Rejected

Give drivers a "Fear Factor"

With the new car background stats now giving to closer racing and the boost train effect.  This can make racing a "samey" and boring affair at times.  I, though, think that it is driver homogeneity at levels 18 to 20 that is making the racing boring.

So my idea is to:-

1. Give drivers a background, untrainable, "fear factor" stat.  This stat will affect driver agression at higher push levels, how close a driver can follow at any push level, the percentage of overtake chances taken.


2. When crashes are reintroduced, the Fear Factor can easily br incorporated to allow drivers with a higher factor to stay away from more potential incidents.


3. The factor itself will be on a 1 to 100 scale with lower figures showing a driver with little to no fear of situations and higher figures showing a driver that would not even say boo to a goose.


4. There is nothing to say that a driver with a high fear factor cannot win races or titles.  It would be up to the team manager to manage their driver accordingly


5. The fear factor during a racers career will go down naturally, following a logarithmic  or 1/n curve.  Considering the overall driver experience.  This is a natural thing.  But the fear factor will never go to zero.


6. This factor canvalso be incorporated into the autopitting system.  The higher the fear factor, the closer to 2 laps of fuel you come before your driver decides to come in.

I may have missed a few things here, but that is the main long and short ofvthis idea.

I’d vote a big no on this.

We’re still battling with tall drivers factor and then a fear factor that is not uniform should be introduced?

Those with enough cash and some lucky ones able to roll such a driver will have all the advantage.


Yes the racing is too close at the moment but dirty air is coming back soon which will make things close to how it was or better.

Right now, ANY addition to the game shouldn’t be the priority for the devs. It should be stability and patching the bugs.

Crashes will never be part of the game so this is a non-entity.


In general just a big no

The idea is to give drivers a stat that is controlled in the background of the game that nobody will actually see or be able to control in any other way than to use their game smarts and knowledge.  It will be untrainable down, but will at the same time go down, or up if the devs choose, in a structured and relatively lifelike way.  Experience and age will dictate how close a driver can get to another and not just atributes such as driver height or overall driver level.  This is designed to be another way or means of reducing the occurrence of cars in long trains in races, other than changing and re changing physical effects on the cars in the background.  I am just lookingvat the problem from another perspective.


Also, this idea would actually mitigate the core problem that you are mooting.

You are wrong on that assumption.  It has been mooted by Jack Basford that random events, such as crashes, are coming...

Anyhoo.  With this one being rejected, I shall now say no more on the general matter.

Man you have no idea.

That’s literally false

Jack Basford has said previously that the devs will try to implement crashes in the game in the future, so it's not false.