Since TS 1.04 recording races is possible and fast laps can be cutted to short replays.
So far, i always tried to improve my skill by own development (not asking others for tricks or how to drive a car or a track etc.) and so far that worked very well. I found out all tricks by myself so far or people told something without i asked them for example. As you can see, i like to gain the honor of _improving_ by myself without others help (that's typical for me). And this part, the time of improving, although it can sometimes take nervy hundrets of laps (like it was the case for the great newcomer Slider Valttu) before finding out the best line, is a real pleasure to me and it is distancing me from others.
And i want to give new drivers also the chance to find out all TS stuff, tricks, driving lines by their own, since only this can show them and others their own improving-skill. So, in the normal case, i never tell people, how they have to drive until they are asking me - then i am a fair teacher and try to give correct answers, anyway if they are sometimes not very useful ^^
So, when people ask, if i brake with EasySlider and i say, that "i am doing it not, normally", then they might be influenced and start/keep driving without braking with EasySlider.
By the way, I started EasySlider with braking often in TS 0.84, but soon i prefered driving without braking, like i did with speeder. But someday other people got too quick with braking with speeder, so i had to skip driving my speeder-slide-lines and get used to the brake.
With EasySlider, drivers are for my luck not too good yet, with braking (Silcir, colt are using the brake occasionly, Tijny maybe too) - i don't use the brake actually, since it is normally not really visible less fast and only 3 keys are to hit -> that's much easier with the arrow keys
Okay, back to the topic...
So far people could learn lines by their own OR they watched other people driving.
I am a driver which does not like to show special tricks in tracks, which others do not know, as long i have the record in the track...
For example: taking shortcuts or bouncing at trees or somewhere else
Note: in TS 1.00 default tracks there is no real "shortcut"
The same, Tijny seems to do
(he will know what i mean). It's kind of protecting the own driving line and the fear of others which could watch the record-line. OR it is the wish, like i spoke of, to give others the chance to find out the right line by their own.Now, with the possibility to record laps, bad and good players can learn from better drivers' laps by
a) recording the other's driver lap while driving in the same race or spectating the race
and b) by downloading replays of good drivers
I think, it will now be much harder to protect it, that other people can watch your line and improve their skill by it. For newbies that's nice and also meant for - if they wish to improve by that and not totally by their own skill...
So, very good laps will be anyway catched by raceopponents, who like to have those fast laps examples of good drivers...
Now my question is:
Should lap records be possible as download?
Or should only average fast laps exist as download as kind of help to average or slow drivers?
Since lap records or kind equal laps (not far from the record) are sometimes a hard work for recordholders, example: LaTuska Minileap Slider 9.784.
I drove 9.833 where ~9.81x was possible and with much luck 9.79x would be reachable, but later i saw that i drove a 9.85x (or another high 9.8x) with driving over the grass in last corner, although i thought that cut would be too slow. Now i do not really know which way is faster - maybe i just ruined a great lap with that grasslap
)LaTuska found the best line out, i think. Maybe his line is much different from mine or others (Valttu, Ammo...) but who knows.
In my opinion LaTuska has driven the track just a bit too often - but - in combination with great skill and motivation to get the best slider in the group Demo of the record server or just to keep the record in MiniLeap.
But my question is: wouldn't it be kind unfair against LaTuska to show others his lap (line)? (Yes, there does not exist a video of his lap
, but anyway)I have or had for example in some tracks some deciding tricks, which helped me to be faster than all others and sometimes it need many hundret laps experimentation time to find out, that the "trick" is really a trick.
Well, I still think there are plenty of fast lines at forestry, Mike, I just need to fine one ;D
