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tardes13
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Happened more than once, got disqualified for "Leaving the track", after race was in fact complete.
Problem being that due to inertia I went few or more feet beyond the flags before grabbing them.
Flags are annoying anyway, but getting disqualified after the finish line brings that feeling to a new level.
Probably the solution is to extend the (invisible) race track little more beyond the finish line.
Same thing happened to me some other time at the starting line. Visually, I was seeing myself behind the line when again I got same disqualified message.
Problem being that due to inertia I went few or more feet beyond the flags before grabbing them.
Flags are annoying anyway, but getting disqualified after the finish line brings that feeling to a new level.
Probably the solution is to extend the (invisible) race track little more beyond the finish line.
Same thing happened to me some other time at the starting line. Visually, I was seeing myself behind the line when again I got same disqualified message.
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On a similar vein, a player can earn the "Ripper" accolade by either getting first place OR 20 completion. Any chance that can be applied to the fleet action accolades as well?
This! Mother of sweet holy god, this!
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Reverse also helps...
The word race needs to be dropped from that event as it is clearly NOT a race !
(jumping off the board at the last second is the key)
I must agree with the poster who says it's bad enough you have to "grab a flag" after crossing the finish line, to actually finish the "race".
But to be dq'd for going too far beyond the finish line is even worse...to paraphrase them.
In my own not so humble teed off opinion about this race.
It is assinine to put it mildly, to dq someone for going to far beyond the finish line.
For those who ask "how far are you going beyond it".
Once a player crosses the finish line it shouldn't matter how far beyond the line they go.
If they want to circle the island again for a victory lap so what?
They've already crossed the finish line. They shouldn't be disqualified for leaving the track after they've run the race and crossed the finish line.
That is after all why it's called a "finish line" in the first place.
Once you go around the track, and go beyond that point, the race/track is supposed to be complete, finite, at an end, done, over, finished.
It's not really a "finish line" if once you cross it, the track/race isn't actually finsihed and you can be dq'd from the race if you go too far beyond the "finish line".
If you pass the second row of huts in front of the resort, you get DQ'ed. It is not that hard to overrun that far.
I agree. After my first or second race, I started to jump off the board to get the flag.
I run a 500 favor board and usually the only way i can place better than a finnish flag,
is to rely on the inexplicable inability of the other racers to grab the flags.
Which is why they need to separate the racers into different "weight classes" as it were; a stacking for rentals, a stacking for faction boards, and one for every quality inbetween.
Or if flags can't spawn in the same location... spawn them in the path the players inertia takes them! But instead, 2nd place spawns to the left side and 3rd spawns in front of the 1st flag closer to the 'finish line'. It's just so TRIBBLE.
Time will only tell!
Also, if you're in first and uncontested, but miss it because you overran it, you just need to practice jumping off the board and grabbing the flag. The only time that's ever failed me is one time that I missed the 1st place flag because I had activated the board while wearing my floater, so when I deactivated the board the floater launched me into the air. It was pretty comical.
Yes, got disqualified again, and deleting whatever tags I have and done with this until it gets fixed.
By the way interesting sig you have there. I was around (unfortunately) for the NGE in SWG and quit shortly after. I hope what you say about 9.5 isn't true.