Some suggestions, mainly for multiplayer

After some hours in AC, I'd like to discuss/share my suggestions with you and hope not everything was already mentioned before (I did a quick search on this). These are more like "nice to have"-sugesstions, since it does not affect the gameplay itself in a big way.


- Server cfg tool: in the current state, I find it very user-unfriendly to add/delete each car slot manually. a more comfortable gui would be nice to have.
- Change the car and/or the skin in the Setup, the skin maybe as a tab?
- what i see as minor option: distribute mod-files (cars, tracks, skins) from the server to the clients if not already installed. Maybe optional or auto as a setup option in the main menu for people with fast/slow connection. maybe even upload individual car skins from the client to the server as an option for customizing your car.

any mode:
would it be wise to enable changing tyre sizes and/or rims, e.g. custom carbon-fibre wheels or just other designs (maybe mod) as a reward/buyable item for career mode if anything like that is planned. an server option for disabling such things would be wise for comparable results though if weight of the rims is considered (or wheight changed to standard while im mp)


What do you guys think?

 

I dont know much about the career mode. No one does i think. Personally im not much for buying rims and that sort of stuff. I hope for a more realistic race career where im a race driver and not just some cool hollywood dude pimping my car. Seems we will be able to mod a lot of stuff when the sim is done though and maybe we can build our own careers/game modes. At the end of the day though MP is where its at for me so it wouldnt hurt me much if the career was some NFS copy, but at the same time i dont feel it belongs in AC - personal opinion of course. I feel a career should be a realistic race career where you work your way up to the big cars/races.

More ways to control MP is suggested all over the forum, and Kunos is working hard on that i reckon. They bring us new MP stuff every update and last update compared to the first has made a great leap. I remember the first MP where we could do nothing but book and drive. Hitting eachother made you fly miles. Changing car you had to turn off the server and restart it. Now in freejoin mode you can exit the server and change car and go back in. Also the recent assist control (not all of them, but most) is in place making races a bit more fair (still missing to control SC).

I agree on the skin choosing. Im sure Kunos will get there soon enough. Maybe when you choose car in MP there is a window coming up with the available skins (or something). Not a biggie for the moment as its not game breaking and more serious stuff needs to be done before it, but a welcomed feature for sure.

Im getting happy with each update and i cant wait to see AC a couple of months from now.

 

You are absolutely right, things like rims are not that much important for the game/sim itself - personally, I would certainly go for CFK or Magnesium rims in real life as an upgrade where possible (lower unsprung mass). there is - of course - the question for the neccessarity of these things in AC for sure, there is a point where it is impossible or not very wise to implement EVERY change you could ever make to the cars.

I also have no idea about career mode, we will see. It does not need to be a super-fancy story for me, main thing is the physics are handled correctly. I love what i have seen so far after 30 hours.