Greboth

I don’t yet know what I am doing this Friday but I shall get GTA re-installed just in case.

Event Title: Gran Turismo Racing Event Author: Greboth Calendar: Community Calendar Event Date: 01/24/2019 07:00 PM to 01/24/2019 09:00 PM Afternoon, We obviously have the GT time trial but I thought it could be good to have some time where we get online, set up a lobby and have some racing. Lobby can be private or public, just some fun racing. I forgot to add, doing it early to give time for people to migrate to other games. Car and track tbc but probably stick to the racing cars as I think they’re preferred. Gran Turismo Racing N.B. If viewing this via the FG App, please visit the Calendar event via browser to RSVP. Thanks.

A Ready Player One review depends on what you want from the film. The plot isn’t all that substantial with what plot there is being really predictable. However it is a really well made film, the CGI is amazing and there are so many pop culture references and characters to spot. It is a really enjoyable film to watch. Plus I get to watch it going I’ve been there, I know where that is etc. as some of it was filmed in Birmingham As for my last film- Into the spiderverse. A really good fun film, I’d even argue the best spiderman film we’ve had so far. I don’t remember any jokes that didn’t land and it’s funny to see it taking the piss out of the other spiderman films. Definitely worth a watch.

I don’t know if it is the track or car class being a leveller, either way I think both are best avoided in future rounds Nice Phil, sounds a good way to practice. The general online lobbies are good too as you can’t tank your driver rating and you can spectate other people to see where they shift.

Tried this again last night as there were no lobbies I fancied joining. The only car I can get sub 1 minute is the ktm but it is such a pig to drive. I managed to get down to a 59.3 something. I can’t see me beating that lap though so that’s where my time is staying.

I think the gears are easier in the racing cars than road cars. Though there’s something about this combo as I’m struggling with it too. I’ve got down to I think a 59.5 but I struggle to match that nevermind beat it.

Nice, good to see you and Phil both pushing to learn manual gears

So the slime farm is complete! I only meant to do a little work on today which turned in to about 5 hours - oopsie! I've realised I've built the farm slightly wrong so it isn't as effecient as it could be but timing the farm, it still produces about 64 slimes balls per minute so I think that is enough Just in digging the hole and building the farm we already have 3 double chests which is going to last our little server a looooong time. Though I wanted the slime so we can have a creeper farm but I forgot that takes a lot of string so I think an all purpose mob farm is next on the list to get enough string to then build a creeper only farm. However the all purpose mob farm can wait for another day but I'm back at work this week so I think progress may slow down a little

I think we need to name one Dodo the Dodo in respect of @Diddums character being named Human.

Not a bad idea to have this thread. I think for now, with so few of us playing MC, that the realm is the best thing to stick to. I think at the moment is mostly only me and plumber Dave who is on with any regularity. Though also remonds me about gmod! I don’t think we need a server for it as I assume one of us can host one our own pc but we should play it more.

Nice going Phil, manual gears now next step turning off the traction control I got a 59 with the KTM but it is a pig to handle so going to try one of the other cars. Like you I have loads of cars in this class so a few to choose from.

I have only just started it so I’ve been TP’ing to it as I haven’t set up a nether portal and tunnel yet but if you TP [removed]. You should find yourself with a wall of chests, a bed and a ladder down. I’ve set up another haste 2 beacon so mining is quick and I think one of the bottom chests has some fish and a couple of my eff 5 picks in it too if you want to use them. They both have mending so wear them down and either repair them at the guardian farm or leave them in the chest and I’ll repair them when I’m next on.

So today has mostly been spent building a communal bulk storage room complete with 192 double chests worth of storage I figure there are some thing we want to keep for ourselves....mostly diamonds, the shinies, they're sooo pretty and lovely and...ahem! So it is full of things we should have a lot like stone, cobble, andesite, granite. I've also put things like sand, gravel, redstone coal etc as I've more than I'll ever need of them. I've also put in iron, gold and all the prismarine blocks as we effectively have an unlimited supply of these. I also started the dig for a slime farm It's only a 36 x 36 from the surface all the way to bedrock and y5 soooo only a little digging required There are a few projects I have in mind which need slime blocks or sticky pistons. A single slime chunk farm should produce way more slime than we'll ever need on this server but where's the fun in that so diging out 4 slime chunks next to each other to turn in to one massive slime farm

Nice one! I’ve got to collect all the other stuff to build more of the farm but will keep it in mind you have a stash of obsidian.

So a little more good news bad news. On the good news side there is now a small gold farm above the guardian farm. The gold farm will grow but it takes 88 obsidian to build each nether portal so I need to do more mining. The bad news part of this is that the portal in the nether now links to the gold farm and not the guardian farm. I built a new portal that does link the guardian farm but it currently is only a two wide block path over a lava lake so crossing it is at your own risk. I’ll keep working on the nether tunnels though so I’ll eventually block it in.

You obviously haven't seen a photo of me then

Tsukuba is a classic track but I don't think I've driven it at all on GT Sport. Not quite N100 as I joked about but slower car's this round but Tsukuba is one of those tracks you need to take the perfect line to keep your speed up.

New combo time! Track: Tsukuba Circuit Car Class: N300

I'm happy to continue working on them and build the tunnels as long as they need to be but we've all got to look at them for however long this world lasts so I'd like to know people don't think they're too hideous

So I think I've come up with a nether tunnel design for 2 of the tunnels. The one that currently leads to the Guardian farm I've made out of prismarine and the one that goes through the nether fortress is brick, netherbrick and lava. Next time you're on check them out, if you're happy with them then more tunnel can be built.

Playing this track online in GT cars seems to have helped my time. I managed to get down to a 1:23.012. Even all my best sectors put together was only a 1:22.940 so I think that is as close to a perfect lap as I’m going to get.

One important thing I forgot to mention - when going to the Guardian farm, in the graphic options turn your particles down to minimum else you will have a bad time! That out the way it's a bad news, good news, bad news, good news situation. Bad news - Even though the killing / collection mechanism for this guardian farm is the same as the one I built on the other server I play on. Items were getting caught on the glass panes, at first I didn't think it was that many but I checked and I was wrong!!! Only a few were getting through and I picked up half an inventory's worth that were stuck. Good news - I fixed it. Bad news - Rather than re-design the whole room and item trasport system I modified it slightly using hoppers on droppers. Surely this is good news though? Where's the bad news? The droppers are firing almost constantly so they are constantly clicking while the farm is active. It isn't too bad if you're only in there for a minute but I've spent about an hour digging and building - click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click ARRRGHHHHH!!!!! Good news - I don't think we're losing any items now and OMG I forgot how fast the farm runs when there aren't other people online. The items aren't currently being sorted so the chests are all random at the moment but I'll be putting item sorters in at some point but for now I'm happy just to be collecting the drops.

Sooooo N100 cars next round then?