woohoo! new record!

[element42]

Vector TT Valparaiso with Piranha lap time: 46.1! :D
(race time 1:33.8, not quite top :( )

dear GOD my thumb hurt after finally getting that, lovely little circle shape on the tip :lol: but I reckon I can go just a little faster.... and I reckon I can get the race time record as well.

next stop: venom.

[G'Kyl]

Whow, I smell Piranha engines warming up nearby... :-) Good job on the lap time!

[stin]

:wink:

stevie :P

[stin]

Whow, I smell Piranha engines warming up nearby... :-) Good job on the lap time!

Spot on buddy cos I just did! :wink: but I had a few beers so I can enjoy.

stevie :hyper

[element42]

who is this Arnaud Senand guy and how the hell am I supposed to beat 44:8? 8O
44:8!! And I really thought I was in with a chance of being at the top of a table. :cry:

[later edit...]
aha, Arnaud = Asayyeah, and I notice some previous postings about Valparaiso records (although not vector). Damn he's fast.
Right, I'll see you all in a month or so. I'm going to practice. :twisted:

[element42]

okay, so it didn't take a month, but i've equalled Assayeahs time. yeah baby. :D
can i beat it? we'll see.
Is that you stindah who's taken the race record?

anyway, the reason for my improvement is: brake tapping. I'm sure I read in one of the threads that it only worked in rapier/phantom. Anyway, still need more practice :roll:

[stin]

okay, so it didn't take a month, but i've equalled Assayeahs time. yeah baby. :D
can i beat it? we'll see.
Is that you stindah who's taken the race record?

anyway, the reason for my improvement is: brake tapping. I'm sure I read in one of the threads that it only worked in rapier/phantom. Anyway, still need more practice :roll:

Yes that is me taking the race record :twisted: but after I read your first post, in my mind says "If this guy wanna play tough competition then I will do it!" also Asayyeah IS watching whoever put the new scores in any tracks even SE and Wipeout 3.

Oh!, on a side note there is a few guys who also plays neggy (Negcon) which by reputation who can breaks records compare to `D` pads. :wink:

I`m just being curious what age are you?

stevie :)

[element42]

i've got a negcon :D
god knows i couldn't get those times without it.

i reckon i can get to Assayeahs current record 44:7; unfortunately i've just inherited a gamecube and i'm not getting much WO practice in :roll: and lets not forget GTA on friday


i'm 25. and you?

[stin]

:oops: cough....35....cough :oops:

Now I have not been playing 2097 lately due I have been playing SE alot from the memory card had been delivered from Sweden!!! (bloody ghosts but I did beat a few of them :wink: )

stevie :D

[infoxicated]

:oops: cough....35....cough :oops:
Note: he's not coughing due to the age - it's all the smokes! :twisted: :wink:

[Lance]

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element42, good going. equaling Arnaud is an achievement!
[btw which element is number 42, anyway? i've forgotten.]

ahem, speaking of 2097, Stevie, although i've not posted but one of my Piranha times in XL, my Piranha time for Talon's Reach Single Race Vector is 1:02.4. which is *cof* two tenths faster than yours. :)
and *sigh* eight tenths slower than Arnaud's.
which means that both of us need to sharpen up our neggie-twisting abilities. now that i've got electricity back in my house, i plan to start racing again. you still have a couple of lap times faster than mine in xl with Qirex, and *gasp, George has a Qirex racetime faster than mine somewhere in one of the classes and tracks. i must dO something!
maybe later today after i take care of other necessary dealings with yet another utility company. i've not had much sleep for 3 days and i've not raced for a longish time, but i will try to be back in competitive form soon so we can continue our 'duels'.

infox: LOL
i guess we'll leave the age-coughing to me. :)
.

[element42]

element 42 = molybdenum = mo, which happens to be what everyone in the universe, bar the parents, calls me.
also, 42 = answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything. another example of the cosmos conspiring to like me. i think so, anyway... :wink:

assayeah has beaten the time again though :( i reckon i can get that extra .1 but any more than that? unlikely

[Lance]

.
might have been just Douglas Adams conspiring instead of the cosmos as a whole, but that's good enough for me
.

[element42]

yeah! yeah! yeah!
tt lap time: 44.6 :D :D
tt race time: 1:30.2 8O that was a shock to me!
there's definitely more in there, the lap times on that race time were 45.2, 45.0. (although i did repeat it with 45.6, 44.6). I reckon the fastest lap time can come down as far as 44.2. but that would be a non-trivial matter.
anyway, woohoo! again!

[2SU]

Something tells me I need to get a negCon. I don't spend much time on the slower racing Classes - Im too busy trying to beat 18 seconds on talons reach using a digital controller I lost out on an Ebay auction by ! 12p ! for one.

[G'Kyl]

Something tells me I need to get a negCon.

Could it be this breeze that is whispering all over this board? ;)

[2SU]

Quite possibly :P

[Rapier Racer]

Something tells me I need to get a negCon. I don't spend much time on the slower racing Classes - Im too busy trying to beat 18 seconds on talons reach using a digital controller I lost out on an Ebay auction by ! 12p ! for one.

you must get yourself a NeGcon, I didn't think they were anything special untill I got one, you'll soon smash your times with one iI can tell you that!

[Jetlag]

Hi Guys,

Finally managed to beat my Sargamartha Phantom Lap record on Saturday, and then I did it agin 3 hours later.

It now stands at 17.4 (Arnud here I come!!!)

I have entered it on the main site under4 Tim Few

[lunar]

Well done
but you aren`t going to beat Arnaud without a negcon, methinks. :D

[Dimension]

Argh all this rubbing it in about neGcons and here I can't get hold of one for the life of me (I don't trust Obey after my little Dexdrive incident,) sigh, I'm actually dead interested to see how much better these things actually are :?

[lunar]

for only a quarter of the price of a dualshock, at the moment anyway, and this guy looks okay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38615&item=8171373739&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[Jetlag]

Hi all,

I've been playing again this weekend and have now got my time down to 17.0 on sargamartha. I've also found a negcon on ebay, so hopefully I can continue to lower my times.

Wish me luck.

[Asayyeah]

Great performance Jetlag if i consider you are playing a D-Pad. With your new Neggy you should progressivly lower your 2097' times with a quite normal adaptation time with it.

Go on fellow Wiper 16s is on your way 8)

[zargz]

.. a quite normal adaptation time .. and what might that be ??! :roll:

Praeterea censeo autopilotum esse delendam

[Asayyeah]

means the time needed to adapte yourself with a new controller. 8)
Personaly it was 1 month, i know Stevie's period was as long as mine.
And that the case of many Negwipers i know.
It's extremely rare to find someone who has tried Neg ( with enough time to use it) and not adopt it definitely :mrgreen:

[Lance]

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it may even take very little time to adapt; for myself and at least one of the other WZ members, it took only a few hours at most. i began beating my most recent D-pad records on the same day i got the neG. the neGcon just felt very natural to me; it may be that way for you, too. every person is different; it may depend on how much time you have recently spent racing with the D-pad
.

[G'Kyl]

it may even take very little time to adapt [...] it may depend on how much time you have recently spent racing with the D-pad

Do you mean it's easier or harder to adapt when you haven't been playing with the D-Pad a lot? The first would definitely be true for me. I hardly ever played any WO for records until a year ago, then bought a negcon and didn't want to go back from the minute I hit the track, same as you. But then, as I said, I haven't been playing much before that.

Ben

[Lance]

.
it could work either way. a lot of play with D-pad could groove you too much into that pattern that might be hard to break. on the other hand, depending on your own nature, recent heavy practice might make you hyperaware of the differences and make it easier to change behaviour
.

[zargz]

I sure hope so http://www.geocities.com/zargz/leenden/huh.gif

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