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Wednesday November 10, 1999

prize Impreza does reasonable job at SSR11 All-Night II in platinum game

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Wednesday November 10, 1999

prize Impreza does reasonable job at SSR11 All-Night II in platinum game

Well, the big question in my platinum game was deciding how much the Impreza could win. The only Mega-fast, non-racing-spec car you can guarantee to win is the silver Nismo GT-R LM from the All-nightII (tuned all-night race at SSR11) race. So, I thought I would use the Impreza to win that.

The prize Impreza did a reliable job of winning the All-nightII.

   platinum day 66
   November 10, 1999
   tuned Impreza'96 WRX-STi III Sedan (Normal Series prize)
   SSR11 All-Night II

      q1st 1:57.709new     Cr20,000
  
  

Results:

      1st  Impreza'96SD STi III 56:37.290<--new platinum time, not great
     2nd  FDRX7 TypeRZ          +145.666  (59:02.956)
     3rd  Lancer Evo III GSR    +192.410  (59:49.700)
     4th  R33GT-R Nismo         +223.834  (60:21.124)
     5th  Chaser V              +255.108  (60:52.398)
     6th  Civic 3door           +338.728  (62:16.018)
  
      pits   8,16,23
     lap 1   1:56.309
     fl   (5) 1:46.657new
     slowest  non-pit   (19)  1:54.565
               next     (15)  1:54.071
     fastest pit laps   (16in)  1:52.111
                        (17out) 2:11.902
     slowest pit laps    (8in)  1:55.514
                        (24out) 2:17.634
  

Wow, that was almost precisely 10 seconds a lap slower, 300 seconds or 5 minutes in total, slower than the GTO'95MR, yet I still lapped the field.

I led from start to finish, and began lapping the slowish field by lap 11. I had lapped all but one of them by my second pit stop on lap 16 (not all of those stuck). It was nice to be able to easily take 3 instead of 4 pit stops. In this race I noticed a substantial penalty when I encountered traffic--it seemed to consistently cost me 4 seconds or more on those laps.

My third pit stop was quite exciting. I had just lapped a car before pulling into the pits. As I was in the pits, that car came in after I did, and stopped up ahead of me. I saw it go up on its "jacks", and then go down, and take off before my car had even started! And it did not seem to obey the same pit lane speed limit I am forced to! Talk about AI cheating!

I won Cr150,000, and the silver Nismo GT-R LM.

Once again, for your analytical enjoyment, I here present all 30 lap times...

  

 1   1:56.309      1:56.309
 2   1:50.394      3:46.703
 3   1:48.354      5:35.057
 4   1:49.599      7:24.656
 5   1:46.657      9:11.313
 6   1:50.044     11:01.357
 7   1:50.743     12:52.100
 8   1:55.514     14:47.614
 9   2:14.680     17:02.294
10   1:49.086     18:51.380
11   1:47.383     20:38.763
12   1:48.682     22:27.445
13   1:49.612     24:17.057
14   1:49.513     26:06.570
15   1:54.071     28:00.641
16   1:52.111     29:52.752
17   2:11.902     32:04.654
18   1:50.672     33:55.326
19   1:54.565     35:49.891
20   1:49.416     37:39.307
21   1:47.875     39:27.182
22   1:51.851     41:19.033
23   1:54.230     43:13.263
24   2:17.634     45:30.897
25   1:51.239     47:22.136
26   1:52.091     49:14.227
27   1:49.570     51:03.797
28   1:50.450     52:54.247
29   1:51.914     54:46.161
30   1:51.129     56:37.290


<<-- Tuning Advice-->>

Here are the settings. All parts were maxed.

  

My Settings

   Spring Rate     5.0   4.1
  Ride Height     110   110  (min,min)
  Dampers          5     5
  Camber          1.0   1.3
  Stabilizers      3     3
  Brake Balance   12     9
  Turbo               7
  
           1st       3.700
          2nd       2.190
          3rd       1.424
          4th       1.052
          5th       0.828
                    -----
          FD        3.550  (up a bit from Tuned Series)
  
   Aero           (0.17  0.21) (stock)
  
<<-- Gameplay Hints-->>

Since the object is to avoid buying any other cars, but collect all the gold cups with prize cars only from now on, I cannot use my GTO'95MR wins All-NightI, and Silvia wins GV300 strategy. I had won a yellow Skyline in the Tuned (Abnormal) Series with the Impreza, but, although I maxed it and won the Mega Speed Event, I did not want to rely on it either, since I wanted to develop a strategy to get all gold cups buying only a Civic and a Viper, and winning all other cars.

The only Mega-fast, non-racing-spec car you can guarantee to win is the silver Nismo GT-R LM from the All-nightII (tuned all-night race at SSR11) race. And I did manage to use the Impreza to win that. After I complete the game I will evaluate the tuned prize Nismo at the Mega Speed Event, and perhaps even the All-nightI.

The results from the All-nightII indicate that I probably cannot win the All-nightI with the Impreza. It would be tough to win the Japanese International Series with it too, so I decided to start with the Chaser LM in the UKvsJP Series (it usually seems easier than the USvsJP Series).

With the Chaser LM, I manage to win all five races of the UKvsJP Series, although I qualified 6th at Trial Mountain, and also only fourth at the High Speed Ring, and fourth again at Grand Valley East ii. To my diappointment I won a black del Sol LM again. 8-( Oh well, it should be good enough to win USvsJP, and one or both of the Grand Valley 300 and the All-NightI as well. But I wish I could win a Cerbera LM in one of these "fast" games. Perhaps the problem is that I buy no British cars in these games--that does not seem to stop me from winning the DB7, though.

The Chaser LM does need patience, care, practise, and a little tuning in order to be able to win that series. I used its setting from the Grand Valley 300, although for most of the races I used stabilizers of 3 instead of 4.


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