<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152686.msg7267386#msg7267386">Quote from: Photo on 23-11-2012, 18:53:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">an expert drift does the opposite in the corner, you don't slow down, that's why the drift became popular. It's superior to a braking corner. A driver that knows their car can balance it through a tight course with a good drift technique, other cars have to brake to safely make a corner, a good drift racer never has to slow down, so an expert drift is almost unbeatable. Most drifts are flashy and useless, just to show off how powerful a car is. The bottom line is that if a car moves, it can be controlled.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Maybe in ideal situations like a rally race over ice or dirt or down a windy mountain course, but I don't think that's the case over a regular paved road. Maybe you can take the corner faster but you're still going sideways by the time the other car is coming out of the corner on the inside and accelerating. But it's mostly the other issues. Your tires won't hold up for more than a few turns, you won't be able to drift at all unless the track is wide enough, and if there are other cars near you that aren't drifting you're going to bump into them. Admittedly, I'm not completely sure about the speed thing and whether or not drifting is faster or slower overall when factoring in acceleration and all that, but I am pretty sure that it's not viable in most scenarios just based on the other issues alone.<br/><br/>If it was actually superior you'd see it used in 'standard' racing, but you don't. The closest thing to what we're doing in game that I can think of is Super GT, and if you check out a few videos on Youtube you won't see any of the cars drifting ever. Or fast lap runs around the Nürburgring circuit which only take 7~ minutes (so the tire wear issue would presumably be less severe than over a longer race like what we'll be doing in our game, at least for the first race), and you don't see drifting there either, not even on world record setting runs where they're obviously doing everything possible to maximize their speed and minimize their time.<br/><br/>Like I said, though, I'm personally not bothered at all if you or anyone else wants to drift in game and describe it as being super useful. To be honest I was fully expecting to see it happen in a game like this from the start because it's undeniably cool, and I'm totally fine with that. It's up to you how realistic you wanna aim for, though. Go with what makes you happy.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152686.msg7267372#msg7267372">Quote from: CurvyKitten on 23-11-2012, 18:49:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Actually the sniper part works if you read my post. She not only took higher ground she scooted it out ahead of time.  She as in a spot to over look part of the race, and has small cameras set along the parts she can't see. She prepared ahead of time to make sure she can take the shot. <br/><br/>But seeing as everyone keeps having some sort of issue with it. I'll just not do it, you can all do as you wish with the race since there doesn't seem to be anything we agree on. And I'm just confused about what all you want at the moment so I wouldn't want to post any. Though I'm starting to see that an assassin in this game may not have been a good idea. If you'd rather I just let the role go then please tell me. Not that reading isn't partly fun, if I'm not really going to get any play time I'd like to know.  <br/><br/>PS not meaning to sound harsh this is just what I'm thinking at this point. :)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think you might be overreacting a bit. First of all, we're just as confused as you are since we have no idea what you discussed with Vel or whoever and we don't know what's going on or why you're even sniping at cars in the first place. Not saying that it's not a legit idea or anything, just that since we don't know what's up, it's hard for us to look at it the same way as you. Like Vel said, he hadn't taken the NPC drivers into account when he presumably discussed shooting Cori's engine out with you, so at the very least, that particular detail needed to be changed.<br/><br/>Secondly, two of us just said that maybe trying to take a shot at a speeding car wasn't ideal, but that it could still fly, which isn't the same as everyone disagreeing with you (the kind of shot that you described in your last post would be hella difficult despite what you may think, but I figured that could be justified by the fact that your character is super badass at what she does).<br/><br/>And the third point, which I think is the most important, is that you should remember that this game (and most RPs in general) is more about characters interacting and developing than anything else. Just because your character is an assassin doesn't mean that you have to be assassinating people in every single post (just like the rest of us won't be racing in every post either). That would probably get boring pretty fast. I'm rather confused as to why you believe that the one and only thing you could possibly write about is murdering people.<br/><br/>Again, I'm not saying that your idea about the sniping and whatnot during this first race should be scrapped, and I never did, so if you can make it work without breaking the finishing order, go for it.