What are Kunos next track plans?

For whatever reason most of the public servers stick to the vanilla tracks. On rare occasions I've seen Bridge Hampton and more recently Bilsterberg. In the case with Bilsterberg the server host set a decent lap. I set a faster lap and soon after that the server was shut down, haha. I guess the host got mad I bested his lap.

Most people seem to want to drive Nords , Mugello, Spa, Silverstone and Drift. Half the people on the Nords sever never complete a single lap. I have no idea what they are doing. Takes time and effort to learn a track, perhaps most people don't have the time or inclination or interest to learn anything other than these few.

 

I noticed it disappeared from Race Dept, what happened ?? Ahhh I had a feeling it was due to some licensing B.S.

 

Long story made short: Track creator had good intentions but ended up playing himself.

Full story here:
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/okayama-w-i-p-scratch-made.129680/page-8

 

Yea exactly. IMHO , build the track , release it, update it and move on. Trying to make a profit is a tricky thing and unless you are a lawyer or have a lawyer it ain't worth the drama. Or better idea might to make an original track inspired by a variety of real world turns from a variety of tracks. Or something in the same vain as pCars Sakitto, change a few turns, increase the elevation changes, call it "Moriyama speedway" base the track in Kyoto, Japan or an entirely different country.

 

http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/the-what-are-you-working-on-thread.126119/page-88#post-2465872

 

Thanks, I missed that. And done by Sergio Loro, so most likely a good quality version as well.

 

I can't speak for anyone else but I would happily pay much more for DLC that includes a laserscanned track. Kunos DLC has always been great value for money IMO.

 

the dedicated grip racers will probably laugh this off and roll their eyes about it, but i kinda wish there would be a slightly more dedicated focus on drifting. all the present and upcoming sim racers focus on the super serious grip racing (or rally stuff) with super sophisticated modern race cars and supercars and all these clean and fast racetracks, but i would pay good money to get something like a "proper" japanese pack II. something like a laserscanned yamanashi Sportsland, or laserscanned Ebisu with all tracks and some more classic drift cars with like.. "stock" and maybe "amateur" and "pro" tuning stages...
i know there are a lot of mods that do this kind of stuff and i use and enjoy them and they make me enjoy AC a lot more, but something more official (and probably more realistic) would be sweet.

i know this won'T happen, as it was said before, laser-scanned track creation is tedious and not very lucrative (also it is probably almost impossible to actually get into contract with japanese track owners?) , but AC already seems like the go to sim for the crazy drift-fanboys, why not embrace it! ha...

 

I agree completely. For example if iRacing was a one time payment, sans monthly fee, I'd have no problem paying $10 to $15 per track. Same goes for Assetto Corsa. I have no problems paying more for quality tracks.

 

Most all of us 'regulars' would, but even if we each bought two we still aren't but a drop in the bucket of the actual AC user base. According to SteamDB over 80000 players fired up AC in the last two weeks on PC.

 

And Classic Circuit Charade too (Circuit Clermont-Ferrand)

 

There is a version of yamanashi Sportsland floating around the Net that seems pretty good to me. I think if Zandvoort can be as good as it is without laser scanning then a drift track should be that much easier to create by hand and be quite close to the real thing

 

I'd be happy to find out about most desired classic circuits. If I was not so busy now, I'd probably make a poll.

Anybody can write a PM what are your favorite non-modern - classic, or historic circuits, IMO would be interesting to make a poll later.

 

I think we know the answers...

Spa
Oesterreich Ring
Monaco
Watkins
Le Mans
Rouen
Reims
Fuji

An historic Nordschleife with the big jumps would be great also but an insane amount of work. The modern laser scan elevation data could make it very accurate though.

I'm excluding tracks like Monza that we already have and others like Brands and Ricard that haven't changed that much.

 

Historic circuits are like historic cars. Everybody wants them, nobody drives them.

 

who is doing The Glen? Heading there this weekend for the Six Hrs race, yeah baby!!

 

Historic content is just like modern content, sometimes servers gets full, sometimes not, I see no difference between classics and modern cars/tracks.

 

I do notice a difference. I think most want to relate to something actual. It's not random that a ton of Le Mans servers pop up at mid-june. People want to watch the real stuff and see how they can do themselves in a sim.

If I was a modder I wouldn't waste resources on pieces of tarmac that don't exist anymore. Just an opinion.

 

but only €5000 for track license!? cmon @Lord Kunos you like japanese tracks, @Si3v

 

Last I heard @LilSki was working on modern Watkins Glen although I've not seen any updates. Perhaps he is working secretively in his track building lab at an undisclosed location !! HAHA