Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190424073617/@comment-5904736-20190508000352

Nobody is saying that it's impossible. However, the amount of money it would cost to introduce a free race mode would be way more than they would ever stand to gain. There are much more cost effective ways of getting a similar outcome that I think we should be pushing towards. The main reason I want a free play mode is just so I can fill the holes left by Firemonkeys. I think we just need better designed series.

The Chiron can only be raced against another Chiron. It could have been in a new career series alongside the FXX-K and Vulcan. The two new tracks should have been added to existing series, especially motorsport. It's organised into conveniant tiers by track so you can see quite clearly what's missing, most notably, we have a new Formula E track, without the ability to race any Formula E cars on it. That's a problem. DTM has visited Bugatti Circuit in the past, but do you think Bugatti was added to Euro Track Masters? Of course not. These are the relatively simple to fix issues that don't require a whole rewrite of the code.

Forza Motorsport 5 allowed players to race any car on almost any track outside of free play, simply because the career was so well designed. You had a series of races you had to complete, and after that, you were given a list of races and a challenge to win all of them. It's actually a very similar system to Real Racing. The difference was that Forza just gave you more races, and featured a sort of cliff where suddenly everything unlocked. RR3 wouldn't need the cliff, it doesn't make sense in the context of the game. However, just longer series would be great, to allow you to get to more tracks.

A couple of more examples of the sort of gaps I'm talking about.

1. You can't race any GT3 car agaisnt any other GT3 car. 2. Formula E and Supercars have one major thing in common. They both visit grade 3 street circuits. Despite this, you can't race Supercars on Fomula E tracks. 3. NASCAR cars have races at both Bathurst and Le Mans in the past for reasons unknown. You can't race NASCAR at either of these venues, though.

These are the relatively simple to fix issues that don't require a whole rewrite of the code. Just make series longer with more tracks.