Christmas Suggestions : Various

Calendar Rotation :
For I and many others (some very famous), 17 races is the best both for the game and in reality.
But everyone is agree that more variety is never bad. So why not to add rotation to achieve that ?
It could be for a race :
- Germany > Nurbugring one season, Hockenheim the next
- Europe > Valencia one season, Russia the next

Or even adding new and old gp such as USA, San Marino and Canada.
It's even possible to add historical gp in this rotation (Kyalami, Estoril, Adelaïde), I know the oldest of us would love it.
It would be an option choosen by the owner between 2 or more types of calendar (classic, rotation, historic, etc ..)

Overtaking possibilities :
Currently all circuits are Monaco-like making it difficult or impossible to overtake without overheating tyres.
We only have 2 ways we can rely on : DRS and KERS.
It would be interesting to add at least 1 or 2 straights per race where drivers can try to overtake (with an order button)

Prapes aka "Pit rapes" :
This is the logical continuation of the last suggestion, we do not have many overtaking possibilities and cars can be really close in performance making a pit rape synonymous of "race over" for us. Prapes happen in the pits when you have to wait to get out of your pit, you can lose between 1s/3s (sometimes more) depending on number of cars and this can happen multiple times during the race. This is one of the most annoying thing for most of all and some left the game only for that reason.
It would be interesting to limit those rapes or even to set a ghost mode in pits only (like it is when a car enter pits versus other cars still in their stints).

Wet races :
Currently this type of races is the fastest, how is that possible ?
It could be more realistic to have it as it occurs in reality (full wet 10/15s slower than full dry).
It could also be interesting to see the wet % before races to choose the best suited tyres for qualifying and thus for the race.

Hard tyres :
Currently only SS/S (and sometimes Meds) are useful, even in summer at Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Italy those tyres aren't useful !
It would be interesting to tigthen the use of all tyres, making Hards finally useful and adding a good amount of new strategies.

Thanks for reading and feel free to comment and/or add your own suggestions here.

Good suggestions, all perfect to add to this game IMO.
I would add:
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[*]Actual Racing:​
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So, in stead of the cars going THROUGH each other when overtaking, make it so they take different lines to get past. This would include making normal on-track passing more frequent too, but we all want that really. Plus, you COULD see cars crashing when overtaking which leads onto.......
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[*]Car Contact And Penalties
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This could be introduced so when a driver is pushing they have a chance of spinning out on their own or even crashing into others. You could even get different types of damage, like say just an end-plate knock which would lose you time, but also full-blown crashes which damage the car. This introduction to the game could lead to so many things as well, for instance perhaps in your pit you may have to get the front wing replaced. As for penalties, well, they could be in the format of drive-through, stop-and-go, after race timings and grid slots for next race. There could even be RACE BANS.
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[*]Interactive Pitstops
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​What I REALLY mean by this is any way of making pit stops more interesting. Whether it be being able to customise the balance between slow and high-risk stops, to even seeing the pit guys doing the job, or even just doing it yourself and touching every tyre to have it refitted quicker (of course if you are not attending it will do it for you in a slightly slower time so you won't need to worry about having a 46-minute stop.) This would also include replacing front wings from the above point and whatever.​
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[*]Car Failures
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Say you are using an old engine, perhaps it will blow up in a cloud of smoke! This would instantly end the driver's race, and for the next race's setup that driver would have a 0% engine. Or even you could have just a minor suspension failure which would slow your driver down for the rest of the race and take about 30% of it's wear.
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[*]Team Radio
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So your driver could say to you (optionally even subtitles) that they feel vibrations and their front left tyre has a likely flat spot.  Or whatever. Then you could make a pit call. Perhaps there wasn't actually a flat spot and he was just guessing. Then you just pitted for no reason :)
(If there are random bullet points everywhere then basically they are glitching out for some reason today and I cannot delete them :( 
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[*]Fuel Mixes And Other Push Level Customisations
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Right now, it is, I think, too easy to win whilst not attending. Some might argue against that. But personally, I disagree with them. Also, the game needs more strategy to it, including fuel saving and the like. So I think there should be either more push levels to be chosen, or fuel mixes on the same template as push levels are now are added along side them, or both of course. Fuel mixes could alter ENGINE temperature rather than TYRE temperature and would make you faster/slower at the same time. If you got the engine too hot, of course performance would be affected no matter what engine setting/fuel mix you would run. Also the engine WEAR would increase for next race. This would also affect how much fuel you would use majorly, and the chance of failures.
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[*]Flags
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​There is too much here to explain. Red flag (race stops for a while whilst martials pick up debris or weather clears) blue flags ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOlBKWHBwk8 ) yellow flag (people slow down)  etc.
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[*]Podiums
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After the race, you can see the top 3 receiving prizes and showering champagne on each other. 

As a side note/part of this, drivers and managers maybe even need proper faces!

These are the main things I think could be improved in the races THEMSELVES, there may be a few things else that could be changed, thanks for reading :)

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Good suggestions by Joey.

Hard tyres do get used but you have to be racing at the time of day where the hotter tracks of the season schedule are actually experiencing their hottest weather of the day (like noon in Bahrain). There should not be a need to re-work the tyres.

In reply to James Pinsker's suggestions, your suggestions just aren't necessary or look like they will improve the game.

I previously was in favor of things such as car contact and penalties, however, I am no longer in favor of this. I'd much rather have a clean, contact and penalty free race with close knit racing. I don't want to be a subscriber to this game if I'm going to end up having my plans to sit down and live manage get screwed over because variables decided my car ought to maybe crash or have a damaged component replaced with a drive into the pits. It is already frustrating enough when a manager retires because they made a human error in calculating fuel when there was a need to change their strategy.

While its realistic, it's not adding fun to the game. I played an extremely simple F1 management game (20 minute long game) and any time I pushed the driver harder the car was far more likely to retire. It ticked me off whenever the car retired. Although it's likely the contact and penalties would be rare, I don't want a difficult race to turn into an easy win because my rival decided to push harder for an overtake but wound up crashing himself out. I also think this will not keep new players attracted to the game. 

As for interactive pit stops, please remember this is a management game, and I am not playing this game to switch the tyres on my cars and fuel them up. Another problem with this is that it would be easier for players on tablets to do and put PC (mouse) and laptop (track pad) users at a heavy disadvantage.

Car failures, this goes back to my first issue with car contact and penalties. Components that aren't replaced on a car after a race already deliver slower times.

Team Radio, another bad idea. Real F1 teams already have a lot of telemetry flowing in to review if whether a driver's input on a problem with a car is legitimate or not. We don't get such sophisticated level of telemetry.

I have no idea what you are talking about with fuel mixes and push level customizations. Flags won't be necessary because the car failures aren't a good idea. And backmarkers are already easily passed. And if podiums celebrations are ever added, I definitely won't be sticking around to watch them.

Good suggestions by Joey.

The most important thing i think is Ghost pit.

That's why I would like to see more Car Design Options implemented into the game. Could build a car like Red-Bull high mechanical grip (good cornering) or a car like Williams low mechanical grip (good straight line speed)

Wheelbase: 2995–3400 mm (118–134 in)
Chassis Length: Averaging 4995–5240 mm (197–206.4 in)
Nose of Car: Height & Width
Sidepods air in-take: Oval or Square. Large or small.

In F1 2015 Chassis length 5240mm (Red Bull/Toro Rosso), 5180mm (Mercedes/Force India), 5130mm (Ferrari/Sauber/Lotus), 5000mm (Williams/McLaren/Manor).
Nose Cone (the rules change so much in F1, so there are lots of different options we could have here) If you add predefined list of options let us pick the one we like. :)

All the things I said were a bit creative and I wouldn't be suprised if many aren't actually in the game. As for people who think these would be pointless, I just think it would add more strategy and make watching the live races much more important and fun. I don't see how those ideas would be pointless. As for Mr Greer's suggestions, I really like the idea of that, perhaps even make it visible to see what the car looks like, when you are making liveries too.

I was thinking along the lines of throwing up spying issues.

Staff Meeting Re: Spied Parts.

Spy "Sorry boss, but we can't get any real useful information on the front-wing as they use a different design to us, but the info might be handy for next season if we choose that design route."

Chief Designer "If we cone this part we will only get 5% increase on this seasons car, But if we use that design next season we will get a 11% head start."

Accountant "To cone this part it will cost us $1million. I would advise against coning this part for this season and use the info our spy collected for next season.

Managers decision Pay $1million for this season or next season?


:D I know I need to get out more! running story modes in my head :P

Lol that is funny

Accountant 'Sorry we are broke lol'

Manager 'WTF why didn't you tell me?'

Chief Designer 'Lol we spent it on some doritos'

Manager 'You people are the biggest idiots I have ever seen'

Spy 'At least we found out how good their part is'

Manager 'Let me guess, knowing you absolute retards it's probably worse than ours'

Spy 'Well not exactly, you see they were copying OUR part, make of that what you will'

:D I thought I was the only crazy person here

You were wrong......................













Very wrong..............

Spy 'Sorry boss, we can't spy on their base because we don't have enough energy. Perhaps we could buy some pringles if you gave us a few more rusted tin cans to exchange on the street for spare change'

Manager 'Likely story. If you complain about wages ONE more time I'll fly you back to russia, selling stolen bicycles and the like.'

Commercial Manager 'Honestly, I think Jim is on the brink of starvation, and I COULD increase our debt by 5% if we pay those taxes that have been sitting there for the last 48 months'

Manager 'Lose 500 million smackers?!? Nah, I can't live with that. Here's a deal; make them those new Smoky Bacon ones, give half to me and you have a deal'


I don't know how this forum about game suggestions turned into a secondary school drama practice script by the way.

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