Replay value and customization?

[Raf]

I haven't paid much attention to this game since the initial announcement, but how's the replay value after finishing a season? Will new drivers come up through F3? Can you change team names/colours/sponsors, etc.?

The game looks cool but if it's only good for one season then I'm a lot more wary of getting it

[SirKaiser]

Probably not, given you can't even create your own team. The brands just don't want this kind of freedom with their precious names

[Raf]

Originally posted by SirKaiser:

Probably not, given you can't even create your own team. The brands just don't want this kind of freedom with their precious names

That's pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ then. Any news on modding capabilities? I know modders have done amazing things with Motorsports Manager.

[MO938]

These are my biggest worries for this game, even though I have pre-ordered. What will happen once we max out all our facilities and max out our cars? Yes, there can be regulation changes but can we easily max out the cars again? Will there be seasons with every team having maxed out cars and facilities? Will it be too easy to understand the system and AI and therefore make it too easy to make money, too easy to buy everything and too easy to win races and championships? I see maybe 3-4 seasons max before everything gets same old. That's my biggest concern. Hopefully there is a difficulty slider that we can increase if things get too easy after a while.

[CHIEFSHOTTY]

Originally posted by MO938:

These are my biggest worries for this game, even though I have pre-ordered. What will happen once we max out all our facilities and max out our cars? Yes, there can be regulation changes but can we easily max out the cars again? Will there be seasons with every team having maxed out cars and facilities? Will it be too easy to understand the system and AI and therefore make it too easy to make money, too easy to buy everything and too easy to win races and championships? I see maybe 3-4 seasons max before everything gets same old. That's my biggest concern. Hopefully there is a difficulty slider that we can increase if things get too easy after a while.

MM had same issues, once you built everything up you could cram upgrades and get to the front quickly. However, actual F1 regulations would change things some quite a bit. MM doesn't have cost cap limitations. Additionally, when you are considered a 'top' team, you get limited testing hours to improve parts.

Back marker teams however get additional hours to test and improve so the're could be moments even if you have all the top facilities you can't exploit it because of cost cap and testing restrictions. Plus regulations may still reset the field from time to time. So hopefully even if you get to the 'endgame' of sorts. Competition could potentially be more fierce and tight as all the teams could be closely matched.

However, this is where AI competency comes in. Won't matter if their car is on par with yours or even better if they make stupid race strategy calls *cough* Ferrari *cough*.
If the AI can be give a good challenge throughout the campaign time and stay aggressive on their car development.

You can at least still feel you have to 'fight' to get or stay at the front.

[FaZe Slice]

Unlikely that you will be able to make any changes to the livery/sponsorships due to licensing but it has been confirmed that there will be driver transfers as well as personnel changes between different teams. When a driver retires a replacement driver will be generated so there is no limit to the number of seasons + looking at the development there is no way to “max out” a car so you will always be chasing performance

[Lee]

If I recall motorsport manager at the start didn't have build your team that was added later I can't wait for this a month is too long lol

[Andy]

Originally posted by Lee:

If I recall motorsport manager at the start didn't have build your team that was added later I can't wait for this a month is too long lol

Motorsport manager had 3 tiers of racing with promotion and relegation to add to the replay value.
This game hasn't.
So, from a replay perspective. This game was always going to need an own team mode more than MM.

[kingarthur772]

Andy after the real Part of that is done, then we have a 50 / 50 Chance to get it or get it not. You can ask all F1 Teams that they will give their Go, if you wanna have it in the next year big Update.


The Devs have not for nothing the F2 and F2 Licence too. There they have some Surprisses for us in the sleeve with that. Some of them we will see in the Game already (new Drivers, Driverupgrades to F2 or F1 etc.). That´s all possible and you can do an Driver-LeClerc-Team too f. e.

Other Surprises we don´t know and won´t know if we don´t make Investments in the Manager-Game. That´s the only supportet Game from the Devs in that Gerne for the next Years and evtl. decades like the Racing-Part from Codemasters / EA.

That Main-Part with the F1 is the Base-Game, the F2 and F3-Upgrades will come in the Yearly Upgrades with the Changes that are get done over the Free-Time-Season (Winter / Preview / Tests) incl. adjustet Rules and Reglementations etc.


What we have as a Team-Principle:

1. We have the Choise to lead a Top-Team, Middle-Field-Team or End of the Line-Team with different Difficultys.

2. We are in different Meetings (FIA, Rules, Reglementations etcpp.)

3. We have to decide where we concentrate on: This year Cars or more on the next Year Cars.

4. What Buildings and Repair- / Upgrade-Parts we build up to make the Team and Cars more suitable without breaking the yearly Bugdet-Reglementation

5. We have full race Weekendes with 3 Trainings, 1 Qualifing (evtl. 3 or 4 Times the Sprint-Race) and the Main-Race with a lot to do on the Command Center

and much more which I have forgotten.

If you make to many mistakes the replayability comes more often then you think. And to bring an End of the Line team up to the Top in the Top 3 is a realy hard work :)


The same you get too in the old MM with much lesser Management, Race-Weekend-Oportunitys and so on. It´s in some Parts still an good Game and get supportet from the last active Modders, but is getting old very fast. All other Games of that Gerne are completely outdated.

[Lee]

I agree this game seems to have way more management than mm I think f1 manager will be more challenging making sure you have enough parts in your warehouse in case your driver claps it into the wall but staying under the cost cap