Multiplayer track rotation

Been hoping to see this in AC since MP launch but almost given up hope, does anyone know if devs have said anything about it? Every other multiplayer game I can think of can do this, and it seems like a really important feature for MP, so I'm not sure why it was implemented like this in the first place.

There's no need to break any moulds here, just copy the very standard features of fps games for example, so at the end of a race, players vote for the next track of a pre-determined list that an admin can make as short or long as he likes. After an average of 20- 30 minutes quali and racing at a particular track, I've generally had enough of it and hop off to look for something different and judging by how many people leave servers after a race, it seems I'm not alone. Adding track rotation would surely increase the % of people who stay on the server. I think this increases the fun element if you stay on 1 server all evening with mostly the same people and see how you're doing against them on different tracks rather than a continuous bunch of randoms.

So I know there's gonna be a guy who's going to respond by saying 'Do you want even more wrecks from people who now are forced to go to a track they don't know?' To which I'll respond that the good servers will likely make their track list quite short, perhaps even just 3 tracks, which means once they're established there shouldn't be a problem with people having to learn a new new track in a few minutes. Anyway if they stick to Vanilla, and minorated servers, i think most people on there would know all the tracks backwards by now.

So this is half a question (from my first sentence) and half a plea to the devs to please think about this and realise that's it's actually a super important part of multiplayer!

 

I would like to see track rotation that includes all of the official variations in AC (except the Nordschleife, and the two old long versions of Monza). I really enjoyed this in GT Legends, and it was great to be switching between short and long tracks on a regular basis. Most online drivers really should know the vast majority of the official layouts by now. Having said that, this would really require all tracks to have the same number of pit spots, but I don't mind Magione and Zandvoort being upgraded from 18 to 24 It would also be nice to see Barcelona National and Zandvoort National added to spice things up a bit.

Yeah, I know......rocking the boat

 

Track rotation would be awesome but I guess theres a reason its not added already. Even if it wont be added in AC they should really consider it in AC2

 

+1!

 

There are third party apps that allow servers to be run with multiple tracks, but you have to rejoin the server after every race. It has been my one wish since v1, maybe we will get track rotation once consoles get private lobbies. @Lord Kunos

 

See here:
https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/no-multiple-tracks-in-servers.37754/

 

Sad they don't consider track rotation a high enough priority. To me this is the number 1 priority for mp. Any devs reading this care to share you thoughts?

 

I agree, it's sad that we can't use this, but then it's also not a huge problem, because in my opinion having a certain consistency is actually a good thing.
e.g. currently on the Streetfight servers, we're doing one track per day, which allows you to adjust to the track, maybe even create and optimize a setup and just have a good time.
It was even suggested to leave a track on for longer than a single day.

My main motivation would've been for a point-to-point event, like we did with Transfagarasan, to be able to switch between the forward and reverse layouts of the track, so that you can enjoy driving up and then down again.
Since the downhill version – for some unknown reason – crashed when trying to drive it online, we didn't need it after all, but it would've been nice.

Maybe they'll consider adding that feature for AC2, we'll see.

 

Yes I enjoyed it too.

 

How is MP track rotation NOT A PRIORITY??

 

Can a DEV answer that question from above please...just wanting to know How MP Track Rotation is NOT a priority ?
I run a dedicated Hosted server....surely we can edit a json or something ?