Turn them off for races the New escalators.
whoever came up with that idea should be demoted back to drawing trees to begin with.
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Why turn them off?
I don’t get it. The elevators assist riders going up a very steep slope. So instead of the escalator Zwift could have put in a shorter steep slope for the same effect - would that have been a problem too, a shorter, steep but unassisted, slope?
Why does it hurt racers? What am I missing?
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Seems like it’s just boost mode for a hill
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I wouldn’t even call it a boost, it doesn’t make you go faster than you already are, in fact you can slow down going up it if you stop pedalling (I was able to get dropped from the group I was in going up the escalator by not pedalling while they all hammered up it).
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I rode The Greenway yesterday, and every time my group approached the escalators, my avatar was pushed out to the left, off the visuals of the escalator.
I have no idea if that negated the escalator effect or not, since it happened every time.
Can I have a escalater up Ven-Top than please.
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I think it is funny to have the escalators. It is different and doesn’t really effect much if everyone just keeping riding like they would without them.
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Those very steep sections would be more of a challenge without the boost mode and would spice up the races a lot. Can we say it would “make racing more exciting™”?
For non races okay to leave them.
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@Chris_D9 it make racing way more fun exciting place group go bang start some fireworks in game.
I think the escalators are fine for group rides, but perhaps there should be an on/off toggle that race organizers can use for individual events.
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Looks like just a cool graphic to me with no actual rider benefit. I noticed that large parts of that ride was more GPU intensive than anything else I have ridden in the last 3 years however, my frame rate dropped to 8 fps and it became noticeably jerky. It potentially will cause people using really old setup or gear really not designed for Zwift to crash.
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Have you tried going up a normal 19% gradient and then these escalator equipped 19%?
What differences do you find?
Wouldn’t know I’m heavy, saw it looked pretty steep in the HUD so hit 800W on the way up or I would have probably have come to a stop. Didn’t know it was 19% sorry, not done that sort of gradient before the rest of Zwift is what about 14% tops ?
Basically without those escalator devices you would be really crawling up there.
Rest of Zwift, you can find some 25% in parts of climb portal routes.
These escalators could be put on other routes as well for races, such as on volcano climb or any races with climb portions. I would guess that quite a few riders would be very pleased with that. 
Which Portal climb had that?? And does the real road have that 42%… I guess that was with the multiplier used to get more elevation (rather than 100%).
It is in the Rocacorba climb. this part is in a steep corner and only about 5 meters, but I saw it going up and up and up and this was the highest I saw and could make a screenshot of.
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I rode The Greenway yesterday and each time in the subway, the frame rate dropped to ~40 FPS on my MacMini M2 with only around 25-30 other riders in my pack.
I respectfully disagree, I think is different and fun. Also, think that Zwift has more pressing issues on their hands than changing this, like fixing their ZRS system.
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