High-Speed Race:

[Zeraph]

I was playing Pod-Racing for the N64 & thinking, \"How could this fit into PlaneShift?\" & then it hit me...

You start on the top of a large cliff, 2 or more Riders & Flying Mounts of Choice. When the race starts you plunge downward as fast as possible, dodging outcroppings, rocks, & hanging trees. Just before crashing into the ground you pull out of the dive towards the finish line!
There can be rules like you can\'t be more then 20 meters away from the side of the Cliff/Ground or whatever, maybe an obstacle course like @ the bottom of the cliff the finish line is in the forest so you have to dodge trees & navigate the forest.

The only problems I see with this is lag, & lod-fog + fps (Can CrystalSpace handle it?). Some people\'s computer\'s probably can\'t handle this so they would crash right into the ground. maybe just having the finish line sticking out from the face of the cliff & having the client pull them out of the dive would be better?

Also you would have to be rich to race like this (similar to street-racing only legal in Yliakum as long as you own only one of the flying animals.) there could be High-stakes games & maybe you can rent animals to race for cheep (however you do not know what you will get) you can race for fun or stakes, also bystanders can bet on the races as-well.
(Maybe this could even be illegal in some parts of the PS world? & you can get your Flying animal taken away if caught?)

It would give people\'s Chars something to talk about. & there are going to be allot of cliffs (As I understand it) because of the drops from level to level. & I\'d like to see the ability for more then 2 ppl per race. It makes it more of a social event...

(Aaah! The joys of watching two or more noobs riding rented magaras crashing into the side of a cliff, What fun!)

(Flamer Disclaimer: I did several searches on racing flying animals & high-speed racing etc. & couldn\'t find anything... )

[ArcaneFalcon]

Hopefully the alpha will be improved enough that fps will increase.  The models I see in the screenies aren\'t incredibly complex, so I can\'t imagine that on a properly tweaked engine it would be all that hard on mid-low end PC\'s (especially if those PC\'s are tweaked properly with lower resolution, etc.).

(Aaah! The joys of watching two or more noobs riding rented magaras crashing into the side of a cliff, What fun!)

haha!!

[Myrtl]

Wo ho this idea is awsome. High speed crashes muhahahaha

It would be cool if you crashed, you would fly off you mount lol.

[Cyberchu]

What about using glyphs to make your mount or someone elses to speed it up or slow it down.

What stops someone from stealing a rented megras?

[cirdan telemnar]

Magic?

[Cyberchu]

Why not?

Glyphs might make it more intresting

[Syzerian]

Why not through a tunnel? Tunnels are more fun!
Be good if it had controlling like bf1942 planes where you have to get the right tilt to turn effectly but too far and you are going to hit the ground

[Zorium]

This actually reminds me of motorbike racing around the Isle of man, just as fast and just as deadly.

Maybe instead of using cliffs just use the hole that the light comes through, then you can have several racers travelling down 5-6 levels at once; all going at high speed, dodging obstacles as well as each other and then *SPLASH* they all fall into the sea on level (7? I forget which way it goes and which level it is on).  It would be a sight to behold I tell you grown men and women paying money to watch giant flying animals crash into the water (or not if the rider is any good).

I think with this though there should be a high possibility of death otherwise it would be stupid having someone fall off half way through and then miraculously live because it was a race.

-Zorium

[Zeraph]

Well, maybe advanced racers will race down large tunnels ending in the lake? Who knows. There should be hundreds of places to race...

But I\'m actually wandering how the server client can handle the fast response time needed for you to dodge stuff while flying? i mean it wouldn\'t be fair if the server lagged you & you couldn\'t dodge an outcropping & Bam!

To control thieving, the flying animals are trained to return to there animals, maybe they are magically bound to there owners so you can\'t steal them without them constantly wanting to go back to there home?

you would have to make the animal trust you enough & you would need to break the bound between the owner, maybe it weakens when an owner mistreats the animal it wants a new owner?

[Enter_the_Xero]

I like the idea. Like a tournament of who can get to the finish line on their ride. That would be fun... deadly crashes... triky obstacles... using dirty tricks...

Ground racing, water racing, sky racing, and barefoot racing would be a perfect!