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Re: Delta S4 Rally Finals - Deutschland Tour (Event)
I think I'm with you, td56022 usually shows up. I'm anywhere between 4th and 14th. I'll avoid you.XenoneX said:
Any friends?
PW2
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Re: Broken finals brackets - still there!
It’s very obvious that this is one of those frozen brackets with 10 people which unfroze as always on the last day and he is starting to accumulate losses (19 in a short time span) because his hand is not that good and he could be easily brought down. But with this big of an advantage people might not bother at all.
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Re: Another final, another carousel
“It doesn't usually extend beyond that and to think otherwise is, in my opinion, paranoia.” I have so many examples of gatekeeping blocking entry into top 10, so it’s clearly not paranoia. 6 or 7 guys placed 1-7 that I can beat and 3 strongest guys placed 8-10 that I cannot beat and are spamming like mad.O__VER said:No the game is not designed as a team game, but as with any competitive game, people will always find ways to gain a competitive advantage. That's why people started late joining. It's why people started smurfing. It's why people used to go to foreign app stores to buy cheaper gold.
Sports like Formula 1 are a perfect example of this. If anyone follows it, Mercedes' latest innovation has just been deemed legal, so now they have a competitive advantage that the other teams need to catch up on.
In Top Drives it is not against the rules to team up. Hutch don't help us to do it, but you'd be stupid not to. There are many, many groups of friends on Facebook and Discord and if you don't join a group, you're giving yourself a disadvantage. I don't see why you would choose to play alone.
Most friend groups have agreements not to hit each other, and they'll sometimes help a friend achieve a higher tier by feeding wins. It doesn't usually extend beyond that and to think otherwise is, in my opinion, paranoia. They're not gangs but of course they want to win. Why not join them?
Why not join? Because I cannot be bothered and I’m not a millennial I guess. But more seriously, I started playing this game because I like cars, collecting, and tactical reasoning, so that did fit quite well. Now that this game is more about finding the right team for each event and ganging up against others it really has lost a lot of its appeal, for me.
I actually do not enjoy being ‘helped’ by friends to get a prize I do not deserve. Firstly it does not feel like I earned it, kind of like cheating, and secondly I feel bad for the poor guys with better hands who are denied what they should get. Basically I see no sportsmanship in that practice and it takes the fun out of the game for me.
But really it is just one aspect of the present state of the game that makes me not want to play it any more.
Other factors are:
- Bugs/mistakes/errors that never get fixed (and are super easy to remedy), which again takes a lot out of the strategic appeal of the game, and makes it even more random
- Clear continuing trend towards P2W, while I am mostly F2P
- Game breaking decisions such as epics moving to legendary, changes in game engine that screw up tunes and create ‘unexpected results’
- I dont see it improving in the future: the chore of managing a garage has become too much, it becomes an endless task, and it’s only going to get worse, this game needs new cars to work (whether real new cars or the planned ‘tuning’ function) and I just dont want to spend the time
So yeah, in a nutshell it has become more frustrating than fun. Others will no doubt enjoy playing it like this but it’s just not for me any more.
- I dont see it improving in the future: the chore of managing a garage has become too much, it becomes an endless task, and it’s only going to get worse, this game needs new cars to work (whether real new cars or the planned ‘tuning’ function) and I just dont want to spend the time
So yeah, in a nutshell it has become more frustrating than fun. Others will no doubt enjoy playing it like this but it’s just not for me any more.
TD42792
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Re: Are short term tags replacing major content updates?
I for one am happy with next PL being delayed in favour of what we're seeing now. The game isn't such a frenzy anymore and we bugged and bugged them about smaller updates addressing quality of life and bugfixes. It's exactly what we're getting. They're not gonna hear complaining about that from me
Re: 4-Seater Frenzy (Event)
Indeed. And guess what? I have 2 of them maxed. Hutch can you please stop Hutchin up all the time?AslanV said:This is not the only one with a problem...
The Bentley Continental Supersport Convertible
TD42792
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Re: Another final, another carousel
Why do I think @Bugatti would have made this thread interesting?
HeissRod
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Re: Welcome to the Car Corrections Forum
@Carnage This is the wrong place to be asking this, but 'Better Spec for Surface Condition' can mean any number of different things. It could mean....
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- One car has ABS and the other does not
- One car has Traction Control and the other does not
- Depending on the surface, 4WD may be better than RWD which may be better than FWD
- The ground clearance may be higher (for climbing hills)
- Stock for stock, the Peugeot weighs 385kg less (~850lbs). Weight is pretty much the main factor in slaloms.
- The Peugeot is ~0.1 meters (~4") narrower than the Nissan. This does not to seem to be as big of a factor as weight, though.
- Your car is not fully upgraded. I'm guessing that your vehicle is currently tuned 669, while the Peugeot is 969. A long time ago, Hutch added code that slightly increased drive traction when the engine was upgraded. This was done to help prevent cars that were tuned higher losing to the same car that was tuned lower. In this case, that Peugeot has that slight traction increase compared to your car. This is the big piece in your example.
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Notice how much more effective 969 is in the wet, compared to 699.
Notice how much more effective 969 is in the wet, compared to 699.
HeissRod
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Re: Another final, another carousel
Hmm, I see your point but I don't see any way to solve it. Do you?
Re: The end of loot boxes and the effect on top drives "and other mobile games?
Many of my friends and me included like to cut down on spendings, and the way the game is build it isnt easy (to continue to have fun after that).
I still like the game and play it everyday, but often wish this was settled in a different economic environment, less focus on milking the players, more focus on game development. (Respect to Hutch, they try to improve on that this year).
This game is three years old, i have seen other games walk miles by this time. Here we are happy about day 1 bugfixes, while annual revenue and money after taxes is on a steady rise. So i expect some more work done on the game, as the money ist clearly there .
I know some of the strongest garages realized they have a gambling problem and stopped the game for that reason only.
So maybe technically it isnt gambling by some laws, but in reality this game is just that. Pure gambling, little to no skill involved.
I still like the game and play it everyday, but often wish this was settled in a different economic environment, less focus on milking the players, more focus on game development. (Respect to Hutch, they try to improve on that this year).
This game is three years old, i have seen other games walk miles by this time. Here we are happy about day 1 bugfixes, while annual revenue and money after taxes is on a steady rise. So i expect some more work done on the game, as the money ist clearly there .
Re: The end of loot boxes and the effect on top drives "and other mobile games?
No.AslanV said:"If a product looks like gambling and feels like gambling, it should be regulated as gambling"
To be the devil advocate, every time you are buying frozen food, you are gambling that the cold chain was not broken.
Or Topdrives will not be available in the UK 🤣
That’s not being the Devils advocate, it’s making a false equivalence.