What's the point of owning a Custom Car...

[withonion]

 

I agree, the airport race is driving me insane. seems the only reason they race on other races because their long. 75% players do not want to play for fun but use the game as a competition to the highest lvl, its sad really.

 

Tell me about it. And the endless replaying of the same race. Some of the Point-To-Point races are okay but doing Down The Drain nine/ten times in a row is just stupid.

 

People don't know how to host fun races in this game. Not really the game's fault, just people afraid to go outside their comfort zones. I for one, however, have no problem racing stock vehicles in races. There's more of an even playing field.

 

But I guess that doesn't really matter in a lobby full of randoms where everyone thinks they're driving battering rams.

 

Whilst I accept that racing with stock vehicles puts everyone on a level playing field, consider this - I own a Tornado and a Penumbra, with visual mods and very minor performance mods. Chances are, they'd be woefully outclassed by stock vehicles in their class (Sports Classics and Sports, respectively). However, they don't appear in the stock car list for races either. So i've stolen and modded a car that would be a unique car to use in most online races and bam, I can't because the Host is afraid someone will beat him because they have a better car.

 

Well, as of now the customization is rather shallow. Since we only have a few mod options for each car, it ends up that everybody has the same looking car, only a different colour. I'm hoping that R* adds more modification options for aesthetics, I don't really care for the performance boosting mods. It's GTA, not Gran Turismo. Anyways, getting onto the actual point of my spiel. Modifications adds a personal touch to your vehicle. That's the only thing I can think of. There's also the point of making your car more agile by giving it performance boosters. Making it stronger by adding armour will obviously prolong your life in car chases. These are the reasons I can come up for customization.

 

As it happens, I do understand the point of vehicle customisation in general. I was referring to vehicle customisation in GTAO, which is ultimately pointless because you can't use them in most online races due to Hosts banning them, or simply making yourself a target in Online free-roam for having the brass-balls to drive around in a decent looking car.

 

 

Then you start a race as host with your settings. simple as hell

 

And sit there for 25-30 minutes as people either don't join, reject invitations or join, check the settings and then immediately leave? Haven't got all day.

 

[jared72404]

You realise custom cars don't keep any performance boosts in online races?

 

You'll notice that if say you have a fully modded car which spits flames out the exhaust on free roam, if you select it in a custom cars enabled online race it's performance stats will be back to their starting point, and the exhausts won't spit fire.

This just isn't true, maybe the flames not coming from the exhaust is true im not sure, but my modded elegy runs route 68 about 10 seconds faster than my un modded elegy.