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    Monthly Forum Discussion - April 2017 [Your Best Times in the Bunker]



    Howdy riders!

    This month’s topic for discussion is: Your Best Times in the Bunker!

    Do you remember when Zudina first taught you how to face an opponent and beat ‘em?
    This month we want you go back to your best Bunker memories, and share with us your finest racing moments in the Bunker!
    Feel free to include any recent (or old) wins or losses that were truly memorable, and if you raced a Bunker Legend that was unbeatable!

    This discussion may include any of the following –

    • Your most memorable showdown win(s)
    • If you ever became a Bunker Legend
    • Your favorite Bunker rewards so far
    • Your favorite Bunker PVP season
    • If you’ve raced against any ‘famous’ and super-difficult opponents

    Let’s stick to the simple rules -

    • Stay in topic
    • Make this discussion fun, healthy & constructive

    It’ll be exciting to know your thoughts on this topic. Let's keep the discussion going until the end of this month!

    Cheers!
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    Monthly Forum Discussion - April 2017 [Your Best Times in the Bunker]



    Howdy riders!

    This month’s topic for discussion is: Your Best Times in the Bunker!

    Do you remember when Zudina first taught you how to face an opponent and beat ‘em?
    This month we want you go back to your best Bunker memories, and share with us your finest racing moments in the Bunker!
    Feel free to include any recent (or old) wins or losses that were truly memorable, and if you raced a Bunker Legend that was unbeatable!

    This discussion may include any of the following –

    • Your most memorable showdown win(s)
    • If you ever became a Bunker Legend
    • Your favorite Bunker rewards so far
    • Your favorite Bunker PVP season
    • If you’ve raced against any ‘famous’ and super-difficult opponents

    Let’s stick to the simple rules -

    • Stay in topic
    • Make this discussion fun, healthy & constructive

    It’ll be exciting to know your thoughts on this topic. Let's keep the discussion going until the end of this month!

    Cheers!
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    I generally don't treat the seasons without new tracks as rewards too seriously. Bike paint jobs are a cool thing to have but most desired content in this game is, to my opinion, tracks. Current Scorched Season has a new bike paint job. Meh, cool to have but not vitally urgent to get it. Track is Rank 1 is the thing to hunt!

    Another cool idea for devs would be to allow to drop out of a definitively lost Showdown by using let's say 5 Golden Tickets. Maybe people want to play, not wait for another 3 hours of inveitable defeat and maybe they're ready to pay for it?
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    My best bunker memory is to not being able to play in it this month...😎
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    First memories of the bunker are the fact that my bikes were crap at that time, so i'd get to level 7/8 or so at most

    That made me lose a bit of interest, as neither me or my bikes were good enough to be competitive (as well as not having golden tickets to spare)

    I vaguely remember the blitz seasons as being frantic, with super short showdowns. As well as the first seasons having 24h showdowns

    For those first 10 seasons or so i played only up to levels where i was comfortable, and stopped when it would become too hard. Collected some chips, stacked on golden tickets. One day i would have my "revenge"

    Then, as i got a bit better and so did my bikes i started climbing up the ranks a little bit and for the last 10 seasons or so i've always made it to rank 1, and a couple of times legend, though i never bothered too much about it, and even kept my golden tickets numbers growing every season.

    I'm still no super player, but for now i keep being able to grab all the prizes i want/need and that is enough, as PVP isn't my favorite thing, but i don't mind puting a little effort in it (though i still think tracks shouldn't be at #1 reward)

    - Most memorable win was on the first season i reached rank #1, as i needed one last win and threw around 100 golden tickets on one of the swamp tracks until with about 2 minutes left i finally got it and took the win and climbed to #1

    - Became legend 2 or 3 times, but don't bother about it, usually once i get to #1 i leave it aside. only get to legend when we have a lot of free showdowns (like on this current season) and by doing the final 6 wins in a row it takes me from #3 to legend

    - Favorite bunker rewards have to be tracks, as they are the core of the game, but also a lot of cool PJ's and Outfits have been given too. (did i already say that tracks shouldn't be given at #1 ? )

    - Favorite season was one (no idea about the name in case that is what you're asking -also because the names usually don't mean anything in concrete-) where i got to legend without losing a single showdown and even had to beat a couple of legends on the way -who didn't offer me the win at all-

    - Never raced againt any famous rider as i usually don't play at the very begin of the season, to avoid the "sharks" and once i get to #1 i stop playing, so not very likely to be put up against one of them top legends
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    Most tough opponent i had faced is SamboPiter in "Tough Love Season" (i think he's named dprotect here, or i might be wrong). I was pretty confident that i will take "Icy Foothills" as i have top 100 there, but my greediness made me pretend for 2nd map and he took all of them It was the first time i was matched to play vs a legend even tho i have never been there until current season.

    PS: I still believe that some of the matched opponents are not real (my opinion), but scripted ghosts of real (or auto generated) players.

    gg SamboPiter!
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    Originally Posted by rawmantick Go to original post
    Another cool idea for devs would be to allow [players] to drop out of a definitively lost Showdown
    This is a good idea for sure!
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    ohhh i see two years ago i played season #1.
    everything was new. blinky donkey blueprints in the prizes table wohoho. what a time
    http://trialstrackmap.sb-f.de/seasons.html

    collecting goldentickets was at season one not limited, you was able to collect over 30 per day, that was really good.
    also to collect the donkey blueprints over 4 seasons was a really good experience with the bunker.

    gettin often into the legend league, but inside there is no sense to gettin first. its more releaxing and perfect to let level 1/2 guys into this league.

    my best experience was, i had a lot of golden tickets, the showdown limit was unlimited, i was at level 14, i started so much showdowns that i gettin in one day into the legends.
    i made screenshots of this run, ohh glory time

    another good memory was that i get due a glitch "traction testground" as one of the first guys.

    here some suggestions:
    * make a "let's go" button before the run starts, often i start a showdown, the spinner spins and spins, i lookin into the world, look back on the phone, ohhh 30sec shows the timer and i stand still at the first checkpoint
    * make a chat into the bunker, communication for ping pong was very usefull
    * the overview of the showdowns isn't perfect, there is left and right so much unused space. the problem is i start 6 showdowns, go into the last, go back, the list scrolls every time to the first
    * some new bunker tracks like "bunnyhop", "sinecity" or "hill climb"
    * make the bunker tracks available on trackmap
    * add new tracks to the chip shop
    * new blitz seasons, instead of extend a season that was expired!

    cheers and thanks a lot for this game!
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    Chat in bunker would be amazing, but RL would never allow it.
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    Dprotect is a friend of mine. He's real lol, and yes very good. No doubt. I have not had the privilege of racing him in the bunker yet.
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    @rawmantick - indeed, it’s fun and rewarding to have tracks as rewards. I think Bike paint jobs and costumes help you define your in-game persona. We’ve been hearing of this suggestion of dropping out of a super-tough ‘lost’ Showdown as well. It seems fine at first, but we’ll figure out if it’s going to be feasible and fair. You’ll know if and when we go ahead with this suggestion.

    @Sl1mboy84_T3F - Ah, we know what you’re talking about. We’re working on this problem and we’ll let you know when this gets resolved. Please try re-logging workaround until then!

    @PTChatKillerTFG- Thanks for sharing your interesting point-of-view and your Bunker stories! We’ll try and give more tracks as much as possible in upcoming PvP seasons, maybe at lower ranks than 1 also.
    Never raced againt any famous rider as i usually don't play at the very begin of the season, to avoid the "sharks" and once I get to #1 I stop playing, so not very likely to be put up against one of them top legends
    I’m sure you could be one of the legends that players fear to race against too!

    @KrazFTW – I hope SamboPiter reads this post, you’ve surely made his day! Also, the opponents are pretty real – they are players who are matched against you depending on several factors like your inventory, the time of starting the showdown, your level, etc. Sometimes, some players might seem unbeatable due to their practice and knowledge of the tracks you race on. Keep racin’ is what I’d say!

    @dutscher-DE
    my best experience was, i had a lot of golden tickets, the showdown limit was unlimited, i was at level 14, i started so much showdowns that i gettin in one day into the legends.
    Sounds like a lot of fun!

    Your suggestions are pretty cool too – Chatting in the Bunker has been discussed quite a few times, but it may be a little difficult for us to do at this point. The game already acquires a lot of server space due to the LB data, ghosts etc., and chats would only add to it, so yeah, this discussion has been doing the rounds here. Thumbs up for all the other suggestions though, you’ll know if any of them makes it to the game.
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    @rawmantick - indeed, it’s fun and rewarding to have tracks as rewards. I think Bike paint jobs and costumes help you define your in-game persona. We’ve been hearing of this suggestion of dropping out of a super-tough ‘lost’ Showdown as well. It seems fine at first, but we’ll figure out if it’s going to be feasible and fair. You’ll know if and when we go ahead with this suggestion.

    @Sl1mboy84_T3F - Ah, we know what you’re talking about. We’re working on this problem and we’ll let you know when this gets resolved. Please try re-logging workaround until then!

    @PTChatKillerTFG- Thanks for sharing your interesting point-of-view and your Bunker stories! We’ll try and give more tracks as much as possible in upcoming PvP seasons, maybe at lower ranks than 1 also.
    Never raced againt any famous rider as i usually don't play at the very begin of the season, to avoid the "sharks" and once I get to #1 I stop playing, so not very likely to be put up against one of them top legends
    I’m sure you could be one of the legends that players fear to race against too!

    @KrazFTW – I hope SamboPiter reads this post, you’ve surely made his day! Also, the opponents are pretty real – they are players who are matched against you depending on several factors like your inventory, the time of starting the showdown, your level, etc. Sometimes, some players might seem unbeatable due to their practice and knowledge of the tracks you race on. Keep racin’ is what I’d say!

    @dutscher-DE
    my best experience was, i had a lot of golden tickets, the showdown limit was unlimited, i was at level 14, i started so much showdowns that i gettin in one day into the legends.
    Sounds like a lot of fun!

    Your suggestions are pretty cool too – Chatting in the Bunker has been discussed quite a few times, but it may be a little difficult for us to do at this point. The game already acquires a lot of server space due to the LB data, ghosts etc., and chats would only add to it, so yeah, this discussion has been doing the rounds here. Thumbs up for all the other suggestions though, you’ll know if any of them makes it to the game.
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