Super Common Feature Requests

Any chance of updating events on a timely basis. As a suggestion, maybe not using carrier pigeons to carry the scraps of paper with the event details, handed to a man named Dimitri who transcribes it to stone, photocopies it, then faxes a copy of the photocopy to some poor guy in your office to enter manually. Maybe there’s a better way, hmm.

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zwift has come a long ways since i started using years ago however given the popularity and success i feel as if there is some development needed to make the experience better overall.
1- optional exit of zwiftapp on finish- pretty common
2- ability to tag riders of choice (teammates) or other during events as to keep visibility clear.basically filter out other rider stats and names upon toggle
3-ability to watch other riders race-live
4-option to not save ride when switching to event
5-best effort replay snapshot. For events or freeride

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Would be nice to be ale to add strava or facebook friends like other apps. I would say as zwift is already linked to our strava accounts, it can’t be that hard to incorporate.

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For me it’s better if we can sell Back our Frame or Wheelset to the shop or even better if we can sell it to our friends, of course we use Drops as the payment. I think it will be fun.

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Like every software company these days, we the paying users end up being the QA instead of them doing more detailed QA in house…I know companies can not test every possible scenario, but when basic bugs get by it does make you wonder :smiley:

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Let us have track racing on the May Field running track please. That would be fun. We really need a velodrome in zwift like Paris Roubaix

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For the Hand-cycle request would be cool if you can edit your original post to this request as it is the one that has the most votes for this feature to be added, as the one you have linked to has only 54 votes.

People keep creatign these requests without having a search to see whats there already, the one i have linked to below is on the first page of the feature reequests, sitting on 174votes at time of writing, would be great if we could get more people voting on it.

Thanks

https://forums.zwift.com/t/paracyling-added-to-zwift-handcycles-and-recumbant-bikes/44075?fbclid=IwAR3fWQ4MM1aJUV7pt0A1wHLx6InUsvYxFhuPH2ui1HGQRrTXc9oPBAd1eT0

I would like to see an option to add your bike gearing into the game. Then add a feature to “virtually” change your bikes gearing when you want to do hard climbs. In other words, if my bike has a 52/36 front ring and a 10-34 rear cassette for flat rides I could virtually change my bike gearing to 50/34 and 10-34. What I am looking for is an automatic difficulty change that would truly change the ratio to the correct %. So for the example above, the virtual change would reduce the incline difficulty by 6% when I’m geared at 34X34. This feature allows me to not have to change out my cassette or spider ring on my Zwift bike and allow for accurate representation of the feel on zwift. Obviously we can manually adjust this already. It would be nice if there was a more accurate gearing change to real world scenarios.

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This would be great!

Can you please add this to the list?

-Kickr Climb working in Workouts / Erg mode.

FulGaz and Sufferfest already do it and Wahoo has confirmed that this is 100% on Zwift, there’s a long standing thread at the top of the feature requests for it.

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You forgot this one_

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Some thoughts

  1. Choose frame/ wheels going in (like choosing a route). This is particularly needed with the new Future works bot riders as If you don’t have the right bike chosen you join, get thrown in, have to hit menu, change bike, completely quit, log back in, rejoin the bot, etc. It’s a pain in the ass. (The bot riders are great though!)
  2. Set up bikes and then choose them instead of frames/ wheels sparately. At the moment when you change frame it keeps the current wheels. So when I switch from my TT frame to my climbing bike I have a set of Super9s on a Tarmac. Why not set up a TT bike, a climbing bike, etc and have that include the wheels as well.
  3. Buy Zwifthub and integrate it into the Companion App.
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Good shout, I was just about to suggest this. I have made a list of all the courses I have yet to complete, but I’m sure that shouldn’t really be necessary!

Might as well bin them all… Don’t think they’ve ever implemented any! :joy::joy:

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Hi Andrew.

Maybe someone else could also share their thoughts and correct me, but here is how I see it:

Everything in Zwift is power based, not based on cadence or the actual (physical) gearing you have on your bike.

To be able to change the difficulty level without stopping is not realistic, as on an actual bicycle one has to stop to change cassettes. Different opinions exists how realistic or restrictive Zwift should be.0

Difficulty level setting could be made easier to access though.

Zwift looks at power (rotational speed multiplied by torque) on the flywheel. Cadence, and therefore actual (physical) gearing info, is therefore like heart rate, just there for indication and statistics.

Zwift looks at effort (power) and changes your actual speed displayed according to the gradient adjusted for difficulty level. Less effective incline but greater distance to cover with lower difficulty setting. This is effectively the same as to zig zag up a road or adding more switchbacks to a mountain climb. To get to the top in a certain time takes a certain amount of power regardless. There could be some aerodynamic penalty for going faster but in a bunch it allows you to be in a cadence sweet spot.

Chainring ratio inputs (actual or simulated) would have been interesting, giving one a chance to directly experiment with gearing to find an optimal combination. It will potentially allow one to simulate different front and rear gearing combinations without trying to work out % changes all the time.

The best one probably could do is find the the average change of both large and small chainrings combined relative to the ones you are simulating and try it out for feel.

Zwift can obviously theoretically figure out the effective gear ratio you are in by using the cadence and speed information but does not know how you achieve that.

The issue is of course there could be closely overlapping ratio’s of big and small chainrings, and zwift will not always be able to calculate if you are in the big or small chainring, even if it has cadence information. Therefore you are stuck with gradient change not gearing change.

There are obviously integrated trainers that can pick up exactly via sensors in which gear you are and where you input your actual gear ratio’s, maybe there you can trick it easier into different chainring sizes.

Not sure if it already does, but Zwift should allow feedback from electronic derailleurs.

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Very interesting topic. Basically a dynamic (adaptive) difficulty setting? I can understand the usefulness of being able to quickly toggle between say two presets (previously defined) difficulty levels for different courses. Hope we see that in the near future. It is fiddly to move the difficulty slider around.

I see a lot of good feature requests on this forum. But sometimes it seems that Zwift is not listening to the requests, like the idea to see your badges in the companion app. Is it an idea for Zwift to creata a topic with reguests that they are working on? So we know that it will be available shortly. That motivates to post new feature requests.

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I’ve spent a good ten minutes trying to think of a suitably kind reply to this. And failed.

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When in Workout Mode you can’t draft. I’d like it if the avatar would steer to the side of slower cyclists when approaching instead of just ramming up their ass*s and elbowing past. If you can’t draft then you don’t have to pass directy behind. Reason for my request being that it sometimes stresses me out psychologically when going really hard and suddenly strike a group ride like a bowling ball hitting a group of pins. I’d prefer not feeling other cyclists are in the way (even if it doesn’t have an impact in the game mechanics), my avatar can steer past at a meters distance upon taking over instead.

You do draft in workout mode. The only time you can’t draft is when you use the TT bike.

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