Community Custom Races - Suggested Improvement to GT7

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So,

Following on from a post I saw in the photo thread - https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...thread-read-op-no-scapes.404928/post-13893497

My friend and I had been chatting about this as a concept to improve GT7 and agree that it has masses of potential.

The premise is this:

Users create, save and share custom races. These can be 'downloaded' through the Showcase section of the game. This would include every setting of the custom race, including all the opponent vehicles, liveries, setups etc. - Even driver names, so someone could create the original grids for those races.

Want to race classic Group As on Bathurst - but only have the RS500? No worries, find a community made race and away you go.

As an extension of this, the creation of custom championships within that which would allow you to either download a full championship that someone has created, or you can create a championship through a series of races you've chosen from the Showcase selection created by users.

I know that the first response is "But the payouts are terrible for custom races" - which is very true. This doesn't solve that, but it creates a much easier way for players to play a wider variety of races.

I can't see a down side to this, but figured I'd post it up here and elaborate on a great suggestion from member https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/members/a_higher_place.180843/ (sorry, not sure how to tag said member, but wanted to ensure they were acknowledged as the inspiration for this thread :) )
 
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I'm interested but I don't understand, there's no way to do such a thing in game ?

Not that I've found... You can create custom races for yourself, but you can't even save your own custom races, let alone share them.
 
Ha, thanks for the shoutout! This has felt like an intuitive addition that has been missing since we have been able to save custom grids. Would love to experience what other players create!
Sure, for example I love that this guy tried to recreate gt1 vibes with some car/liveries in custom races
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...-7-in-november-24-update.414231/post-13890376

I think maybe we could share our settings and grids (with links to liveries) here or in the custom race thread ? Ex:

#1 dodge viper 02
https://www.gran-turismo.com/fr/gt7/user/discover/search/car_style/19422436542204231

#2 corvette c4

Etc…
 
Users create, save and share custom races. These can be 'downloaded' through the Showcase section of the game. This would include every setting of the custom race, including all the opponent vehicles, liveries, setups etc. - Even driver names, so someone could create the original grids for those races.
You mean getting the GT community to add new (user generated) dimensions? Absolutely. Why aren't developers seizing on this obvious opportunity?
 
Sure, for example I love that this guy tried to recreate gt1 vibes with some car/liveries in custom races
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...-7-in-november-24-update.414231/post-13890376

I think maybe we could share our settings and grids (with links to liveries) here or in the custom race thread ? Ex:

#1 dodge viper 02
https://www.gran-turismo.com/fr/gt7/user/discover/search/car_style/19422436542204231

#2 corvette c4

Etc…
Yeah, could do that - but it's such a clunky and difficult way of doing it.

Add in to that the player needs to have every single car required - in my mind a shared custom race would not require the cars to be purchased.
 
Yeah, could do that - but it's such a clunky and difficult way of doing it.

Add in to that the player needs to have every single car required - in my mind a shared custom race would not require the cars to be purchased.
Exactly. When players discard/sell cars, those cars are removed from the saved Custom Race grid.
 
The thing that PD don't seem to see in this is that it alleviates a huge gripe of the user base (lack of races) with very little effort from their side
 
This is a great concept! Especially the sharing a championship. You could also have an “entry fee” that the creator receives when a race/championship is downloaded
 
The biggest improvement for these is the AI performance. It's waaaaay too weak even at the Pro level and the game, for a fact, can make it go far faster than that. Some of them have the throttle at 90/95% during the straights, which is ridiculous.

Payouts should be increased by at least 3 or 4x more per hour (for me they can be nothing at this point, but new players, and players that didn't use glitches need something to help them with the grind).

Ability to save custom races would also be very helpful.



With these 3 things, a lot of the playerbase wouldn't even complain that much about the lack of races. I would still like a more fleshed out career mode though, but if custom races were actually fun and rewarding, I wouldn't mind doing them every once in a while... I haven't touched them since god knows how long because of that, probably April or May. The "pro" AI is insulting.
 
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