guest track

[CTG]

if you're all okay with a random-ish track with very few bridge corners and no roads on water, I'll do it.

Bonzai Joe for president!

[CTG]

I wonder how many of us used to build competition tracks for certain planned tricks & shortcuts.

[zaqrack]

During my 11,7 years as a competition pipsqueak I've designed three competition tracks, and they all sucked. Especially with the car bonus system, it's not going to be realistically possible for me to design a good track, but if you're all okay with a random-ish track with very few bridge corners and no roads on water, I'll do it.

yes please

[zaqrack]

I wonder how many of us used to build competition tracks for certain planned tricks & shortcuts.

not me!

[CTG]

I wonder how many of us used to build competition tracks for certain planned tricks & shortcuts.

not me!

That was obvious, Ayrton's replays in 2008 were too surprising.

[Duplode]

During my 11,7 years as a competition pipsqueak I've designed three competition tracks, and they all sucked. Especially with the car bonus system, it's not going to be realistically possible for me to design a good track, but if you're all okay with a random-ish track with very few bridge corners and no roads on water, I'll do it.

As far as I remember Z84 was a rather nice track... 

Once upon a time I intended to prepare a guest track for October; after several nights of being able to count hours of sleep with fingers of one hand, however, I can't guarantee I will be able to stay awake long enough at night to produce a decent track. Therefore, all power to BJ!

[BonzaiJoe]

I wonder how many of us used to build competition tracks for certain planned tricks & shortcuts.

Mark L. Rivers certainly did. I also did, on Debrecen, USC 2003.

[CTG]

I wonder how many of us used to build competition tracks for certain planned tricks & shortcuts.

Mark L. Rivers certainly did. I also did, on Debrecen, USC 2003.

Me too, USC/USL 2003-2011. Not so big tricks anyway, just some nice track element combos (like loop-small left-short tunnel-small right or loop-small left-banked right), so I would rather call it planned driving line.

[zaqrack]

During my 11,7 years as a competition pipsqueak I've designed three competition tracks, and they all sucked. Especially with the car bonus system, it's not going to be realistically possible for me to design a good track, but if you're all okay with a random-ish track with very few bridge corners and no roads on water, I'll do it.

As far as I remember Z84 was a rather nice track... 

Once upon a time I intended to prepare a guest track for October; after several nights of being able to count hours of sleep with fingers of one hand, however, I can't guarantee I will be able to stay awake long enough at night to produce a decent track. Therefore, all power to BJ!

I need one more guest track for December though

[Duplode]

I wonder how many of us used to build competition tracks for certain planned tricks & shortcuts.

Mark L. Rivers certainly did. I also did, on Debrecen, USC 2003.

Me too, USC/USL 2003-2011. Not so big tricks anyway, just some nice track element combos (like loop-small left-short tunnel-small right or loop-small left-banked right), so I would rather call it planned driving line.

Planned driving line, that's it really. I guess such practices are only evil if the shortcut is completely non-obvious.

(My tracks are often built like that, too: start from an rococo sector with a racing line which looks clever on paper, then build a track around it - then realize that it sucks and proceed to simplify the whole mess until it becomes drivable. In fact, I would say that is my main weakness as a designer, at least for tracks with shortcuts - such a method works much better with IRC tracks.)

I need one more guest track for December though

Good to know 

[CTG]

How about having every second track delivered by a guest designer?

You can apply for:
ZCT133 (August)
ZCT135 (October)
ZCT137 (December)

I need one more guest track for December though

Good to know 

It's not a new announcement anyway...

[CTG]

My tracks are often built like that, too: start from an rococo sector with a racing line which looks clever on paper, then build a track around it - then realize that it sucks and proceed to simplify the whole mess until it becomes drivable.

Sounds quite familiar, suffered from the same problem 8-10 years ago. Especially when formerly unknown and unbelievable tricks appeared in the Golden Era.

[BonzaiJoe]

So, how do you make a good track?

[CTG]

So, how do you make a good track?

1, Open Stunts
2, Click on Tracks sign
3, Pick the new track option

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193, Save it

[CTG]

So, how do you make a good track?

I hope it will be a really good one. At least as good as ZCT 134!