Clubs - Feature Additions/Improvements
Hey all. It's great to see clubs in from launch for the first time. However, there are definite improvements needed for clubs to get them to surpass or even just back to the level of where they were ...
Forum Discussion
In order of importance, here are the issues that we are having within our league with clubs:
1. Quitting the club, and returning with no damage
If you quit a club event after a stage and then return, your car is fully repaired and punctured tyres are replaced.
2. Event standings not showing after each stage
You can't view the overall standings after a specific stage on the game, or on the Racenet website and app. In quick play and other single-player modes, the overall standings are displayed straight after the stage times. Not knowing where you are overall throughout a rally is pretty rubbish, and you only found out once you've completed the entire event so are having to add up numbers in your head throughout the X stage event.
3 Times for retired drivers / DNF drivers showing in the event standings
Retired drivers are not showing in the stage results or overall event standings, which makes it very confusing when trying to work out who finished where in the lower places - especially when you can only view individual stage times on the app, and not an overall standings after each stage like you could on DR2. Like the last game, it would be great if retired drivers had times of 15 and 30 minutes (depending on the stage lengths) and that they would show in all leaderboards.
4. Setting up the start time and duration:
We currently have the option to either start an event now, or in 1 day + time. Please allow a '0 day' option when setting up the time until an event start, so if it's 17:25 my time, I could set the event to open at 19:00 of the same day. This is how it was for DR2, but appears to have been removed for EA WRC.
Requests:
In clubs, the stage ends at the finish line like in time trial, but it would be great if drivers had to drive to the marshal like in DR2. This is how it is in other game modes such as career mode and quick play in EA WRC.
If I'm busy but need to set up an event, in the past I could jump on my phone and set the event up there, but now I have to wait until I get home and set it up through the game - which is going to delay the start time for some our events. It would be nice to have the ability to create events through the browser.
Could the 'reset to track' option be only selectable when a car is stopped at 0mph? Currently drivers can begin to fall down a cliff in clubs at somewhere like Greece and Corcisa, so they will quickly pause their game and select 'reset to track' meaning they only get a 5 second time penalty instead of an instant terminal damage which of course is not fair.
There doesn't appear to be any split times in clubs anymore - I quite liked this on DR2, but I suppose not everyone will be against this change! Maybe the option could be available to include split times so that you can see where you rank compared to the fastest time so far? We make the fastest drivers in our league run first, so it was always a good indicator for drivers running after to see where they place against the big runners.
Thank you for listening to our suggestions EA / PJ!
@Dom93iombrought out very good points, I was going to make almost the same post.
* Event standings not showing after each stage - The most important part of clubs is the overall time, what's the point if I can't keep track of overall diffs in standings after each stage. This is not time trial. This in not only true in-game, but I also want to see the standings after each stage in racenet. DR2 had a somewhat working solution, although not the best. The official WRC live timing has a good view with two parallel tables, one for stage and one for standings after that stage.
* Times for retired drivers / DNF drivers showing in the event standings - Good point! I have already seen this problem in my small club with friends where we have to ask separately why didn't they finish the event or when are they going to do it, only to find out that they had actually retired in a ditch already.
* 'reset to track' option be only selectable when a car is stopped at 0mph - Also a good point I hadn't thought of. Resetting shouldn't be available unless the car is stationary or should have a much bigger penalty (if the stationary detection is hard to implement for getting stuck on a rock or something)
* Create events through the browser - very important for bigger clubs
New request:
A separate request is to make the service area/event details view more compact during an event. When I'm in a service and want to see the upcoming stages and the weather, I have to open the "event details", then see all events, then open the current event and only then can I see the relevant info. I don't need to see the whole championship in a service area. At least not as the default view.
But as a response to @Dom93iom, you kind of can see the split times in racenet if you open another player on a stage, but you can only compare the splits to your own time.
i think clubs needs a filter by friends option in the leaderboards. Was in previously.
