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While all that would be great we have to bare in mind what's actually possible for a small Italian company. Travelling all over the world to multiple locations is probably out. Maybe there are local companies that could acquire the data for them, I don't know.

I do agree with everything you say, more tracks would be better, but for smaller companies they have to be really intelligent and realistic about how they spend their money. If they don't get that money back it could ruin them.

I've experienced this kind of thing in my own business at trade shows. A person comes up and starts suggesting all kinds of upgrades and improvements to the product and while they may be correct they don't realise how much work those changes involve, how much those different parts cost and how difficult they'll be to put into production. If I put all those things that person wanted into the product they would just turn their nose up at it and say it's too expensive.

We have to appreciate that the people at Kunos have had all these discussion, they've costed out the possibilities and picked goals that they think they can achieve within their budget. That's what businesses do. They aren't holding back, they aren't trying to do a bait and switch, I'd guarantee that at times they had a sinking feeling as they had to abandon something they really wanted to do because it would be too costly and they had to stick to budget. Luckily in the software business they have the opportunity to fix problems after the fact. In a manufacturing business if you find a fault after the fact your just ****ed and no one will give you the benefit of the doubt.

People won't pay for the product they want, what they want is too expensive, so you have to be careful trying to meet their demands because they will leave you high and dry when it comes time to purchase.

 

The only thing that make me sad is about the custom skins limitations.
Maybe some U4 guru can came with a solution.
For leagues it's a absolute no go, what make sad again.

 

While I won't say most, a lot of circuits have been getting their own laser scans done every year or two, they can then sell them to race teams (for driver in the loop sims) or to studios. I would imagine if they can purchase a scan of the track a scouting trip or two would still be needed, but you aren't sending an entire studio. And I doubt that Kunos has their own scanning tools so they would most likely hire an American company to scan Laguna Seca for example.
Either way it is expensive, but that's the precedent ACC has set. I can't imagine a great reaction if they released a DLC with non laser scanned tracks at this point, so if they are going to add new tracks, they'll figure out how to offset that cost. I can't imagine they are done adding tracks

 

Some of us are still recovering from the uproar the news that Zandvoort wasnt laserscanned in AC caused.
In the end, the track was awesome.

 

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Proof that health care is too expensive, lol.

 

I think you missed his point. By quite a lot, lol.

 

If you say so. *shrug*

 

So in Marco's interview he mentioned 7 new cars for the 2019 update.....

If I'm correct, we have 1) Audi, 2) Lambo, 3) NSX, 4) Porsche, 5) Aston Martin

The 6th I'm assuming will be the Porsche Cup 1969 Tribute, so what's the 7th car? Could it really be the McLaren 720S or am I missing any other car?

I don't think there's any indication that it will participate in Barcelona but what other car could it be? Also considering traces of it have been found in ACC files.

Could that be the surprise they talked about months ago? We'll get a car that's not in the calendar? I can only hope

 

As a Canadian living close to Mosport aka Canadian tire Motorsports park. I would love a laser scanned version of it if they did the America’s series. I loved the AC version of the track.

 

Not sure, but there was a 720s driving on the test day of Paul Ricard. Fingers crossed

 

when last year ended, I read that porsche, honda, mclaren, lambo, audi and aston had to deliver new cars.
There is the new bettle porsche cup, but it could be the mclaren. Anyway the mcl is a new car, if acc lasts for years, we will enjoy it!

 

Custom skins limitations TM. Please Kunos, at least reserve a little spot for teams stickers.

 

I don´t think it can be fully custom logos / stickers, as you could put any content (racist, sexist, political, etc.) there next to an officially sanctioned sponsor. It could only work with some approval process, but who should do that?

 

then any editor out there? At least text could be implemented, so that I can put my team name on the car.

It is not like that anyway. If we start not implement things for potential risk of racism, sexism, terrorism and all, we will be limited in our freedom.
When you find something like that, it is up to you to report it to the right authority to arrest/(other terms, im not english) them.
And when you find it, you have the duty to report it.
Otherwise...people will start saying:
-you can't **** because you damage the ecosystem
-you can't write "yo" on your car because...
-you can't put this logo because...
That's not the way.

And that's not the reason in this case.
The reasons why they cannot make a huge editor are: licensing and time. For me time plays the biggest part.

 

We server administrators have the power that such a crap is not seen. Just do not enter in the Entrylist.

 

First point, as far as I know for the moment official servers don't allow custom skins, but if future brings it that small spot for personal logo sticker or what ever, it could be block by server side.
What came to private servers is always it's admin. responsability.

Second point, the approval process had cross my mind, but I am almost shure that it will mean more work to Kunos.

Anyway ACC for me is the very best, but I am afraid that more profissional leagues go away just because of that.

 

Kunos has said in the past that track licences are very expensive, especially iconic places like Suzuka and Bathurst. For AC to include Suzuka Honda wanted crazy money, according to Marco. He suggested that scanning a venue really wasn’t that expensive, licensing however... Then there’s the man hours, making tracks to ACC standards is a lot of work especially for a small team, most of the ACC tracks had already appeared in AC however so they had a head start.

I’ve no idea what bearing having a series licence would have on the situation. I’d be surprised if we see a DLC with multiple scanned tracks unless sales of ACC go totally crazy, which seems unlikely.

 

Marco already hinted that they have plans of new content for next year. What else could it be than additional SRO series like Blancpain America/Asia and therefore new tracks? Any way you want to look at it, they'll need to add new tracks.

I've also heard that Suzuka's license is very expensive and Blancpain Asia also has GT4's, that's why for me the obvious choice is Blancpain America. No need of new cars, only 6 tracks and better exposure of ACC to the North American market.

With all current tracks being laser scanned, there's no way they'll release a bunch of new tracks with lower standards imo.

 

are you sure?
Zokder, hungaroring, Misano, Paul Ricard,

next year the world challenge won't be just a rebrand, if I remember the sro press.
Which means in 2020 there will be a gt3 only world championship.
I just finished to watch a thriller cop movie. My investigation senses are at their top now.
I think I solved the case.

 

Beverly Hills Cop?