Class, Make and so on.

This will be the end of my concern

 

[Meteor]

Raising concern, but very cautiously this time....

That is an idea yes. But some people will not know how to do that. So using filters that the game already have might be the best way to go ahead as the challenges started and were intended. Age, FWD/RWD/AWD, Class, Make and so on.

This will be the end of my concern

Nah dude, its a fair comment, so no worries.

Awesone time on this week's challenge by you and Mcphil ZA btw, can't get anywhere near you.

 

[Flex]

Nah dude, its a fair comment, so no worries.

Awesone time on this week's challenge by you and Mcphil ZA btw, can't get anywhere near you.

Have not really tried at all yet. Spent more time trying to get a 1950s car to mod =D
Thanks though.. McPhil is going to be difficult to beat!

 

[Meteor]

as of yesterday.

 

[Meteor]

Have not really tried at all yet. Spent more time trying to get a 1950s car to mod =D
Thanks though.. McPhil is going to be difficult to beat!

You are my current rival, you do make some errors where I catch up, more towards the end of the lap, but I always push too hard and end up in the wall.

 

[Flex]

You are my current rival, you do make some errors where I catch up, more towards the end of the lap, but I always push too hard and end up in the wall.

I do not drive with the Rival ghost on at all. Distracts me soooo much! Will be putting in a few laps again tomorrow