official time timer

[derailer]

the current implementation is straight up completely idiotic. how about this, you have to "earn" the ability to play an official time. by doing a gold lap. you still can't just retry official freely (although I don't really see the problem with allowing this either, whatever), but you also don't have to wait for this timer to count down. because seriously this timer is pathetic.

[RIGIST]

http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic.php?f=293&t=5508

Use this thread to show that you're against it, we're trying to get Nadeo to change it to something more bearable

[luke7777]

I have a suggestion, well 2 actually

1. If you have Nadeo time on a track, no timer for official. A just reward for expert skill.

2. Allow for an official window of i.e. 5x the gold time of a track, with unlimited tries in that period and extend the cooldown period between windows to say 10min. That way you have a few consecutive picks at the cherry without spoiling the "heart racing" feel. So a 20sec track will give me 100sec of going balls to the wall trying to better that time. A bad start, and I have 90sec left. Effectively 70sec, since I have to finish within the allotted time. How's that for heart racing

If you want real, F1 also has that 10min window for final 10 placings and more than one run can be done in that period

Best of both worlds and I think it would satisfy the both sides of the timer issue. Not technically difficult either I think

comments are welcome...

[Snakejuice]

I think I see what you are trying to do with the idea luke7777, but I really I think it just gives us the WORST of both worlds so to say, it removes the wonderful wonderful tension of just ONE try, while still annoying the people who are against the timer.

So I'd say keep it as it is, just fix that bug(?) that stops the timer if I turn off the game. Also maybe make training the default choice in the popup after timer expires as I always accidentaly go into official when that dialogue comes up, wether I'm ready for it or not.

Hmm this idea just popped up in my head so I haven't thought it through very much but what if, what if, we have 2 different ladders? One time attack ladder for the folks who wanna race without the timer, and one official ladder which is like the current one with a 5 minute timer between tries? Different strokes for different folks.. it'll probably be too much work for too little gain for Nadeo but hey, it's an idea.

[majla]

Hi. This way of playing official races is really bad i think. Way used in TMu was much better than this. Maybe nadeo wants to limit number of official attempts. But this is too much limited.

Why not use combination of this two ways? If i want to play official, i must pay some planets. And if i dont want to pay, i must wait. And if they really want to limit the number of attempts, they can allow us to buy 3 races (for example) and than we must wait. But just one race isnt good idea. Think about it

Im sorry for my english and i hope its understandable.