"Weather conditions, its time to have hard wet races not just dry races with rain effects, the grip in wet tracks arent the same!"

No, No way... MotoGP 07 (Namco);  On SIM. mode has this feature, and it is awful, the only thing you can do is sliding and slipping and can't keep the damn bike on the track., forget it. as a visual effect: YES

I like this one:...

May 13, 2009 -- 6:39AM, Ronin05 wrote:

... option to have the game linked to realtime weather, so that you can race in what ever the realtime conditions of the track were for that day

Replay options: Will replays be able to be saved and shared.  Additionally will they have an option to display data (lap times, split times, telemetry, settings, etc......)?  These features were in the first 3 SBK games from EA Sports and really helped resolve a lot of "Cheating issues" because any fast time could be validated by reviewing the replay. 

1. FULL CRASH: After crashing, player has to pick up and mounts the bike, (bike suffers damage)
2. BIKE DAMAGE: Not visual but, shows a little bike icon, where the damage is. (severe damages bike cease) 
3. TIRE WEAR: Shows a little bike icon, the level of tire wear... green (good),  - yellow, - red (worn out) 
4. ENGINE FAILURE: Due improper timing gears, and such, engine cease. (DNF)
5. FALSE START: Time penalty....time added as if you rode through the pit lane to finished race total time or pops up a black flag with your number letting you know that you have to ride through the pit lane, if not you're disqualified !.
6. DISQUALIFICATION: By not following the rules...(Anti-Cheat.)

(if disqualification occurred will add penalty points to your position rank on the leader board)

Anti-Cheat example: ...

1. Your place of top Rank - #420
2. Your penalty points -       (600)
3. Your new top rank rider position will be #1020

This mathematical equations will be done by the server, so it won't be need no host or no one to do it, such as reset  or keep a watch eye for it, etc... The more you cheat the more deep down to the bottom rank you go.

Alike the real FIM rules if the rider commit a violation of the rules he will get fine from $5,000 - $200,000 and a lot more severe actions.

The next MotoGP game should bring with a second disk in the package instead of a book whereas will train the player on only one racing track the FIM ROAD RACING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GRAND PRIX REGULATIONS,  the significance of colour of flags, the meaning of the colours and other types of rules,.. etc; And also provide a section link on disk to access real time MotoGP News, Standings, and more such as real Riding Tips, Video clips of the very best passes, Video clips interviews from real MotoGP rider(s) giving an insight of their riding style and racing experiences... etc. I mean is an endless promotions Capcom can make to get fans and new comers interested.

please, don't come up with a paid VOD membership, it will kill the idea.

FRA
Regarding SBK'08 the problem is simple. Go jump on your bike and at about 30 grab a handful of brakes. Not a little and I mean just grab them full on. If your bike doesn't endo then you really need to get your brakes checked.  So in SBK'08 you grab the brakes and the bikes don't respond naturally. They are far to weak.  generally the difference between one brand of brakes and another is how progressive or agressive they are and how much feel they provide.  Stopping "power" is rarely an issue

Inregards to the weather, yeah I'm going to disagree with you here. because if you have the right tires and setup you can lean over just as far in the wet as in the dry.  I've done it. Look at the next wet MotoGP race and you see them doing it.  As I said and you seem to agree the main difference is about being smoother

Rockgod
Why does there have to be a bias towards online or offline?  I don't agree with you that "most" people play online because if that were the case it wouldn't be so hard to find races. Why does there have to be a difference? quite simply the modes should work with both.  I mean in Grid lap records can be updated from leaderboards to your game so you don't have to be online

I guess what you are trying to accomplish by online test & tune. what is the gain from doing this online as opposed to offline. In MotoGP terms that would be like doing dev test during the weekend of a race.

I don't agree that the game is hard to mold to anyone style, the problem is not giving people the options to configure the game to your liking.  From there it's people trying to dictate how others play the game.  for example I've seen lobbys where the host dictated the view perspective.  Why does it matter to you what view a person plays with?

gmontalc

it's funny most of the features you mentioned were in the EA Sports Superbike games!!!!! Why they were removed is beyond me.   the full crash feature was halarious. watching your rider run back to his bike and pick it up!!!!

I mentioned this before and glad you brought it up, I don't need it but why can't there be a real tutorial that actually teaches players what and why they are supposed to do certain things? 

How cool would it be to have real world lap record runs imported into the game and narrated by the rider that did it?    we can only dream I guess

May 14, 2009 -- 3:03PM, gmontalc wrote:

May 14, 2009 -- 2:40PM, Juho wrote:

 

Why not visual? Allmost 100% of modern racing games have visual damage and it's not like it's hard to do.
Again a simple damage / visual damage on/off button and everybody would be pleased.

First of all you have to understand the point of what we as fans want, right?

We want realistics in all aspects such as graphics, handling, including the modeling of the bikes, colours, the advertisements logos from sponsors... wait, wait right there, Uhmm?, if the bike gets damages on their logos for sure the "SPONSOR" who's perhaps is also putting some money for the development of the game won't like to see its logos ads erased. You follow?

Keep in mind everything you see in the game is pure advertisements that equals big $$$

Funny thing is that if any of the companies that protest this understand how people view things.  They would be all for it and hopefully be the ones that have the most damage since it draws attention to it and people will remember and be reminded of those sponsors stickers that keep getting damage.   Just having it sit there and look pretty doesn't really do much for people and their short memory in a racing game where their attention is focused elsewhere than a sticker.

May 14, 2009 -- 2:53PM, Ronin05 wrote:

gmontalc

it's funny most of the features you mentioned were in the EA Sports Superbike games!!!!! Why they were removed is beyond me.   the full crash feature was halarious. watching your rider run back to his bike and pick it up!!!!

I know, few weeks ago I found SBK 2001 on one old box of mine and I can't keep my hands off it !. Nice to have this feat back ON/OFF

I mentioned this before and glad you brought it up, I don't need it but why can't there be a real tutorial that actually teaches players what and why they are supposed to do certain things?

Well, new comers to MotoGP Racing will get depth info about the sport. And also will do a piece of valuable collection.

How cool would it be to have real world lap record runs imported into the game and narrated by the rider that did it?    we can only dream I guess

Agree totally, not only that, but a real couple MotoGP commentators can do that excitment as well, I like the official MotoGP commentator Nick Harry, also enjoy most greatly Eurosport's Toby and Julian.