anti collision racing

[seventhreeo]

in some games, and MTA SA racing servers, racing could be done with everyone's cars as ghosts, meaning there's no collision between them and no ramming, it's like when you try to beat your own time against a ghost of yourself

 

do you people reckon this'd be good in GTA races? the thought occurred to me when some guy rammed me off the track brutally, it was a sad moment indeed

[Malibu454]

That just wouldn't be GTA..

Some dude bumped me off the track and into a river wall right at the finish.

I was just about to pass him and take the win,

I was pissed at first but then he sent me a text and said he didn't mean to do that and didn't think that would happen.

I laughed and told him I think I broke my spine and we laughed it off..

Cant take this game to seriously

Edited December 1, 2013 by Malibu454

[Malibu454]

Host a race and make it rain..

and no Catchup

The no driving skill cheaters don't like that..

Edited December 1, 2013 by Malibu454

[hesselgren]

if GTA race, i just go with it, shoot everything i can (im not that good at aiming so i shoot alot) and ram in to other players if i have the chanse, beqause i know every one else will do the same thing.

 

 

if normal race, i dont bump other players, not intentionally. if they keep doing it to me i just quit after race, i dont like people that have to do that instead of just fair racing. in every other real life race (exept banger) you would get red flag for that.

[ToBContinued08]

Something along those lines would be good. However, it should be an option that would be left up to the host. Of course, for GTA Race it would require to be off. I've gotten to the point now that I only race with certain people. Got tired of wasting my time on races just to get slammed out of first.

[T0lly]

I have played a few racing games that have the ghost no collison feature. It seems nice but we have turned it off 90% of the time. It takes soem of the fun out of racing. If you just want to see what lap time you can get then go solo (you can run any of the races by yourself). If you want to see how good you and others are then try to get a good lap time without hitting others.

 

I agree with ToBContinued08 in that racing with people you know that want to finish a race without wrecking. Once you get in with a good group of racers you will have a whole new concept of how racing in GTA can be. If you want more accurate racing and features then another game would be for you.

[LuapYllier]

He is in with a good group of racers.

 

My opinion, fair and clean racing is not the norm for this game...as said above it is a gta game. I expect pubs to do everything they can to win. However, i do enjoy much more racing clean with my clanmates. I dont think the ghost thing would be a proper addition as us clean runners are the minority by far. Imagine with RRR1 if all of us took what we knew to be the best line we would all be hitting the first corner in a clump of ghosts lol...we would all crash for not knowing whose car is whose comming out of the corner.

 

I wouldnt mind having an option for turning on a ghost of the world record holders while in solo race though...assumung they clear out the obviously glitched 6 second laps and such.

[hesselgren]

ghost thing would be boooooring.

[mo-seph]

He is in with a good group of racers.

 

My opinion, fair and clean racing is not the norm for this game...as said above it is a gta game. I expect pubs to do everything they can to win. However, i do enjoy much more racing clean with my clanmates. I dont think the ghost thing would be a proper addition as us clean runners are the minority by far. Imagine with RRR1 if all of us took what we knew to be the best line we would all be hitting the first corner in a clump of ghosts lol...we would all crash for not knowing whose car is whose comming out of the corner.

 

I wouldnt mind having an option for turning on a ghost of the world record holders while in solo race though...assumung they clear out the obviously glitched 6 second laps and such.

Id have to agree with this....

 

My personal opinion is that clean racers are a minority but ghostong cars would tale some realism away because everyone could pick the same line, theres a skillin avpidin other racers on the tracl and that adds realism...

 

Personally I wish traffic was more stable in races, for the elemebt of reaslism (we are street racing in gta after all, not track racing) but if I want traffoc I tend to use impromptu races in private/crew freeroams because its more stable

 

Ghost cars would just take away that asect of random variance.. Like luap said most RRR1 members would take the same line, we race together alot so part of what we pride ourselves on is bein cpean races and that comes from bein aware of your surrou di gs, anticopating others li es, choosin you own lines and picking your overtakes carefully... It would ve less fun for me if I could just drive straight through a ghost car.. Also keans you can skillfully block someone from makin a pas (as opposed to ramming, blockin is puttin yoirself in the way of a pass, not ramming someone whos passin)

 

If you want clean races id suggest ginding a crew that race alot together and try to keep races clean, I could make an obvious suggestion but the choice is yours

[RageLSRS]

If you want clean races id suggest ginding a crew that race alot together and try to keep races clean, I could make an obvious suggestion but the choice is yours

 

Ye, it is^^

[seventhreeo]

well yeah I mean there should be an option, because there's some real skill shown this way, whether you can make the turn and not have another player take a cheap shot at you, etc

 

+ there are those people in races that just do it to piss others off, I've rammed a few people off the road accidentally before and felt pretty bad about it

[RageLSRS]

Would be boring to have Ghostraces imo

Whats the Point of racing together?

You might as well could exchange Laptimes on a Forum..

 

Its much more fun to finish 1st in Races with dirty Randoms because in my Experiece the

Racingskills of the dirty ones pretty much, well, suck and they will most likely fail at

the Noob-Eleminators..

[Cuz05]

Agree with the RRR guys and Rage of course. Ghost would be dull even if it wasn't confusing.

I do get irritated when taken out deliberately in races with randoms but like Rage said, showing them who really owns the track is very nice indeed.

[RIGHTLY]

Why not add a new racing mode called Clean Race? If someone rams into you, they get a penalty to their lap time, and vice versa. If done too much the offender gets disqualified. Normal Race can be for people who want to trash each other.

[mo-seph]

Why not add a new racing mode called Clean Race? If someone rams into you, they get a penalty to their lap time, and vice versa. If done too much the offender gets disqualified. Normal Race can be for people who want to trash each other.

This is an interesting concept, even if it just added time penalties, so contact costs you 2 seconds.. Obv those who win from rammin would have multiple time penalties on their actual time, so by design it would favour clean racing wothout enforced ghosting

[ToBContinued08]

For me, there would have to be a "Measurement of Damage" implemented in order to produce such penalties in a race.

 

I would cut my racing dramatically if a simple little rub cost me 2 seconds. It's would be different if I slammed into the rear of someone or bumped the 3-4 times within a time frame.

 

I'm not entirely sure if there will be anything R* can do the promote clean racing. The only thing I can really think of is a "Non-Damage Reward" at the end of lap. You already gain RP for clean laps, why not throw in a money base system too. Of course you then have to worry about others ruining it for you.

 

The only fool proof solution I see is to pick who you race with.

[mo-seph]

For me, there would have to be a "Measurement of Damage" implemented in order to produce such penalties in a race.

 

I would cut my racing dramatically if a simple little rub cost me 2 seconds. It's would be different if I slammed into the rear of someone or bumped the 3-4 times within a time frame.

 

I'm not entirely sure if there will be anything R* can do the promote clean racing. The only thing I can really think of is a "Non-Damage Reward" at the end of lap. You already gain RP for clean laps, why not throw in a money base system too. Of course you then have to worry about others ruining it for you.

 

The only fool proof solution I see is to pick who you race with.

Exactly, we can spend all day discussing the downsides of the game mechanics till the cows come home, but we bought the game from rockstar, we should learn to play the game it designed, rather than complain aboyt how ot works

 

Im always up for a healthy debate of ideas but this is the game we all bought, theres no ghost option and we knew that so theres no point gettin hung up about it, wether ot wpuld be a nice feature or not will always be subjective, tbc is right, the only viable option is to just find better people to race with