United GP-Le Mans anyone?

[DaCheese]

Anybody who's seen me on Nations recently will know that I'm useless at it. Therefore I suggest a United GP from time to time, possibly beginning with one on an island version of the Circuit de la Sarthe (Le Mans track). I'm working on one at the moment but to be honest it's a bit rubbish and looks nowhere near right. Coast would possibly be easier to put together but there's less speed involved there.

So, does anybody like the idea and does anyone think they can make a better version of the Sarthe circuit?
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[Spanky_McCoy]

I dunno a GP on coast you'd have to make it 15 laps or we'd die of frustration. 25 laps I'd want to hunt you down and strangle you with your PC's power cord. Island or stadium could work for a 25 lapper but coast would for me have to be a shorter race.

Good idea though United would create some interesting GP's.
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[Middenrat]

it's an inspiring idea DaCheese, but i wonder whether United has too many spills to make a GP practical?
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Skin by Baino

[da dude 24]

i wouldn't be able to stand a coast one but yeah it would be ok, OR to really annoy people we could do a desert one!!

[Steve]

Could give it a try, we had over 20 people in the nations GP last weekend. And i came from last to 3rd and i want to congratulate bboy or dalefan for winning both races, could be the first time both have been won by the same racer. And also bunsen for finally turning up for a GP.

But it might give the united server some life thats its been lacking. And i think one on stadium, to give me a slight chance, and one on coast, with the stupid slidy cars, or maybe island or sports (not sure about the name)with the fast slidy cars.

[Voices]

Steve im afriad your wrong bboy did the double b4 at over the river and deadline, i think those were the tracks

[Steve]

There were a few GP's before i started, so i dont know what happened in them, but its the first time since i started racing the GP's.

It is possible to do a GP on United?? I havent played it much, but i havent seen any rounds servers, and when we do the GP in nations, its rounds mode. Can you do a GP in laps mode?? People could restart though, and from the last CP

[DaCheese]

A United GP on rounds would be fine from a restart from the last checkpoint point of view if it's like Original was. Racing For Shropshire sessions I used to host locally on there were always set to rounds after I found that laps mode doesn't allow proper racing on point-to-point tracks. All circuit tracks were validated to the RFS standard of 2 laps, 10 point limit. You could restart from the last checkpoint unless you were stupid enough to press delete.

Environments-NOT Original ones at least to begin with, that's for sure. Coast? I don't know, I quite like it. Stadium if the choice was mine would be absent unless the track was part tarmac, part dirt or completely dirt (I can't be doing with that understeer). Island? Oh yes, especially on a track based on an FIA GT circuit. A perfect opportunity to wheel out those nice GT skins I know you've all got.

Now, Steve, you say the United server's lacking in action. Don't get me wrong, even though I've remembered I'm useless at Nations I can see why you all like it, but could the reason why the United server's quiet be because everybody's on Nations and not United? Personally I like the variety that the different environments present. To be good at it, you can't keep all your eggs in one Stadium-sized basket.

And finally, can somebody take a look at my newest United tracks and see if they're worth uploading?
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[mad]

I will look at your tracks and others... I'm just well behind at the moment sorry

[DaCheese]

I’ve given up on the Le Mans thing as the building areas aren’t long enough to get the shape right.

Mad, I emailed those tracks which I’d put on TMX to you via the email admin link. I don’t know if you got that email but I’ve since found that Neblivioscrew has a checkpoint that needs moving, so I’ll change that and resend them all with some new ones as well.

Now, the main part. I’m not trying to get on people’s nerves here or sound nasty, I’m just trying to be motivational. Please remember that.

I didn’t start the two posts that compare Nations to United so for that reason so I’m not going to defend United. What I will say, and I’ve said this before, is that no wonder the United server’s a ghost town if nobody plays it. I also think some new tracks wouldn’t go amiss. It seems to have a lot of very similar tracks that don’t do anything original, particularly in Coast. I’m a big fan of coast, but I’d like to see some more tracks that bring something new to the table. I also know Coast’s not popular here, so that’s not helping the situation.

The action on the United server’s not going to improve unless we all club together and make a difference with new tracks and a new enthusiasm for racing on it. So if anybody wants me, I’ll be making a start in the track editor.
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[Middenrat]

ure right thereDC, some Coast tracks are rather samey and there's too many of them considerin what an acquired taste they are.
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Skin by Baino

[Spanky_McCoy]

[LaValle]

Steve just to answer a question you made earlier in the discussion Bboy was not the first person to win both GPs. I did it a long time ago, maybe the 3rd or 4th GPs

[Dale Earnhardt]

[DaCheese]

So, it seems we may have a simple idea to try out. How about reducing the number of Coast tracks? If the balance of tracks is made more equal, perhaps more people who don't like Coast will use the server.
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[DaCheese]

Sorry for bumping this thread but I need a fix of United again. I know the game has a lot of problems but I'd love an evening of TMU racing, so can you people here who have it please humour me? Hell, I'll even host it locally if need be.

I've thought of a couple of ideas for the racing:

TMU World Tour
Your standard laps race on a set of stages from each environment. There would most likely be more stages on the Sunrise environments and Stadium as we all dislike the TMO ones (could even cut these out completely, but it'd be nice to just have one or two tracks from each). Alternatively, the sesion could be set to rounds with a 10 point limit on A to B tracks.

Stadium Rallycross Trophy
I've been mumbling about this concept for a while. Basically, everybody grabs a unique rally car model (or at least a unique skin if somebody else is using the model you want) from the carpark and we have a series of Stadium races on tracks combining tarmac and dirt sections. I know we do have the odd couple of peeps here who like dirt and drifting...

So, what do we think? And whatever happens, can you send me the track collection from MLU please Mad?
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[Pepper]

To prevent any possible disease, i can promise you that i won't take it badly if some of my Coast tracks are removed from the server

About Le Mans, if only i had more free time, i would be very happy to help, but unfortunately, that's impossible for me at the moment... sorry

Good luck...

[DaCheese]

No worries Pep, I think Le Mans is a bit of a non-starter anyway. The building area's too short and too wide to get the proportions right.
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[LaValle]

*sniffle*. oh, ok then. Bboy did it first. *sniff* I almost thought that I'd amounted to something there...

[mad]

United... Hahh hahaha hahah hah ha ha ha ha h Hahh hahahaha ha