Here you can tell everybody what is it that you do when you play stunts to motivate yourself and get the best results.
I usually play best when I'm falling asleep so I play at night.
Other thing that fully motivates me to race is listening to Metallica's song 'Fuel' over and over and over again when I'm playing. That's when I do my best replays.
Hopeyou tell us about your 'things'.
Editing was done to correct a grammar mistake
I also prefer to play in the night - it's so calm. Music is taboo when playing, it disturbs me. Another thing is to create replays in parts. I can't sit too much time over the game. Playing a bit (for example doing the first quarter of the track), restin/eating/anything else then continue. Sometimes I spend some days off from the game before I finish the replay.
Quote from: "CTG"I also prefer to play in the night - it's so calm.
this is when you are drunk :lol:
kidding
Quote from: "Chulk"...motivates me to race is listening to Metallica's song 'Fuel'...
yes, me too. But I prefer 'Orion' music :D
I don't have special time to play. Let's say I play when computer is available : no wife or children already playing/working with it.
It's hard for me to play late in the evening, because computer is in the bedroom : I can't play Stunts properly without sound but Stunts sound disturbs my wife.
Anyway, my favorite song to listen when racing Stunts or any other racing game is "Mota" by Offspring (on the album Ixnay on the hombre), or sometimes 1st album or Rage against the machine.
Metallica songs are better for racing IRL. :-D
To get my amazing results I listen to music and drink cola light. I don't do anything speciel - I guess I'm just a naturel talent ;-)
Quote from: "lised"I guess I'm just a naturel talent ;-)
Surely in wet T-shirt contest. Yes, I am perverse. :-D
For the Hungarians: try to drive a single lap listening to "Apa kocsit hajt". Impossible to finish... :lol:
I need silence and serenity when I'm playing stunts, nobody and nothing should disturb me. Room is also dark. I'm listening to the PC speaker and I'm concentrating on the game. Only eating, drinking, taking a pee/shit can interrupt playing Stunts.
Let's see...
1)I don't listen to music while playing stunts *duh*
2)I don't like to play more than 1 hour in a row.Which means 1 hour per day max and maybe 2* 0<x<1 hour on the weekend.Of course I need rest days.
I have driven a bit while chatting on the internet switching back and force between stunts and the messangers :lol:
But that wasn't very productive :D
3)I drive best when I am alone.If someone is watching me I somehow don't drive to well......
I listen to music of course, usually shuffled playlist, and swing back and forth on my chair while driving. When i crash I sometimes grab my hair in anger :)
Of course a good stunts session is accompanied by some bitter chocolate or biscuits, and it never lasts longer than 60-90 minutes, and it always includes a drive from the start to the finish.
When I abandon a replay at the half I never finish it.
I usually listen to synth-pop/electronic music when driving. I actually once made a special racing-playlist with Koto, Boytronic, Ladytron, Kraftwerk, some Pet Shop Boys, early Depeche Mode and so on :-)
But when I have to do something hard, that demands precision, I turn off the music. It's also essential for me to be able to hear the sound, so the music is not so very loud.
I usual get more and more frustrated the more I race (if the opponents are strong), so I replay-handle faster and faster, and hit the Escape button harder and harder. I have a bad habit of throwing my arms in the air when I finish a good lap :-)
In the good old times with FEB computer: when I couldn't pass a section for xxxth time then I hit the keyboard and started to tell things about stallin god. With my notebook I reduced it to the speech. When I max out a replay, I put a little piece of paper next to the keyboard with the exact section times/speeds and check if I improved or not. I also write an expected section time on the paper which is quite strong, nearly impossible (I reached it only twice and both of them resulted a ZSC victory).
Of course I drive better when I'm alone. But I'm also better if I drink some (not too much) beer.
I can only drive when my wife is not at home and i'm alone at home with nothing else to do (seldom) :(. But then there's no music, just racing. Racing BB 1.1 I usually drink a beer or so, because I do not like racing BB1.1 as I have no sound except pc speaker sound, which is so crappy... When I get bored and crash all the time at the same place I usually shout out "skid!" Racing BB 1.0 I slip into the game, enter my Indy and race. And forget about what's going on around. Later I'll awake, astonished, wondering, looking with big bright eyes, finding out, that my time is still sooooooo bad... ...but I had a good time. :D
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"I usually listen to synth-pop/electronic music [...]
Oh, really? I never would have thought of that... :twisted:
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"I usual get more and more frustrated the more I race [...]
Time for another BJ-blues :D ?
Have you ever tried to control the car without hand? Nose? Tiptoes? Other parts? :-D
I only open my list of 169 different musics, in mode ramdom and It's hour of tha party :P
Quote from: "CTG"When I max out a replay, I put a little piece of paper next to the keyboard with the exact section times/speeds and check if I improved or not.
I do the same in excel except that I divide the track into smaller sections that Zakstunts, so the maxing out is more efficient.
Quote from: "Chulk"I do the same in excel except that I divide the track into smaller sections that Zakstunts, so the maxing out is more efficient.
I write about 10-12 checkpoints dividing the track to key movement's effect.
In the good old times I ussually write down in a yellow paper a checkpoint list as I did in zct17:
(http://espanol.geocities.com/alanrotoi/checkszct172.jpg)
Every column is a new replay done.
Also I don't like to hear music, I just need the sound of the engine / steering :D
Uuuuuh, your handwriting sucks :D
well, I also use a checkpoint list, look my paper. It's pretty, doesn't is?
jojo nice paper :D
You are sick, Alain! :D
In the weekend I'll also show one of my rh-maxouting papers. :D I also do this, it's very useful. I also use swear words if i don't succeed in something (tricks; or crashing). When I was younger, I also spitted on the monitor when I had a very annoying crash. :D But it's the remote past now.
I wrote my CP times in my notebook for general purposes. Liked to play under music with turned off Stunts sounds :)
wow,nicely organized!
Remember, he is a teacher ;)
Rotoi's handwriting is maleish but ugly.
Alain's is in mass and extra ugly.
Mingva's is well organized but gayish. :P
I think Akoss' notes will be ugly too.
Quote from: "CTG"Renato's is in mass and extra ugly.
[-X , you are :^o , my paper is perfect :smt040
I said Alain.
Oooooooooooops it's yours :D:D:D
:smt064 hey, wake up! :P :P :P
People say as for a boy, I'm writing relatively beautifully.
Be modern guys, stop using paper, preserve the trees and use Excel/Lotus 1-2-3 file instead.
And it's easier to calculate section times. :-D
Anyway, it's been a looooooooong time since I used section CP in my replays, I just race and see if final time is better.
I find no fun anymore in making section times. It used to be fun when I made ISA/IRC analysis back in 2002-2003, especially because I had to write explanations too and because competition was without shortcuts, therefore section times were just about racing talent and not shortcut/bugs/luck.
with excel I can't see when I am playing :roll:
Section times just about racing talent in IRC?
Hellllllllooooooo ??? :twisted:
PFFT IRC is about MASS-RH and not about talent :D
Yeah let's drive the same banked corner 100 times before a BUG-Jump happens. hmmm yeah that's talent!
Let's drive the loop without doing a cool Loop-jump.
Oooooh there's so much I can do here,TALENT! *sarcasm*
PORRA renato, tu me scaneia uma folha com o telefone duma mina ??? hahahaha :lol:
essa bia ? gata ? :P
vou ligar pra ela... qual ? o ddd de curitiba ??? 8)
no more portugese here, please
n?o escreverei mais nada em portugu?s. concordo que devemos tentar nos comunicar com a linguagem universal, o ingl?s, j? que ? muito desagrad?vel quando alguns camaradas estrangeiros come?am a estragar um t?pico realmente interessante com um "dialeto" totalmente incompreens?vel e cheio de acentos rid?culos e carnavalescos, hahahahaha :-D :-D :-D
Of course Zak has no words for this.
only you are the one sitting in front of the monitor all day long. I have a life, you know.
vamolo: please use english in the main forums. thanks!
sorry for vamologo, he was talking only to me. He said that in my paper there is a girl's phone number. just this...
vamologo, don't telephone to her, she is my girlfriend :P. I thought nobory would see that, because Dark Chaser and you rarely enter here. Maybe Leo Ramone, but if he telephone to her, I kill him :-D
are you this jealous? :)
Quote from: "zaqrack"are you this jealous? :)
no :lol: , this was a joke, she is just a friend ;-)
Is she the motivation in Stunts? :)
Quote from: "CTG"Is she the motivation in Stunts? :)
yes, of course. If I drive faster, I can see her before :-D
but you told me you like men, and that you saw Brokeback Moutain 69 times, and its a Beautiful movie that open your mind to the truth you allways fight to keep inside you. :P
inside you :oops:
:-D :-D :-D
Quote from: "vamologocomisso"but you told me you like men, and that you saw Brokeback Moutain 69 times, and its a Beautiful movie that open your mind to the truth you allways fight to keep inside you. :P
inside you :oops:
:-D :-D :-D
Do you mean Renato is gay? :P :-D
didnt you saw his avatar ???
I need to say more ??? :wink:
8-10 percent of men have hidden or shown homosexual feelings. It means 2 or 3 on an average scoreboard. Renato is one then.
hahahaha, skid you
vamologo, keep you out of the forum :-D
Quote from: "vamologocomisso"but you told me you like men, and that you saw Brokeback Moutain 69 times, and its a Beautiful movie that open your mind to the truth you allways fight to keep inside you. :P
inside you :oops:
:-D :-D :-D
I don't know which movie you are talking about.
hey guys, don't worry, I am not a gay. hahaha Vamologo is a asshole, he think this because my cycling clothes are straits. SHUT UP VAMOLOGOCOMISSO
Okay you can't hide it anymore, you are a gay. Ratio is quite high in Orion with Mingva and you. :P :-D
kidding
hahaha, stop this, I am furious :evil:
Vaseline guy :D
hahaha, shut up fat man, and talk about what you do while play stunts :-D
Here is a typical sheet of mine, when you play you don't care about nice writing... :D Dunno which track. :?
Another one: the Torino analysis on paper. I copy the results from this sheet to the public Excel file.
OFF: This one is my real life writing during a lesson.
(scanner resolution sucks here... :?)
here are two papers of my study. Of course I don't use notebook, because it's useless :D and more one on ZCT59.
Jajajaja Qu? tienen que ver las derivadas y las par?bolas?? jaja (I don't know the english name :D) Very funny ^_^.
B?FF!
This is no section times, but this is my handwriting.
A little theory about women beeing equal to evil (sorry Lise :lol: )
Nice one Krys :lol:
If someone was picky he could mention that the you cannot prove anything by using a big assumption like 'everyone knows X' while X hasn't been proved itself :twisted:
But it's just a joke,ok 8)
krys, you have a doctor handwriting ^_^. It seems like a medical recipe jaja
Quote from: "alanrotoi"krys, you have a doctor handwriting ^_^.
Well, I studied biology and chemistry when I was at university, it may be the reason why I have doctor-like handwriting. :-D
Quote from: "Krys TOFF"A little theory about women beeing equal to evil (sorry Lise :lol: )
LOL! :P
I was very happyto see there were a lot of answers (4 pages) but when I came to read them I saw half of them don't belong there. Anyway I'd like to thank all of you who took part of this topic, it was nice to see we all have the same (anoying) habits. :lol: :lol: :lol:
M?A
what a crap letter hahahaha, I can't see if it's english or not :shock:
:-D
It's french, I could read out "le" and "qui". Not more. :)
yep, I perceived, but I can't read it and still less translate it :o
Alain, what is this?
It looks like quite beautiful lyrical prose, I would love to see a translation into english! (not only do I fail to understand some of the words, many of them I can't make out on the paper)