Quality of Life & Accessibility Suggestions

Hutch_Gsearch

Quality of Life & Accessibility Suggestions

A thread to discuss quality of life changes especially in the early game, and accessibility features.

So not a discussion of new cars, new challenges, new campaign but of changes we can make that improve the overall experience. It can be a really good use of resources to focus on ideas that will help not just veteran players, but midgame players, and all of the new people just discovering Top Drives.

Your ideas might be things that answer these kind of questions:

1) What should be easier to do?
2) What should be clearer?
3) What didn't you understand for a long time?
4) What little things annoy you, that could be changed?
5) What is a small thing you wish Top Drives did, that it doesn't currently do?

Then we can identify which suggestions are the easiest to implement and which are the most likely to substantially improve the Top Drives experience.

Ozzman

All right then I'll just copy/paste this from the other thread:

The things I miss the most are:

- When placing your cars in the correct order before the race you can place them in any order, that's fine, but if you mess up, you can't just reorder them. You need to hit "Reset hand" and start over (swapping two placed cars, and pulling a placed car back should be allowed).

- Also after placing the fifth car, the race starts immediately. Instead of that a "Start race" and a "Skip to results" button would be nice. That would allow faster smurfing (instead of having to watch the first race before allowing to skip to the end), and also give us a chance to review the car placement one final time before confirming it.

- At the end of the five races a little summary would be nice, where we can see the races won/lost. It happened to me many times, that I was sure I would win, skipped the races, and was surprised to see I lost, and didn't know why.

- At the event standings table we have a "Top" and "Me" button to jump to the top of the board, or to your position respectively. Please add a "Bottom" or "End" as well, because it's very useful sometimes to see if the bracket is full or not. Scrollling to the bottom is not easy.

- Browsing a huge garage is still a pain in the ***, even with the many filters we have. Some buttons would be nice that would allow us to jump or filter to a certain class/RQ number. Something like this (pardon my Paint skills).

TGPD

Live Gap meters for strength and weakness comparison.

Option to skip all races before the start of the 1st race...

I also hate it when cars go full Ken Block after the finish line and not just keep on driving or use their bleeding brakes to slow down.

RobGripes

Saved hands appearing over two or more columns, therefore showing more than 3-4 hands without scrolling.

Extra step could be to have folders, or sub-menus for saved hands, ie. A folder of daily hands, or smurfing hands, or various testing hands for a particular event.

Blue2moro

Filter option to exclude all maxed cars. So frustrating scrolling through a massive garage to find that one car that needs upgrading.

Blue2moro

Slider filters for 0-60, top speed, handling etc.  Similar to the topdrives club filter system.

It would be awesome to say filter and show all my sub 5 second cars with 80+ handling for example.

TD42792

In no particular order, some already mentioned but repeated because they are key:
- lock switch missing when outisde of “my cars” (eg when selecting cars for a race), whereas unlock switch is there
- ability to filter by ride height
- ability to filter by a given rq; when scrolling through 100s of cars, going to rq15 cars when selecting super rare takes ages for instance
- include weight on front of card
- show time remaining for oldest car on the holding bay timer (ie the one that we will loose the soonest), not the time remaining on average, this is currently useless
- show total number of cars in garage
- test area for tracks not in the campaign, this is becoming more and more of a hindrance as new tracks are added

HeissRod

TD42792 said:

- ability to filter prize cars

We already have this

TD42792

HeissRod said:

TD42792 said:

- ability to filter prize cars

We already have this

Sweet

David_Fook

Auto-sell cars that expire from the holding pool.

Ozzman

Ability to see the current ghosts you have for an event.

Olli8888

A RQ Filter. With all those RQ limit events I want to pick 4 cars and find the 5th car lets say with 13 RQ so i want to say: show me all cars with 13 RQ or maybe with less

Ivo_Kamburov

Something for us to just look at from time to time - an overview page with stats about our garages - number of cars from each category and how many are maxed. You could make it into a chart even or something else that's visually pleasing. Surprise us. 

O__VER

When wearing Bluetooth headphones with the game sound turned off, there is a long-standing bug that turns the sound back on. Not the music, just the sound effects. I have to go to settings, turn sound on (it still says it's off even though it's making noises) and then turn it off again to fix it. Would be nice to have this fixed.

Jay

How about a "Go" or "Race" button after cars are placed? That way you can check and conform before the race starts.

TD42792

Different name for different tracks. This is really annoying that different tracks still have the same name. Should take 2 sec to fix

43MK4

1/4 and 1/2 drags in city environments have incorrect actual distance. 
They could be renamed to something like “short city drag” or “medium city drag”. In this way we wouldn’t mix them up with proper 1/4 and 1/2 mile races.

In case each city have different drag distances they could be called “short Tokyo drag”, “medium Monaco drag” etc.

Huskic69

just a big stat tracker that tracks all of our statistics, like tickets played since starting, money earned etc

jiga

Remove the gap between saved hands so a misplaced scrolling finger doesn't close the window

jiga

A sorting filter for how long a car has been owned.  So you can immediately see the most recent additions to your garage or conversely the cars that have sat in the garage the longest.  Being able to see most recently added would be really helpful to track down those pesky accidental acquisitions.  And if coupled with a filter for stock/maxed/partially upgraded would be a great tool for sorting congested garages.
Another interesting filter option would be to order cars according to how often they have been used.

willcf15

Vertical scrolling, or some other method that allows us to scroll through more cars at a time. My left thumb is visibly buff from scrolling through all my cars all the time, and now I can't play piano without clipping keys.

jiga said:

Remove the gap between saved hands so a misplaced scrolling finger doesn't close the window

Also this drives me nuts and seem like a super easy fix

TimBut

final table with results of event, not only your place, but all table. 
leaderboards / some ladder system
make api for statistics sharing and give it to topdrives.club. 
change location of buying ticket button. 
add one step in packs purchase, once I dropped phone on my face and bought 90s aluminum with my cheek. 

RobGripes

The new environment looks amazing, would it be possible to touch up the original campaign tracks also? 

Ultimate

I’ve said this a number of times already- ability to re-order and sort saved hands. Maybe add a close button to stop it from exiting on its own if you touch it the wrong way.

Also being able to select specific cars to compare within your garage. There’s a compare function in the holding bay which is rather limited, expanding that into the garage and making a better version would be much more useful

Moog

The ability to fine tune the notifications that the app gives out. Currently I have notifications turned off as they spam too much, but I'd be interested in being notified if a car is due to expire or that I have 5 tickets ready in the Challenge or a tune is complete. But I don't want to know when an event is ending. Obvs other people will want to know different things, just giving some examples.

Vatuma

The filter page could look like this. All the most used options should be available without scrolling.

O__VER

Moog said:

The ability to fine tune the notifications that the app gives out. Currently I have notifications turned off as they spam too much, but I'd be interested in being notified if a car is due to expire or that I have 5 tickets ready in the Challenge or a tune is complete. But I don't want to know when an event is ending. Obvs other people will want to know different things, just giving some examples.

I didn't even know this game did notifications. Must have turned it off day 1.

Ozzman

Ultimate said:

I’ve said this a number of times already- ability to re-order and sort saved hands. Maybe add a close button to stop it from exiting on its own if you touch it the wrong way.

Also being able to select specific cars to compare within your garage. There’s a compare function in the holding bay which is rather limited, expanding that into the garage and making a better version would be much more useful

I had to check this compare function, because I swear I have never used it before.

Avenged

Not sure if mentioned, but:

1. Give us the ability to filter by ride height category. I'd like to, for instance, only see Medium height cars when choosing one for City tracks.

2. Allow us to tag cars for filtering in the fusing screen. This would be especially helpful when picking out cars for fuse mats in the fusing screen, because a) it's much easier to sort and pick fuse mats in the main garage screen, and b) it's a **** navigating the tiny row at the fuse screen because the touch sensitivity seems to be wonky on that one.

TD42792

When getting more stars than prizes left on the board............. get a new board straight away so we can still get all of the prizes won.
Even if it means lowering prizes / odds to get to the same overall payout.

HeissRod

TD42792 said:

When getting more stars than prizes left on the board............. get a new board straight away so we can still get all of the prizes won.
Even if it means lowering prizes / odds to get to the same overall payout.

We've been requesting this for a while, but Hutch said that the number of people that this would benefit is low.  A the time, they claimed not many people cleared boards as much as the few here on the forum.