Suggestion: Ability to change car(-skin) between races.

[QuantumBliss]

I am suggesting this feature, because I found out that I am sometimes quicker or slower with certain cars / skins on different tracks. A car skin alters the engine sound, the chassis, the tyres of the car and the horn and so on. Maybe this is an illusion, but after testing different cars (-skins) on one track with different results, I believe to have saved a lot of time quitting my test track to go back to the profile page to change the car and then back doing the same thing over and over again.

Such a feature would simply allow me to choose a skin in between the challenges with a click, no quitting, opening the profile page, vehicles page then environments car-park then select.

It should feature more be possible to create a list of favourite cars-(skins) from which one can sort by different criteria and then also make visible to choose and select a favourite car to drive a particular track.

Be in the Speed,

QuantumBliss.

[Trackmaniack]

I have noticed this also--most notably on Rally and Stadium...I've been back and forth about this with several members of the forum, all saying it's an illusion of the mind, but be sure you're not alone, sir.

[tcq]

I experienced the same thing in the past, even though i knew it was an illusion. Therefore it could be a nice gimmick to change the skins during the map change or maybe during the race.

[bucky_u]

This is a nice, useful idea. To add to it, maybe users would be able to access and edit other general profile information from in a server. On second thought, maybe that's not such a good idea, because people might change their tags every 5 seconds ...

As much as I like this idea, I think that Nadeo could be focusing on other, more crucial gameplay aspects before thinking about ideas that are more like details. On the other other hand, a bunch of smaller, streamlined features makes for a smooth gameplay experience from a user standpoint.

At any rate, I'm excited to see what Nadeo have in store for us.

[Knutselmaaster]

Well, the size of skins don't change for the game, but they do for the player.
Or to put it another way, what you see is not what you get.
You can have a skin that is way bigger than the size that is calculated by the game to decide if you touch a wall or not.
So you will automatically take curves wider, and thus loose time.
Or, if you really got used to a "too big" skin, you know how far you can drive in the wall, but that really is hard to master.

I like the idea to be able to change skins fast, but in between the challenges is when a level is loading, and on a high end pc, with an avarage map loading, you won't have more than a few seconds to do so, which isn't very practical.
And changing skins while the challenge is going on would be cool, but think about what happens when 30 players are changing skins all the time; no skin will even reach the other players due to the download time....

[QuantumBliss]

Yes, permitting players to changing skin during a challenge will result in performance of the race and therefore the fun of the game would be very negative affected.

An easier way to change a car skin would be very beneficial for track testing and skin testing, that's why I still wish that such a feature would be wisely implemented into TM2, but of course I do not wish any lack of performance due to this.

A solution could be to allow a player to change a skin during a challenge, but then constraint the skin to be used for at least 3 challenges or 4.

Be in the Speed,

QuantumBliss.