Talk:Aston Martin Vulcan/@comment-31044517-20180107190857/@comment-31044517-20180115181352

@ Spyman

I'm 39, much older than you lol. I remember reading somewhere on this wiki that you're 16 or something.

Very interesting family history! I'm an avid history reader so it interested me even more.

Immigrants are hardly welcome anywhere on the globe alas. People are having problems accepting immigrants even from their own heritage. For intance, even the Irish, the Italians, the Germans etc weren't much welcome in the States although they are all Europeans with close enough cultures.

And of course, more `foreign` immigrants were treated even more harshly. Just like in the Dutch West Indies during WW2, in the US, all ethnic Japanese US `citizens` were rounded up and taken to concentration camps because they thought some of them could be recruited as spies. I think maybe it included all `Asians` I'm not sure though. What a shame... But they were lucky they had their lives saved. Coz millions and millions of civilians were exterminated throughout the globe during that horrible war. I'm glad your great grand parents were able to lead a nice life after suffering the internment camps.

3/4 of my great great grandparents are actually Turkish immigrants from what is now Bulgaria during the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish war. They were lucky to save their lives (countless numbers of them perished in the war) and being well received in Turkey being allowed to settle and given land.

And yes, Vulcan is the undisputed king of the game so I owe my ratings to having a max pro one, but I'm facing other Vulcans as well lol :D In fact like 70% of my opponents were Vulcans and like 25% of them MP4 31s and like 5% were Hussies, excluding other cars like the Vette, the MP4 25, the Nemesis, the SV, the Arash, the Hommage etc. I might be wrong with the percentages but that's what I perceived :D

And there's no doubt it gets harder and harder to increase your ratings as they go up. Even the time of the day matters. I live in Turkey, and when I play in the morning, I've always had trouble increasing my ratings. Coz most of my opponents had bad (too often dismal) ratings in the morning and there are too many suicidal idiots who take themselves and you out together in that time of the day. And they are not gangs (they are on tickets so they lose ratings too) they are just idiots :D If you can survive the start and the first turn, they can't harm you anymore though :D

But even then, when you finish first against such opponents, you hardly get any rating increases, and even if you come second you go negative. I remember going down 31 points for coming second to an MP4 31 user in a one lap race (after making a mistake) in a full grid race! That's how dismal his rating was.

All of the huge ratings points surges that I posted here were done late in the evening Turkish time. Because my opponents were exclusively from my league and I got huge rating points gains when I won, and still got ratings increases for being second, third and even fourth.

And I've never ever bought any MP tickets whatsoever in my entire Asphalt 8 life lol :D I just use whatever tickets the game is giving me and whatever tickets the 10 daily ads would give me. I can imagine myself buying tickets only if I'm very close to Elite League and there are only hours left for the season to end. And this is very unlikely coz it's almost impossible to hit top 100 without gang help. You'd have to spend a prohibitive amount of tokens to get enough tickets. And still you need to face enough opponents with high enough ratings.

I might do better next season though as I add more tracks to my mastered repertoire and as I get better and better in the ones I've already mastered. It would save me a lot of extra points for bailing out of a lobby too late after I'm locked. If I knew I was too late I wouldn't suspend the game and would just race. I usually come 2nd or 3rd in the tracks I didn't master, so it's worth trying. But once you suspend the game in the lobby there's no return. Most of the time it gives your ticket back and doesn't penalize your rating. But if you end up being too late for doing that your ticket is forfeited and you're given the usual disconnection penalty.

In any case, I'll keep it as fun as possible and will use only the tickets I get from my daily allowance, events and ads.

And I found out (not surprisingly) that if I don't allow myself get frustrated or annoyed by glitches or teleporting guys or by idiot, if I keep it fun and if I concentrate well without thinking about anything else (without thinking about ratings) I do some really excellent runs which are hard to beat in a multiplayer environment.

It's all about keeping it cool and fun, and concentrating on the best run possible only, without giving up, without getting emotional. That's what successful real race drivers to as well. Concentration and not getting emotional and not getting frustrated is extremely important. You gotta go at it like a cold blooded killer, just concentrating on the objective on nailing the run you rehearsed so many times, fighting off others only when absolutely necessary and only enough to let yourself continue nailing your run and nothing else. It's a really good exercise in concentration and focus.