Not Taboo... this room says talk about anything and I like to pretty much honor that. I don't what to give off the impression that "This is my ball..." So like I said, nothing is Taboo. However, I do get to have an opinion, just like everybody else.
At one time I was a Monitor over on the Daught GNet, I had pinned threads and was running a daily Bench Racing thread. I dumped all that and moved it here primarily to get away from the following...
- the Wish Lisht threads
- the I hate Micro$oft threads.
- the Tune My Car for me threads
When these threads are delivered with a sense of entitlement, then I can't tolerate them.
However, we do have a few threads along those lines with out the "entitlement". In fact, I even participate in a few of them. But for the most part, I, me - personally, don't care to see them. The Daught GNet is plumb full of them, let them stay there - in fact, it makes sense for them to stay there - the Turn Ten Devs have a chance to see them over there. I doubt a Dev ever darkens our door.
So, when I saw the title of this thread my initial thought was, "Oh Gawd, what fresh hell is this?" and "...could a car list be far behind?"
So - hopefully having dispensed with the "Taboo" issue, I have a few thoughts on the OP.
I think the Forza III menu is just fine. It is the best of all the Forzas and I hope they stay with it, especially the "jump" key to the main menu. I wish they had provided it in the Hot Lap and Multiplayer extensions as well. As my ole Gran-pappy used to say on occassion, "Menus is menus, even if they're on a cow." They are a navigation tool - the quicker they work the better. The way to make them work quick is to provide an input buffer and minimize the display. Text is just fine with me.
I think the most simple approach to providing a leveling affect to the game would be to provide tuning capabilities to lessor parts. I think the idea that you have to buy the super race suspension in order to set the Toe on your front end is nonsense. As is having to buy a race transmission to be able to change your gear set or rear end ratio. Hell, a lot of that stuff can be done with a simple trip to a junk yard and a couple hour in the driveway. Lets face it, the roate list of upgrades, the "magic 7" is bought automatically for its tuning capabilities.
I think improved performance is sufficient reward for tuning your car. That is all you get in the real world. Of course, there is a penalty for tuning your car badly, or there should be. I like the idea that putting goofy gears on your car can blow up your engine. I wish there was more of that.
I would like to see them go ahead and offer a "Balast" improvement and that they would quit trying to hide it in the Spring Bias.
One of the changes I would most like to see is to provide the ability to have more than one input device assiciated with a profile - a wheel and a controller. It makes sense in that the paint shop and the camera are controller specific in so many of their operations. For the life of me I can see it as nothing more than a simple decision in the low level event handler. The code is already there...
Input from Device #?
- is there a profile #?
- yes? send it to #?.
- no?
dump it.
My change would be simply...
Input from Device #?
- is there a profile #?
- yes? send it to #?.
- no?
send it to #1.
Why they haven't provided that capability is beyond me. I would love to debate it with an XBox programmer. He would probably say, "the event handlers are programmed into the hardware" to which I would respond "bullsh*t, the decision to go split screen is not programmed into the hardware, and where you put that decision is where you make the choice I am speaking of."
...and he'd have some answer and I'd respond and we'd go round and round, but I betcha I would win...
Here's an idea for the Career...
This is real life too... provide a Cost of Doing business. Transportation and lodging. It costs as much if not more than the car, I betcha. When you start out, you only have so much money. All you can do is drive your racer to the local test track (The Snakes), pull the race tires and tool box out of the trunk and back seat and then get after it. If you in 4
th you break even, otherwise you lose an increasing amount of the travel expenses. See, you can go broke racing badly, just like in real life. Lose all your money? Then you have to borrow some and the bank gets a percentage of your winnings. Lose it all again? You got to start over.
You only get to get into bigger, better races after you have accumulated a certain amount in your bank account and can buy an 18 wheel hauler. Now you can race higher paying races on the continent you have selected (regions). One caveat, if your bank account gets below a certain amount, you lose your hauler, and you are back to the snakes until you earn enough to buy the hauler back.
Once you earn enough money in your region and can afford it, you get to buy a plane, and boy they are expensive. Now you are racing for the big money in all regions. The Whole World baby... But same deal, you have to maintain a certain level or you lose your plane, and its back to the 18 wheeler and home turf.\
The AI would also get stiffer as the ability to travel went up...
I'd like to see that.
How about this... the registered tuner gets a percentage of all the money won while his tune is in place. That software is more or less already there with the Storefront and Auction House.
But, you still want to leave a simple out to the Noobs and Goofs... else you won't sell the thing to anybody but idiots like me...
I'm glad I'm retired. I hate having to make compromise decisions. I'd rather sit at home and bitch about the compromise decisions that
you made.
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