Tracks you wanna see in GT4

Nurburgring Nordscheifle
Hockenheim
Spa Francorchamps
Monza
Imola (pre 1994)
Donington Park
Silverstone
Assen
Elkhart Lake
Virginia International Raceway
Mosport
Mont-Tremblant
Suzuka
Tsukuba
Sears Point
Watkins Glen (the long one, not the WC one)


Rally stages instead of rallycross tracks, with various stage from the WRC calendar.
 
How about dividing the Tracks :curvyrd: into Categories like the cars are in GTC? Eg European Tracks, Japanese Tracks etc....?
 
A straight line track...the placement map extending from one corner of the screen to the other, no steering, the ultimate power race.
 
Sears Point, Road America, Lime Rock Park, Road Atlanta. Ditch the Complex String and put in Nurburgring instead, if you need something with a 5+ minute lap.

What I really want to see are some autocross courses - very tight, medium-to-low speed courses that are all about handling dynamics. Lap times of 40 seconds to 90 seconds. They'd be easy to model - a parking lot and some cones. A dozen of those would take about a day to model all together, and they could lift the designs right out of the SCCA book.

They could be run in Pro-solo format, where two cars go heads up from a drag race start, on mirrored courses. I think that would be a lot of fun, anbd it would be a fabulous place to isolate the handling and suspension tuning.
 
Herein lies the problem.

I'd absolutley love to have a small tight course that would be all about handling, and suspension tuning. I'm betting that there are a few others out there that would love it as well.

However...The main age market for this game is 15-20 years old. The attention span of most people in that age group are short to the point of a caffeinated fly. Utilizing a track that requires patience and time to tweak settings to perfection is not a priority.

How many times have you seen this thread "What's the fastest..."? This is what PD has to consider. How many times have you seen "I did the PD cup in a Toyota GT-one Road car"? Of the 7,727 people that have registered here, how many serious racers can you count? Would you need more than your fingers and toes?

But in all seriousness, Neon_Duke does have a point. Lets see a course where handling and suspension are the deciding factors. Something where shear power can be overcome with a better driving ability.

And yes, ditch the Complex string in favor of something real.

And I'd love to see the Montreal track (F1) introduced.

AO
 
Well, OK, point taken about the attention span issue.

There definitely needs to be more variety in the tracks. As I mentioned in another thread: are Trial Mountain and Deep Forest really all that different? SS R5 and SS R246? Ditch one of each of those, and add Sears Point and also another F1 track.

Midfield and Grand Valley are very similar, except that GV is twice as long. That's enough difference right there, though I wish Midfield was not also a power track like GV is a power track.

I think PD should use the existing GT3 engine and cars to model some niche-market kinds of racing. Autocross would be a great start and even though it would not be a huge seller, it would cost comparative peanuts to program. Like I said, use the existing car and tuning setup. Model a couple of different generic backgrounds, then make a dozen or two cone layouts. The scoring setup isn't much harder to model than a 10-race series.

Then tackle a real rally version. That would sell. Hell, you could even make a version where exhibition drifting actually served a purpose.
 
Bathurst from Australia is a MUST!!!!!!!!!!

tricky tight sections mixed with long straights not to mention a change in altitude of like 500m or something might be more, might be a bit long at 2 mins a lap
 
I would also like to see a rally course moddled after a real course. No loops, have it like the time trials, where you have the times you need to beat prior to the race. Throw in some jumps and water hazards and you have an exciting rally course.
 
I would love to see (omitting courses already confirmed):
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Watkins Glen
Magny-Cours
Aintree
Mid-Ohio (yeah, I know, but I live in Ohio)
Imola
Sebring
Monza
Spa-Francorchamps
Le Mans
Bathurst
Reims
A1-Ring

I would also like to see some ice races, like in sweden and michigan, also, hillclimbs, they are probably the oldest form of motorsport, and would be pretty cool.

In the totally absurd category (too long, or not enough still exists to accurately model the course):
Manx TT
Targa Florio (piccolo, media and grande)
Mille Miglia
Paris-Berlin

Yeah, I know that its a big list, but I love real courses. In all honesty, I can do without the made up courses, there are so many wonderful real ones out there.
 
MadduckUK
i see dinosaurs

If you want dinosaurs then you should try these:

Clermont-Ferrand (long circuit)
Solitude
Pescara
Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery
Schottenring (long circuit)
AVUS (12 mile course with the "Wall of Death")
Bremgarten
Osterreichring
Brno
Mellaha
:)

Actually, I would probably pass out from delight to see these tracks in any game with the level of graphics of GT4. As for now, I have to settle for GPL.

On another note, doesn't it suck that television destroyed the long circuits. Bigger is not better for TV licks the donkey's pair. Hopefully the new Gotland Ring will be so successful that we see some new tracks at the 4+ mile length. And no more tracks by Mr. Tilke!!!:yuck:
 
That oval track in England, but with the infield open.


I truely hope there's a Oval shaped course with the infield open.

Don't know why, but I love Oval courses with infields. Guess the small area just makes it seem fun.

IF anyone knows there is a course like this, please tell me. Also, that city track in Canada.
 
Cripes who dusted off the thread??? Inactive for 1 year 11 months...

PunkRock (from post on 20 Sept 2002!!!) will be happy that four of his tracks have officially made it...
 
Spa
Le Mans
Nürburgring
Imola (before 1994) 👍
Shanghai's new F1 track

And last but not least: Finnish over 22 km rally stage "OUNINPOHJA" which has been voted the most hardest rally stage ever! :dopey:
 
Don't know anything about that stage, but it's a big claim. Dunno if it would beat the full Motu Gorge (45km) stage in NZL here, the drivers feared that... too long in today's reg's, they break it in two, and it still eats cars and spits them out...
 
DeltaS4
And last but not least: Finnish over 22 km rally stage "OUNINPOHJA" which has been voted the most hardest rally stage ever! :dopey:
Don't they have the Jumping Competition there? People like Petter Solberg have been known to go about 120m off the jump, I kid you not. You're right, Delta, Ouninpohja would be awesome, but sadly with the inclusion of the 22km Nurburgring, I doubt there will be room for it.

In a similar vein, what about Ocana-Radicale? It's currently the hardest inactive rally stage around, some 80km wrapped around the cliffs of Corsica where there is frequntly nothing between the drivers and the Med other than a 300-400ft drop ...




But I'm still curious - can someone please explain the 'Wall of Death' at AVUS?

And hellnback, it was normteke who revived this thread.
 
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