An idea for PD to improve the UCD etc

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I was meaning to post this a long time ago but I got sick of this game and didn't. I'm playing it again trying to get a few cars I rekindled an interest in from reading a few car forums.

One of the most irrational and irritating aspects of this game is the UCD and also that you can buy a high dollar car but you can't sell it. Such a stupid stupid implementation for a game that try's to mimic simplistic reality.

(1) Here's a thought PD. Why not allow the user to pay down on a car in the UCD that they can't afford at the moment so that we don't have to waste months trying to cycle through to find car again. you can have a separate menu for cars that we put money down on just like is possible to do in RL.

(2) Can we please have track side services like oil change and car wash like in RL? Why should we
have to waste loading time to go all the way out of series or Enduro to have services done? That's
what the pits are for. No one would start a race with dirty oil so we should have the option between
series races to change oil before or after each race. It would be easy to add a Car Wash and Oil
Change icon by the Start Race or Next icons.

(3) It would be nice to have the ability to refresh the grid if we don't see the cars we want to race against being loaded. Currently you have to exit and wait to go back to the series screen then repick the race an d drivers all over again then wait again to see if the car/cars you want race against are there. Rinse and repeat arggg lol. It would be nice to use the triangle button to refresh the grid like we do online to refresh the lobbies. This would kill unnecessary loading times as well as not affect the UCD.

(4) Alternative to the above would be to let the user choose the grid from a pool of eligible cars for the parameters for that series or Enduro. This way we could end the staleness of facing the same cars over and over unless the users wants that. For instance DCC. I'd like to race against a R92CP, Vette RM, Sauber C9 to name a few. Reason being is that it would add some variety to the races since we don't have many events and tracks to keeps things from being monotonous.

(5) Since it's obvious you guys won't be able to upgrade a lot cars to premium can you at the very least upgrade the texture maps? Good grief it's hideous what my R89CP looks like up close. I used to do modeling and texturing for Morrowind mods so I have an idea how easy or hard both can be. You already have the textures mapped out so all you would have to do is either overlay it with a higher res texture on the same coordinates or repaint from scratch which would be more time consuming.
 
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Nice, 5 ideas that are ALL good. Probably discussed before, but it's a shame they haven't done these things yet. Maybe post these to the Feedback section if they aren't there already- that's your biggest chance of PD actually reading it.
 
What they have to do is redesign its appearance because the used car dealership is ugly and it detracts the used cars.
 
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It's such a shame that the people higher up at PD don't have the common sense to implement these & the plethora of other features wanted by most users on this forum.


Common Sense: 101 - Polyphony Digital: 0. :lol:


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At least you should be able to get a notification if a car you want pops up in the UCD, checking it every 5 races is an extremely tedious exercise when all you find are yet more Skylines, MX5s and s2000s.
 
#2 could not agree more. To add to #3 and #4, we need qualification for pole position. Tired of starting in 7th place no matter the circumstances does not make any sense.
 
HOODFIELD
To add to #3 and #4, we need qualification for pole position. Tired of starting in 7th place no matter the circumstances does not make any sense.
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Yeah that is just silly. Even random placement on the grid would be better than the static 7th.
 
We used to be able to qualify for pole position, we used to be able to sort the UCD better. We used to have more races and series to enter. We used to be rewarded with cars over and over and then to sell them. GT4. I miss it.
 
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We used to be able to qualify for pole position,
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For this point specifically I feel like it was just a mistake that got overlooked when they were rushing the game out. Now its too late to patch. I'm just saying why would they remove content from previous games on purpose.
 
I want to be able to pick a car (or cars) to "look" for in the UCD, and when you add them to the list, they're kind of expedited to the front of the queue. That way, you won't end up refreshing the lot 100 times just to find 3 cars, but could rather have them appear within the next 10 cycles if they're on your list.

I haven't bought a car in real life through the classifieds, but I know for sure I wouldn't look somewhere where there was no chance of me finding the car I wanted. There will always be cars you don't want thrown in, but there's also a good chance of you finding the one you're looking for as long as you're looking in the right place.
 
I would put it in the suggestion area but I'm not convinced PD is serious about listening to the fans. I put it here just to discuss ideas i never saw brought up before. I'm tired of this game in only 2 1/2 to 3 months. Too much engineered in time wasting. Like picking a name for your driver etc. Needless waste of time. Just give us the ability to type in the name of our choice.
 
Shortcuts. In GT2 there was no shortcut icons in the top of the screen. Then I did not have to scroll through many menus to get where I wanted. I think PD can recycle this function
 
I want to be able to test a used car before buying it. I can even pay a % of its price for this service…
 
What about the ability to trade-in cars with the UCD like in real life. It can be treated exactly like in real life. Except without the rip offs the RL UCD try to do lol.

Also with the Oil Change and Car Wash icons that could be made available at race start/finish screens. When you press it no need to load up the unimaginative and cheesy animation thats associated with each service. Just maybe a sound to indicate the oil change or wash was done, so we can get back to racing without the long wait for loading and the trauma of watching the cheesy animation lol.
 
gambleboyen
At least you should be able to get a notification if a car you want pops up in the UCD, checking it every 5 races is an extremely tedious exercise when all you find are yet more Skylines, MX5s and s2000s.
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don't forget RX-7's etc 👍
 

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