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I wonder if the latency over the net is low enough to do pay for play on these kind of things. You could pay for a permanent raceway then.
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
I wonder if the latency over the net is low enough to do pay for play on these kind of things. You could pay for a permanent raceway then.
- jacquesm 12y agoWe worked for a while on a car racetrack using tech like that in '99 (looking for alternative ways to use the webcam technology that would be monetizable). It's definitely an interesting idea and maybe flying is a big enough thrill to get people to actually do it, but you're going to have to deal with one major hassle: give assholes a continent away an opportunity to wreck your precious gear and you're going to have a very hard job keeping them out. The temptation to crash them on purpose would be very large if there are no real penalties attached to doing that. And a $5,000 security deposit is a bit of a limit on growth, and then of course there are non-intentional crashes.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoHmm, sounds like the problem then is making a track that won't wreck stuff and can return your race vehicle to somewhere automatically, then you only need the vehicles to be tough enough to handle crashing into each other. Also, having the crash being the insert-coin point, rather than basing it on time might help.