Edit: I just found this was at one point already a thing.... maybe they should bring it back?
Take the idea with the sparrow course from Grasp of Avarice dungeon (racing the fuses), instead of fuses you are racing other players to the finish line. You could have the event run by Amanda Holliday.
You could make a few different courses based on each world we visit.
Could have special events like pike racing or pike brawls (if you get off you blow up).
Could make the rep unlock different shaders and maybe some different sparrows (capping at rank 30, resetting with the season). Nothing that would upset player power, just a fun thing to do for a change of pace in the game.
IDK lol It's something different.
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While I would love to see the SRL (Sparrow Racing League) game mode come back to Destiny 2 in some fashion, I doubt it will ever happen. This may be a "hot take" but I don't think the Destiny community at large wants SRL back. I remember the forums during Destiny 1 being hit with requests that resources being spent on SRL be moved over to help produce more strikes and Crucible updates to help with the dry periods between expansions instead. (Keep in mind there were no seasons in D1 so content between DLCs was minimal outside of Raids, Nightfalls, and a few updates to Prison of Elders.) Not to mention players wanted Bungie to figure out what the hell was going on with Crucible, since at the time the special ammo economy was bust and balancing class abilities and weapons was a major issue. SRL was pretty fun at first but its novelty wore out fast outside of seasonal events. Races themselves weren't all that difficult to complete and the rewards were never as good as what you could get out of Raids and Nightfalls. Not to mention the individual in first place didn't really have to try and win. Maintaining the lead was easy so long as you avoided enemies and knew how to hold down left trigger. SRL interest dropped off quickly after its second debut and since then there hasn't been much demand for the event outside of your occasional forum post that gathers upvotes and comments before disappearing into obscurity again. The demand just isn't high enough to support a proper comeback unfortunately.
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They have said they wont bring it back. They know we like it, but its hard for them to justify putting it in the game to higher ups. It takes a lot of manpower and time to make stuff for sparrow racing, and thats hard to sell to a corpo when it doesnt make very much money in return.
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Bungie literally said that in the time it takes to create a sparrow racing map, they can create 2 crucible maps. So, big L.
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Bungie said at some point they have no plans to bring back SRL. It was very enjoyable when it was around and im sad they won't bring it back.
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I personally have no interest at all in sparrow racing. I thought it sucked in d1 and nothing would really change that. I also think it would be a huge waste of resources for Bungie and the last thing this game needs is more reasons for a Bungie to give us half -blam!- content.
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Man, I miss SRL so much. It was just such a chill way to mess around while still in the spirit of Destiny. I’d easily spend $10-$20 for access to a revamped (even copy-pasted) version of the activity brought forward to D2, plus that sweet sweet SRL armor 👀
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由Scratch編輯: 7/26/2022 3:03:17 PMThis also seems like the easiest and cheapest way for Bungie to look like the heroes here. All B has to do is build or reuse a map.(cut n paste from D1?) No need to waste money/resources to populate with enemies No need to waste money/resources coming up with new mechanics and programing those mechanics Just make(or reuse) a track, let us go bonkers, and say we listened to the feedback and brought back something you enjoy, you're welcome. Players are happy Bungie looks good ...And think of all the silver Eververse would rake in selling sparrows. Just slap on a number and some blinking lights or a few doo hickies on an old sparrow model, bam! $10. These guys eat that crap up. Seems 100% win/win.
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Well, if they can also bring back Reverly event for springtime, add SRL and some Tower grass then this would be a nice idea.
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They should totally bring back SRL. The one problem is the Always on Time sparrow. In the event they actually bring SRL back, they need to either make Always on Time unusable in it or come up with a way to make any legendary/exotic sparrow as fast as it is.