Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190424073617/@comment-31526827-20190426043650

Powerup777 wrote: Please tag us so we don't have to discover your questions in the activity log?

That question has been asked and answered for a long time. The reason is it would be a major ground-up code re-write. Recall they just recently cut back on manpower. The folks at FM work on a bug fix and next release schedule.

The licensing issue noted above is a secondary reason. For the same reason a Ferrari can only be red (some models), prices, where the cars and tracks are used and how they're used, are strictly licensed. So those would have to be re-negotiated too.

Not looking good for the free run racing. I don't know who all the game changers are (is there a place where they are listed or some way they are identified?) And I made the post in the General Game discussion area, I've already seen that every game changer reads pretty much every thread so ...

tl:dr - bs, it can be done; but EA/FM has to decide to.

Respectfully:

If that's the answer they've given you, it's wrong. Period. It woudl absolutely positively NOT require a re-write. Of any kind. At all. It would be a new feature panel with it's own code and this could would draw upon existing libraries. Almost nothing new, other than the UI, would be created.

As for licensing issues. OF course you have to respect them. Just Like It's Already Done. Look to your own example; some models of Ferrari can only be read. So, in code there are things like "color options" (I'm speaking VERY generally and generically here) and the program says, "OH I see the "only these colors" flags set and I'll respect them, and so, the same screen that would normally offer a dozen colors suddenly only offers one. Or when there are special liveries available on specfic cars but only after certain conditions are met, again, go look into the database, find the conditions you need to check and only offer the options that are lega.

SAME thing applies here. Conditions. Say a user picks "Ferrari" - then we narrow the choices for which cars out of all of them. Then they pick the model from that list. Then we narrow the choices for allowable tracks (in case some are not legal to pick for that make/model) and then we come to type of race and again we narrow choice to those that fit. And so on. That's all normal. Writing it out may make it sound like a lot of work but it's not, it's trivial. This is what the program does all day/night long. It shows you options that are permitted based on conditions in various rules tables. Nothing new.

So, if they tell you "make your own race" is impossible because it requires a rewrite, thta's untrue. If they say it's a licensing issue, thats an effort issue. Are they willing to make the effort or not. What this boils down to is NOT a recode *everything* or licensing says "no" issue - it comes down to, Does FM want do or not (or, today, are their resources (manpower/money) inadequate to do it. Because from a programming and licensing point of view it's completely doable.