Feels like multipliers should be turned off within Block Party areas similar to Spot Battles, or at least reset when a new round starts, to prevent x4's during the countdown going into the round.

One and done for me. Need to be more about bringing players together than competition. Just devolved into trickliners running up high scores, a million people in your way so you can barely see where you're going and yeah, not sure who on earth the 'Ollie near players' round is supposed to appeal to either.

so there are many problems with this game mode:

 1. you can stack up the multipliers and points and have a headstart on everyone                                                                                                               2. glitches sadly wins these block parties
3. trickliners have a major advantage, there is almost no chance for casuals to get top  1-3 (getting free tix for the tasks etc.)
4. the game gets really laggy to the point where its unplayable
5. sometimes the tricks arent registering, there is no chance to get a decent score if this happens 
6. there is no info when these are happening, it just appears on the screen and thats not really a good thing
7. sometimes the time between the spots is just to little
8. we wanted game of skate etc. 

I genuinely hate that I'm about to be so negative about something in this game because I love it so much - but this is literally the total polar opposite of what I play this game for. The skill expression is minimal because "Manual + Do every flip trick in the game while holding it" is literally so easy any new player can do it in an hour. It incentivises all of the most frustrating behaviours you see in the game. 

I play this game for a mostly cooperative experience, focusing on creativity, skill expression or classic hard-headed human perseverance. 

I totally get why this was made, there's a ton of people pestering the devs for PvP modes, but the vibes are totally off here. The meetups should just be purely optional player collaboration areas, maybe you just pull up to watch what people get up to, maybe you hunt for clips that have lots of people in... you know, just to get people moving about the city and trying out new things. I've found competition doesn't bring out the best in people and it definitely didn't bring out the best in me when I was playing it. 

Like I said, I hate to have such negative feedback because it's a cool idea and a lot of work has probably gone into it, but I gotta keep it 100 and hope that these words aren't taken the wrong way 😓

I love block parties so far. Initial feedback:

1. Making normal players win this for Tix is "a choice". Gonna leave a lot of people out that way. Even coming in top 3 will be challenging for many.

2. Block parties seem to conflict directly with people building interesting quickdrop spots in a lot of popular locations. It might be wise in the future to have block party servers, where we choose whether to connect to a block party server or not, given the cost.

3. It would be nice to have a shortcut that appears on the map to move focus to the block party location when one is active.

4. Let's get some ridiculous launch objects we can use to quickly reach and thus make use of rooftop parks for block parties. Or at least "elevators" on all the skyscrapers that have parks.

Fun mode; good work so far. Hail skatin'.

I feel like I'm about to echo most sentiments here but it's a fun mode that brings back spots on the map that I've otherwise forgotten about but with some major overlooks in its mechanics.

Firstly, it wasn't what I was expecting, but I did enjoy it.

What I was expecting was a much longer time in each area of the map - so it almost felt like real life with friends where you have a bunch of stuff to do (say at Rolling Waves) and then after 15 minutes IRL you say to your friends "eh we're bored, lets move to a new spot".
The game every 15 mins or so just moves the spot, and gives everyone a bunch of new things to do. Kinda like a glorified OTL (or like how skate weekend worked for each day, just faster)

That said, with the mode we have now... here's feedback on that specifically:

Being able to start and keep a score multi before the "trick" based task runs begin is a really obvious and bad idea. It then doesn't reward skill in the time limit you have, but instead is just "who did the most stuff when we were idle" and carried a 4x multi into it.

Some of the tasks/competitions to do don't feel extremely well balanced or thought out.

Longest nose manual for a challenge isn't so much about "who can balance the longest", it's just "who can get the most speed at the start before the timer starts, to carry that speed so you don't slow down to a stop".
Most spins in a bowl - I actually thing is good, especially as there's skill here with prewinding - this actually rewards player skill.
Longest grinds - its a tough one, every player has their own settings, people on 0 assist vs 100 assist means there is no balancing between players. 

Settings wise, I think its another one where the game needs some sort of uniformity for settings when you're asking for PvP.

If you're asking players to ollie up onto higher ledges and get lots of grinds, it's not fair that someone with 0 pop height and 0 grind assist is going up against someone with 100/100 for example.

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Lastly, not my idea, but it sounds fun - some sort of team based version of this where you can queue with friends would be nice.
Like we have with the real X Games? Group A is in the lead vs Group B.

THPS does stuff like painting the spots where you have got best scores or lines.
Might be fun as a group to see them painted red vs blue (or whatever).
You could even be put into the fictional skate crews in the game like DaKs.

5. If scores toward each round were more specific, the changes between rounds would be a little more impactful. E.g., when the goal is total handplant score or total grind score, meta is to do 1 maybe two handplants / grinds and then transition into manual chain spam to make that sequence including the grind / handplant worth as many points as possible (or glitch but I'm ignoring glitches). If the game only counted the grind / handplant part of our sequence, people would actually be pressured to hit lots of long grinds / handplants during the grind / handplant challenge, instead.

6. I'd love to see "number of unique tricks" as a round goal.

7. It would be cool to be able to start custom block parties on command that require preregistration and do not appear for unregistered players. Participants of the block party would not be able to place QDOs or see non-participant QDOs; this means they would not block the use of the map from other people. This would also allow for customization of settings that get mixed feedback, such as entering rounds with your multiplier, or requiring specific settings to be used (I personally prefer the anarchy of everyone playing their way and the flow of allowing 4x multis as we enter rounds, but to each their own, I say; I play on 0 pop height, low grind assist, and it did not stop me from getting first against a server that presumably included people who don't, but obviously a more serious competition in the future might warrant more specific rules). 

Hey there, just a few suggestions for block partys here.

• for starters, making it competitive is really weird if its going to be a party of sorts, making it competitive makes it much more sweaty and less about having fun. So in my opinion it would be better if we: make it about playing with other players and fun goals, i would like it to work somewhat similar to forza’s forzathon system, ie: a big team working towards a goal, much more fun that way and less stressful, and less discouraging to play the game.
• with shifting focus towards it being a group based content I would love to see : OTL REMOVED specifically making block partys a global event that rewards a tiny ammount of rip chips (based on your ammount of % towards the goals) and a weekly refreshing payout of tix for participating up to 3 or 5 times (ill let yall decide how to balance that)

I truthfully feel OTL is genuinely not fun if you dont have friends online, and this new event will stop being fun very fast if it stays competitive.

Let alone you guys need to iron out a lot of score and pop glitches if you actually want this thing to be “competitive” so ideally to make it easier for everyone including yourselves, competitive shouldnt stay. - in block partys

I hope the feedback helps.

We need this system implemented for OTLs, since it's impossible to find people to do them if you aren't LFG'ing Discord which I personally don't have the patience to do.

As for the actual Block Parties, in its current state, I feel like people will just ignore it after a week or two. A lot of people participating makes it hard to win, then you come across the same thing you get in all of the current Head2Head systems where people just spam trick sequences at 4x combo for maximum score, sucking all the fun out of it. It should be a cooperative experience where you try to achieve something like X score or Y number of a trick that scales based on the number of participants and highlight the top performers.