There's a lot of great tracks on track central. A lot go unnoticed or are forgotten about shortly due to the vast quantities of tracks. It's not an entirely bad thing as it makes way for newer tracks, but how could older tracks be kept alive rather than dying out after a few weeks?
Here's my idea. For every custom track that you're currently in first on, you receive a special medal, or a trophy, or something. These could be totaled up on your profile and other players could see a list of every custom track where you control the special medal/trophy/whatever. From there, they can also download and play any track on that list. A new leaderboard could also be added to rank everyone on how many of these awards they currently have. If someone beats your score on a track, you lose the award for that track and now the other player possesses it. There could be notifications to inform you of when you've lost control of a track so that you can try to take it back. Or maybe you'd go to the profile of the player who stole the track from you and steal a different one from their list.
Pretty simple really. Maybe it could go even further than just who can horde the most of these awards by giving rewards for taking them in the way of exp, maybe new outfits unlocking after collecting so many, something like that. I'm not good at coming up with rewards. Still, with proper incentive, I think this could help drive competition on custom tracks, allow players another way to discover new tracks (even if they were made months ago), help keep bringing traffic to older tracks while also retaining traffic to newer tracks, and maybe just get players to interact with each other's content and each other a little more.
I know that this may be a little farfetched for Fusion since it's already released, but just throwing it out there anyways. Any thoughts?
I agree with what your saying, and I do like your idea too.
But I feel that a change as drastic as that will see no light in a game that has already been released
There are other ways to get the results your looking for however - my idea which I just came up with after reading your post, is to come up with a "Show me something new" button.
A button like this will ensure that at least one or two people maybe even per week will download your track and play it. Although you wont see that track rise up in the 48hr feed, they could potentially do it in a particular tag you have used![]()
Being able to see what tracks your high ranked on would be cool, but rewards is a very delicate issue.
I don't like the idea of getting most of those "rewards", as it will no doubt lead to some people spamming tracks.
PC TC top feed is right now this week already done to death on "mini ninjas" more then 20 in the feed right now with screenshots of floating obstacles and no background, some arent even rated extreme difficulty.
And it pisses me off.
There's been great ninjas being made with actual effort/theme etc but those aren't, and spammed by the same few guys each having 3-5 of those tracks in 1 week.
Right now TC has 2 major issues going on , partially linked to the limits of the search function & feed sizes.
1 - Tracks getting lost in the void is one big problem right now, either after 7 days they drop out of the feeds, or by #2. (track difficulty search only searches for the highest rated 7 x 15 pages = 105 tracks per criteria) and no way to sort them by time period.
2 - Feeds getting spammed is another big problem and part of the cause of the first, tracks drop out of the top feeds if half the feed is full of floating obstacle ninjas that are somehow still getting high votes. Having a few of those is fine, not 20 in 1 week.
Anyhow people are free to upload tracks, but please keep in mind quality > quantity anyday.
This is the reason why so many have brought up putting a cap on sharing tracks per day. Unfortunately there isn't any way to control the quantity people can share, so no matter how amazing a track, it's a gamble to post it because there's no telling when people will spam TC.Originally Posted by TeriXeri Go to original post
This doesn't mean I disagree with adding a rewardbut you gotta be careful, something like what you said will be abused on short, easy to run tracks simply to gain more medals quickly.