I like the 5 mintue timer, sometimes I get frustrated when I crash right at the start of my run though
For thoe who don't like the timer, what would your preferred alternative be? This is my main problem with this whole issue, the timer isn't perfect, but the alternatives are worse, at least for a player like me anyway.
Paying coppers/planets I am totally against... totally. The only thing I really hated about TMU, probably one of my top 3 all time games overall, was that coppers existed. As somebody who hosts servers to run their custom maps, or those of friends, (not just in TM but other games too) it was kind of annoying that I couldn't get a friggin ranked server until about 2 months before TM2 came out after owning TMU for over 2 years
So, I refuse to pay coppers/planets for
anything until I can afford one of those this time around.
So for me thats paying planets out the window.
The game counting your best training time as your official time is the other option, but I think this rewards players who are willing to sit there for hours playing non-stop. I'm not saying these people are not entitled to get the best times after all their hard effort, but for once, just once, can't we have a computer game that rewards the more casual players too
Nobody is willing to sit there for hours when only 1 run in 5 mins counts, it's fairer for casual players (like myself, who is quite competative in the UK region, where in TMU I couldn't get anywhere because I couldn't sit there for hours on end waiting for that single perfect run to come).
Another approach would be to make the 5 mins timer less strict, perhaps allow you 3 restarts so you don't get screwed by messing up the first corner for instance, I'd fully support that actually