Time trials ? Ghosts ?

[Earwig]

Anyone able to offer advice as to how this works ?

I have run a couple of laps and I am currently sitting at number 25 with the Ariel Atom around the "Ring"

When I click on local, I can see my time, when I click on car records I can see my time also.

But when I exit the game and return at another time my "Local" content and time seems to have vanished. Which means I cannot select my own previous best as a ghost to race against ?

Also out of all the times that are posted in the leaderboard I can only select a tiny handful of them. I maybe have access to about 4-5 ghosts out of the whole lot and many of them are way to far ahead of my time to be of any use or fun to race against....

So my questions are...

Why can I not pick any other ghosts ? Why is it so limited ?

Where the hell is my own ghost going after a restart ?

[Earwig]

Anyone ?

[Dalton]

I have the same issue sadly. I replied to a post, with pictures, on the Pcars forum. For simplicity sake i've just copied/pasted my reply to that below. I'll also include a link before my text incase you want to take a look. I'm hopeful they get this fixed up. Father and I are looking forward to using this mode to race together when schedules dont line up! I mean, it seems to all work but its rather round-about doing it this way.

http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthread.php?25715-Ghost-Car-Incorrect-Time-In-Menus


BLUF: Same problem but using vehicle records tab and the GPS icon shows my ghost, with time and controller type, just fine. Still hopeful for a fix.

I've noticed the same thing. Exactly the same thing. I'm on the most recent build (as of todays date) and hoping this is something that'll get fixed up rather quickly. My father and I have different schedules but we wanted to leverage the cool time trials feature to race back and forth some so I began experimenting today. I ran maybe 6 laps (all in regulation with no cuts/off tracks) with a stock formula rookie car on a track I hadnt ran before. Initially it showed me the first place for that track/car type numbers in my only local save location then when i exited the menu and returned it showed my data but no time. I was able to go to the online records and see where i was (16th...impressed honestly being in an unmodified car on a new track with an xbox one controller) and get my time that way but i'm hopeful this will get worked out quickly. The ghost it loads from local seems to be fine but hadnt tried pulling the same ghost from the vehicles tab just yet.

As long as it posts to the records and you can navigate to your time via the GPS symbol thats cool I guess but it'd be really nice to have this feature bug free since its something we were both looking forward to!

If anyone else has similar, or different, experiences please reply back. Maybe we can help get to the bottom of this.

[Dalton]

**Additional post so i can select to subscribe to the thread for updates. Apparently you cant edit and sub after you submit.**

[mesonw]

Sorry Dalton, not an answer here, but just someone else chasing it down. I cannot fathom what does and what does not cause the game to save a ghost of my best time trial. I've saved the replay, and that appears in my profile, but the records for the track/car combination, while correctly showing my best time, do not show a ghost to race against.

This is pretty basic time trial stuff SMS, and quite disappointing given the effort it takes to complete a 12 mile run of the California Highway for example.
Is there a precise (and unintuitive) series of steps to force it to save the ghost of a clean run? On a continuous circuit you can just keep lapping... but on a point-to-point the game automatically shows you the menu to view replay, save it, restart, continue, etc. What do you need to do in order to commit a ghost tot he leaderboards?