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« on: January 06, 2011, 08:08:49 pm »

ok, here it goes....

A Spec is racing cars you own against the computer for money/exp.

B Spec is coaching a team of AI controlled drivers against the computer to win money/exp.

Special Events are what they sound like. They usually consist of a pre set race using a certain car or cars and these races give you tons of money/exp so do them all when ever you unlock them by reaching the required level.

Seasonal Events are races that are set up to only be able to be played for a short amount of time like a few weeks or so. These things are cash cows so do them all if you can and rake in the money.

GT Academy is a national competition that allows you to compete for a ton of great real world prizes and a chance to be on a reality TV series where you race actual race cars. I'm trying to compete in it and not doing well.  Embarrassed


A Spec:

I usually tell people to start playing the game by only using the cars you have and try to never buy any new or used cars unless you absolutely have to. That means, you use the car you start with and the cars you win in game to compete in other races and save your money for tuning cars instead of buying new ones all the time. start with either a civic or a miata (preferably from the used lot). either of those two cars will allow you to use them for a bunch of different races without having to buy a different car for each race. After you get past the first few levels of A and B spec mode, you should have plenty of money and cars to start doing whatever you want.

B Spec:

I advise you to do the B Spec mode when you can't actually play the game yourself. Get a few good cars in A Spec, then use them (preferably OP cars that will win easily) in B Spec mode. Your AI driver is gonna suck at first, but they get better the more you use them and don't drive like retards after a few races. You unlock a new AI driver every five levels you pass in B Spec mode until you have a team of six drives. You can retire drivers and hire new ones whenever you want. B Spec mode gives you tons of "free" money and actually gives you better cars than A Spec mode when you win them. I suggest you do A and B Spec mode at the same time cuz you win cars in either mode that work for races in the other mode. you really shouldn't have to buy many cars at all if you do all the different modes as you unlock them.

Try to get gold trophy's on everything
getting gold trophies gives you free cars and more money/exp. this also applies to licenses. if you can manage golds on the licensees, you are a pimp for one and will be rewarded with bad ass cars too.

License Tests:

you don't have to pass the first license test to start in A and B spec mode. You will have to get your licenses for later races though so just play until you have to get that next license or just try to get all the licenses at once. whatever floats your boat. The tests do actually teach you how to play the game correctly though so it's a good idea to try to gold as much of the tests as you can. you only need to bronze them to pass them so don't worry about it if you just can't get golds or silvers on some of the tests. also, you do get prize cars for getting golds on the all the tests but this is EXTREMELY hard to do. I've only managed to get golds on all the first set of licenses and a handful of the others. I do think I have more gold trophies in the license tests than any one else on my friends list in GT5 though cuz I'm pimp like that.  Cool (gefish may have more though, I'm not sure. He's a good racer apparently  Afro )

Online:

Online has private and public servers.

The public servers (randoms can join) can be found by clicking on the "Open Lobby" icon on the main screen. You can create your own lobby or join others. You can earn money/exp by racing online (as DG said) but you don't win nearly as much as you do in the career mode. You can have up to 16 people in a public lobby at once. The host of the lobby sets the rules and controls everything. He can allow you to vote for some stuff like track choices but it's his choice on everything else.

The private servers (only friends and friends of friends can join these) can be found by clicking on the "My Lounge" icon that looks like a coffee cup. If you click on the "Community" tab on the left of the main screen you can see all your friends that play GT5 and whether or not they are online. There will be a green light next to their name if they are playing and there will be an orange icon attached to their "coffee cup" if they are playing online. If they are playing online, just go to the community tab, click on that person's name and click on the coffee cup and you can join the server they are in. Private servers work the same as public ones except that you can have up to 32 people in a private server with up to 16 of those people racing at a time.

Trading cars:

you can send cars and receive cars to and from your friends in GT5. you can send one car per day and 5 paint chips (these allow you to paint your cars different colors) per day. you can send cars back and forth if you wanna let someone borrow a car for a while. hit me up any time you need a car cuz I send a car to someone almost every day.

Arcade Mode:

arcade mode is just for screwing around and driving cars on whatever tracks you want. there are a ton of cars to choose from right from the start and you unlock more cars and tracks by progressing the career mode (Greyhound said you can unlock arcade mode stuff by playing arcade mode but I don't know about that. I don't play that mode of the game. Arcade is good for showing the game off or just screwing around IMO. You can do more in the Practice Mode of the main game so that's where I go when I want to mess around with the cars outside of the career mode.

Tips:

- don't waste time tuning cars with the lower parts. just buy the best parts from the start and save your money buy not buying the lower level parts if you can.

- don't buy a ton of cars for each race in career mode. use the cars you have for the races you can until you absolutely have to buy a new one. you can play most of the career mode w/out buying any cars cuz you win most of the cars you need by winning events (usually have to get gold trophies) and stuff.

- I'll post more when I get some more time, this is already tl;dr, lol
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