Hello, some of you all might know me, I am Douglas Thompson aka SleepyPants SimRacing. I am a rally racing enthusiast and I'm always searching for the next big thing. BeamNG has been on my radar for a long time and I feel what I've been searching for is currently achievable with this game. I would like a dedicated rally mode that uses an entire map for rally purposes. Each pre-existing map could be already set up for this. The community could of course get involved in making more rally friendly maps as well. It would need to be structured in a way that directs the player/players to start at an area where they would be able to fine tune thier car then drive to the staging area before the start line of the 1st stage. After the stage ends, you would either travel to the next service area or the next stage in real time, regardless of the damage you have. If you can't make it in time, there would be a penalty and if you can't make it at all, you would end the rally or have an even greater penalty. There would need to be a money system in place either per rally/championship or a persistent fund that grows gradually in real time, say, 1k dollars a day or whatever ends up making the most sense for balancing reasons. The monetary system in career mode could maybe just be repurposed for this. Maybe to earn extra cash for a rally you could play in regular career mode for funds to be able to use in the rally career mode. There would need to be clear separation of car classes, there are already a lot of great choices in the game currently. I'd like for thier to be a persistent ranking system to give the players credit for participation in rally championships, obviously time trials would be an easy thing to implement but I would like a dedicated system that tracks your whole career so you can reference your stats. Maybe even a system such as in wrc generations where you could work your way up to higher class cars with certain experience levels or achievements. Tire selection system would need to be a big part of the mode as well. To limit the number of tires based on rally length. This is of course just a skeleton of what it could become but everything I've seen from this game gives me full confidence that it can work right now with someone that knows what they are doing programming-wise. Thoughts?
that would be the rally game every enthusiast dreams about! i'm sure all the things you are saying can be implemented in the game with time! unfortunatelly beam is so vast and it takes much mor time to mod than any other game, i am working on a few real life rally maps and having other jobs to do in life it can be a really slow process... but i'm sure we'll get there 0.01 update after 0.01 update! =D great to see you here btw!
