User blog comment:Azelfland/New ideas for Asphalt 8/@comment-31544835-20170704015110

This is great. I send GL a monthly suggestion rant, so I'll share main main points in that email and fit it within the context of your post:

The Elite system. I actually like it. I do think it's fundamentally broken right now. I feel strongly that the system should be based on how well you drive the car. So not wrecking and avoiding the side of the road, means you get to drive it way more times before retuning, more times than someone crashing and not achieving perfect runs. I like the idea of a system that rewards a player who can use their "pro skills" to access a better experience, making the "Elite" title actually mean Elite, instead of punishing.

Multiplayer. 100% better matching. I have so much fun when I'm matched well in A8. Xtreme does a better job at this. Heck old A8 did a better job than current A8. I think A8 is pressuring themselves to fill rooms, with Xtreme you often only race one to three players and it's great. I also had the idea of reducing wait time to 20 seconds, and then beginning the race with however many ppl have joined within the 20 seconds. Empty race slots are turned into ghosts of players who have uploaded their killer MP runs for that day. This "MP Ghost Mode" would deemphasize knockdowns and shift goals to strictly fast race times. MP Ghost mode would also have different/better awards, essentially incentivizing finding emptier rooms to race in, and keeping players coming back to MP. So if no one joined your room and your raced ALL ghosts and won, the prize would be epic. Like in porker getting a Royal flush.

This wasn't on your list but I wanna see this. On mobile devices, the ability to play upside down so you can play WHILE LAYING ON YOUR BACK!!! I want this soooo effing bad. C'mon! GL is it that hard?

I'd love more visual options and customization from rims to pain jobs. Catch mode sounds cool. I'm "meh" about story mode. I like how A8 has been characterless thus far. The cars are the characters for me. Even in Xtreme showing your driver with the buggy's, even though it makes sense, it threw me off.

Those are just some initial thoughts and reactions.

Great work though. I like your creativity.