I finished the 24 hour Nurburgring last night.

[GmanJoe]

Of course, it was on B-Spec. I used the Jaguar LM race car and beat the second place car by 20 laps. My prize was the Gran Turismo Formula 1 \'04 race car. And this was my first endurance race! I had started the race the night before I went to bed, went to work yesterday, came home last night to see it still at 20 hours. Man...what a long race! My driver prolly pissed and crapped in his suit all day.

WOW! I mean....WOW! This car is better than all the F1 cars in GT3! I takes the corners at insane speed and has seven...yes, SEVEN GEARS!

Bliss.....currently, I set the F1 to another enduro race before I left for work. B-Spec = slackers dream

you actually raced for 24 hours?

[GmanJoe]

Thank goodness, no. There\'s this thing called "B-Spec" where you coach your driver when to pass and stuff. However, once you\'ve got the lead, you can just set the driver to race at a "steady" pace. He\'ll pit automatically. Once my driver took the lead, I just left the PS2 running and went to work.

Haha that\'s pretty cool.  But wtf.  Gaming for 24hrs is a waste of time!!  Even if you don\'t have to be there.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by THX
Haha that\'s pretty cool.  But wtf.  Gaming for 24hrs is a waste of time!!  Even if you don\'t have to be there.

How\'s that a waste of time? I was enjoying life outside and also going to work while GT4 played out a 24hour race. (you can set it to play at 3x speed)

Yea but what\'s the frikkin point!?  If you\'re not there and you speed the game up what\'s the enjoyment in that?  I\'d rather earn the cars doing something that involved skill and not leaving the ps2 on some kind of auto mode overnight and through the day.

You bastard.

And 7 gears is nothing. Nike car has 8 .

Seriously though. You suck

Ill most likely do this for real and leave it on when i sleep. That or after midterms me (and maybe a friend or two will do the whole race straight. Who knows. Maybe not.

You should race it in A-Spec and just pause it until you play again.








or not.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by THX
Yea but what\'s the frikkin point!?  If you\'re not there and you speed the game up what\'s the enjoyment in that?  I\'d rather earn the cars doing something that involved skill and not leaving the ps2 on some kind of auto mode overnight and through the day.

You have the option (during pit stops) to take over the controls. Who the hell would actually sit there for 24 hours ?

Think of it this way, in the 24 Hour LeMans, team drivers will drive the same car. Driver one will drive for 4 hours, then rest as driver 2 takes over. Repeat. Think of B-Spec as driver 2. See now? Even real life race car drivers won\'t race for 24 straight hours at speeds of up to 200mph.

[Cerberus]

So there\'s no mid race save option then?

That sucks, it\'s one of the things I always thought the GTX series needed.

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wtf happens if you are deep into the 23rd hour and you get a power cut?

I\'d be pissed.

Originally posted by THX
Yea but what\'s the frikkin point!?  If you\'re not there and you speed the game up what\'s the enjoyment in that?  I\'d rather earn the cars doing something that involved skill and not leaving the ps2 on some kind of auto mode overnight and through the day.

What was Championship Manager\'s point?

Originally posted by juslight
You should race it in A-Spec and just pause it until you play again.








or not.

Thats what i usually do. I probably wont really play it for 24 hours. Ill probably be switching between a spec and b spec, though i have a tendancy in this game to drive cars that wont crush the competition. I dont know if my b spec driver can handle the pressure .

[Titan]

I\'m still at like 5%. I need to get my ass in gear. No pun intended.

[Kurt Angle]

I\'m 13.something % complete, just got a few more bits to do to complete the S licence.

In GT4, the BMW M5 has 7 gears also.  Just thought you would be interested.

I thought when you installed the "full customize" race gearbox in any car, then it automatically got at least six gears.  However, that is not the case.  I bought a used TVR V8S and upgrade the stock transmission because I wanted to improve the painfully slow shifting.  After the upgrade it shifted faster, however it still had only five gears.  I\'m baffled.