Is it possible for a driver to die in a crash?

[FanConE]

Just being a little curious here, have you guys encountered such occasion?

I think it's a cool little feature to have, like a small or a teeny tiny percentage that a driver could die in a crash. And then there will be some events like a tribute/homage to the driver, or dilemmas, or a hit to the morale of the drivers/the team, you got the idea. It could be a challenge from a strategical standpoint as you have to rethink and plan your strategy accordingly.

Of course you can always reload your save file & save your driver and make all of it pointless. Hey, maybe that's a new idea, an ironman mode where you can only have 1 save file to make it all more challenging.

[★MrDragon★]

nope

[[₣] TastyFish]

100% no chance the developers want to include anything having to deal with death. It would have to be some type of a mod.

[Racer D]

And there is no gameplay in it at all.

When a driver dies, the organizing body comes with safety measures to race track or to car regulations (things like chassis strengthening or HALOs or whatever).
Nothing the teams can do.

So as a team manager you wouldnt have to do anything.

[Xsaros]

I don't think that is going to be in the game. However I could see maybe a "Retirement worthy crash" as a feature.

[Tig_green]

Originally posted by Xsaros:

I don't think that is going to be in the game. However I could see maybe a "Retirement worthy crash" as a feature.

Well crashes in the game end up with retirement... Or you meant like ending career? Probably... I think this all can be modded but the problem is to define when a crash leads to severe consequences. Not sure there is precise enough factors to determine such things.

[Racer D]

Well when a car catches fire apparently there is a chance it will affect the driver in a way (morale?). So things are possible, although I guess this is just an RNG thing in that case.

[Xsaros]

Originally posted by Tig_green:

Originally posted by Xsaros:

I don't think that is going to be in the game. However I could see maybe a "Retirement worthy crash" as a feature.

Well crashes in the game end up with retirement... Or you meant like ending career? Probably... I think this all can be modded but the problem is to define when a crash leads to severe consequences. Not sure there is precise enough factors to determine such things.

Yeah I meant career ending crashes. But I agree, It's not so simple just to add them with how random the crashes are.

[Hikyu]

I think max damage that a driver can incur is an injury like burn, in which all stats drop to 0

[Tig_green]

Originally posted by Hikyu:

I think max damage that a driver can incur is an injury like burn, in which all stats drop to 0

But basically you can make that a permanent trait which effectively ends driver's career. But I don't know if it's possible to separate crashes that 1) give no injury 2) gives injury 3) gives permanent injury in a sensible way. We don't want that permanent injury is purely RNG based if the outcome would be totally random.

[Hikyu]

Originally posted by Tig_green:

Originally posted by Hikyu:

I think max damage that a driver can incur is an injury like burn, in which all stats drop to 0

But basically you can make that a permanent trait which effectively ends driver's career. But I don't know if it's possible to separate crashes that 1) give no injury 2) gives injury 3) gives permanent injury in a sensible way. We don't want that permanent injury is purely RNG based if the outcome would be totally random.

Agree.
The only incident that can surely do this type of damage is, in some cases, fire during refuel...

[Xautos]

Rather morbid idea, there are over a dozen drivers/riders who have died in crashes in high profile motorsports, those names will never be forgotten for their sacrifices to advance safety for every other driver/rider out on the racing circuit.

Simoncelli
Tomizawa
Salom
Bianchi
Wheldon
Wilson
Surtees
Dozen or so killed in Isle TT races over the last few years.

I'd rather not see playsport add such a feature to kill a driver, there is already too many who have died as it is and i don't wish to see anymore of it, not in real life or in game.

Injuries that are enough to put a driver out of the racing is fine, so long as it remains within reason. for example something like a crash that means a driver has a broken leg that can be mended properly, but never again can a driver race.

[Hikyu]

Originally posted by Xautos:

Injuries that are enough to put a driver out of the racing is fine, so long as it remains within reason. for example something like a crash that means a driver has a broken leg that can be mended properly, but never again can a driver race.

I agree with you, let the game be a game, there are too bad news in the RL, that a game without fatal tragedy is welcome...
Pheraps injury that bring the driver to a retire or a permanent loss of many stats values could be implemented, but it's not priority IMHO.

[Neurotic Panda]

Originally posted by Xautos:

Rather morbid idea, there are over a dozen drivers/riders who have died in crashes in high profile motorsports, those names will never be forgotten for their sacrifices to advance safety for every other driver/rider out on the racing circuit.

Simoncelli
Tomizawa
Salom
Bianchi
Wheldon
Wilson
Surtees
Dozen or so killed in Isle TT races over the last few years.

No offense but is this a memorial post, Or a post about thoughts on adding possible deaths to the drivers in a GAME.

Only over a dozen drivers who have died in 'high profile motorsports'??? .. I think thats a very shortsided list/comment, especially if your list is going for some kind of recognition of real world racing mortalities. You havent even touched the tip of the iceberg.

I for one could see this feature added into a GAME, where your supposedly running a team where these things DO happen to the people involved in real life racing of all kinds all across the globe since racing began. I do not think its a stretch or a bad idea to add this into a GAME. It could definitely shake up a good season and completely alter your team out-of-nowhere.

[★MrDragon★]

Originally posted by Xautos:

Rather morbid idea, there are over a dozen drivers/riders who have died in crashes in high profile motorsports, those names will never be forgotten for their sacrifices to advance safety for every other driver/rider out on the racing circuit.

Simoncelli
Tomizawa
Salom
Bianchi
Wheldon
Wilson
Surtees
Dozen or so killed in Isle TT races over the last few years.

I'd rather not see playsport add such a feature to kill a driver, there is already too many who have died as it is and i don't wish to see anymore of it, not in real life or in game.

Injuries that are enough to put a driver out of the racing is fine, so long as it remains within reason. for example something like a crash that means a driver has a broken leg that can be mended properly, but never again can a driver race.

And just adding to this list from F 1 senna Jules Bianchi

[Racer D]

Its certainly not necessarily a bad feature as it happens in racing, yes - but as I said before, gameplay-wise it's useless.

You could think gamewise of putting a highperformance dangerous engine in to win races at the risk of driver death if that engine explodes, but these days that is not really possible and if a team would do so, they would be banned for eons.

Any other death in last 25 years is by freak accident and not something for the team to solve (like the crane in Suzuka or Wilson or Wheldon), but for regulatory bodies like FIA. Hence death in MM wouldnt do anything for the player manager. It is not something the player can influence nor solve.