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    Homescreen banner thing change?

    The "homescreen banner thing" still warns users of servers going to be down for 2 hours but it's from February of this year. Now that there is a new update and DLC coming out I though it might be worth an ask to change it to something else, I have a few suggestions.

    Right now it says: "The servers will be offline for maintenance on 11.02.15. This maintenance is estimated to last 2 hours.

    Perhaps it could announce every time someone gets a new world record or every time custom track being added to the Featured list on track central. Maybe you guys could think of something better, just thought it might be worth putting the idea out there
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    XB1 by the way, might be different on other platforms...
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    I think it would be pretty cool if it anounced a new world record ever time one got beat
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    Maybe a shout-out to visit the forums and mention the web address? Get more involvement I'd imagine.

    Also could cycle in some tips about secret squirrel locations.
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    same on PS4, btw.

    Also, maybe a little off topic, but everytime I log on to the game, I get 30something "new" notifications saying "soandso reached driver level 50 -5months ago" or "someoneoranother built a new track -3months ago". I "read" them, they appear as "not new", next time I log on, they're there again
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    Community dashboard incoming with next weeks update

    And +1 to fixing the notification feed!
    Real shame having such a nice feature completely ignored because it is always broke
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    Originally Posted by skycamefalling84 Go to original post
    same on PS4, btw.

    Also, maybe a little off topic, but everytime I log on to the game, I get 30something "new" notifications saying "soandso reached driver level 50 -5months ago" or "someoneoranother built a new track -3months ago". I "read" them, they appear as "not new", next time I log on, they're there again
    So annoying how this always happens.
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    Anyone would have thought sorting the banner and mending the notifications would have been on the previous update , being they gave the whole game a facelift. Seems daft to leave broken things broke to bring down the work they just did. I guess though this might be an actually really hard thing to fix , and have given time to easier things in the previous updates. Only reasonable explination for it i think.

    Im not too fussed about others world records , this would only help around 10% of the games players so really something that would suit a bigger percentage is an ideal thing to do. More about the teams and tournaments would be good , leaders and so forth. notifications about the best rated track of each month all time and so forth would be cool but they would need to sort out the extremes from just taking the high spots due to the masses unable to complete them and and give a true rating score.

    This deffo needs to be fixed or just taking from the game completely , it no use to anyone broke and just annoys the hell out of me hahaha and makes the dashboard and everything else look messy and unprofessional.
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    The new homescreen news is a nice overhaul as it keeps people who aren't forum goers up to date easier directly ingame.

    But the red notifications in the topleft and the yellow ! icons on the garage keep coming back on PC as well.
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    Agreed the news things are cool I definitely don't like all the rainbow stuff feels like I'm playing carebears or hello kitty.

    Isn't this supposed to be rough and rugged type of game where and when did this fruity rainbows come in.

    All I'm saying is I miss the old background
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