Can PD add user defined 'garages'?

[powell145]

So last night I was playing a little GT after having taking a couple months off (playing ME3 and Skyrim for a bit).

I knew I had a BUNCH of cars I'd never driven that I picked up either in the OCD or UCD. While browsing, I couldn't believe how many there were that I'd never even switched to.

Basically because you only get 3 tab options for cars - premium/standard/favorites. Once you get about 500+ cars those become pretty much useless as you've still got hundreds of cars per tab.

Why can't I define my own 'garages' or tabs??? I'd love PD to add this.

Then I could setup my cars and never 'loose' ones I want to tune and try out.
I'd like to setup "Cars to Try", "Racecars", "Streetcars", "Online"... etc.

As it is now I constantly 'loose'/forget about cars because they are BURIED in the garage and you either have to know exactly what you want to drive or browse through your 200+ cars that are 0/0/0

Anybody else think the car organization is horrible to manage a large number of cars?

 

[Famine]

That's what the Favourites tab does... Add the car to your Favourites and it's listed there. Don't and it isn't. That's pretty much defining your own garage.

 

[powell145]

That's what the Favourites tab does... Add the car to your Favourites and it's listed there. Don't and it isn't. That's pretty much defining your own garage.

But you still only get 100 on favorites - and can't break them out Racecar/Standard/Online

Favorites was fine when you have like 100 cars total , but when your garage is 900 cars; it's not much good.

Now I use my favorites as proven online winning cars, I don't put any car on that list that sucks online. I need more tabs that I can define.

 

[Famine]

But you still only get 100 on favorites - and can't break them out Racecar/Standard/Online

Favorites was fine when you have like 100 cars total , but when your garage is 900 cars; it's not much good.

I don't follow. You want to define your own small garage from the large number of cars you've obtained. So surely a Favourites tool - that GT5 has - limited to 100 cars - like GT5 has - is, in fact, perfect?

And then you have a very small list of 100 favourites out of your 900 cars that you can still sort by manufacturer, make, name, mileage, order used, PP, drivetrain... Ascending and descending...

Now I use my favorite now as proven online winning cars, I don't put any car on that list that sucks online. I need more tabs that I can define.

If you have more than 100 cars you use regularly, defining a garage of them would seem a little excessive.

As it is, Order Used tells you the ones you used most recently, Distance tells you the ones you've driven furthest and PP will probably bring the racers to the top (or bottom).


Yes, you could go further, but the function in GT5 seems fine for the task.

 

[Woodski_427]

This has been mentioned in other threads - with talk of folders.

I understand what the OP means. I would say a user-definable attribute/tag would suffice - rather than having multiple garages - where you can give a meaningful (to you) description that you can filter on.

An example would be: you have four versions of the same of a car, DLC Beetle for example: you keep one 'stock', one for looks 'photo', one mild tune 'street', one full tune 'race'. You could give each car a description and then filter on that description in the garage. Some tuning can't be undone so the settings pages aren't sufficient or indeed searchable from the garage.

It doesn't just relate to multiple versions of the same car - you could have a particular car you used for something ages ago but it gets forgotten in the mists of time. If you could tag the car when you use it, then you could easily findi it later.

I have 690 cars in my garage, quite a few copies of some cars (mainly classics) and I can never remember what I've done with them all. I think a custom/user definable tag would be useful.

 

[iamjajo]

I agree that allowing more user defined garages would be very handy. I hope it get implemented in GT6.

 

[powell145]

I don't follow. You want to define your own small garage from the large number of cars you've obtained. So surely a Favourites tool - that GT5 has - limited to 100 cars - like GT5 has - is, in fact, perfect?

No - you still only get one group you can define.

And then you have a very small list of 100 favourites out of your 900 cars that you can still sort by manufacturer, make, name, mileage, order used, PP, drivetrain... Ascending and descending...

My point from my OP - you have to KNOW what you are looking for. Where I want to instead drop a car in my own customizable garage (example - ah, just got this W12 VW in the Used Lot, looks fun - want to try this, but I'm in the middle of xxx; I'll drop this in my 'Cars to Try' garage).

As it is now, there are plenty of 0/0/0 cars I'll never use intermingled with 0/0/0 cars I DO want to try. They don't go in my favorites - because it's not. Instead it remains buried in my 'Standard' car tab and the only way I'll come across it is if I REMEMBER I wanted to try that car out or I stumble upon it scrolling endlessly through the car lists.

If you have more than 100 cars you use regularly, defining a garage of them would seem a little excessive.

As it is, Order Used tells you the ones you used most recently, Distance tells you the ones you've driven furthest and PP will probably bring the racers to the top (or bottom).

Yes, you could go further, but the function in GT5 seems fine for the task.

To each their own, glad you find it useful. For me, it's a PIA to organize cars and the way it is cars get lost and never used.

 

[powell145]

This has been mentioned in other threads - with talk of folders.

I understand what the OP means. I would say a user-definable attribute/tag would suffice - rather than having multiple garages - where you can give a meaningful (to you) description that you can filter on.

An example would be: you have four versions of the same of a car, DLC Beetle for example: you keep one 'stock', one for looks 'photo', one mild tune 'street', one full tune 'race'. You could give each car a description and then filter on that description in the garage. Some tuning can't be undone so the settings pages aren't sufficient or indeed searchable from the garage.

It doesn't just relate to multiple versions of the same car - you could have a particular car you used for something ages ago but it gets forgotten in the mists of time. If you could tag the car when you use it, then you could easily findi it later.

I have 690 cars in my garage, quite a few copies of some cars (mainly classics) and I can never remember what I've done with them all. I think a custom/user definable tag would be useful.

Ah - yes! A tag would be Perfect, then no need for user 'garages' (and that's why my search came up empty; didn't try 'folders')

 

[Famine]

No - you still only get one group you can define.

Yes. That group being "Favourites".

My point from my OP - you have to KNOW what you are looking for. Where I want to instead drop a car in my own customizable garage (example - ah, just got this W12 VW in the Used Lot, looks fun - want to try this, but I'm in the middle of xxx; I'll drop this in my 'Cars to Try' garage).

So buy it, go to your cars, it'll be right at the top of Standards (as Date is default), Triangle and set it as a Favourite. You've just dropped it into your own customisable garage.

As it is now, there are plenty of 0/0/0 cars I'll never use intermingled with 0/0/0 cars I DO want to try. They don't go in my favorites - because it's not. Instead it remains buried in my 'Standard' car tab and the only way I'll come across it is if I REMEMBER I wanted to try that car out or I stumble upon it scrolling endlessly through the car lists.

Which generates two questions. First, why buy cars you will never use? Second, why not drop the ones you will into your Favourites when you get them - just as above?

If you're not using the feature because it's called Favourites and these cars aren't your favourites... Wow.

To each their own, glad you find it useful. For me, it's a PIA to organize cars and the way it is cars get lost and never used.

But the exact feature you want is already there? A smaller, customisable garage to pluck out 100 or fewer cars from your massive 900+ garage (filled with cars you'll never drive) to make browsing the cars quicker and easier.

Okay, so you don't have multiple different user garages, but if you did someone would surely whine about the number of different garages you'd have to sort through to find a car they've plonked in one and forgotten about.

As I said:

Yes, you could go further, but the function in GT5 seems fine for the task.

 

[QB1o]

I agree, OP

I would like a tab to seperate racecars from roadcars, tuned cars from stock cars and cars with weight reduction from other tuned cars without etc.

I use favourites for cars that are tuned well and competetive at their PP range.

 

[CostasDrifter]

So last night I was playing a little GT after having taking a couple months off (playing ME3 and Skyrim for a bit).

I knew I had a BUNCH of cars I'd never driven that I picked up either in the OCD or UCD. While browsing, I couldn't believe how many there were that I'd never even switched to.

Basically because you only get 3 tab options for cars - premium/standard/favorites. Once you get about 500+ cars those become pretty much useless as you've still got hundreds of cars per tab.

Why can't I define my own 'garages' or tabs??? I'd love PD to add this.

Then I could setup my cars and never 'loose' ones I want to tune and try out.
I'd like to setup "Cars to Try", "Racecars", "Streetcars", "Online"... etc.

As it is now I constantly 'loose'/forget about cars because they are BURIED in the garage and you either have to know exactly what you want to drive or browse through your 200+ cars that are 0/0/0

Anybody else think the car organization is horrible to manage a large number of cars?

Totally agreed ! I would like to make my own tabs !

 

[LongbowX]

But the exact feature you want is already there? A smaller, customisable garage to pluck out 100 or fewer cars from your massive 900+ garage (filled with cars you'll never drive) to make browsing the cars quicker and easier.

Except it isn't the exact feature that he wants. Because he wants this:

I'd like to setup "Cars to Try", "Racecars", "Streetcars", "Online"... etc.

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Okay, so you don't have multiple different user garages, but if you did someone would surely whine about the number of different garages you'd have to sort through to find a car they've plonked in one and forgotten about.

So because someone could potentially whine about we should remove a feature someone else would find useful? That doesn't seem like a very good reason.

I personally wish for more than one. As I like to have a "Stock" car folder (with more than 100 would be nice!) and a seperate "tuned" folder, and another perhaps for race cars. But this thread has been covered here: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=239925 with a poll for custom folders.

 

[Famine]

Powell... Your post has been removed. Do not address someone in that fashion again.

Except it isn't the exact feature that he wants. Because he wants this:

That's a refinement. The basic feature requested - a small user-customisable garage so that you only have a small bunch of regular cars to sort through rather than a 1000+ garage - is already there. It's called "Favourites" and using it along with the regular sorting features accomplishes most of what's requested.

So because someone could potentially whine about we should remove a feature someone else would find useful? That doesn't seem like a very good reason.

Lucky I never said that then. More to the point, the feature can't be removed because it isn't there.

Now, as I said, more can be done with it but it remains that the user-customisable garage already exists. Using it accomplishes most of what the user wants and addresses most of their complaints about having to sort through a 900 car garage. They can even drop a car straight into it when they've bought it, just like they suggest they want to. This helps the user get what they want with what they've already got.

I personally wish for more than one. As I like to have a "Stock" car folder (with more than 100 would be nice!) and a seperate "tuned" folder,

It's worth questioning what happens when they're the same car. Setup sheets permit this situation to occur.

This also is not an argument against it. I'm not arguing against it. I've said more can be done with it than is currently done.

 

[Kobooi]

I agree with the OP.
Cars in the middle of the list are not driven, it takes way too much scrolling to discover them, and I don't explicitly look for them because I don't remember that they're there.
Same for color chips. I don't paint new cars red, because I can't get to a selection of red paint chips without scrolling for an insane amount of time no matter how I sort, let alone find back a particular color that I know is in there somewhere.

 

[Chico acsc]

While I agree that personalized (or just some more) sorting and filtering options would be extremely useful for managing a large garage (or any other item, for that matter), that's no way to address another forum member, let alone a forum administrator.

Even if you're right, that doesn't give you the right.

EDIT: Removed quote.

 

[Spagetti69]

The other game I use I have gained gift cars, unicorns etc.

With 9 separate classes by default they are stored by class.
However I have added another 9 basically A tuned, to tell me that that garage is full of tuned A class cars.

I also have a WIP garage filled with projects and liveried cars awaiting a tune.
I added a drag garage for when I don't want to turn the wheel. I could add a drift garage but I don't drift lol.

Sorry Famine but the 100 favourites whilst useful could be better.

 

[Famine]

Sorry Famine but the 100 favourites whilst useful could be better.

Yes, you could go further, but the function in GT5 seems fine for the task.

As I said:

Yes, you could go further, but the function in GT5 seems fine for the task.

Now, as I said, more can be done with it

I'm not arguing against it. I've said more can be done with it than is currently done.

So... That?

 

[Rob-F1-Fan]

In future games I want a virtual garage of all my cars, then walk around to find the right one

 

[Bluntified]

I guess most people here don't use the filters to their advantage. The favorites tab seems to work nicely for me. I usually have 2 cars of everything I drive, a lot, one tuned and one stock. Its easy to add both then sort the list by 'Power'. The filter for 'Switched Cars' is particularly useful too as it shows the cars you use the most at the top and works its way down.

When I'm looking for a car in a certain 'PP' level, I sort by 'Performance Points', same with drivetrain or whatever else I need to narrow the results.

One thing I do agree with though is the ability to have more than 100 cars in your favorites. If you have more than 1000 cars, its hard to narrow it down to only 100. The limit also poses a problem with Arcade mode where you are limited to the in house selection or your favorites garage.

 

[Spagetti69]

Good news is that it's easily implemented if PD choose too. No PS4 needed here.

 

[greg666]

I think what he is trying to say is this - https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=239925&highlight=custom+folder

I made the poll a while back. It's for them to implant Custom Folders ability for our garage.

 

[ChicoMaloXD]

You should at least be able to turn off the Loading of cars every time you go to your Garage.

The game should allow you to set the filter first, before loading the car thumbnails. Takes like a 100 years to get something done in GT5 menus.

 

[f1webberfan]

Ok! Why I can't set to default when I open my garage to go to MY FAVORITES directly? Why always have to switch?

 

[GasolineJunkie]

I've been wanting this.

I would want to add folders such as:

DTM
SuperGT
LMP
Tuned
Classic
Drift
0/0/0
Bone stock
Etc.


Famine,

By only having a favorites tab, you still have to scroll through all of them to find cars that meet a certain criteria such as SuperGT. So if I want to race a SuperGT car, there is no easy way to find every one that I own with the current system that's in place. With a customizable tab feature, I could go to my SuperGT tab and choose accordingly without having to scroll past cars that I'm not interested in for that particular race.

The poll added by greg666 above shows how many people are interested in this. A landslide vote of "yes" would be an understatement.

 

[Famine]

Famine,

By only having a favorites tab, you still have to scroll through all of them to find cars that meet a certain criteria such as SuperGT. So if I want to race a SuperGT car, there is no easy way to find every one that I own with the current system that's in place. With a customizable tab feature, I could go to my SuperGT tab and choose accordingly without having to scroll past cars that I'm not interested in for that particular race.

You miss the point.

The point of me mentioning the Favourites tab was by way of helping. Regard:

Basically because you only get 3 tab options for cars - premium/standard/favorites. Once you get about 500+ cars those become pretty much useless as you've still got hundreds of cars per tab.

Why can't I define my own 'garages' or tabs??? I'd love PD to add this.

Favourites tab solves this. It allows you to define your own garage.

Anybody else think the car organization is horrible to manage a large number of cars?

Favourites tab solves this. It's limited to 100 cars so it doesn't get too big.

Where I want to instead drop a car in my own customizable garage (example - ah, just got this W12 VW in the Used Lot, looks fun - want to try this, but I'm in the middle of xxx; I'll drop this in my 'Cars to Try' garage).

Favourites tab solves this. You can drop any car into your own customisable garage.


The Favourites tab also has the same sorting functions as the main garages - which are very useful - but applies them to the 100 cars you've picked. It takes very little effort to find any car you've put into there.

Essentially, Favourites is a small, user-defined garage that you can modify on the fly. It's already there and can be used to accomplish pretty much everything required already except that there's only one of them.


I'm NOT arguing against making it better. I'm helping Powell145 - and others who want this basic feature, but aren't using it - to make the best use of the features already in the game. I've posted six times now in this thread saying that it could be made better, so I don't quite follow why people are still feeling it's necessary to address reasons why it should be to me.

 

[karelpipa]

Yeah, OP is right, im fed up with always needed sorting, its superslow and annoying.

I too have easily 5 same cars, like Woodski said:
Stock
Sport
Race
Full Tune
One is for backup
I color them (stock - white; Full tune - black), but thats even more superslow and annoying.

I do that because of poor UCD/OCD settings, its hard to find specific standard cars.
And since im playing online league with my friends and we often set 1 standard car to each race requirement i need to buy as many cars as i can.

So i (we) would need my (our) own folder, one big favourites folder is not clearly enough!
I dont care that someone is fine with one favorites folder, when this is easily done.

 

[GasolineJunkie]

Famine,

I'm sorry, but I feel that you are missing the point, also. I'm sure that most people, if not everyone, knows that there is a "Favorites" tab. Once you suggested it, the OP didn't say something like "oh I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing that out." He and others have repeatedly mentioned different scenarios that the favorites tab didn't apply to. I understand that you are trying to offer help and are admitting that it could be better, but to keep saying that "The favorites tab solves this", isn't helpful.

Powell mentions that he would like to define his own garages
- Favorites tab does not solve this as there is only one.

He also says its horrible to manage such a large number of cars.
- 100 cars is a large number still. That's almost 10% of the included cars in the game. Smaller than 1000+, but still large, so the Favorites tab does not solve this.

He also mentions that he would like to drop a car into a "Cars to Try" garage.
- Favorites tab does not solve this, as they are clearly not yet his favorites.

I think the problem that he, myself, and many other users are having is the fact that there is only one of them, which you mention. The favorites tab can only act as one type of organized garage at a time. So if he wishes to have a "Cars to Try" garage, and then he wants a SuperGT garage, he will have to empty all of the cars that fit the "Cars to Try" category. Is this practical? No. I understand you are trying to help but the Favorites tab is just that, a Favorites tab, and it doesn't solve everything.

I'm not trying to attack you or anything like that. I apologize if you feel that way, but just trying to make my point about the favorites tab not being a solution, as you keep trying to argue that point. Thanks for your time, and hopefully, improvements are made. Doubtful, but yea....

 

[research]

GasolineJunkie nailed it.


thank you sir.

 

[XDesperado67]

I run a tuning garage here on GTPlanet in the tuning forum. I also tune a lot of cars for seasonal events, tuning shootouts and various other competitions. Number of different tuned cars I've done is well over 100 by this point. Compound that with the fact that I have over 1800 cars in the standard section of my garage and you start to understand the frustration with the current setup. Better ways to organize the garage would be a big help. Even without adding more user defineable tabs, just allowing you to set sorting parameters before accessing the garage would be a huge help. Also keeping chosen sorting parameters when switching between tabs in the garage would help. These are things that could be implemented in GT5, but failing that I hope that GT6 will have a better system for the garage especially if they are going to include at least as many different cars/models as they have in GT5.

 

[Spagetti69]

In answer to the OP.

Can they? Yes most certainly.
Will they? Who knows.