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    Trials Frontier Summer Season!

    It's getting warm out, riders, and the Summer Season is HERE. Lasting 2 weeks, from 11am GMT on May 25th until 11am GMT on June 8th, and featuring 12 hour showdowns, the Summer Season is a bit of a change up from the typical 24hr showdown format.


    With 3 free showdowns, and ticket regen at 30 minutes, there will be plenty of Showdown position changes. Unless you are ridiculously good, in which case hurry up and hit Legends so I don't need to go head to head against you.
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    I really dislike the idea of 12 hour Showdowns. I can barely time it right with my sleeping schedule and school schedule.. Plus, I get fewer chips from the Showdowns, which means I have to grind even longer for chips to unlock the last Bunker track. So please, change the next season back to 24 hour showdowns.
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    Proposal for Future Season

    Hi everybody,

    I have a proposal that I would like to share with the community.
    I couldn't find a thread regarding new ideas so I'm posting it here.

    I'm thinking about a new mode that might be called "Extreme Season" or "One Shot Season". Here are the details for the Showdown:

    Showdown lasts for 3 minutes.
    1 Free Showdown at a time.
    3 minutes per Showdown.
    3 tracks per Showdown.
    Riders can play each track only ONCE.
    No tickets being used. No regular tickets, no golden tickets.
    You get one shot at each track, no matter how good/bad you perform.
    Chips are given 10x faster during Showdown OR 1 round of the clock gives 10 Chips away.
    Season lasts for 7 days.

    Thanks for reading and thanks for discussing.
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    About 1-shot season... Take this as constructive criticism.... No need to limit the number of showdowns; if they want to start 2 it's their choice, crazy as it sounds. I actually do this in blitz.... A lot. And I would here too.

    I also have a new name for the season : "Draw Season".... Because there is often going to be a track nobody wins with only one try, and then both people can easily "lose" with a tie/draw. What fun! No need to be stingy when you have already limited their time; just give'em 5-6 tickets.

    Biggest problem... Almost insurmountable problem.... Is that the 10-minute showdowns were often hated because of showdown startup connection issues. Imagine getting 3 minutes and then finally getting in the showdown and finding it has 2:30 left..and the other guy already has a track. Not cool. And then you ran your track... And you get a nice ad afterwards that costs you still more precious time. And all those game freezes we get from time to time, or getting thrown out of the bunker.....This game isn't currently precise/responsive enough to support such tight schedules. A 3-minute season is just begging for a PR disaster for RL, IMO.

    And in the end, I bet what you were really after is the idea of everyone just getting one try; you might think it's fun, or that you feel you are just that good that you only need one try... Or you hate ticket spamming. I know you would not be alone in any of those opinions....but to me RL is already pushing the showdown time parameters enough as it is... but it's really just the same old game.

    What I would really like for them to do is to find more creative ways to make the same old tracks seem fresh and new again while still adding challenge. Like some peoples suggestions of adding trick requirements (flips, inverted times, etc). Or hey, maybe they reverse the track and we all race right-to-left instead of left-to-right. or maybe overpower our bikes by 50%... Or add the donkey to showdowns for everyone (just in showdowns). Or reduce/increase gravity, or add places where if you touch it you are frozen for .25secs (you must avoid those spots). Stuff that just makes gameplay.... Different. Not merely quicker/longer.
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    Originally Posted by xitooner Go to original post
    About 1-shot season... Take this as constructive criticism.... No need to limit the number of showdowns; if they want to start 2 it's their choice, crazy as it sounds. I actually do this in blitz.... A lot. And I would here too.

    I also have a new name for the season : "Draw Season".... Because there is often going to be a track nobody wins with only one try, and then both people can easily "lose" with a tie/draw. What fun! No need to be stingy when you have already limited their time; just give'em 5-6 tickets.

    Biggest problem... Almost insurmountable problem.... Is that the 10-minute showdowns were often hated because of showdown startup connection issues. Imagine getting 3 minutes and then finally getting in the showdown and finding it has 2:30 left..and the other guy already has a track. Not cool. And then you ran your track... And you get a nice ad afterwards that costs you still more precious time. And all those game freezes we get from time to time, or getting thrown out of the bunker.....This game isn't currently precise/responsive enough to support such tight schedules. A 3-minute season is just begging for a PR disaster for RL, IMO.

    And in the end, I bet what you were really after is the idea of everyone just getting one try; you might think it's fun, or that you feel you are just that good that you only need one try... Or you hate ticket spamming. I know you would not be alone in any of those opinions....but to me RL is already pushing the showdown time parameters enough as it is... but it's really just the same old game.

    What I would really like for them to do is to find more creative ways to make the same old tracks seem fresh and new again while still adding challenge. Like some peoples suggestions of adding trick requirements (flips, inverted times, etc). Or hey, maybe they reverse the track and we all race right-to-left instead of left-to-right. or maybe overpower our bikes by 50%... Or add the donkey to showdowns for everyone (just in showdowns). Or reduce/increase gravity, or add places where if you touch it you are frozen for .25secs (you must avoid those spots). Stuff that just makes gameplay.... Different. Not merely quicker/longer.
    So far this is the best explanation and suggestion i have heard
    I vote for the suggestion all of them that are in the last paragraph
    TRY SOMETHING LIKE THIS RL. IT IS GOING TO BE FUN
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    Originally Posted by xitooner Go to original post
    About 1-shot season... Take this as constructive criticism.... No need to limit the number of showdowns; if they want to start 2 it's their choice, crazy as it sounds. I actually do this in blitz.... A lot. And I would here too.

    I also have a new name for the season : "Draw Season".... Because there is often going to be a track nobody wins with only one try, and then both people can easily "lose" with a tie/draw. What fun! No need to be stingy when you have already limited their time; just give'em 5-6 tickets.

    Biggest problem... Almost insurmountable problem.... Is that the 10-minute showdowns were often hated because of showdown startup connection issues. Imagine getting 3 minutes and then finally getting in the showdown and finding it has 2:30 left..and the other guy already has a track. Not cool. And then you ran your track... And you get a nice ad afterwards that costs you still more precious time. And all those game freezes we get from time to time, or getting thrown out of the bunker.....This game isn't currently precise/responsive enough to support such tight schedules. A 3-minute season is just begging for a PR disaster for RL, IMO.

    And in the end, I bet what you were really after is the idea of everyone just getting one try; you might think it's fun, or that you feel you are just that good that you only need one try... Or you hate ticket spamming. I know you would not be alone in any of those opinions....but to me RL is already pushing the showdown time parameters enough as it is... but it's really just the same old game.

    What I would really like for them to do is to find more creative ways to make the same old tracks seem fresh and new again while still adding challenge. Like some peoples suggestions of adding trick requirements (flips, inverted times, etc). Or hey, maybe they reverse the track and we all race right-to-left instead of left-to-right. or maybe overpower our bikes by 50%... Or add the donkey to showdowns for everyone (just in showdowns). Or reduce/increase gravity, or add places where if you touch it you are frozen for .25secs (you must avoid those spots). Stuff that just makes gameplay.... Different. Not merely quicker/longer.
    Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post.
    Criticism is more than welcome when it is polite and clearly explained, as it is in your case.
    My main point was exactly that of starting a discussion about new ideas of playing the game. The more people engage in the thread, the more new ideas get better refined.
    I would only like to point out that I'm not "that good" at this game. I consider myself an average player. There are many and many players ahead of me on the Leaderboard, I give my ticket gifts away and I also get my gifts when they are available. And sometimes I spend dozen of golden tickets just to get a difficult track.
    Like you said in your last sentence, I was only trying to suggest ways of making gameplay different.
    Thank you again.
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    Although this is out of topic, has anyone seen rarefied fuel on the slot machine recently. I saw one yesterday. I didn't get even after 10 tries but its my first time seeing on the slot machine since i started playing. And slot machine is level 22 by the way
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    Originally Posted by joe1729 Go to original post
    Although this is out of topic, has anyone seen rarefied fuel on the slot machine recently. I saw one yesterday. I didn't get even after 10 tries but its my first time seeing on the slot machine since i started playing. And slot machine is level 22 by the way
    I get them on there every once in a while, maybe once every two weeks or so, and I win it even less. I have 10 of them and I have been playing since launch, only ever used maybe 5.
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    In fact, i don't see the difference between 12 hours and 24 hours.. It's just the same thing.

    I think that it will be good to try 2 hours, maybe the perfect time ??!!

    RedLynx thank you for trying to provide the best kind of duel.
    They will eventually get there, I'm sure. good luck.
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    Hi everyone,

    Thanks for the feedback on this Summer Season. We always take your opinion into account and I will mention it in future reports, so feel free to mention more things you like and don't.

    Regards,

    Iker
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