Hello,
it's been about 5 years since I first installed CTGP (not counting the hacked version that I had way before Nintendo's Servers were shut down, that didn't need the disk and never was meant to work Online anyway) and it's been 4 times that I wanted to play Online with friends. Every single time that failed.
Why? Because (except for the first time) when a friend and I decide to play MKWii Online I remember CTGP and go here: chadsoft.co.uk/ and then I realize, that I already have a copy on my SD card. Then I go online on my Wii and every time there is at least a year of update backlogs. I don't know what the bottleneck is, but after half an hour every time we realize, that the update didn't even reach 10%
(one reason for that is that some updates restart the channel right away to get to the next update, some just set me back to the Wii main menu and some loop around installing themselves infinite times until I cancel and restart CTGP myself, but that is not the issue here)
at that point I realize, that I can just redownload the whole thing from mega.com in pretty close to 1 minute and tada, all up to date. But then I get a 7 day ban from Online, so this is why I never once played CTCP Online with a friend. Of course I could just open the backuped folder from SD and find the profile and fit that into the newly downloaded CTGP-Channel, but by this time so much time has passed, that we just ship it and play offline instead.
So please just give us an update.bat that updates the whole thing on PC and more importantly remind me of this update stuff (or the profile moving thing. The tut asks many questions, so maybe just a question on whether I played CTGP before and then an explanation on how to move the profile and redownload the rest would be fine) in the tutorial because I am pretty sure I will have forgotten it if I don't use CTGP Online for another 2-3 years and then this might happen again.
Also please remove that very hard track with the big mushrooms, because three out of three times I accidentally picked this track together with MKWii newbies (that is 3 out of 7 times I played CTGP Offline with friends) they actually got so frustrated, that they decided they never want to play CTGP ever again on the spot even if they are 20 tracks in at that point and we played some super hard ones. I personnaly don't mind that track, but it has destroyed the possibiliy to play CTGP with friends multiple time. There is just something to it that makes new players not want to play CTGP ever again.
Lastly of course I'm noone to request anything, but maybe I'm not the only one so I decided to give it a try.
PS: It's Mushroom Peaks. I think a big skull telling people not to take the right way might be enough. There is something very unfun in trying the right path on one of the 3 laps and then just getting stuck forever thinking "Yes, after 5 tries I finally made this hard ju... wtf? There is just no way to make this next one what???? What do I even do now????" And then they ask me and I tell them, that it's possible to do with a mushroom, but way too hard for them to even try and they should just try to reach the other path and maybe go back for it and I'm sorry I forgot to tell not to take the right path and I don't know how to get to the other path, sorry again.
I know this is directly from Bean and it has a special place in many of our hearts, but it's also pretty old and I promise that it is a real show stopper I think it might finally be time to drop it or hide it of modify it because while I will not fall into that trap again someone else might.
it's been about 5 years since I first installed CTGP (not counting the hacked version that I had way before Nintendo's Servers were shut down, that didn't need the disk and never was meant to work Online anyway) and it's been 4 times that I wanted to play Online with friends. Every single time that failed.
Why? Because (except for the first time) when a friend and I decide to play MKWii Online I remember CTGP and go here: chadsoft.co.uk/ and then I realize, that I already have a copy on my SD card. Then I go online on my Wii and every time there is at least a year of update backlogs. I don't know what the bottleneck is, but after half an hour every time we realize, that the update didn't even reach 10%
(one reason for that is that some updates restart the channel right away to get to the next update, some just set me back to the Wii main menu and some loop around installing themselves infinite times until I cancel and restart CTGP myself, but that is not the issue here)
at that point I realize, that I can just redownload the whole thing from mega.com in pretty close to 1 minute and tada, all up to date. But then I get a 7 day ban from Online, so this is why I never once played CTCP Online with a friend. Of course I could just open the backuped folder from SD and find the profile and fit that into the newly downloaded CTGP-Channel, but by this time so much time has passed, that we just ship it and play offline instead.
So please just give us an update.bat that updates the whole thing on PC and more importantly remind me of this update stuff (or the profile moving thing. The tut asks many questions, so maybe just a question on whether I played CTGP before and then an explanation on how to move the profile and redownload the rest would be fine) in the tutorial because I am pretty sure I will have forgotten it if I don't use CTGP Online for another 2-3 years and then this might happen again.
Also please remove that very hard track with the big mushrooms, because three out of three times I accidentally picked this track together with MKWii newbies (that is 3 out of 7 times I played CTGP Offline with friends) they actually got so frustrated, that they decided they never want to play CTGP ever again on the spot even if they are 20 tracks in at that point and we played some super hard ones. I personnaly don't mind that track, but it has destroyed the possibiliy to play CTGP with friends multiple time. There is just something to it that makes new players not want to play CTGP ever again.
Lastly of course I'm noone to request anything, but maybe I'm not the only one so I decided to give it a try.
PS: It's Mushroom Peaks. I think a big skull telling people not to take the right way might be enough. There is something very unfun in trying the right path on one of the 3 laps and then just getting stuck forever thinking "Yes, after 5 tries I finally made this hard ju... wtf? There is just no way to make this next one what???? What do I even do now????" And then they ask me and I tell them, that it's possible to do with a mushroom, but way too hard for them to even try and they should just try to reach the other path and maybe go back for it and I'm sorry I forgot to tell not to take the right path and I don't know how to get to the other path, sorry again.
I know this is directly from Bean and it has a special place in many of our hearts, but it's also pretty old and I promise that it is a real show stopper I think it might finally be time to drop it or hide it of modify it because while I will not fall into that trap again someone else might.
