LGR - Bringing Motor City Online Back from the Dead
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Date: 2022-04-14
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01DOGG01
A short MCO conman story:
Back when this was brand new, I received an e-mail from EA letting me know that MCO was going into beta. I applied but didn't expect to be accepted as I was in Australia. Eventually I got the acceptance e-mail and was over the moon.
I'd grinded my way up and built a 32 ford which I'd drag raced. Eventually, I played a pink slips round and that's when I'd discovered that people were cheating. It was a speedhack type of cheat as you see in CounterStrike. The opponent zoomed down the track at impossible speeds and I lost all my hard work in that one race.
Around the same time, I'd noticed that EA added a cheap, low performance turbo to the general store. Prior to that, high-performance turbos were only available via auctions and were prohibitively expensive. Everyone wanted one.
Being angry that I'd lost all my progress, I went and bought the cheap turbos en-masse. I then went to the chat and advertised discounted turbos for sale. I'd sell them at significantly less cost than the auctions, however still massively inflated compared to the price in the shop. I ran this scam as much as I could before the masses discovered that there was a cheap turbo now available in the shop, and that that's what I was selling. It took a while for people to catch on, however in the mean time, I even had a bunch of my victims buying the turbos off me in large quantities and discounted prices, so that they could run the scam themselves, still not realising that they were now available in the shop.
I became rich and built myself a dream 64 Impala. I put the biggest, baddest stuff in it and took it out for a race, discovering that it was only good for going fast in straight lines. Essentially a useless car unless you drag raced it.
When they killed MCO to allocate resources for The Sims, I was infuriated and I've detested that company ever since.
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A short MCO conman story:
Back when this was brand new, I received an e-mail from EA letting me know that MCO was going into beta. I applied but didn't expect to be accepted as I was in Australia. Eventually I got the acceptance e-mail and was over the moon.
I'd grinded my way up and built a 32 ford which I'd drag raced. Eventually, I played a pink slips round and that's when I'd discovered that people were cheating. It was a speedhack type of cheat as you see in CounterStrike. The opponent zoomed down the track at impossible speeds and I lost all my hard work in that one race.
Around the same time, I'd noticed that EA added a cheap, low performance turbo to the general store. Prior to that, high-performance turbos were only available via auctions and were prohibitively expensive. Everyone wanted one.
Being angry that I'd lost all my progress, I went and bought the cheap turbos en-masse. I then went to the chat and advertised discounted turbos for sale. I'd sell them at significantly less cost than the auctions, however still massively inflated compared to the price in the shop. I ran this scam as much as I could before the masses discovered that there was a cheap turbo now available in the shop, and that that's what I was selling. It took a while for people to catch on, however in the mean time, I even had a bunch of my victims buying the turbos off me in large quantities and discounted prices, so that they could run the scam themselves, still not realising that they were now available in the shop.
I became rich and built myself a dream 64 Impala. I put the biggest, baddest stuff in it and took it out for a race, discovering that it was only good for going fast in straight lines. Essentially a useless car unless you drag raced it.
When they killed MCO to allocate resources for The Sims, I was infuriated and I've detested that company ever since.
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Ric
Oh man, how did I miss this video back in 2018? MCO just popped into my head and I figured you must have a video on it. My brother and I got so pumped about this game because in the late 90's early 2000s, we learned to love playing the old Dos Game, Street Rod on our Aunt and Uncle's period appropriate computer. So we fell in love with all the customization options for this at the time, but our Potato of a PC at the time couldn't hack the racing, so we paid the monthly subscription fee just to customize cars and lose races. But there were technical issues on top of technical issues. Servers went down all the time. The public chats were always rife with people complaining about the latest issue and it wasn't surprising when it folded just a couple years later. But over the years, my bro and I have always reminisced about what could have been with this game. I just sent him a link to this video to have another kick at this can. Thanks for the nostalgia, as always! PS: Where's your Street Rod video? Major Thriftwood has a couple playthroughs. you must be aware of the game I'm referring to.
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Oh man, how did I miss this video back in 2018? MCO just popped into my head and I figured you must have a video on it. My brother and I got so pumped about this game because in the late 90's early 2000s, we learned to love playing the old Dos Game, Street Rod on our Aunt and Uncle's period appropriate computer. So we fell in love with all the customization options for this at the time, but our Potato of a PC at the time couldn't hack the racing, so we paid the monthly subscription fee just to customize cars and lose races. But there were technical issues on top of technical issues. Servers went down all the time. The public chats were always rife with people complaining about the latest issue and it wasn't surprising when it folded just a couple years later. But over the years, my bro and I have always reminisced about what could have been with this game. I just sent him a link to this video to have another kick at this can. Thanks for the nostalgia, as always! PS: Where's your Street Rod video? Major Thriftwood has a couple playthroughs. you must be aware of the game I'm referring to.
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snooopy365
Why didn't I see that video earlier. now I'm just commenting on an old video of an even older game.
Just wanted to tell you: The little details you see when doing the offline races are just a little hind of how much they put into this game. Why you need windspeed? because for some kind of races you did need to know it to be able to win.
When your engine was bad in nfs porsche you did just repair it. In MCO you could only repair a few parts, if the engine was gone you did need to buy an new engine. Also you could buy every nut and bolt to change your car. Not the -Stage XY- thing that is normal now.
That did lead to a Community where you were actualy able to tell who is your opponent because you did know his car.
Also if you did drag race you had to build your car different as you did road race.
I once did use the wrong car for a road race, (it was my drag car) easy win. but it cost so much to repair the car because it wasn't build for it.
I really wish there would be a new MCO.
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Why didn't I see that video earlier. now I'm just commenting on an old video of an even older game.
Just wanted to tell you: The little details you see when doing the offline races are just a little hind of how much they put into this game. Why you need windspeed? because for some kind of races you did need to know it to be able to win.
When your engine was bad in nfs porsche you did just repair it. In MCO you could only repair a few parts, if the engine was gone you did need to buy an new engine. Also you could buy every nut and bolt to change your car. Not the -Stage XY- thing that is normal now.
That did lead to a Community where you were actualy able to tell who is your opponent because you did know his car.
Also if you did drag race you had to build your car different as you did road race.
I once did use the wrong car for a road race, (it was my drag car) easy win. but it cost so much to repair the car because it wasn't build for it.
I really wish there would be a new MCO.
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Magnum302
This was the best car game I have ever played. The car builds were insane, I remember selling car setups for in-game money. You could choose engine compression, cam size, carbs, heads, rear gear ratio, transmission, springs, shocks, all brake components. If your car was not set up right, you would get destroyed in races. I was in a club called -Tin Indians-, we were a bunch of Pontiac fans. We would also go into the file and change the car skins, like making a general lee and all types of special paint, only the person that changed their files could see it, but it was still amazing. The car and part auction were also amazing, once in a while, rare parts and paint schemes would pop up. The auction was also a great way to make money, I would get up at a certain time in the am when servers had fewer people and watch the auctions, buy special parts and then just relist them for more money.
Thanks for the video, this game is dearly missed
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This was the best car game I have ever played. The car builds were insane, I remember selling car setups for in-game money. You could choose engine compression, cam size, carbs, heads, rear gear ratio, transmission, springs, shocks, all brake components. If your car was not set up right, you would get destroyed in races. I was in a club called -Tin Indians-, we were a bunch of Pontiac fans. We would also go into the file and change the car skins, like making a general lee and all types of special paint, only the person that changed their files could see it, but it was still amazing. The car and part auction were also amazing, once in a while, rare parts and paint schemes would pop up. The auction was also a great way to make money, I would get up at a certain time in the am when servers had fewer people and watch the auctions, buy special parts and then just relist them for more money.
Thanks for the video, this game is dearly missed
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ACE
the corvette, and the mustang mach 1, they were the best track cars. once u put all the right and best parts ont them 2 cars they were amazing and imo the best. 32 coupe, and i think a 65 mustang was my favorite drag strip cars for drags with no handicap. towards the end i became very rich from running Handicap PINKSLIP races lol. i took alot of cars. i was one of them guys with a extremely rare painted stock ford Ranchero. i think it was somewhere in the 15-18 seconds. it was almost like i was tricking people into giving me there cars. in a handicap drag race, who ever runs the most consecutive time to there qualifying run wins. i could run that ranchero perfect with same time everytime lol. Another cool part to that, you were able to sell your car to who ever you wanted by auctioning it or to any1 privately. once i won ur pinkslip. id always sell it back to the person for half of what it was worth if they wanted it back. :-)
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the corvette, and the mustang mach 1, they were the best track cars. once u put all the right and best parts ont them 2 cars they were amazing and imo the best. 32 coupe, and i think a 65 mustang was my favorite drag strip cars for drags with no handicap. towards the end i became very rich from running Handicap PINKSLIP races lol. i took alot of cars. i was one of them guys with a extremely rare painted stock ford Ranchero. i think it was somewhere in the 15-18 seconds. it was almost like i was tricking people into giving me there cars. in a handicap drag race, who ever runs the most consecutive time to there qualifying run wins. i could run that ranchero perfect with same time everytime lol. Another cool part to that, you were able to sell your car to who ever you wanted by auctioning it or to any1 privately. once i won ur pinkslip. id always sell it back to the person for half of what it was worth if they wanted it back. :-)
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Axocomp
I played this game when it came out. It was awesome for its time. You keep saying Need for Speed, but I think it was more closely related to Street Rod 1& 2. You Started the game, and you had to buy a junker out of the paper, as you win races and earn money you can upgrade your cars or buy new ones. You could build a car from scratch if you chose to, you had to buy all the parts for the engine and put them all together, right down to setting the fuel trims. Wheels, tires, paint, everything was customizable right down to the license plate. Also, you could sell cars that you built to other players. You could also race for pink slips, if you won, you got the other players car. You could do the pvp races, or against the AI, the choice was yours. I been wishing for a game to come out like this or Street Rod ever since I played them, and nothing had ever come close to these games.
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I played this game when it came out. It was awesome for its time. You keep saying Need for Speed, but I think it was more closely related to Street Rod 1& 2. You Started the game, and you had to buy a junker out of the paper, as you win races and earn money you can upgrade your cars or buy new ones. You could build a car from scratch if you chose to, you had to buy all the parts for the engine and put them all together, right down to setting the fuel trims. Wheels, tires, paint, everything was customizable right down to the license plate. Also, you could sell cars that you built to other players. You could also race for pink slips, if you won, you got the other players car. You could do the pvp races, or against the AI, the choice was yours. I been wishing for a game to come out like this or Street Rod ever since I played them, and nothing had ever come close to these games.
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Michael
i used to play this game big time back in the day. there were 3 servers, and you would start with a choice of 3 cars. you had auction houses to buy parts to upgrade your cars, and some upgrades where actually worse for your car.
the game was super buggy, there would be lag starts where you would get the green light to go, but in reality it was still red. if you jumped the light, you would lose. would stink if that happened while racing for pink slips and you lost your car because of the bug.
eventually it got silly where we would do demolition derby races. you would turn off the damage part of it, and just purposely crash into the cars.
the racing of the cars was actually the least amount of fun for me, it was the other parts that were great.
some of the cars were so rare that you could sell them for real money on ebay
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i used to play this game big time back in the day. there were 3 servers, and you would start with a choice of 3 cars. you had auction houses to buy parts to upgrade your cars, and some upgrades where actually worse for your car.
the game was super buggy, there would be lag starts where you would get the green light to go, but in reality it was still red. if you jumped the light, you would lose. would stink if that happened while racing for pink slips and you lost your car because of the bug.
eventually it got silly where we would do demolition derby races. you would turn off the damage part of it, and just purposely crash into the cars.
the racing of the cars was actually the least amount of fun for me, it was the other parts that were great.
some of the cars were so rare that you could sell them for real money on ebay
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fanjoy
Wow seeing this brings back some memories, what made the game great was the community and Devs that took part in their own creation. Yikes, Cadillac, Trouble, hope those guys are still doing well.
It was a bold move as they were essentially one of the first few mmo pay to play monthly type game formats to be used. As many here said the fact the country's infrastructure just wasn't ready for it hurt it bigtime for their first couple years till dsl/cable type internet became more standard, and by that time it was already slated to be shuttered. The imports were also a last ditch effort to try and attract the import racing types but EA had already started maneuvering for a shutdown and that update probably sealed it.
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Wow seeing this brings back some memories, what made the game great was the community and Devs that took part in their own creation. Yikes, Cadillac, Trouble, hope those guys are still doing well.
It was a bold move as they were essentially one of the first few mmo pay to play monthly type game formats to be used. As many here said the fact the country's infrastructure just wasn't ready for it hurt it bigtime for their first couple years till dsl/cable type internet became more standard, and by that time it was already slated to be shuttered. The imports were also a last ditch effort to try and attract the import racing types but EA had already started maneuvering for a shutdown and that update probably sealed it.
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gearhead1234
This game was ahead of it-s time. My son and I played online and raced other people. You could buy and sell car parts. People organized car clubs it was wonderful! You could build up your car and engine for road racing or drag racing. They actually used real world calculations for the engine mods. It was a real shame when they pulled h to e plug. We were there to the end. people posted some real nasty messages to EA sports as they shut down the servers. If someone brought this game back, they-d make a mint. It was truly a one of a kind thing.
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This game was ahead of it-s time. My son and I played online and raced other people. You could buy and sell car parts. People organized car clubs it was wonderful! You could build up your car and engine for road racing or drag racing. They actually used real world calculations for the engine mods. It was a real shame when they pulled h to e plug. We were there to the end. people posted some real nasty messages to EA sports as they shut down the servers. If someone brought this game back, they-d make a mint. It was truly a one of a kind thing.
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Jimmy
How no one has brought this game back, is beyond me. MCO was the most fun I ever had playing a game. I hated that I had to pay a monthly fee, until I played. Then I had no problem at all.
Building motors was one of the funnest things. Someone could make a car game just like MCO and blow people away. MCO was years head of it's time. And no game has even come close to being as good as MCO or have all the same options.
I played MCO right up until they pulled the plug. I was heart broken. And I have been freaking mad and hostile every since.
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How no one has brought this game back, is beyond me. MCO was the most fun I ever had playing a game. I hated that I had to pay a monthly fee, until I played. Then I had no problem at all.
Building motors was one of the funnest things. Someone could make a car game just like MCO and blow people away. MCO was years head of it's time. And no game has even come close to being as good as MCO or have all the same options.
I played MCO right up until they pulled the plug. I was heart broken. And I have been freaking mad and hostile every since.
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