Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-101.173.26.198-20180814123123/@comment-35553674-20180823185703

When I first tried OLM 3 months ago it was a joke, imposible to play with any realism and seemed to be an area of the game populated by hackers, cheaters and gangs of bullies who just wanted to run everyone off the road - Enter if you dare but don't expect a fair race. I quit playing OMP very quickly thinking that I may take another look at it in a couple of years, after I'd had time to build up a stock of FU'd top cars and learned some tricks of my own. With the changes in 6.5 I've taken another look and can say it is definately more playable than it was - at least you can complete a race without getting pulverised along the way - however I do think the monkies have taken a sledge hammer to crack a nut. With ghosting, even fair players don't have to worry about slowing and holding position behind a slower racer through a chicane or when it's impossible to pass, they don't have to worry that they will compromise their line into the next corner if they overtake the car in front of them - they can just drive straight through the ghost and gain the position without negative effect. I don't see why the monkies did not introduce penalties - like the reduced speed penalty when you go off track - for crashing into other racers. Say a 4 sec reduced speed penalty for first crash,  8 sec for second crash and a black flag for third. As it is now it is no different to running a WTTT event - there is no racing against other opponents you are only racing against yourself.