*sends out Zargz and Medusa armed with pitchforks and flaming torches*

joking, I see where you`re coming from, there is an argument to say that they can be enjoyable and strategic. I`d suggest, as part of the "if we have to have them let`s change how they work" way of arguing, that if we have to have them in HD they should take a LOT more shield energy away, to make you really think about whether your BR is providing a benefit in the overall race strategy. You had to think like this a lot more in Pure than Pulse. Also, in Pure, the fact that you could kill yourself with BRs in Time Trial made it more interesting and you really had to pace your BRs, and you were punished for wall hits with having less BR potential for the rest of the race. In a Goteki, I think, you had 14 BRs in a perfect Phantom race, but one less with the slightest wall hit. You could easily lose another one. Hanging on at the end of the TT with a pixel of energy, because you had Barrel Rolled yourself to the point of explosion, was very very exciting, and this has gone in Pulse. This was a better way of doing it, imo, than the unlimited BR carnival we have now.

I still think that just making it faster would be better, but of course there`s more than one opinion in the world. And like many democratic exercises this poll is a free choice, so long as you vote for the right side *searches for way to hack into Wipeoutzone server*