Board Thread:Social and Race Teams Threads/@comment-25956839-20181008061545/@comment-28169398-20181102214134

Mugwumps wrote: It would be nice if team events all had the same set of bots for everyone to keep it fair but I don't see that ever happening. They would need to make it like an LTS then.

Right now you can use any Career, Bonus, Motorsports, or Exclusive Series that fits the criteria of the TC, meaning that the bots are picked based on your driver rating in that series. Every player has a different rating in each series, which in turn determines the bots that they draw.

The only way to draw the same bots would be if TC were changed to an LTS like format where you could only chose from a limited number of events in a "Series" that was only open for 25-hours. It would also have to set the baseline bots and you wouldn't get variability based on skill.

There are a lot of drawbacks.

First, you are letting EA decide the events that you can and can't run. As we have seen with the Bathurst Speed Snap, they aren't as familiar with the game play and problems with certain events as the players are.

Second, it takes a lot of the strategy out of the team challenges. While forums and Facebook Groups often publicize the optimum strategy, not ever team knows about it, so it would take away that aspect of the TCs.

What might actually be interesting if there was a Team version of OMP, where teams raced against one another to satisfy the challenges. That could significantly level the playing field for teams with highly skilled players in a total wins tournament versus teams that don't have much skill but run multiple devices and accumulate lots of wins against dumbed down bots.