Without an on/off toggle I too see this as a flaw. I don't want to maintain hundreds of cars in my garage by going through a silly animation. I was hoping they would streamline this stuff by making it optional. It's a complete waste of time after the novelty of the first time wears off. Maybe you want to do this thousands of times over the life of the game, but I'm guessing many of us don't.
Agreed. This is going to be fun once, then more pointless clicking that you have to do after every race.
Anything that should absolutely be done all the time does not result in fun and interesting gameplay. It results in frustration in time wasted doing it, and frustration when you forget to do it. Automate and let us get on with the fun stuff.
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Tornado makes a reasonably interesting point in that it could be worthwhile putting off repairs. But if money is so tight that putting off repairs is an optimal choice, I suspect that it'll just mean that people will be less inclined to drive cars that are expensive to repair. People aren't bad drivers by choice. I mean, everybody has some fun sometimes just crashing into stuff, but generally when you're racing you're not trying to damage yourself. It just happens. Especially when the AI run into you.
So if they're making repairs so expensive that it actually makes you think about spending the money, then it basically locks you out of driving expensive to repair cars. That's not cool, particularly in single player where no one else is affected. Drive what you like and earn a bit less prize money. Repairs should never be more than what you would make from the single race in which you took the damage.
So either repair costs are trivial and should be made automatic, or they're significant and lock you out of driving expensive cars (or make you grind to be able to afford to drive your more expensive cars, or make you drive them at a pace that's so slow that you're not enjoying yourself). I vote for trivial and automatic. Not that it matters what I think, PD have made their choice. But I know which one is a better design choice for people who aren't masochists.
I will say like that we're likely to be paying money to fix our damaged cars, that's a definite positive step towards encouraging cleaner driving. I just don't see the point in taking time to click "fix my car now" when it's a no-brainer. Put a value on it, take it out of race winnings. Job done. If you're really brutal on your car you'll make no money, but you'll never come away from a race with less money than you started and wishing you just hadn't played at all.
Cooooool
