Community Bounty Hunter 5/15 - Easy Racers

Thanx for the feedback--it's always welcomed!

I think the Cortina handles elevation changes better, but wears on my arms more since the castor is much higher. I need to give it some more time once he posts his final time. I'm at 1:44.777.   Yes--one hundreth of a second behind the Finn currently!

The title of the Rivals event is Easy Racers. That Finn is anything but--he just set a new time:

NEW TIME TO BEAT: 1:44.238 Corvette C1 (#367 on LB)

I'm not sure he understands the spirit in which these events are supposed to be run. If you're interested in the prize car livery, it's up on his SF for free. I recommend downloading that rather than keep chasing a moving time that he says won't be set till Saturday that will probably end up in the Top 250.

I have a help request. Please download and rate these free rival tunes in my SF as they have been hit again by hate raters. Last night, the Fairlady was nearly 5 stars with 89 downloads and was appearing in Top Rated. Within a couple of hours, the upload count went to 100 and the tune had been downrated to 4 stars.

This happens often with any of our paints and tunes. Since it's usually free or 1000 Fredits, the Timmies and hate raters always try to clear that Top Rated board for their buddies. It's the easiest LB to appear in (just about 10 downloads at 5 stars will chart you) and to get some attention. Our drag tune is currently in Most Downloaded. That chart is harder to manipulate cause you need larger numbers to get on it.

@Troyscloth: Yes--I'll get you the tunes tonight when I get on my Xbox.

Oh--I got an update from MSNNINJA (the guy who's #1 on that leaderboard with an Alfa tune) that he ran a 1:42.242 with the DirtT Fairlady Z 432 tune in that Rivals event! That puts it in the Top 15 easily when I checked the LB's last night.

Best reasoned post so far about the #369 time. If my hunch at the beginning of this is correct, the Finn is aiming to be Top 500 at the end.

"Silvered Kyuubi" wrote:

g33k hack3rs wrote:

I won't consider myself one of the elite drivers but I'm definitely capable of top 500 times consistently. This is a challenge but not impossible.

While I appreciate your humility...I can't stand guys that ego trip, nor the guys so insecure that they have to define 'elite' in a way that includes themselves, regardless of how good or terrible they are...as another 'capable of top 500s', I'm going to respectfully disagree on both points. Being in the top 500 in a game of almost 2.4 million players (2,323,385, according to the Circuit roll-up leaderboard) puts us both in the top 0.02%...the top 2 percent *of* the top 1 percent...and most certainly does make us 'elite', even if neither of us is egotistical enough to want the title, even if one or both of us...I can only speak for myself there...think of only those out of our own reach as 'elite'. Our perspective of what's a respectable challenge is by its very nature unfair to everyone else simply because our personal bars are already so high. While not technically impossible [he's not #1 yet], for the community at large it effectively is. I appreciate WarCry handicapping himself...and have a lot of respect for him as a person for the way he's handled the event, as he's been cheerful, positive, and encouraging the entire time...but in the end, for the community at large it wasn't enough of a handicap. This would've been a great side competition, but as the main event those that are putting in honest effort and still being excluded have every right to be sore. I'm not saying that Warcry should've run a 2:25 dirty, as that would have been a giveaway...but a 1:50 to a 1:52 would've been more than enough to have this community in the good kind of a frenzy: tuners coming out of the woodwork offering help, experienced racers stepping out of every shadow to offer tips and tricks, good-natured rivalries over who beat him with the worst car, and everyone else buzzing with excitement. Instead we get guys with skewed perspectives calling everyone else names and waves of disappointment from some of the most loyal, active, and pleasant members of the forum. It's nothing against Warcry....as I said, I think very highly of him as a person, his attitude towards the event hasn't had a single shred of negativity...but I'm pretty sure the sand leaking out of his trunk is what's covering some of those rumble strips [:p]. Do some guys take CBH far too seriously? Absolutely, just look at the fallout from SideFX's event. But that doesn't completely invalidate the disappointment of those that are by no means bad drivers...CBH doesn't exist to stroke the egos of guys like you and me, or even the guys we think of as untouchable. CBH exists by the community, of the community, for the community. CBH exists to get the drifters racing, the racers dragging, and the draggers drifting. It exists as an incentive to get people to go outside of their comfort zone...and limiting the reward to the best of the best within the discipline defeats that purpose. I'm not resigned to losing this one yet [but I am going to have to resort to bought tunes for leaderboard cars; didn't get to run last night so am now 2sec back], but look at it from the point of view of a top 1000, or even a top 5000 driver. Under no other circumstances would they be considered shabby. Even top 10,000, if there's enough people driving, is nothing to shake a stick at. And yet if the top 500 come out for this...their hopes were dashed before the second time was even laid. These guys aren't whining; they're calling a spade a spade. Whining would be crying foul that Forza's Flying Finn set a clean lap, or that he wasn't using a stock Austin-Healey, or driving only in reverse. If guys like us want CBH to be a challenge, it should be on us to handicap ourselves [I ran Tailhappy's with a basic Murcielago...and chased Armipotent Adam in an E-type!] rather than expecting the bounty to flip the community at large [insert your country's rude gesture here] and come to us.

Thanx for the assist on the ratings. Since DirtT got "noticed" and started charting, our SF's (Kurupt, Roo, mine) have all been targeted. Anytime anything new goes up and it starts showing up on Top Rated or Most Downloaded, a band of about 6-12 peeps will go hit the SF and bring the ratings down. It's predictable. The only counter we have is to make sure it has as many downloads and good ratings as possible prior to officially launching it on FM.net. That way, it becomes more difficult to affect the rating.

I know we gift a lot of paints and tunes to members here. Every time we do that, we lose a download and rating if the member doesn't go to our SF to get the tune/paint and then to rate it. This is part of the "game" that we have to play to rise above the noise on FM.net. There are many competitors on FM.net vying for attention, so anytime we can get help from our home base, it is much appreciated.

Also note that if you download and don't rate, the default is 3-stars. If you rate something but don't download, it won't count towards the overall rating.

Sorry about the delay in getting you the tunes Jarhead. I'm actually typing this from work as I'm in CA and don't get home till at least 7. You will have them tonight once I get home and turn on Forza. 

I posted a 1:43 time last night with F1SH0's Cortina, but XBL disconnected and the frakkin' game gave me the XP and credits but didn't register the time on the LB! Gotta do it all over again this weekend. It helped me tremendously to draft TrackAssassin's ghost around.

We had an Alfa tune for this but abandoned it when SMS beat us to the release. We never got around to tweaking it, but it's psyber's build/tune if you want it.

The #1 time pretty much sealed the deal for SMS on that Alfa. It wasn't considered a LB car for this event till that tune hit. Good enough became not good enough after that. Funny how some were going out of their way to not use the LB Cortina, but then ended up using the LB Alfa.

I haven't seen anyone post that they beat the Finn with the car he drove--a C1. Funny but predictably enough, the Finn doesn't consider himself an "Elite" driver.

With his current time, my guess is less than 1,000 people or so will beat him. Which makes him the toughest bounty to date. That makes two of the most difficult Bounty Hunters with the fewest winners (Monkey had about 1,700 winners on that Hummers Track Day) were actually times run by Painters.

The event deadline is now past. Less than 800 people in front of the Finn. So toughest CBH challenge by a long mile. Monkey's CBH had about twice that number of winners.