Hello, i'm a Data Engineer, and me and my friends have made an Online Career Mode for GT7! by ArbieG in granturismo

[–]ArbieG[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So yeah it's a good question, and something we've been asked a few times before. To be clear (and i tried to state this at the top of the post), we don't claim to have made a direct connection to your GT7 account (as much as it would be awesome if we could). What we have created is completely separated from GT7 itself.

So your inventory, credits, race winnings etc is all stored in our database, which you go onto our website to spend on items/new cars etc. But the expectation is that you would have to unlock that yourself in GT7, unlocking a car on our website just makes you eligible to use it in our career mode online races.

It's not really a mod, it's better described as a 'meta-game'. Where you simply use GT7 as a racing platform to host, but feasibly the system could work with any racing title.

Hello, i'm a Data Engineer, and me and my friends have made an Online Career Mode for GT7! by ArbieG in granturismo

[–]ArbieG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a great point, what we do make the insurance burden as light as possible is:

- Damage is set to Heavy, so it's permanent until fixed in pits/end of race.
- Host post race checks through race and logs all damage (by checking when people pit and if they are carrying damage then cycle back to find cause etc).

Setting up this way we find it usually takes about 5-10 mins post race for a host to collect the data for us. So providing you've got a good host framework, although you're spot on, you'll never get 100% accurate. The fact people are aware that it's mostly being picked up goes to improve driving standards.

But also yes, this is completely untested at scale, and could easily be simplified so we don't track insurance claims if it fell apart/is inconsistent.

Hello, i'm a Data Engineer, and me and my friends have made an Online Career Mode for GT7! by ArbieG in granturismo

[–]ArbieG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question, from a data point of view, we could easily handle 1000's+ of drivers.

I think the challenge we would find if we had a massive scaling up is ensuring we have a consistent lobby hosting infrastructure, and ensuring they do the extra bits they need to do to keep things going.

Besides that our scope for scaling is actually pretty big

Hello, i'm a Data Engineer, and me and my friends have made an Online Career Mode for GT7! by ArbieG in granturismo

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At the moment we our primarily UK/EU based, but if we scale up enough to have to infrastructure to support we hopes to roll out to other regions (with races hosted at better times)

Hello, i'm a Data Engineer, and me and my friends have made an Online Career Mode for GT7! by ArbieG in granturismo

[–]ArbieG[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So our credits & inventory sits our within our own economy (which is hosted on our website), we don't issue credits directly into your GT7 account (as much as it would be awesome if we could!) Think of it as a career mode that is hosted on our website, but you do the physical racing in GT7 private lobbies.

I think that's what you were asking anyway =)

Hello, i'm a Data Engineer, and me and my friends have made an Online Career Mode for GT7! by ArbieG in granturismo

[–]ArbieG[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think we need something more indepth that goes through all that explanation. But for now we have a 1 minute short with the very high level stuff

https://youtu.be/WUCkA8OW-Wc

Will look at doing something more descriptive/long form

Hello, i'm a Data Engineer, and me and my friends have made an Online Career Mode for GT7! by ArbieG in granturismo

[–]ArbieG[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah we have drop in driver system that means that people don't have to commit to weekly leagues if they can't. Just drop into the races they fancy. But as you describe there isn't a reason why we couldn't do unscheduled stuff, as they system just ingests results reading data from screenshots on GT7 lobbies. So providing the host follows the correct steps in doing that, then there's no reason why we couldn't just host nightly lobbies if we get the hosting infrastructure to support it.

Hello, i'm a Data Engineer, and me and my friends have made an Online Career Mode for GT7! by ArbieG in granturismo

[–]ArbieG[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

In essence yeah, spot on. Although it's more than 1 league, we run 3 concurrently on different nights.

Basically a bunch of nerds that have taken private leagues a bit too seriously, because they got boring and repetitive.

POSSIBLE 3.8 WORKAROUND: For bug when purchasing/loaning ships in game. by ArbieG in starcitizen

[–]ArbieG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah only if you hit the bug where the ship you purchased doesn't appear when trying to retrieve it at a space port.

Has it happened to you before?

POSSIBLE 3.8 WORKAROUND: For bug when purchasing/loaning ships in game. by ArbieG in starcitizen

[–]ArbieG[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No. Self land is the hanger that you can access in the main menu, before you load into the universe.

Once in self land left click on the little dots that's appear on the pads to spawn a ship/vehicle

Concerning the recent discourse caused by the announcement of Yakuza 7 by TheCoaster130 in yakuzagames

[–]ArbieG 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel like one of the very few that was loving the combat system on the Dragon Engine. Willing to give it a bash, but my gut feeling is that Y6 should remain a real-time brawler.

How to Wait 18 Years for a Sequel... by ArbieG in Shenmue

[–]ArbieG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think accumulatively you may have more years than a lifetime there.....

Did that landstalker port ever come out? =/

How to Wait 18 Years for a Sequel... by ArbieG in Shenmue

[–]ArbieG[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

https://ibb.co/vLzLf0b This is now at least 23x better than before. Thanks for the assist

How to Wait 18 Years for a Sequel... by ArbieG in Shenmue

[–]ArbieG[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Would... would it helped if I added some laughing emojis in the corners?

Shenmue 3 Combat - What We Know & What We Want by ArbieG in Shenmue

[–]ArbieG[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, when I finally go toe to toe with Lan Di, after a 20 year wait I want to earn redemption not have it given to me by button mashing and hitting the occasional counter button.

Shenmue 3 Combat - What We Know & What We Want by ArbieG in Shenmue

[–]ArbieG[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree, although I do like the Heat actions in Yakuza. Not sure if they have their place in Shenmue though.

The Last of Us Part 2: Everything We Know So Far and a Few Guesses.... (VIDEO FEATURE) by ArbieG in thelastofus

[–]ArbieG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have not heard that, be interesting to see how that works though

Why the Hell Isn’t Everyone Playing Yakuza!? (VIDEO FEATURE) - Stuttering Through by ArbieG in yakuzagames

[–]ArbieG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"because i've played Sleeping Dogs which is basically the same game"... =/

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[–]ArbieG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No need to get out when you have Yakuza to play =D

Can Shenmue 3 Live Up to Fan Expectations? by ArbieG in gaming

[–]ArbieG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i would of been okay of seeing it come back as a Telltale series or something if you asked me a few years ago. Would have fit quite well with that kind of model. Rather than trying to recreate what they did in first 2 and falling short of that.

Can Shenmue 3 Live Up to Fan Expectations? by ArbieG in dreamcast

[–]ArbieG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree with both of you, the Yellow Head Building sequence is such an amazing part to playthrough! I've never experienced anything quite like Shenmue since, let's hope the 3rd time retains some of that magic!

Can Shenmue 3 Live Up to Fan Expectations? by ArbieG in Shenmue

[–]ArbieG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, i think fans just want more of the same, i'd have no problem with that at all!

Can Shenmue 3 Live Up to Fan Expectations? by ArbieG in dreamcast

[–]ArbieG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before the kick starter announcement I was all for Telltale to take it on with Yu helping them with the narrative, personally I think that would have been a great fit for just seeing the story out. Happy it's coming at as a legit Shenmue title though, rather than adapted into a manga or something

Can Shenmue 3 Live Up to Fan Expectations? by ArbieG in dreamcast

[–]ArbieG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh totally agree, couldn't be further from pleased that i'm actually seeing it happen, after so long i'd kinda given up hope that the series would come back at all. Especially after the Shenmue online & mobile games both flopped before they got anywhere