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Bring the ACC skin exchange to AC?
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The system for exchanging skins in the ACC SRS app is brilliant. The user has a button in the app to upload a new version of their current skin, and an option to download everyone else's skins comes up before the session begins. Everything is taken care of before you ever load into the race.
The SRS Skin app for AC has served us well for years, but it has its issues. It often doesn't update skins that have changed, or doesn't download certain pieces of the skin properly. It works most of the time, but when it doesn't, there's often no clear cause or solution. Furthermore, because the download starts only after you join the session*, everyone (including SRS TV) has to leave and rejoin when the download is complete. This can cause further problems on the race server because AC can sometimes get confused when people leave and rejoin at the end of practice, sometimes causing a long delay, or a repeat of the entire practice session.
I wonder, since we already need a special AC app to register for the races, if it would be possible to bring the great idea of the ACC skin exchange system into the AC app, to replace the separate SRS Skin app. This would allow users to force an update of their own skins, and also handle the downloading of other skins before the user loads into the session.


* (yes, there is a tricky way around this by loading a similar offline session at the 5-minutes-to-go mark, but that doesn't work often enough to be dependable, and is definitely not how the app is intended to be used)
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