Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38518555-20190424135342/@comment-37524761-20190506081136

Amrosa wrote: Here would be/are some of the things I have suggested (most are requests that many have made) that would be helpful for newer players:

ok. so your first point is too hard to implement. second has no priority. third is too hard to implement. for your forth point you can't find a committment from FM. fifth is not wished by FM. sixth has lack of response, I also heard the first time from this 'wish from the community'. seventh is already implemented in my opinion (maybe because of you), which was an improvement. eighth and tenth points would be good, but those aspects got even worse during the last updates, after the game changers were installed. for the last point you clearly represent a minority with your opinion. an alternative to LeMans would even not has to have the same payout, but with an option with more or less comparable fame to win it would be much more fun for all the racers who spend a lot of time (and watch thousands of ads) farming.
 * Adjustable Difficulty- Early design decisions would pretty much require the game be rewritten in order to implement it.
 * Ability to Turn Off Friends, Team Mates, or TSM- They didn't say this couldn't be done, but whether they have resources to prioritize it is another issue.
 * Randomized Starting Grids- Races are balanced for player starting in last, meaning that you would have to tune each and ever starting place for each and every Cup race in each and every series in the game... Also most good players can win from last beating the best bots in the game and that means that is the best a bot can do going around the track in that car track combo. (When you have different starting grids in SEs, they spend a lot of time tuning those).
 * Recommend PR for SEs should match what the average player (Top 50%) can achieve- FMs view is that it is only the top 10% of players that can achieve an SE goal at recommended PR.
 * Practice Mode- FM has no appetite for it as they feel that players would lose sight of the goals of the game and would stop playing... counter to what the OG argues.
 * Track Series- Each Circuit would have its own series and Each tier would represent different cars from different levels, and they would unlock as the player progressed in career. So say a player unlocked Master, the tiers with Master level cars would unlock on all of the track series.
 * Only penalize for true cuts that gain time and not for off tracks from mistakes- nothing is probably more frustrating than leading an OMP race and ending up seventh because you overcooked a turn and got a time penalty
 * Match cars performance to tracks- Formula E and Porsche Dynamic are purpose built for either narrow cars or single car tests. Dumping 22 prototypes or GTs on them does not lead to a good time.
 * Endurance Cars should have many lap races in their series (this is more for the OG that have these cars to begin with).
 * I used to advocate for alternatives to the Le Mans 10 lap, but when I got the full picture I actually am of the opinion that isn't a good idea.

I miss many suggestions from this wiki that would be easy (or easier) to implement:

- faster bots or adjusted TSM times for more challenge in all the series, so give auralpod a few percentage more/don't limit his ability to improve if one keeps winning all the time.

- make team challenges more interesting by offering more variety. doing the same event for hours and hours is just boring, let's make TCs with speed snaps (highest speed), single events (fastest time),... aka create more TCs based on skills, not (only) hours to spend and grind boring races.

- give us some more options to farm, even with slightly less payout than the current LeMans 10L. I would like to see a 'Daytona 50' for example, 50 laps with nascar. or LeMans 24, 24 laps in LeMans (with way faster opponents, so you have some cars to hunt down after the first 2 turns or latest after beginning of lap 5 (rolling start). also some more 10/15/20 laps with the MP4/4 or MP4/x on one of the F1 tracks would be cool. we're looking for some cool, long races to waste our time and don't really care whether one game changer thinks that this isn't a cool idea. we want it.

- review the gold prices. yeah I know that the current prices are based on rocket science, altough they haven't changed since the beginning while the game has. and all the feedback here from people stating that they would make IAP if they got something for their gold are just ignored. buying the Veneno and the LaFerrari and fully upgrade them would cost me about 500 real money on regular price tag, giving me access to seven series. I could also buy an xbox one with forza horizon 4, dirt 4 and f1 2019 and still have some money left to have a nice dinner with my family instead. even the whole world including all FM/RR3 competitors are dumb, or the pricing in RR3 is not optimized. as FM is struggling, I'm sure it's the latter.

- improve communication is the last point in my list of suggestions. for me it looks like the game changers program made it worse, as there is shared responsability with people who are not really representing the userbase nor FM. don't get me wrong, it's not your job to represent 'us' or 'them', so you don't have to adjust your communication. the problem is that FM can say they talk to the users without really doing it. again, communication is key. so tell FM to let us know about their plans or the future, about their communication schedule (wheter or not and if so when we can expect the patch notes), perhaps some more infos about the pricing strategy or the finacial situation of FM. and it clearly will not work if they communicate through people without direct link/responsability. there's no such thing like shared responsability, maybe the game changers program wasn't the best idea.

don't get me wrong, I appreciate the infos we got from you and you're of course free to have your opinion. I just don't feel represented by you and don't feel heard by FM. befor you start explaining why nothing is possible, there's a good read for you: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35960335-once-upon-a-small-rhinoceros