named drivers

[vroomvroom]

what id like is to have some named drivers and put your own profile in. what do you think? i think it would add a bit more involvment in the game and actually have a competitor or a racer u dont like or somthing like a leaderboard for the drivers in the game and their class? tell me what you reckon?

 

[Cosmic]

No! That would make the game frustrating.

 

[Slick Rick]

what id like is to have some named drivers and put your own profile in. what do you think? i think it would add a bit more involvment in the game and actually have a competitor or a racer u dont like or somthing like a leaderboard for the drivers in the game and their class? tell me what you reckon?

What like NFS 2, 3 and road challenge where you race around against drivers with silly names???(not NFSU, their names arnt very funny)
Id like that:tup:

 

[Dave A]

If it was deep enough and the more notable drivers had noticable traits and there was enough driver profiles in the game to cover over half of the competitions. It'd be stupid racing against the same guys in every race or often, you'd need to race agains Mr A for a series then maybe bump into him again a few more series down the line.

 

[Slick Rick]

In NFS i loved damaging and winning a certain opponents car so it would be a good way of taking your fustration out on GT

 

[Swift]

I think it the whole points system should revolve around a driver or drivers. That would make more sense then the system that it is now.

But I'm not worried about having pros in there. I'd rather have my own personalized drivers in there.

 

[rickjames]

what about making a team?

 

[vroomvroom]

why not cos you get teams of two in all series races like f1 and btcc.

 

[Dave A]

^ Not true, a team can be of a single car, 2 cars 3 cars or more. Theres been teams with upto 5 cars racing in a single race in some series, maybe more. Formula one allows upto 3 cars per team I think, different series will allow a different number of cars per team. In the BTCC one of the teams runs 3 cars, there's been at least one team with 3 cars racing in the BTCC quite a few times. As far as teams in GT go, it's chjange the games focus in a large way. Maybe for the better though.

Say you expand the game into making you the founder of a racing team, start the game give yourself a name and a name for the team. You start with a poor mans pit crew and a small ammount off cash. As you progress you can hire new team memmbers to replac old ones, train old ones ect. After a while you can be given the chance to hire a second driver, say hello to the new Bob B-Spec, you can train him get him to race for you, OR if you have a second car that qualifies for a series, get him to race WITH you. Whatever prize money he earns a certain ammount should be taken because it's not you thats won it. If you have enough money also you could buy a second pit crew, send Bob off to do series A with Pit crew A and in the mean time you go off and race Series B with pit crew B, Bob gets experience while YOU race.

 

[chinko]

^jesus, thats a bloody good idea! does PD have a contact address/email that they would accept it through? because you should definately give them the idea and let them work on it. sure its like Toca race driver, but it would be such a kickass idea for GT.

 

[MagpieRacer]

thats a great idea, it owuld be awsome BUT, thats more something for TOCA race driver 3 dont you think?

 

[Dave A]

It depends what else changes in the next GT, if it was all the same structure as in GT4 then it might not fit in, but a bit of tweaking to the game structure could fit it in without changing the whole buy a car, tune it, race it element at all. Think about it, you would never HAVE to hire a second driver, you already have a race team in GT4, you're just distant from them since you're only reminded of them in some races when you pit in. From what weve seen in VGT we can expect GT5 to have larger grids, also we've been told damage will play a part so PD are aiming for more immersion in the next instalment so I think it would fit in since you run the team It's you that would buy the car and maintain it and choose what series to race the car in ect. Whereas in Toca the team hires you, chooses the car and maintains it, you're role is to simply race under a team manager so while you may agree or not that it could fit into the next GT game, it wouldn't fit into a ToCA game.

 

[MagpieRacer]

when you put it that way it would definatly fit

ive always wnated to know if PD are paying attention to our forum, F1gamers forum has people from studio liverpool looking at the feedback and ideas..

 

[crimson_menace]

To threadstarter:

That sounds great.
Custom driver, or profile, or entire racingteam!
Great idea. 👍

 

[TalGuy]

have other driver with names would give the game a more sense of a racing community and culture. I def like the idea of having named drivers that you can race against and maybe we could make one of them our rivals.

 

[Operator]

Great idea Of course, it wouldnt be good if there were the same rivals all the time. It should be different every cup, or class, dunno. But racing team... now, that would be EXCELLENT! I mean, it's just pure fun, especially if there was a constructor's championship. Like in F1.

 

[xXSilencerXx]

It would be sweet if they did like the nacecar games where you can create a reputation and have rivalries with certain drivers. If race a guy dirty he would remember it next time you race and maby repay you.

 

[Dave A]

nacecar, usthave look for that game sometime . Your right though barring the simple typo, it would be cool to have that kind of AI in the next GT, especially if we have damage.

 

[T5-R]

I remember in NFS 2 sometimes if you rammed the a CPU car enough by going around the track the wrong way sometimes they'd chase you trying to crash into you

It would be a nice feature, but I think it should only be optional. It would be quite nice adding virtual personalities, I used to alter all the cars in the really old Nascar to my class mates at the time. It did make it a bit more interesting, especially when it came to racing the people you didn't like much

 

[xXSilencerXx]

nacecar, usthave look for that game sometime

gotta remember to spell check more often.

 

[Operator]

AI drivers should have personalities! Great idea! I mean there should be one who risks everything for victory ; even his own car, even tries to ram to win , etc.

 

[T5-R]

AI drivers should have personalities! Great idea! I mean there should be one who risks everything for victory ; even his own car, even tries to ram to win , etc.

A good name for that one would be Micheal Schumacher

 

[Operator]

yea and Takuma Sato should be the one who doesn't care about victory just rams everything that moves.

 

[Alister_Thomas]

A good name for that one would be Micheal Schumacher

Actually, it was Ayrton Senna who pioneered that particular technique (Suzuka 1990, anyone!?!?!?).

Only, because Ayrton is dead (and people therefore want to view his achievements through rose-tinted spectacles) much of the attention for these types of driving tactics are deflected back onto Michael...

 

[Tenacious D]

Most definitely, named and numbered drivers. I suggested this before, along with the notion that these competitors have rivalries and grudges if possible, and their talent increases gradually over the course of the season. Or seasons in the case of my Career Mode concept.

I would love for these other drivers to be the stars racing in the world today. They have definite levels of talent and racing habits which can be coded without too much trouble. Sony has the money to license these guys, so anything is possible, but if nothing else, they would make great models for our virtual competitors.

 

[Patrik]

if they include irl events i think it would be cool with irl drivers in each event... but in the beginner, ff, fr and such events it should be names of PD staff or something...

 

[T5-R]

Actually, it was Ayrton Senna who pioneered that particular technique (Suzuka 1990, anyone!?!?!?).

Only, because Ayrton is dead (and people therefore want to view his achievements through rose-tinted spectacles) much of the attention for these types of driving tactics are deflected back onto Michael...

Well I was a bit young then to remember that

 

[Classic Anycar]

Only if the drivers were professionals. Jeff Gordon, Michael Schumacher, Butch Leitzinger, Buddy Rice, etc.

 

[Alister_Thomas]

Well I was a bit young then to remember that

Here's what happened (briefly):

Title fight in the 1990 season (between Alain Prost, then driving for Ferrari and Ayrton Senna, then driving for McLaren) went down to the final race of the season at Suzuka.

Senna qualified on pole (as he usually did during his reign) and Prost was second. Ayrton wasn't happy because Pole Position was on the "dirty" side of the track meaning he'd have a tangiable disadvantage at the start (ie. Prost would jump him because he was starting from the "clean" side of the track).

Senna tried, before the start of the race, to have Pole Position moved to the other side of the track and thus nullify Prost's advantage. He was unsuccessful.

Come the start, Prost, of course, got the jump on him and led into the first corner. Senna being Senna decided to ram Prost from behind at over 200kp/h, taking both of them off the track and handing the title to Senna.

Although he won the title that day, no no-one from McLaren (barring Ron Dennis, I think) congratulated him at all (and rightly so!).

In all, a deplorable piece of driving. It annoys me that Michael Schumacher's "incident" at Jerez 1997 (where he unsuccessfully tried to ram Jacques Villenevue off the road in order to win the title that year) was penalised so heavily, especially considering he failed (but was penalised anyway).

 

[T5-R]

Yeah that does sound unexcusable and down right nasty.

Schumacher also rammed Damon Hill off the track once before when he got the lead and Schumacher knew he couldn't beat him. By ramming him off it meant he couldn't get the points he needed.

What was funny though was when Damon Hill returned the favour Schumacher was furious yet he didn't see the irony.

Well atleast thats the way I remember it