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    Re: Many ideas from a player and a creator - please consider

    - Don't have to be friend to share tracks. Its frustrating to have to use the computer to find people to share with!

    - Replays of top times for the custom tracks. (Very limited replays would be fine, I would only need to see the top 20-50, so nowhere near the current 4999 would be needed, which I assume would save valuable space)

    - Better Track organization - Organize the tracks by a LOCKED user name and creator. No one needs to download my track and rename it! Its my name and I liked it! Also, I don't have enough room to make a name for the level and give myself credit. That should be two different slots. One for creator, and one for the name of the track.

    - Rate the tracks. If you find a way to get around the friends thing a make a better system for sharing custom tracks, a rating system for the the tracks would be great. Even if that system was online for instance, I wouldn't mind looking through the tracks Ive played and posting a comment and/or rating the track. I would like to see the rating system have more than one dimension also, such as 'EYE APPEAL, FLOW, DOES THE USER CREATED TIMES/SKILL REQ. MATCH THE LEVELS ACTUAL DIFFICULTY?'. Maybe you could find a way to post the leader-boards on your site as well, for all tracks, custom and not. You could have something that shows how many times it has been dl'ed and the creation date, creator, etc.

    I know it sounds like I'm saying you need to create an additional website to do all this, but I think it wouldn't be all that difficult, as long as it wasn't taken too far.

    Track sharing is quite a pain in the butt! If all the hassle of needing to be friends first was done away with, more tracks could be shared with a much wider audience. I have to request the friend, have room on my list in the first place. If they accept, or even exist anymore, then I can download the tracks and show him mine. It would be great if you did a whole remake of the track sharing setup. Its frustrating, for me and my girlfriend (who needs her computer for school work) that I need to be on the computer and my xbox to find custom tracks or to have mine actually be played by more than my 5 friends that play trials. Maybe you could allow tracks to be uploaded to a central database anyone can access.

    We definitely need more than just the name of the track, especially because this can be changed and then spread around without the creator getting his credit, or worse yet, someone else taking false credit! If there was some kind of organized system to share tracks and to have people rate them, it would give me much more incentive to go all out and make some crazy tracks with a lot of detail and new ideas!

    I would love a track of the day feature, where a highly rated track is made available for dl, and have a direct way to access that track, so it wouldn't be a pain to get it.

    I have also read some posts about getting some avatar gear for achievements. This would be so great! I would bust my butt to get any achievement I didn't have, and you could make some harder ones to get the really good stuff! It would actually give me some interest in my avatar! LoL I don't really care for avatar gear or items, but if you made some cool TRIALS stuff, I would def. get it and slap it on there ASAP!

    I fell in love with this game from day one, and have not stopped playing it since the day I downloaded it. I continue to strive to beat my old records and have a lot of fun creating my own crazy tracks. I'm not saying the game is bad in ANY way, but I am suggesting some things that I think would make it much more fun. I could ramble on all day with ideas for this game, and the level creator/share system, so I'm gonna shut up now. Unless you're hiring.... LoL but seriously... if you are... call me!
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    I am also EXTREMELY sick and tired of never being able to place highly on the leaderboards, bc the top 50 spots are taken by glitchers! Ok, you hit the ground really hard and bounced back up a little higher than normal... thats fine! I dont mind that, we can all do that randomly or purposely. Its the glitchers, especially on Down the Hill, that all have 204-206 because they hit that are between the crates at the bottom or the stuck themselves behind a sign on the wall. Its a million to one shot that anyone will be able to do that again, and even if they could, what fun is that? I want to compete for a good score, but on a fair scoreboard! Please follow through with the 'system you put in place' to stop these people from dominating the leaderboards! Also, glitches within replays are very annoying! I have no idea how the top players of FLUGTAG or a few other games did as well as they did, bc the replay has them all crashing or not completing their runs!
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    editor glitch fixed, thank you redlynx. this is huge for alot of us so it is much appreciated. keep up the good work
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    Originally Posted by xDeeTeRx
    I am also EXTREMELY sick and tired of never being able to place highly on the leaderboards, bc the top 50 spots are taken by glitchers! Ok, you hit the ground really hard and bounced back up a little higher than normal... thats fine! I dont mind that, we can all do that randomly or purposely. Its the glitchers, especially on Down the Hill, that all have 204-206 because they hit that are between the crates at the bottom or the stuck themselves behind a sign on the wall. Its a million to one shot that anyone will be able to do that again, and even if they could, what fun is that? I want to compete for a good score, but on a fair scoreboard!
    Contrary to your statement, huge majority of the tracks do not have any glitchers on top of their leaderboards. I agree that Down the Stairs requires lots of luck, if you want to have a perfect score. However it's entirely possible to have a perfect score without exploiting a glitch. If you check out other physics damage based games, such as Pain (on PS3) or Stair Dismount (on PC) you notice that all of the best scores in this genre of games require some kind of lucky exploit. When you have a million of players competing against each other, someone always gets lucky. And that's fine for us, as long as you do not cheat in any way.

    Originally Posted by xDeeTeRx
    Please follow through with the 'system you put in place' to stop these people from dominating the leaderboards!
    We have removed all cheated scores from the leaderboards, and we will continue to do so in the future as well. However we do not consider Down the Stairs physics glitch a cheat.

    Originally Posted by xDeeTeRx
    Also, glitches within replays are very annoying! I have no idea how the top players of FLUGTAG or a few other games did as well as they did, bc the replay has them all crashing or not completing their runs!
    Flugtag and a few other tracks (Logsplosive, Classic) used to have huge amount of completely broken replays. We fixed this issue in a patch, but many of the replays in the leaderboard are older than the patch. New replays work much better. Unfortunately Flugtag is not that popular skill game. Many players play it only a few times to reach a good score, and never play it again. We do not want to delete anyone's score just because it has a glitched replay, unless we have evidence that the player has cheated.
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    I think that the"u dont have 2 be someones friend 2 play their tracks"is a good idea but i wouldnt know if 2 download a track or not cuz i woulndnt have any idea what it looks like.It would be cool to have like a weekly most popular map thing but have a different track each week so that just one track isnt up for like 3 weeks.Just sayin.
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    be good to see if numbered checkpoints can be made to enable you to place a checkpoint behind a previous one. i.e even if you have been past a checkpoint (say number 5) it wont activate until you have passed the previous numbered checkpoint (4) first and then wen you pass 5 again it will activate, this will allow you to create a lot more backwards roots without having to come forward miles before you get to a checkpoint
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    Originally Posted by smeghead89
    be good to see if numbered checkpoints can be made to enable you to place a checkpoint behind a previous one. i.e even if you have been past a checkpoint (say number 5) it wont activate until you have passed the previous numbered checkpoint (4) first and then wen you pass 5 again it will activate, this will allow you to create a lot more backwards roots without having to come forward miles before you get to a checkpoint
    Thats not a bad idea but(not to be an a$$)how does that fit into this discussion.Seriously not tryin 2 be an a$$.
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    Originally Posted by Trialsaddict
    Originally Posted by smeghead89
    be good to see if numbered checkpoints can be made to enable you to place a checkpoint behind a previous one. i.e even if you have been past a checkpoint (say number 5) it wont activate until you have passed the previous numbered checkpoint (4) first and then wen you pass 5 again it will activate, this will allow you to create a lot more backwards roots without having to come forward miles before you get to a checkpoint
    Thats not a bad idea but(not to be an a$$)how does that fit into this discussion.Seriously not tryin 2 be an a$$.
    yeah my bad I guess thats my problem not paying attention and reading things properly before opening my big mouth I thought this was for suggestions about any new ideas for upgrades or a new big pack for instence, dont worry you not being an *** - sounds like its me being an ***
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    Dont get me wrong,really any message will fit anywhere in these forums.
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    Re: Track sharing and global leaderboards discussion -Hot Topic!

    i have something else that doesn't rly fit into this discussion but im gonna say it anyway. I'd like to see it possible to upload your own music sound tracks to your custom tracks or your own sound effects etc. be so cool if you could make a film tribute track and could use the theme tune from the film or something or even a particular line from the film would be awsome
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