Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-101.173.26.198-20180814123123/@comment-31198326-20180815131645

DrestinBlack wrote: OMP 6.5 - Ghost Racing: the battle for pole position. Endless starts and people dropping out, vying for PP. Then it begins, only chance of crash is from being confused at all the ghosts blurring your vision breifly as various acceleration rates segregate cars. Then it’s just a other simple & boring race the clock to the finish. Nothing exciting happens whatsoever. Just you driving all by yourself trying to beat a time set by some random driver in a random car also driving alone. Would it even matter if you could see them? Watch them creep up, engine sound growing, watching your mirrors, positioning yourself to defend from an overtake when ... A cold chill like when someone walks over your grave ... And you resume driving by yourself against a clock ... Like drag races... except a lap or more long. yyyaaaawwwwwnnnnnnnnn! Then you think, we’ll, I’ve only got one WTTT race and I’ve already done it so... yawn... what else can do? Back to endlessly farming for a pittance? Race after race after race to “win” a “free car”. “Bot slowing” ...

Like in the real world, you can hop into a race car, point it down the track and go fast and set a time and it gets recorded. You want to be a REAL race car driver you enter a race with others. And, yes, they might b able to bump you or even crash into you. Or they could crash ahead of you and you have to dodge the crash. But a SKILLED driver learns how to dodge them, how to trick them, how to not be where they expect you to be... Or they could be ahead of you and despite your faster car/skill, they are carefully defending places where you could over take them. You can’t just be 3 mph faster and slllooowwwwlllyyy pass them, literally inch by inch, THROUGH your car and you as you hopelessly and powerlessly watch.

This is not multiplayer racing - this is pathetically stupid and another example of programming incompetency and laziness.

It’s so easy to impliment ghosting, but a bit more work to put in “who’s fault” colision detection. They took the lazy route.

AALLLL that OMP needed was the elimination of actual cheating in the game. Remove the stat hacking first. Added bonus: optimize network code so people with crap phones and/or connections can stop claiming “lag” when it’s really their environment.

I know coding and I know it would be trivial to NOT enable the ghosting change. Behind all hope I’ll ask please pretty please with sugar on top don’t do it and utterly destroy OMP. FU if you do because it takes away the only racing in RR3 I enjoy. I won't call this whining but Dustin is quite the time traveler! Thanks for the detailed description of exactly what it will feel like next week to race OMP!

Or you could actually try at least one race before blowing off!