04-01-2009, 02:07 PM
Some points.
1. Not much about text based games is skill. Anyone that runs around claiming to be superior playing these games is delusional. There are some aspects of the game that take knowledge, tuning, hitting. None of them take "skill" seriously there is no reaction time, nothing remotely like skill.
2. The image verify does NOT fuck up all tabs, you click it in one and the others respond. I however do agree that the tab racing is annoying and slow in my opinion. I much prefer to cycle the pages in one browser window. I use the page down button to make finding the next driver easier.
3. Racing in CI games has always been painfully boring, you are correct there too. The difference is now if you're fast enough you can make it go away much quicker. I can't believe you argue this style of racing doesn't give you more time O.o You never have to wait for someone to accept. List drivers, race, challenge, rinse repeat. If you get close to the 5 second limit, easily doable then you get 12 races a minute. 720 races an hour.... there is no way in hell you could burn your credits in an hour racing using the old style, just wasn't possible. Racing offline was a waste, the exp was so much lower...
So you're right in a lot of respects, there is no skill involved in anything we do, racing is boring, which is why some of us get it out of the way asap.
The rest is personal preference in my opinion. You like the old way, I like the new way. Neither took more skill than the other, one seems faster to me, one seems more fun to you. I guess it's about what is important to how you like to play.
1. Not much about text based games is skill. Anyone that runs around claiming to be superior playing these games is delusional. There are some aspects of the game that take knowledge, tuning, hitting. None of them take "skill" seriously there is no reaction time, nothing remotely like skill.
2. The image verify does NOT fuck up all tabs, you click it in one and the others respond. I however do agree that the tab racing is annoying and slow in my opinion. I much prefer to cycle the pages in one browser window. I use the page down button to make finding the next driver easier.
3. Racing in CI games has always been painfully boring, you are correct there too. The difference is now if you're fast enough you can make it go away much quicker. I can't believe you argue this style of racing doesn't give you more time O.o You never have to wait for someone to accept. List drivers, race, challenge, rinse repeat. If you get close to the 5 second limit, easily doable then you get 12 races a minute. 720 races an hour.... there is no way in hell you could burn your credits in an hour racing using the old style, just wasn't possible. Racing offline was a waste, the exp was so much lower...
So you're right in a lot of respects, there is no skill involved in anything we do, racing is boring, which is why some of us get it out of the way asap.
The rest is personal preference in my opinion. You like the old way, I like the new way. Neither took more skill than the other, one seems faster to me, one seems more fun to you. I guess it's about what is important to how you like to play.
