Your features for JM4

[OskyCMK]

This topic everyone shares ideas for features and such for a future JM4.

CaMacKid's Career Mode

The fundamentals behind my Career Mode is that you control a team during a season and you're responsible for maintaining the team throughout the season. You maintain each bike to ensure they are running at their best for the races. Also you have to satisfy your sponsor's wishes. Ultimately you want to win races to gain points and earn money to maintain the team.

Races are done every weekend. When races come around your team competes in it and you choose what member of your team you want to race as. Winners of races are awarded a big check and points for both your team and your racers. Racers earn points for both laps led and position. It is possible that a team may win the season while none of their racers win the season. It is important that the team as a whole does well so more cash can come in for bike maintenance and R&D.

When it comes to bike customization and maintenance the feature is designed much like the game Armored Core's AC design system. Bike appearance can be redesigned. The color, shape (as long as it conforms to the weight of the bike), and other details. There are parts that can be switched around and tuned for improved performance. Remember, the racers have a preference so if you make the bike too light for a rider who is used to heavy bikes, the rider may not adjust well. So it is a matter of maximizing performance while conforming to rider preferences.

Another feature in my Career Mode is that the stories of each character are told through the first 3 seasons of Career Mode. Taking from Jet Moto 2124, a Jet Moto news network covers the seasons and once in a while interviews the racers. A more intimate talk show in the network deals personally with the racers. This show is a vital piece which goes deeper into the characters and their motives and personal stories. The stories for the teams racers change depending on what happens during those 3 years. If a racer wins the season their story changes to something related to defending their title and what it means for them personally.

[Nightbarrel]

While I have a thread on my own ideas here:

jetmotocentral.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=generaljetmoto&action=display&thread=5

I'll just put up a summary of what my Season Mode will be here along with other modes when I edit this post later.

[OskyCMK]

Well this topic is more about features then racers and tracks. Like a bike customization and stunt modes. I'm just wondering what features you would like to see in JM4 and how would you guys approach those features.

[Deleted]

Here were a few ideas I dreamt up one day:

Starting Career mode the player would enter his/her name and pick a riders hight and gender, then choose the preferred weight class. (I.E. Heavy bike/Light Bike)

The seasons themselves would be broken up into several categories. In these categories there would be seasons for each weight class and a "Mixed" Season, in which both weight classes race together. The player will be able to play in all 3 weight classes once a Heavy/Light bike is purchased at the store. Also in each season there would be a mix of old tracks with brand new tracks equal to the difficultly level.

First would be the Amateur season, during this season you would race against other Jetmoto hopefuls towards becoming a known Jetmoto racer and acquiring a sponser. Once you reach the Pro difficulty you will begin racing against well known Jetmoto racers as well as new Jetmoto pros, as well as unlock a new category of races, Retro. Retro will feature bikes from Jetmoto's passed in a season, but first you must earn the bike to participate in retro races.

Bike Tuning.

The way I thought this would work is you would buy various parts to tune your bike, each part having effects on every stat. Good or bad. Basically it would be a point system in desigues.

I.E. 32 points total

Acceleration: 7
Top speed: 9
Handling: 4
Weight: 12

----> Engine part
+2
+1
0
-3

Acceleration: 9
Top speed: 10
Handling: 4
Weight: 9

Just a very basic example. Well thats all I got for now. Maybe I can think up something else.

[Dark Ermac]

I'm going to pull the obvious card and say that Online Mode would be appreciated.

[OskyCMK]

^Yep that would be appreciated very much. =)

Weather
- This is a feature planned for SOLAR on the PS2. Weather effects would be a total game changer. I don't think the slippery roads would affect the hoverbikes but the wind would play a factor in handling your bike. A snowstorm or rainstorm could fog or blur the screen much like the blood does in Modern Warfare 2. Here I thought JM was tough enough.

[Dark Ermac]

How about a new course style?

...Then again, it's hard to figure out what they haven't done already...

I got it! Pseudo-suicide course!

It's a course that is about 3/4ths the length of a regular track, half of it being like a suicide track.

Just imagine a regular circuit track, only at some point there's a huge drop. You think nothing about it until you come up to a suicide turn, and are forced to race back to the tunnel that runs from the base of the cliff back to the start. If that gets too boring, how about a 3-way suicide track? It would have 3 different u-turns and... nah. Now I'm just getting ridiculous.

[Aaron]

I'd of course LOVE online races.
And the whole changing weather thing would be great!
Especially with real weather physics, like wind effecting the currents as you ride across water.
Oh, oh! And have the bikes going slower if they are going against high winds. That would be sweet!

[Dark Ermac]

hmm...

Wind effect
+ slowed bikes
+ annoying cliffs course with jumps the riders are barely able to make normally
= ... Phobos.

I'm guessing that grapples would be suspended over particularly long jumps just in case the wind blows against the riders.

[Aaron]

Jun 23, 2010 22:44:46 GMT -5 Dark Ermac said:

I'm guessing that grapples would be suspended over particularly long jumps just in case the wind blows against the riders.

Multiple grapples in a row, like in Jet Moto 3, to go over the course, or to make HUGE jumps/gaps

[Enigma]

For my Ideas, go to : jetmotocentral.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=generaljetmoto&action=display&thread=5&page=8