Talk:Motor City Online

need for speed?
wasnt this part of ea's need for speed series? Chardrc 23:10, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

It's name started out as a Need For Speed game but I dont think it held the name upon release. I played this game from beta to the day it went offline. 12:23pm CST 28 February 2006

Didn't this game have 2 modern cars. I can remember a Mitsubishi eclipse and a Toyota supra. I also distinctly remember the fan base been extremely annoyed with EA's decision in the matter. 17:55 EST, 13 November 2006

Yes it did feature an Eclipse and Supra, and as mentioned many fans were very angry. 20:02, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

And here almost 4 years later were still waiting for a game that brought the excitement and realism that MCO brought. Theres been lots of MCO mods but nothing like the real game.....

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The Tradgedy
Really, this was a tradgedy.. what a fantastic game. I would like to add much more detail to this wiki since I was very involved in this community, and miss it greatly. I think more detail is needed in regards to the complex motor/engine/suspension modifications, the newpaper feature, as well as the long time effort to bring it back, and EA's refusal to release any serverside code. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.142.251.253 (talk) it was the greatest racing game ever and they shut it down, thats crap, someone needs to start it back up again With much faster internet & pc's a newer version of motor city online would be welcomed by a huge group of old and new fans (young & old), I know every prior user of the 1st version would come back in a heartbeat. If EA will not put out a new edition another company should, the game was to good to just drop! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.83.183.119 (talk) 17:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Motor City offline link?
Can we have a link provided to Motor City Offline? --Victory93 (talk) 00:35, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't have a Wikipedia account, nor do I plan on making one. But I do have the link and the game works fine. http://www.motorcityoffline.republika.pl Could someone add this to the page?

It should also be noted that Motor City Offline is not an offline version of Motor City Online, but Need for Speed: High Stakes with the cars from Motor City Online.

Import Cars
>At the end of the run of Motor city online, two foreign cars were available. One was the 99 Mitsubishi Eclipse. The other was the 97 Toyota Supra. Both cars were equipped with V-8 engines, and were made to be rear wheel drive in the game. This caused a lot of controversy amongst the MCO purists who believed that any car going into the game should be true to its real life mechanics. So outfitting a FWD Import with a V8 engine and RWD was ruining the experience.

Neither of those cars was FWD. The Supra was, in fact, a RWD car, and the GSX trim level of the Eclipse used AWD. I'll concede that they didn't have V8 engines though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.138.2 (talk) 16:47, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Removed section about 'current status' from main page,
I removed the following section from this page. Not only is it unsourced, but it contradicts itself and violates WP:NPOV. While I do believe the current status of MCO is relevant, the information should be sourced from reliable sources and seek to avoid the tit-for-tat drama between communities as is in the section below. -MarkKB (talk) 20:50, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Now, while Motor City Online was dead for many years, debug files found from the development team of Motor City Online appeared within a single community. These files were originally meant to be kept private and unshared, and remained so for more than two years. MCO currently classed as "abandonware", is now available freely to everyone and in combination with these freshly public available tools and debug files, gamers who were never given the chance to enjoy Motor City Online, can now experience what only a handful of users in a single private community wanted to keep to themselves.

The original MCO community who are proud to share the original debug files, continue to privately develop more programs, launchers and updates which include the Cars that were officially added by EA until the shut down. These files however, may be more difficult to find as members of the community are unwilling to make these readily available for public use yet.

Some of the files which have been newly developed contain:

- Beta Tracks - Cars - Parts - Track Segment - New Parts/New Cars - Paint Jobs - Other Fixes/Additions

The Original Debug mode features a Single Player Mode with selection of:

- Cars - Paint Jobs - Tracks - AI - Day/Night - Weather - Direction - Race Type