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    xitooner's Avatar Senior Member
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    Biggest travesties of the current Frontier release....

    Would like to hear eveyone elses opinions of what is bothering them about the current release..... below are mine:

    1) Glitched track/global leaderboards.
    Examples... boggle44 has 2 BILLION in the global leaderboards. Ardentification has 12 seconds on the Ghost Town track...6 seconds better than everyone else is simply not posible....and he simply disappears when you race him. Is it really that hard to find/remove these guys? You do realize that if you take them off and KEEP them off (hell, spotting these guys simply isnt that hard for you) then they will soon stop doing this, right?

    2) ANBA bugs and lack of variety.
    ANBA chooses to repeatedly pit you against glitched opponents like the above, whom you can never beat. When he isnt doing that, he just keeps repeating the same 5-6 tracks over and over. You have 77 tracks out there RL... cant you do a little better?

    3) ANBA 10-gem cost to skip opponents.
    This used to be 1-gem; this is highway robbery, especially when you take incredibly high frequency of just getting the same track (possibly glitched) over and over again into account. We are paying heavily to skip YOUR issues, RL!

    4) Those d*mn Berzerker blueprints are rare as hens teeth.
    One chance for a piece every 12 ANBA opponents sounds like the current frequency. . . hey maybe its better. . .I wouldn't know since I have to skip half the opponents. . .all I know is. . . I have a slim chance to get one when they rarely do show up, and I cant afford to use gems to increase my chances because I must use all my gems for the 10-gem ANBA opponent skip cost. I'm not getting that bike anytime in the next couple of months.


    5) Local scoring versus Leaderboard scoring.
    This is such a simple thing to fix... dont know why its been there since day 1. Basically. . . . the leader boards are sorted by number of faults FIRST... then time. Thats the way it should be. . . .but my "best" personal score is anything with the lowest time, regardless of how many faults. So my 0 faults 24 seconds shows up on the leaderboards... but 2 faults in 22 seconds is my local score off the leaderboards, and is what ANBA uses for picking opponents. . . . The only way to get local and leaderboard back in sync is to beat my time-with-faults... in my faultless run. There shouldn't BE two ways of scoring to begin with. There cant be too many places where scoring in calculated/compared.. just use the same algorithm, for gods sake.
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    Personally I still think the biggest problem is the cost of gas. Its frustrates me so much that you can only play two tier 3 tracks every hour and thats only if you skip the slot machine. When you combine that with the quest requirements that have you playing tracks over and over just to hope you get the spin that gets you the part you need is infuriating. For example. Lets say you have a quest that requires you to fetch a single tier 5 part. If you are INSANELY lucky you would have to play a tier 3 track 9 times in order to get the minimum amount of spins to get all the pieces you need to craft that part. This equates to over 4 hours of waiting for your gas to refill to be able to play those tracks. The reality is its going to take WAY more runs to get those parts. If you decided to target tier 2 parts to craft you would still be insanely lucky to only need 27 runs to get the required parts. That's still around 190 gas which equals 9 and half hours of waiting.

    Now we all know you can pay some real money to get a little bit more playing time but most of us dont want to spend money for only a limited amount of extra time. If you gave us an option to pay some money for infinite playtime i think most people here wouldnt object.

    Outside of that I agree with all your points. Especially the 1-2 combo of having ANBA set people up against unbeatable opponents and then having the nerve to ask for 10 gems to get matched up with someone else which is possibly the same unbeatable opponent on another track.
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    Having hackers/glitchers in the leaderboards, after all that has been said about it, means either the devs don't care OR they are trying to fix the CORE issues with the game.

    ANBA is still such a pain. Same 5-6 tracks, 10 gems to skip. I don't want to keep trying to improve my time by .25 seconds.

    Can't complain about Berserker.

    The entire GAS part needs to go away.
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    it also needs to be noted how SLEAZY it is that they have the nerve to swap the locations of the Full Refill and Tiny Tank Upgrade.
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    Oh, I forgot one of my favorite travesties......

    UPGRADE TIMES
    A trials developer said here that we could expect to see reduction in the high-end upgrade times:
    http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...de#post9952349

    After the update.... I've seen ZERO evidence that upgrade times are more reasonable at any level; unless someone thinks 5-7 days for an upgrade is reasonable. . . .
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    How much does it cost to skip a 5 day upgrade wait?
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    Originally Posted by sriskus Go to original post
    How much does it cost to skip a 5 day upgrade wait?
    I dont remember myself... it falls in the category of "too much to consider" so I dont look closely most of the time.

    However, I just started a single level 6 upgrade on my bronco, which is a 48 hours upgrade... and the gem cost is 91 to skip. So its fair to say that 5 days is almost certainly 200-300, or more. Anyone else have something more accurate?
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    so probably 5-10 dollars per upgrade at that point. A lot of people would think $10 for a completely upgraded bike is too spendy but these guys are thinking its a deal just to upgrade a single part. i just mean a single upgrade. not a maxed part upgrade. its not like for 10 bucks you are getting a fully upgraded engine. you will have to pay again to upgrade the engine to the next level.
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    Pros of Frontier:
    it's the first decent handling and looking motorbike game on iOS, great job. Feel like Trials in my hands...until...

    Cons:
    Fuel system goes against the Trials idea of play play play to get better. Takes an age to get fuel back.
    Spinning wheel: it's a joke to win some of the harder matches just to spin a level 1 piece of chain...they should have made it so gold medal guarantees or nearly guarantees success;
    ANBA: skipping at 10 gems is a joke;
    Upgrades: waaay too long, and waaay to expensive;
    LBs: he who has decent skill but the best bike wins...wasn't Trials about a level playing field. doh.
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    LerryJawler's Avatar Senior Member
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    I just realized $20 gets you only 10 hours of unlimited play time. What a steal err I mean deal?
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