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- Johnnypenso
"So in my humble opinion the best way to clean up the public lobbies is to get out there and bloody well race in them!"
There's no point in me elaborating on most of your post as I've already made it clear how I feel about most of what you said, because it's been covered already. To me, when I read the above quote, 2 things come to mind.
1. I'm not anyone's babysitter, nor am I obliged to teach anyone, anything about this game. Having said that, I've voluntarily taken many guys new to this game under my wing and showed them the ropes, driven alone with them in lobbies, passed on my setups to them etc. I have no problem with that, voluntarily. But you're advocating and what PD has essentially forced upon is, is that all of us with limited time, which is everyone, to enjoy the game, must endure race after race ruined in public lobbies by drivers unskilled or unwilling to use the skills they have, weed them out ,to get to the good guys that are left, all the while, new drivers come into the lobby, many of them unskilled or unwilling to use their skills, in a never ending cycle of booting new drivers who crash their way to the front, and meanwhile, the rest of the clean drivers have their races ruined. And yes, that's all one sentence...lol. All of this under the mantra of "fairness" to everyone. No thank you.
2. What you are advocating is exactly what has been happening the last year since the game was released and it isn't working. I've been online with the game since the beginning. 9 months ago, with far less users back then compared to now, there were dozens of rooms themed around PP, HP and weight, or specific cars or tracks. Now the game is filled with non-specific room titles, dirty racing and very few themed or specific rooms, that are actually what they say they are. This is the result of the kind of online chaos we've had the last few months and it isn't working, hence my suggestion that we need to come up with a better system. There are millions of people that have bought this game, and only a few dozen decent rooms available online at any given time. To get to one of those rooms, you probably have to endure on average a half dozen crappy rooms to find it. Most people are not willing to invest that kind of time. They don't and the numbers of people online racing show it. If that doesn't tell you that the game isn't going over well online, then nothing will.
Most of the good people have left public lobbies in favour of private lounges. They've gone underground, out of the public eye, because they don't want to put up with the BS anymore. The idea of being able to pop on at any time and find a decent race with decent drivers just doesn't exist. I don't want every time I race to always have to be conscious of who should get booted, who is driving poorly, harassing the host to do something about it etc. etc. etc. Most people just don't want to do that. They want to pop on, find something interesting, run a few races and then get going.
There's no point in me elaborating on most of your post as I've already made it clear how I feel about most of what you said, because it's been covered already. To me, when I read the above quote, 2 things come to mind.
1. I'm not anyone's babysitter, nor am I obliged to teach anyone, anything about this game. Having said that, I've voluntarily taken many guys new to this game under my wing and showed them the ropes, driven alone with them in lobbies, passed on my setups to them etc. I have no problem with that, voluntarily. But you're advocating and what PD has essentially forced upon is, is that all of us with limited time, which is everyone, to enjoy the game, must endure race after race ruined in public lobbies by drivers unskilled or unwilling to use the skills they have, weed them out ,to get to the good guys that are left, all the while, new drivers come into the lobby, many of them unskilled or unwilling to use their skills, in a never ending cycle of booting new drivers who crash their way to the front, and meanwhile, the rest of the clean drivers have their races ruined. And yes, that's all one sentence...lol. All of this under the mantra of "fairness" to everyone. No thank you.
2. What you are advocating is exactly what has been happening the last year since the game was released and it isn't working. I've been online with the game since the beginning. 9 months ago, with far less users back then compared to now, there were dozens of rooms themed around PP, HP and weight, or specific cars or tracks. Now the game is filled with non-specific room titles, dirty racing and very few themed or specific rooms, that are actually what they say they are. This is the result of the kind of online chaos we've had the last few months and it isn't working, hence my suggestion that we need to come up with a better system. There are millions of people that have bought this game, and only a few dozen decent rooms available online at any given time. To get to one of those rooms, you probably have to endure on average a half dozen crappy rooms to find it. Most people are not willing to invest that kind of time. They don't and the numbers of people online racing show it. If that doesn't tell you that the game isn't going over well online, then nothing will.
Most of the good people have left public lobbies in favour of private lounges. They've gone underground, out of the public eye, because they don't want to put up with the BS anymore. The idea of being able to pop on at any time and find a decent race with decent drivers just doesn't exist. I don't want every time I race to always have to be conscious of who should get booted, who is driving poorly, harassing the host to do something about it etc. etc. etc. Most people just don't want to do that. They want to pop on, find something interesting, run a few races and then get going.
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