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Damn! Increasing rewards for circuit experience after I’ve done most of them 😞 Still positive changes over all and I look forward to earning all that extra moolah.

Nope, there’s no option to sell any car. Just the option to remove it from your garage.

I mean I'd rather have 2 Pagani's than no Pagani 😄

I think it’s more points for Haas than the last 2 years combined! Magnussen was definitely the stand out for me, I don’t know how he didn’t get driver of the day. Overall though some terrible luck for Red Bull and brilliant luck for Merc. Merc were way off the pace though, being 40 seconds or so off the leader at the safety car. I hope they can get on top of the car and make it a 3 way battle but that’s a lot of time to gain. It was great seeing Ferrari on the podium again. All those years watching Schumacher I can still hum along to the Italian national anthem 😄

They didn’t universally slash prize money but they did rebalance it. Prior to the update a number of 1 and 2 lap races paid higher than 5 or 10 lap races. So they reduced the short races and buffed the higher. It does mean a reduction in how much you could earn per hour so while the rebalancing I agree the payouts are still low. I also agree with Yamauchi about not playing the same race over and over to farm credits. The problem comes that after the cafe books the amount of credits you can earn does reduce. So with the FOMO with the limited offers, or having a £20mill car so early in the games life, it is going to push people towards micro transactions. On the balance though, the games has been out 2 weeks so I find moaning they can’t buy all the most expensive cars already ridiculous. There should be an element of earning credits and having to think about what cars you buy, especially the exotic and legendary ones. This is on top of that the numbered GT series have always been about the grind. Buying some second hand shitbox, racing it until you can modify it to do some more races and afford a slightly less shitbox. Rinse and repeat until you can eventually buy a shiny new car. Forza Horizon is a perfect example of going to far the other way. You get given so many free cars and money that you can get gifted the best cars almost instantly. GT sport also fell in to this somewhat with the gift car for the daily marathon. There’s also the element that people seem to focus on the game is complete when they finish the cafe books. Ignoring all the additional races the are available at the tracks. So in summary, the payouts are a little low and there isn’t as many races as I thought there would be. But I think they’re a knock off a point or 2 off the rating rather than the bombing it’s had and overall I’d still recommend the game to anyone that’s a fan of the series.

Polyphony Digital servers be like

Well that’s always good news 🤣 I am finding the difficulty variance jarring in this though. I know some people in this thread have found it with licences. But I’ve been knocking out the circuit experiences and some are easy to get gold by over a second yet others take hours to scrape gold by only hundreths of a second. Not to mention dodgy ones like LeMans. The demonstration is at a different time of day so the demo has more grip. The demo takes the corners at full throttle yet all that leads to is snap oversteer and spinning off to fail the sector.

Patch 1.07 is live, mostly just bug fixes. Importantly though they’ve fixed the tyre bug for the licences and missions. A few payouts have changed too for some up, some down depending on time driving. Full list here: Update Details (1.07) - Update - Gran Turismo 7 - gran-turismo.com WWW.GRAN-TURISMO.COM An update for Gran Turismo 7 has been released. The following is a list of the main features...

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Finally finished all the cafe books tonight and, with the exception of 2;1 with the tyre bug and the other using a car I don't own yet, all the challenges are done too 🙂 Now on to all the circuit experiences, I've done a handful so lots still to go. Not that the rally ones are possible currently either due to the tyre bug but oh well. On to some good new bad news for me, the bad news I am now broke in the game 😢 the good new though? I am the proud owner of a Ferrari F40 😄

haha I know mate, I just have a reputation to maintain of being quick and a dick so I had to go back to take the top spot.

@TurboR56Mini ahem! Even @Mikepjbell had beaten me so I had to do something about it 😂 tbh though I’m sure I’ve been beaten on a few as once I get gold I cba to repeat it. I know there’s one licence I got exactly on the gold time so that shouldn’t be too hard to beat.

There’s quite a few bugged dirt ones at the minute as the game incorrectly puts you on road tyres rather dirt ones. On the screen select for world map/music rally you can select the known issues at the bottom for a full list of bugged tests/missions. Well now you see, I wasn’t really going to go back to those missions but gotta say, now I’m tempted to 😄

That sound you hear totally isn’t me turning my playstation on right now 😆 A nice time though 🙂 I look forward to some wheel to wheel action if you join one of our lobbies.

@Shucker If you retry you get the same weather but if you exit out the race fully, so back to the menu, you get different weather when you back to the race. I was doing the Touring Car 700 race last night at the Nord and rained while I was on slicks. I quit to buy intermediates, did the race again but this time instead of heavy rain, the rain clouds got close to the circuit but it never actually rained. I assume the weather settings are the same when you reload a mission so there will still be rain around but it might be a way to get slightly more favourable weather.

Do you like to watch? Do you sir? But yes, it could be a good idea if people need help with a licence or something.

I’ll definitely be up for that. I’ve been focusing on the single player challenges and cafe books so still haven’t tried online yet.

I think a wheel will always be better simply by the fact of the range you have in pedal and steering input over a controller. However from an enjoyment perspective, having a full rig is far more enjoyable than desk mounted. By the time I went Fanatec and a full rig I’d been sim racing about 20 years and had a wheel for 15 years of that. So for me it was a relatively easy purschase but I do find it harder to recommend to others because it is a big investment. However feel, and a sense of speed, is something you’ll always miss but good ffb does help. It’s a different feeling as it’s all through your hands than your ass. But you get attuned to the feeling what the car is doing still. Oversteer is always the obvious one as it forces the wheel to countersteer. But you also get to feel understeer, the floaty feeling when you’re right on the edge of grip etc. It is the one area I’m struggling with GT7 is getting attuned to the cars and the ffb. Most of the time I’m alright but occasionally I get a snap of oversteer which catches me off guard and I can’t react to it. That isn’t to say it’s bad, it’s just not great. A bit off topic really but Live for Speed still shines for me as fantastic force feedback. Getting the feeling and judging the balance as you get just the right amount of lift off oversteer to help turn in your fwd car. Or turning in your rwd and then almost holding the wheel straight as you play with the throttle to keep the car rotating. Raceroom is supposed to have fantastic ffb too but I’ve yet to try it.