Kyoto layout

[[TC]»Elmo«]

(2012-02-05 21:01)ZsoLT Wrote:  You are forced to use the AB? No.
Then why You are against it? If You don't like AB, You don't drive on it. If You like, You use.
Thats why KY was my favourite track, cause it's very versatile track. Road circuit, autobahn, or both. But this new layout destroy all.

The problem comes when 2 thirds of the server are being boring/lazy and constantly driving around on the Autobahn (this is basically what happens most of the time). This gives everyone else 2 options: drive on the fun roads but practically never see another car, or drive on the AB with the rest of them. Cops have to go where the traffic is regardless, so they have even less of a choice.

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The fundamental problem with Kyoto is that there are only 3 roads and only 3 junctions, which all but removes the 'open' aspect. It can hardly be called 'versatile'.

Having a reasonably open autobahn causes a further dilemma:
It is far, far too easy to earn money on the AB, so many people never leave the AB.
We could remove the speed limit again, but then that causes the old issue of people not being able to get chased for speeding, while being able to drive flat out, so they never leave the AB.

I've had feedback from a number of people since the open layouts were released that the old (closed) KY3 was actually more fun to drive than the open Kyoto.
This closed config is an experiment based on that feedback that also massively reduces the Autobahn dilemma. It had positive feedback about the closed layout from quite a lot of people as well (before some of the more recent layout changes at least) so we must have done something right.

This is an experiment and there will be more changes to come. The experiment is an attempt to make Kyoto more fun to drive for more people, despite its restrictive nature. If you don't like it, go drive on the other server.


Open or not, something has to be done about the Autobahn, be it layout or InSim related. Our servers aren't about making fast, easy money - if they were, we'd just run KY1 and be done with it.