POLL: Would You Like An Online Tuning Library In GT5?

[VBR]

We used to be able to save 3 tunes in previous GT games via the old slot A, B & C options, but in GT5 as you're all aware we have no way of saving tunes at all. Wouldn't it be a good idea if there was an Online Tuning Library where we could upload & download tunes for different cars? It would obviously have to be in the the GT Life/Community section, maybe we could choose to set our tunes to share with friends or share with everybody, that way we could save all our tunes & have access to many more.

What do you guys think?

 

[IceMan PJN]

So, FM3 Storefront? Yeah, I submitted that as a suggestion but you guys don't want to vote on it. I'm really getting tired of pointing out how FM3 did some stuff right and how DP and their fanbase is blissfully unaware that there's actually a better system already in place out there.

For the 375th time, FM3 has long allowed us to save all the tuning setups we want for all the cars we want. I can have 50 different tuning setups for one single car if I want to. We have also been able to share them with the entire Forza community via their magnificent Storefront, and I found it very useful for getting great tuning setups for lots of cars. In FM3 you could save all the tuning setups you want, you can upload them for the world to have access to, and you can download other players' tuning setups.

But, as always, DP and the community fails to give due credit and nobody seems to want this terrific system in place in GT5. Thanks a bunch, guys.

 

[VBR]

I've never played Forza & didn't know they had a similar feature. It's a shame that PD don't take much notice of what thier competition is getting right & up thier own game in response.


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[Tenacious D]

I don't think you guys understand.

Many of us are aware of the good things that Forza does, It's because of Forza and Codemasters games that many of us were hollering about visual and mechanical damage for years. Because of Forza, we've been begging for livery editors and authentic performance increasing bodykits, as well as the Auction House and Storefront.

And you forgot to mention that Forza has you name your tunes.

We're getting there. Race Mod has returned, if for a handful of cars, and we're hopeful that this list will grow with coming updates. PD did notice the value of the dynamic racing line. But you have to understand that the online server system has to be beefed up a lot by SONY to handle what we want from it. It couldn't even handle GT5 itself when it launched for a few days! And this is expensive. Microsoft is as rich as a small nation, and has been investing in its online network since the 90s. Needless to say, SONY has some catching up to do on that.

But SONY knows what the game is, and slowly but surely, I expect the capacity of Gran Turismo's online structure to catch up with the ambitious playground he alluded to in numerous interviews.

Anyway, to the topic at hand. I'd much prefer a tuning tutorial online. I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. But if you mean that our tunes would be stored on a GT server, I don't think an online library would be much good if it was everyone's freaking tunes. And one thing I've learned from Forxa's tune sharing is that no one drives the same, and tunes for controllers don't work with wheels and vice versa. I haven't had a tune share that I liked, so I toughed it out and learned to tweak cars to suit my style.

 

[ESCUDO 1800hp]

I'm somewhere undecided between "awesome" and "not bothered." It would certainly be a nice touch but I'm not extremely excited about it.

 

[VBR]

I'd much prefer a tuning tutorial online.

There is already, DOH! In most of the tuning options there's a help icon like this: "?" It explains what each option does and gives you advice on how to set it to get the desired effect.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here.

What I'm suggesting is this: being able to save as many tunes as I want in GT5 on my hard disk & being able to set some of those tunes to online so that others can use them.

The reason: some people don't like tuning or aren't good at it, at the moment the only way to get a good tune is to visit a site like GT Planet, go to a tuning shop & physically write down a tune then go tune your car. This is 2011 & that kind of thing is so uneccesary, especially when other games like Forza (as has been pointed out) offers that kind of feature. PD needs to catch up, but instead they've removed the A, B & C slot feature for tunes from previous games, they're actually taking steps backwards while other studios are advancing.

 

[BlueSky]

YES!

GT5 needs a tuning/setup save desperately. Currently I buy multiple copies of the same car and tune them all differently for different applications. This would be a very welcome addition in a future update from PD.

Forza definitely did this right. They did a lot more right too. PD developers should do themselves a favor and buy a copy of Forza 2 or Forza 3 and play through it to see just how badly GT5 is lacking.

 

[Meanderthal]

SimBin's GTR beat FM3 to this feature by a good four years. Anyway, that's all beside the point. If you harp on about how great FM3 is people will ignore you, not because they disagree but just because this place degenerates into flamewar at the drop of a hat.

It's certainly a nice idea, although now that we have ballast and HP limiters the number of possible permutations of car and track is so huge that most people would really be better off with being given more assistance in tuning cars themselves than hoping that someone else has given them a plug-and-play setup they can use.