There is really no difference there. The Aventador in Beetle's clothing will standout easily with rules in place, and if it passes the rules, it's probably not going to give anyone an advantage.
That would be fine if there were rules to regulate everything, but there aren't. Imagine you have a one make series for a certain type of car and you set a limit to engine power and minimum weight. What is there to stop (or even spot) if someone put a modded F1 wing to their car and gets twice as much downforce as everyone else? There's nothing.
You missed the point, you can't partially enforce no tuning. Even if mods did not exist, you would have to go through extra procedures to enforce special rules.
PD should fix this. It will not only defend rooms from mod cars, but also people who are dishonest without mod cars.
Agreed, an option to select exactly which tuning parts were allowed and which weren't would be great. That's a flaw in the game. But when you set a limit for something it's with the intention of having an even field of cars, and although you can't decide exactly how to achieve that limitation, you know that everyone has the same tuning options available. When modding cars are introduced, that is no longer the case.
Well, everyone could go ahead and use modded cars I guess, but that makes just as much sense as to say that everyone in Tour the France should start with doping to not get a disadvantage to those who already use doping.
Which would imply not going online, at least not without informing everyone what you're doing and getting their permission first.
Yes, yes I know, honestly and/or the lack of it. Mods, by themselves still aren't bad, and people shouldn't think they are. The solution is to stop people from abusing them.
Yes, but there is no such solution, is there? So why even propose it?
Now I wouldn't blame PD if they made all the mod cars disappear over night, but another solution to this (for future games anyway) might be allowing modding and then controlling it.
Yep, that is one way. If that would happen and they introduce modding as a legitimate way of tuning cars with corresponding ways of controlling how they are used online, I would gladly start modding myself. Some of the creations I've seen are extremely cool, I have to admit that.
That doesn't give those cars an advantage though.
Not by default, but it gives the player using that car an advantage, which is more tuning options. That is not fair play.
The ones subtle enough to go unnoticed probably aren't even worth worrying over though. Also, if they are so subtle, then this runaway copy cat crisis you described probably won't happen.
Even a gain of 1/10th of second per lap can be enough to make the difference between win or lose. These things will be judged by mere suspicion as it's impossible to prove anything. If player A, who's always been slower than player B, suddently becomes slightly faster than B, people are going to be suspicious. Now, there's nothing that says that player B is the fastest racer in the world and that no one can possibly be faster, but it's unlikely that player A suddently got that skilled. It can't be proven that player A used a modded car, so he can't really be excluded on a mere suspicion. However, a lot of people will be more or less convinced that it's the only way he could have done it, and so to not get a disadvantage, someone else starts using modding secretly and in the end most people will do it. Remove modding altogether (or find ways to control it, which there aren't yet) or the trust will ultimately get lost. Compare it to doping, there are a lot of athletes who would never dream of using doping, but the mere possibility makes everyone suspicious, especially when someone performs extremely well.
To be honest, I probably wouldn't even go out of my way to look for modders until something suspicious lead me to. It seems some people can't stand the thought of the cars even existing though, so to each their own.
I don't think cheating should be allowed at all, even it it just makes them slightly faster than everyone else.
The problem with the existence of the cars is that there's no way to control the use of them. If there were ways to control their use, their existence wouldn't be a problem. But since there is no such way, there is a problem.
