Why the concept of paint chips?

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sny_pher
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why PD implemented a one-use, paint chip system?
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Because PD likes to do things for the sake of being different rather than doing things for the sake of making sense.
 
amar212
Second, creating a live and vibrant "community" was obviously one of the main focuses while designing community-goals of GT5.
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I don't mean to lessen the value of your post with a short response. It was well thought out and detailed. I just don't feel like typing much.

Forza went the "easy" way and the resulting community function(s) is much better. GT5's community is just people giving each other things that their own copy of the game did not easily give up. A Forza like system breeds creativity and uniqueness on a scale unimaginable in GT5's system.

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For further clarity, I'm still completely against paint chips in any form. It was outdated before it was even created by the "old" open system, such as those in Forza.
 
Suppose you did have a system where you could buy paint chips from a separate paint shop.

What would determine how much certain paint costs? would matte be more epensive than color shift? Or does it deopend on the car & company it came from?
 
I wouldn't mind if they let you preview what the paint would look like on your car.
 
Two reasons:

-Because without a chip system there would be garages filled entirely with color-shift, gold chrome, or black cars.

-Because the colors manufacturers use are more intricate than something that can something that can be picked from a color wheel.

I don't particularly like it, but I think it's more interesting than the alternative (until we get a livery editor) and doesn't have the drawbacks. I don't want to race a room full of gold chrome cars.
 
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Giygas
Suppose you did have a system where you could buy paint chips from a separate paint shop.

What would determine how much certain paint costs? would matte be more epensive than color shift? Or does it deopend on the car & company it came from?
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Good question, but I'd pay just about anything in credits for the right chip. Been paying up to $375K for a single paint chip in the current "paint shop" numerous times.
 
Zenith013
-Because without a chip system there would be garages filled entirely with color-shift, gold chrome, or black cars.
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Which is possible now, yet does not happen.

I would really have to hate a car to paint it in chrome. I mean really hate it to make it look that bad.

-Because the colors manufacturers use are more intricate than something that can something that can be picked from a color wheel.
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RGB slider and a few other options = every manufacturer paint ever. I didn't use it in Forza 3, but you could make any color you wanted, so GT5's is actually limited in that you can only have manufacturer paints given in game, where as a Forza system lets you have any manufacturer paint.
I don't particularly like it, but I think it's more interesting than the alternative (until we get a livery editor) and doesn't have the drawbacks. I don't want to race a room full of gold chrome cars.
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The drawbacks have been listed all over this thread.

And again, if chrome was even a 10th as popular as you imagine it to be, every room would be cars painted gold chrome. And even though chrome paints are disgusting, that's not a reason to stop people from using them.
 
Zenith013
-Because without a chip system there would be garages filled entirely with color-shift, gold chrome, or black cars.
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Implying that that is an objective problem, or that people can't already do that now with barely any effort.
 
Honestly, the whole paint chip concept, and even having the gall to ask us to PAY for new colors has given me contempt for PD and Kaz. When you look at what other racing games offer in the paint dept, and yes, I'm gonna talk about Forza now because its livery system is AMAZING for those willing to invest the time. Those of us who aren't can benefit by using the in game marketplace with game credits, not real money. This is all included with the game.

I've said before and I'll say again, for everything the GT series does right, it does a whole lot more wrong.
 
Gotta Catch 'Em All.

Enough said.
 
I think that they simply couldn't match the opposition so they went a different direction.

Absurd really.
 
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