Dave Benton medal 5000 5 years 194 days ago (Last edited by
Dave Benton 5 years 194 days ago)
Kevin
Unforeseen events, such as rain, that affect everyone in the same way are fine. The person who best adapts and manages the situation gets an advantage and I'm perfectly OK with this type of random event. But crashes don't work like that, they target maybe one or two cars and nobody else is affected. It doesn't matter how well you manage the situation if your car crashes and your main rivals are unaffected it has the potential to change the outcome of a championship. IMO the person who wins the championships should be the best manager over the seventeen races, not the luckiest.
Just look at the frustration and anger caused by the advanced strategy "surprise tyre" and "random pit stop" features. Now imagine that happening to people every race, I don't think it would be overwhelmingly popular.
I don't believe crashes are on the developers to-do-list but if they are ever introduced I hope they are an optional feature so that I can choose to compete in a league where the feature is turned off.
So Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton are the luckiest team and driver in F1 then?
They must be by the reasoning you employ.
The incidents in F1 often have effects beyond those directly involved this weekend's British GP is a case in point. Incidents and safety cars are something real life teams deal with all the time. It is good management to be able to react to the unexpected and hey, the best teams with the best cars win the championships despite this 'luck' factor.
The glitches caused by advanced strategy malfunctions are completely different that is a game mechanics problem, just as if it game engine ignored the strategy you ordered and did something else instead. People were rightly annoyed because this isn't an issue that real team bosses would face, or if they did, only once, heads would roll.
I hope the development team are working on making the simulation more realistic, if it was optional, I would not compete in a league which chose the easy route, the game should throw up challenges, life does. And real Champions recognise that and accept the challenge.