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I was thinking today, that it would be sweet to see a car racing game come out that combined the best aspects of Grand Turismo (the physics and car upgrades) and the latest Need for Speed (the game mechanics and AI, as well as the nice world), and then expanded the car selection to some ungodly ridiculous level, as well as up the amount of customizing you could do, and add more upgrade capabilities. Make it an MMO, and you'd have an awesome game there.

I'd like to have a racing game where it tracked the milage on the car, and adjusted the trade-in value realistically, taking into consideration the upgrades that you've done, and see multiple years for the different make of cars. (Grand Turismo did this a little bit, but I'd like to see more).

For instance, I'd like to see ALL the variations of the Porches, and ALL the Corvettes, and ALL the Mustangs etc, etc... Rather than just one or two different models of each. Maybe have used car lots in-game, as well as new car dealerships. The cars could be actually traded in-game between players.

So why don't you programmer types get to work on that.

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Doesn't seem very applicable to the first M of MMO.

Forgot to discuss that part, but envision a huge environment with multiple cities that you could drive between. The highways between major cities could be like the autobahn.

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Some of that sounds like Motor City Online from EA that went tits up and shut down its servers. A friend of mine played that and you could buy cars and upgrade them and race them. Not sure how much more though.

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Money entering the economy would be wierd...only possible from winning races seems to be very limited in terms of larger world depth expected from a MMO...none the less it would be cool to have a great racing game similar to what you explained

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It sounds like it'd be a real cool "add-on" to an existing MMORPG that would make it fun, rather than en entire one by itself. Maybe get on Second Life and build something there... you could make a car object that's customizable, raceable, and upgradable... then sell new version for real life $$.

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