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i am extremely sorry to report that i have no improved times. i am particularly aggrieved that i have not produced a 1:16.9, [ ;)] and that brake tapping on the boost pads only slows me down, seeming to cost about one second per lap.
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nobody smiles all the time, Arnaud, at least none that i've met, and not me either, but i do have a sense of humour, and in addition, the WZ is a happy place, so that's the side of me that you see here. one smiles a lot more when one stays in the happy places and ignores the others. i've never understood why some people choose to look for the bad side of life and to dwell on it and in it, but whether i understand or not, such people exist. i just don't join them.
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Wow, congratulations on all your new records, guys!!! I so hope I'll be getting back into the cockpt to at least improve on my own times for that course and track. Good thing you are racing again, Lance. The tables seemed a little deserted lately. :-)
Ben
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sigh. at least Qirex had a full race record against the Supership for a little while. it was the Superpilot that did me in. ;)
Ben, you still have that one Qirex lap record against Piranhas. here's hoping that the Q can hold the line against the invaders
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Yes, but your Quirex times are so impressive that I feel too bad about my own to enjoy being ahead of the 2097 Piranhas. ;) I did a few laps before I went to bed yesterday, but I have so much things running through my mind these days that I can't concentrate to get even clsoe to the "zone". I'll kee trying, though. There WILL be better days, promise! :)
Ben
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a note about the vector times, the 31.4 was done as part of a 1:07.0 race, not during the 1:06.8
about that 'in the zone' thing, i tend not to race very often, and when i do it can take a couple of hours before i get a good level of concentration. not necessarily in one session, though. the day i made the 1:18.0 it was in the third session. i was getting nowhere, with only one run below 1:19, quit, tried again about an hour later, got several 1:18.x times, finally got a .5, but was hungry and still couldn't really concentrate, so i ate, mucked around on the net for a while, and after about an hour and a half i went back to racing. first run, equalled my old .4, then a .3, then three blah runs in high .x, then bam! 1:18.0
i got too excited to race after that. eventually when i calmed down a bit, i tried a session 4 and cranked out another .4 and some other mid .x, but really couldn't concentrate anymore and was too tired. it was late by my standards.
that whole sequence of attempts was unusual; ordinarily i would have raced for 2 or 3 hours straight. sometimes i've raced for 5 hours in one session switching classes, ships, and tracks. but as i said, i don't usually race very often. not long ago, i did race about 4 or 5 days in a row, but mostly not really long sessions
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Yea, but you need to be at least somewhat consistent in order to do one of those "bam!" races :) - either by doing some shorter sessions in a row or by handcuffing yourself to the neG for a few hours. Best would be to do one of these every day for at least a week. THAT'S when I do best. :) I just realized I shouldn't speak so generally... *peaking over to the France* *g* Anyway, that's how it works for me.
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i think you mean *not speak so openly* or *in the hearing of the general public* [also nods slyly toward LeHavre], but i don't think it matters; they already had the required knowledge. and more. :o
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Hm, actually I meant I should speak only for anyone but myself. ;)
I just had an interesting morning. Since I am unable to catch enough fllight time I thought why not do a few laps on Phantom (TT TR, of course) for a change. And what happened? I altered my racing line only slightly - and equalled my former lap record in an initial lap. Go figure. Anyway, after that I beat my personal lap record for three tenths of a second and know now that 1:17.5 or even 1:16.9 should be possible with the Quirex. I'll keep at it, so far I have not been able to do a lap where everything really comes together, not to mention a perfect race.
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or only for yourself? :)
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now see there? our competition with each other on just one track and a couple of classes is teaching us how to do better all around.
still on a narrower front, i improved my TR Venom SR times yesterday, so the lessons are carrying through for me as well. i cut two seconds from my racetime and cut my laptime to within one tenth of Arnaud's Piranha laptime. in SR, the Qirex just doesn't seem to be able to do as well in the overall race against Piranha as it can in TT with its regular turbos. i am 4.4 seconds behind Arnaud's SR time. this is also partly due to the Qirex not having the maneuverability to zip around the other ships as readily as Piranha.
if you figure out how to get that 1:16.9, let me know how!
my experience driving Piranha in XL on Venom TR is beginning to make me wonder if XL is as close to 2097 as i thought, since i cannot get any speed out of the Piranha to at all match what Arnaud is getting. it feels like that speed just isn't there in XL. he was able to beat my current Qirex time without using the brake-tapping technique, and i can't get at all close to my own Q time with the P with any technique whatsoever!
[admittedly, i do not know how to do the tap properly; it always slows me down]
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Yep, the competition is what I really love this site for. It is the one thing that made me fly at all this week. :) Oh, it even teaches me a thing or two about WO3SE, however different flight mechanics may be.
16.9: I wish I knew that myself. :) I lowered my records to 1:33.8 and 0:17.6. The latter seemd to be a nice lap, even if not yet as perfect as I know one can make it. The time for race record, however, can definitely be a lot lower.
I sure am not the right person to tell you this, but keep trying with the Piranha. I can only conclude from the XL tables that the Piranha speed should at leats be VERY close to its 2097 counterpart!
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:o 1.33.8 :o is an impressive time with qirex ( my PB with it was 1.35.5, done tonight) great job dude!! my lap record is 16.9 with 2 turbo on SR ( again tonight).
After that i change to Pirahna Venom + rapier always in SR
Result : VENOM :2 tenth better for race time : 1.18.6 ( a missile hit me on lap3 :evil: so hard to avoid them into that class) but a nice 25.2 for a lap ( 5 tenth better)
RAPIER : 7 tenth better for my lap time , now i am very close to Anthony's one : 16.6 ( just 1 tenth) and i ve beatten him for the race time ( my former one : 1.10.3, his time : 1.09.6) and now for me 1.07.9
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What can i say just i am fit , lol :
SR phanthom : 15.6 / 14.8 / 14.8 / 14.7 / ...... :evil: 17.2 ( hit the stupid bottom of a damn ship ) i could be really under 1.15.0 during lap 5 it seemed to me my heart want to come out of my body...BANG BANG
( without playing for a week the motivation is here :wink: )
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BANG BANG i said , but this time my heart collapsed on the floor....
15.3( new first lap record) / 14.9 / 14.8 / 14.8 / 14.6 : 1.14.4
First time i ve done a 15.3 for lap1 & also 14.6 for another lap than the 2nd
I think it's enough of emotions for me tonight :)
My wipeout job is done :wink:
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eek!
my best first Piranha lap on XL Phantom TR SR is 16.6
my best ever lap is unfortunately that same lap
my best Piranha SR racetime is *mumblemumblemumble*
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Arnaud, what an amazing race time! I begin feeling real lucky to not fly the Piranha, cause that would give me a serious feeling of incompetence. ;-)
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Thx G'Kyl,
when the day comes you will decide to use Piranha, we should to be lucky that you didn't use it long time before :lol:
with your skill on Qirex, you proove us you can beat piranha time in Venom TT, and also many piranha's pilots even in phanthom with your 1.33.8 !! 2 weeks ago with Anthony we have spent little time in SR with your favorite ship, testing 4 differents tracks, our conclusion is it's really a great ship with a very good speed largely more than 400 Kph if you get a turbo & also if you can maintain it at high as long as possible .
Concerning my 1.14.4 doing last night , i just only switch on my Ps today 5 minutes to watch quietly in the option menu the 'best arcade records' section. My best memory of that crazy race was my last lap : i was keeping my mind focused on avoiding the ships not seeing the speed counter( normally it's the opposite that's why many times i ve hitten the 'bottom' of slow ships, restarting again & again) when i cross the line i see first my race time and secondly Lap 5. Honestly it was a great moment even with a track which is the shortest one in 2097/XL despite of Zargz can think about those kind of small tracks :wink:, it depends on how much time you spent to realize each lap , for instance with Spilskinanke supposely the hardest one ( due to it's the 8th & last track ), most good pilot tell it's the 3rd fastest in term of of race & lap time.
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originally i thought Spilskinanke was the hardest circuit, but no. now i would say that the most difficult are Odessa Keys and Gare d'Europa [odd how they mix French and German in that name]
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Hmmm, I never thought Gare d'Europa to be a difficult track. Maybe that's because I have been playing the PC demo for months, though... :)
Expept for some tricky corners, I agree that Spilskinanke isn't really THAT hard to master. All in all, I find Vostok Island much more difficult, and yes, Odessa Keys... Oh, by the way and only because I have recently done some laps around(or: over) the keys, how do you guys take the last turn before the pits? I`m not sure cause I haven't been playing enough, but is it not faster to go through the pits and accept a little slowdown instead of taking that tight turn and slow down even more.
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it depends on how well i'm doing through the approach straight and curve. if i can line it up right, i go through the straight. this is on slower classes; i've not really got to the fast ones yet. in Phantom, Al jumps over most all of it and lands near the pit exit
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I`m not sure anyone if this is of any interest anyway, but here`s an update on my Spilskinanke times.
Rapier: 0:31.0 / 2:10.3
Phantom: 0:27.7 / 2:35.3
For some reason I couldn`t bring myself to enter Talon`s Reach in the last two days. Maybe there`s gonna be some news from there tomorrow. :) Too bad there`s hardly any competition for Spilsk. times, though.
Ben
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i posted times for xl a long time ago [relative to my short history with the game], but don't remember what they were. but i just used Feisar and AG-S, with which i just barely improved the Feisar times.
it's been too hot here to race without sweating buckets of water, so i've done nothing for awhile. rainy season has arrived just in the last couple of days, so it should be cooler on the average for the next 3 months. trouble is that i often have to shut off electronics because of severe lightning. i live in the most heavily lightninged area of North America. in fact a storm is coming close right now, so i may have to shut down very soon.
to all of you racers out there, pleeeeeease race some more! post new times. jump up and down and say you got a new world record. we need some more activity. nah nah, you're not that busy. and besides, it's the weekend! :)
getting smashed on the weekend is important [and fun], but it's not as important as racing!
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