Just to chime in on some discussions since last night.
30 lap endurance race: Medium tires every time, Five, 6 lap stints. Done.
You can have fun using the fuel map settings, but you can also keep it super simple. Start on Medium tires, pit every 6 laps, take new medium tires, add enough fuel for 6 more laps (I would always add about 6.5 laps to be safe) That is it. I finished well ahead of second place.
Dailies every 5 min:
This is a necessary edition if races are going to be so short. However, I would much prefer to have some hourly races that last 30 min +. Adding a SR system then only doing 3-5 lap sprint races is idiotic. Everyone is going to try to win the race in every turn because you have no time to settle in, observe, and set up a move. There is also no opportunity to let player over heat their tires by pressuring them.
Dailies being weeklies:
Yep this still sucks, especially with only three events for the entire game right now. A mix of the two would be ideal for a game like GTS.
Edit: With the same tracks for an entire week, the least they could do is make you set a new qualifying time for each session. Would at least mix up the field a little bit. Being able to bank an entire week of grid spots on a single lap is lame. It is only going to encourage exploiting track limits etc so people can get pole position over and over.
Down Tuning N___ cars:
This is going to be the norm until there is a spec race series. Multi car fields are difficult to balance and that is why you only see two to three cars to choose for mix car fields in games like iRacing. PD has been unable to balance cars since the GT5 PP system was introduced. There is no reason for the tune system in GTS right now. It just makes the meta even more limited. The only time GT had a decent pack of balanced cars was with the JGTC cars....yet we don't have those.
SR and DR:
SR is a mess right now. Swings way too much . Getting to a new rank should be a big deal and give you a margin before dropping you. They also need to add more events to Sports mode and have them gated off by SR ranking. You shouldn't even be able to get into a Gr.__ race until you are SR of B or higher. Set specific criteria for SR rank up. You have to gain a certain amount of SR points as well as complete a certain amount of races at that rank. DR is even more worthless. Moves too quickly to diversify the field into proper sections. You can play often and rank up, or be a alien and rank up, but the rank doesn't seem to reflect your class of skill. If anything it feels like DR is the thinking dividing the field into sportmanship classes more than SR is. It is also unclear exactly how your DR is being effected so being a B class driver over a C class driver doesn't mean much other than you will likely have people racing more cleanly....but that is supposed to be the thing controlled by SR not DR!!!
Missions:
These started fun but end up being pretty terrible by groups 7 and 8. All they do is throw you in last place against a bunch of cars going way too slow, braking in the middle of apexes, weaving all over the place, and taking the dumbest lines through corners. The Fishing Village challenge was awful. It is teaching you nothing about racing, just a mindless GT challenge of go from last to first with terrible AI in between. The entire Nordschliefe challenge is this and makes it a joyless feat. Can't wait to be done with the missions at this point.
