My opinion towards players driving Starter cars.

Fearless Rival · January 2015

I have got rid of almost all of my starter cars. So far I have kept my NSX and my Evo. I have never maxed them out. Although there's somethings about the starter cars that I fear.

This may not be a good post. Although there are some good points to point out. You may call me a moron or a noob for this but let's just get to the point. There's a lot of people driving starter cars because of the fact you get them for free after beating a tournament and moving on to the next one. However in Multiplayer they can be a serious issue if your car isn't all maxed out. The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, this is going to get a bit criminal here so please don't literally take this too serious as it's just an opinion. These Evos can be a problem. It feels like you need a car above B Class to beat the people driving the Evo. I have a maxed 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX STI that has a rating of 1656 and runs like 9.7 or 9.5. Although usually it's suppose to have a rating of 1659 due to tuning differences. When racing against the evos, after launching I take the lead but a second later after the launch the Evo takes the lead. It's kinda unfair. I don't know if there's any B Class that can take out an Evo. I feel like they should have balanced the Evo out a bit. I've even just looked at the Maxed Car Rating thread and so far, there's not another B Class car that is around the 1660s. Now there may be a car that is a B Class that could take the Evo down but I'm just going to say that the car is over powered. Heck I've seen someone driving a R Class car and lost against some guy driving a Lancer Evo in a pinks slip race. Don't know if the guy didn't tuned his car that well but anyways moving on.

Next is people driving R Class starter cars. I took this complaint from someone else and actually agreed with him. So I felt like this deserves to be mentioned. I see people driving R Class starter cars challenging people driving cars below R Class. That's quite unfair and it happens to me too. If I get a race request from a guy driving a R Class car and I'm not in one, I just decline it. It's even worse if that same person keeps spamming you requests. Your best option would be to switch to a different lobby. Can't they even race their own class? Quite a problem there. It's also worth mentioning that when you beat someone they keep spamming you requests to race you until you accept it and they win. Especially if you already beaten them more then once like just give up. If you can't beat me, stop asking me to race you.

What do you guys think? Do you think they should balance the Lancer's preformance and actually make it less overpowered?

crazyjr · January 2015

The problem is not the starter cars, it's piggybackers as a whole. That is my term for the pathetic, weak game play style, of joining a friend using a proper lobby'ed car. These players can't handle the max lobby and prey on lower lobby's newer players, for pinks, money and street creds. I have posted threads about this and every time Ryyst has said, "This is an unintended, but accepted function, of the friend feature' In other words, maybe unintended, but fortunate turnout for GLU as a whole.

If a new player pinks a campaign car, they have to pay gems to replace the car and possibly re-regester said car(more expensive than replacing the car to continue their game. The friend feature was started to support the UN-supported trades of cars. But has been exploited by weak players bullying others in lobby's.

I never challenge players in the public lobby, there is no way to pink unless you challenge them. so when they challenge me, they get nothing but SC and their rating posted in chat for everyone to see. As i said i will never pink or money race in the public lobby, at least till they are locked like the turf and showdown lobby's.

Personally i see no good use for the friend feature, Trades and sales are unsupported ( in writting at least), so there is no real need for the friend feature. This is keeping piggybackers and scammers in business, which is money for GLU. Why would they change it now?

Dozerboy · February 2015

Youve miss placed your feeling toward classes. When the problem is lobby jumpers. Now I think lobby jumping is ok it makes trading a lot safer but maybe they should indicate the car is. Like with a off colored name. I race in the 56 lobby with a type R and a R2. They are tuned to the lobby. Why when I win I make $1500 or so. Thats a lot better then $1000 if I was limited by class. There are a lot of guys out their that lobby jump and race me thinking that Im up there with them. But when they see they are blowing me away the slow down and let me win.

Dozerboy · February 2015

I don't bet out side of turf for more then 1K unless its a guy that I have been going back and forth with. So I know his car rating. Anyone that lobby jumps and bets me gets called out and some thats don't bet. Like the ones that sand bag trying to get you to bet or pink them. The 56 and 63 lobbies are full of 1678s and then some. When its like that I'll walk away from 20mins. come back and a lot of them have cleared out.

This is really the reason I have started turfing. At lest there are a few days a week I can race in peace, but its hard core. You better have you car setup before you go racing or your only going to win fouls.

There should be an extra step/warning in pinking your current campaign car though.