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First, a small story that happened to me days ago:
I was chilling in my own lobby, running my own custom tracks (modesty apart, all of them are awsome and 100% fluid for drifting). It was me and a mate who regulary is posting on this forum, great drifter. But he said that he was only waiting for another very famous drift lobby opens, then he would leave and join on that room. As i had the same plan (join with them as soon as the lobby opened), came up the idea:
"I will send a message to one of the head bosses of that crew, asking if he could make one exception this time and set the lobby to anyone change the track (since they always open privately and only trustble people joins), or if he could download my lastest mt aso touge (5 stars, by the way) from my shared tracks and could let people hang out there anytime." So i did it.
Unfortunaly, he answered (polited):
"Not in this lobby, unfortunaly. Custom tracks scares people. Maybe in another day in another lobby". I got frustrated, but i did let it go.
In another very, very famous GT5 lobby, the admin always run only one custom track - The so famous 99 corners touge - and i tried many times to show up and stimulate him to add my custom tracks to the lobby, witch (in my humble opinion) are much more enjoyable and fluid than his 99. So far i got few or none sucess on that.
So im starting this thread to bring up the discussion: Why the heck most people underedstimate the custom tracks and the track generator by itself? If you´re not one of those, be ready to know that as soon as you change your common track choices (Tsukuba, Suzuka, Grand Valley...) to a custom track, most people will run out of your lobby like rats from a founding ship.
Apart of the discussion, i have my own theory to find some answers:
- Custom tracks are uglier.
- There is a high chance of make a custom track good on the paper, but with serious issues while driving. Sometimes i spend more than 2 hours in a single track and i have to give up after not find a way to solve a problem on the lines.
- Custom tracks normaly brings a higher range of risk to be run in lobbies, because there is a higher chance of make people to get stuck or disconect from the lobby.
- People like to feel strong, and a well known track is basic for this strenght (specialy for those who are extremely competitive and dont accept flaws on their sessions).
In other hand, i just reallize if there wasn´t a custom track generator since day #1 and it would be a new feature from any free DLC. Would that still being that underestimated?
Also, aren´t people kinda sick of so few choices of track? If i still drifting only on Madrid, Fuji (yuck!), Suzuka or Tsukuba (the newbie´s paradise), i swear that i will shoot myself. I mean it!
There are so few DLC tracks arriving, none of them are any focoused in drifting and plus, always there is those segregation issue of people who have it and who don´t.
For me, even with all issues, the custom track generator is a bless. I know that ill never will be able to build or reproduce that (in real life) track of my dreams, but it still able to make 100% good and fluid tracks for drifters, and it should be more spotted. I would love to see some custom tracks starting to be insanely shared and ran by everyone, maybe getting the same recognition than the tracks that we already have in the game. But we are so much far from that.
What do you guys think?
I was chilling in my own lobby, running my own custom tracks (modesty apart, all of them are awsome and 100% fluid for drifting). It was me and a mate who regulary is posting on this forum, great drifter. But he said that he was only waiting for another very famous drift lobby opens, then he would leave and join on that room. As i had the same plan (join with them as soon as the lobby opened), came up the idea:
"I will send a message to one of the head bosses of that crew, asking if he could make one exception this time and set the lobby to anyone change the track (since they always open privately and only trustble people joins), or if he could download my lastest mt aso touge (5 stars, by the way) from my shared tracks and could let people hang out there anytime." So i did it.
Unfortunaly, he answered (polited):
"Not in this lobby, unfortunaly. Custom tracks scares people. Maybe in another day in another lobby". I got frustrated, but i did let it go.
In another very, very famous GT5 lobby, the admin always run only one custom track - The so famous 99 corners touge - and i tried many times to show up and stimulate him to add my custom tracks to the lobby, witch (in my humble opinion) are much more enjoyable and fluid than his 99. So far i got few or none sucess on that.
So im starting this thread to bring up the discussion: Why the heck most people underedstimate the custom tracks and the track generator by itself? If you´re not one of those, be ready to know that as soon as you change your common track choices (Tsukuba, Suzuka, Grand Valley...) to a custom track, most people will run out of your lobby like rats from a founding ship.
Apart of the discussion, i have my own theory to find some answers:
- Custom tracks are uglier.
- There is a high chance of make a custom track good on the paper, but with serious issues while driving. Sometimes i spend more than 2 hours in a single track and i have to give up after not find a way to solve a problem on the lines.
- Custom tracks normaly brings a higher range of risk to be run in lobbies, because there is a higher chance of make people to get stuck or disconect from the lobby.
- People like to feel strong, and a well known track is basic for this strenght (specialy for those who are extremely competitive and dont accept flaws on their sessions).
In other hand, i just reallize if there wasn´t a custom track generator since day #1 and it would be a new feature from any free DLC. Would that still being that underestimated?
Also, aren´t people kinda sick of so few choices of track? If i still drifting only on Madrid, Fuji (yuck!), Suzuka or Tsukuba (the newbie´s paradise), i swear that i will shoot myself. I mean it!
There are so few DLC tracks arriving, none of them are any focoused in drifting and plus, always there is those segregation issue of people who have it and who don´t.
For me, even with all issues, the custom track generator is a bless. I know that ill never will be able to build or reproduce that (in real life) track of my dreams, but it still able to make 100% good and fluid tracks for drifters, and it should be more spotted. I would love to see some custom tracks starting to be insanely shared and ran by everyone, maybe getting the same recognition than the tracks that we already have in the game. But we are so much far from that.
What do you guys think?
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