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JawZ
Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1991 Location: Bedfordshire
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:45 am Post subject: RPG tracks? |
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stumbled upon a server just now with rpg tracks...
Basically, an RPG track is a track which is often very long, very adventurous and very often has a mod. Many RPG tracks are also story tracks, or even mission tracks. RPG tracks consists of inside passages, tricks like pipe balancing, wallride balancing, difficult jumps and mazes.
Here's occam's attempt to explain the difference between a trial track and an RPG track:
Trial tracks and RPG tracks are fundamentally similar in design. The most distinctive feature to differentiate between an RPG and a Trial Track is the look and feel of the track. RPG tracks are usually shaped in an adventurous setting by means of an heavily modded environment, often even feature custom sounds like for example a cracking hallway or a Gregorian chants when entering a hall.
Trial Tracks use plain unmodded blocks and tend to be a bit shorter and in general seem to be a bit easier to digest for slower PC hardware than the modded and rather copper heavy RPGs. RPGs are often outstandingly long, not to say epic and often even story driven.
Of course it is not always easy to distinguish between those two very similar genres. Only adding an adventure style Mod alone will not transform a two minute trial track into an RPG though^^.
The following is not written in stone, judging from current TMX records (AT might differ due to different driving skills of the author): Most RPGs are between 7 and 20 minutes. Most Trial tracks between 2 and 7 minutes in length.
The term RPG is derived from the actual Term Role Playing Game, so if your Track is not adventurous at all, it's rather a Trial Track.
(all that blurb was taken from - http://trackmaniarpg.blogspot.com/2008/08/introduction-to-rpg-tracks.html
seems rpg is a year old in tmnf or atleast the community? _________________
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msquires Spam King
Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 803
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:11 am Post subject: |
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The Missions server does this a bit.
And I also found that my Crazy Golf track was on an RPG server at some point...sadist admin...
They can be fun but also a bit annoying...kinda like crazy golf! |
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Moldo Driver's Champion
Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 1173 Location: NL
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Dantski
Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 463
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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dunno why but I love any golf themed track in TM......even matts _________________ It's not the winning, its the taking apart |
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Middenrat actual speed
Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 2260 Location: Location: Location.
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'm going to check them out now I know what they are. We actually had a couple on the Challenge server way back - Crusard's tracks and the like. _________________
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xaniel
Joined: 31 Dec 2023 Posts: 1741
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