Hi folks,
With yesterday pretty much being the end of the month, it dawned on me just how low of a number of Rivals times there were in the Monthly and VIP hoppers. Most of the monthly Rivals events averaged about 8,000 times, and half that in the VIP ones. Given that T10 have claimed half of Xbox One buyers have played FM5, is it just that people don’t care about Rivals, or is something else going on?
TTFN
Toni
I have VIP and I don’t spend a lot of time on in rivals. If i do anything it’s most likely challenge someone if I notice my time is faster than the previous I ran on that track.
A lot of people don’t care about the temporary rivals leaderboards unless there is some sort of incentive to run them such as prize giveaways.
I used to care about them when they did bounty hunter etc. I cant be bothered wasting the time to put a good time in that doesnt count for anything only to have it removed in a few weeks never to be seen again…
Makes sense - thanks guys.
TTFN
Toni
I like to at least set a time in each event so the “NEW” thing doesn’t show up on my screen haha. If I have friends that beat my times, I will go back and try to set faster laps. However, not many people on my friends have Xbox One compared to FM4 so I spend most of my time elsewhere.
I only did the normal hotlaps last month so no drag, drift, traffic or autocross from me and same will happen this month except for the drift at nurb.
The friends I race online with don’t care for any leaderboards permanent or monthly.
For me the issue is that so few of them are actual hot-lap events. If there’s five events, only one will be hot-lap with no traffic usually, and if it’s not a scenario that interests me I won’t bother with it when I can take a car I enjoy driving in the class Rivals lobbies. I just don’t care enough about autocross to try and be competitive, drag and drift don’t interest me, and the track day events are not fun in their current incarnation.
Less traffic cars on track, doing proper racing speeds but still several classes lower would make for a much more enjoyable experience, as well as being more like a real track day (since it’s digital, the whole ‘no pushing’ rule doesn’t make sense to try and copy anyway). I still don’t think I’d consider them balanced enough to be competitive though, since where the AI is and what they do can have a huge effect on the lap time and one contact dirties the lap, plus the fact that top times are set by backing up the pack, making them unachievable without resorting to the same tactic.
I’m not going to waste a tune on VIP or any Rival event… if it’s a stock tune race I’ll jump in every once in a while but honestly it’s boring … throw a unicorn type car in like F4, and randomly give them out for more interest …but really T10 has a lot on their plate, and I don’t see incentivized rival racing anytime soon …