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I’d just like to share my idea of implementing a proper and fun  online division in to the F1 game. This might take quite a few minutes to read but I’d be really really really thankful if you do take some time to read and if you liked and commented any ideas you have as well on this subject.

I’ve already talked to F1 YouTubers such as Aarava who has yet to reply and James Doherty ( JD or Veloce Limitless ) who replied and actual liked my idea and gave his constructive advice as well and if you guys haven’t checked his channel out please do, Im not trying to be some sort of promotion for him or anything but he’s such a nice guy and engages with his viewers and appreciates everyone one of them as well as posting good F1 content, so check him out https://m.youtube.com/channel/UClm-9W9f6CoiHJuX3mnMRyQ

I know people like Benjamin Daly and Aarava have also their own views and made videos on how to improve upon F1 2017 but they mainly focused it towards expanding career mode for the future of F1 but if you asked me I believe that the future of F1 games should be online and not just career mode. 



Anyway and Finally here’s my idea for the F1 game and I know a lot of people have called for this to be introduced in various forums and what not but I went a bit further to explain how and why it could be implemented in the game as well other various ideas....

 Sadly I don’t think it’ll be implemented in F1 2018 because of the development time it would take but maybe for F1 2019. 

We all know league racing is fun but not many people are not actually part of a league, I’d say less than 20% of the community because of timing issues whether it be busy at work or have plans that day or the fact that some leagues cost actual money to join

Also that if you are only semi good and not professional you are put down into lower leagues which results in you playing against people who have no shame in taking you out and seem to enjoy it which really ruins the whole experience as well as it can be quite difficult to set up a league and can get quite messy & time consuming

I know we have AOR as well as other Leagues  who have done a fantastic job but 3rd party websites and features results in people having to go out of their way trying to find a league, researching themselves and then communicating to get in using emails, it can be quite a pain in the ass as it can get quite messy and frustrating 


“”Idea Starts here””
 IMO They need to have the framework ( I cannot stress this enough ) for a proper online division inside their own game to make it more easier and accessible to ALL people who purchase the F1 game so instead I propose a different idea 

I don’t know if you every played FIFA but if not here’s a quick explanation.....they have an online league where you start on Division 10 and you work your way to division 1 by playing matches. 

So division 10 would be the easiest and where you would start so you’d probably encounter a lot of amateurs or new players

Anyway in FIFA you have 10 matches in each division and you only need 9 points to be promoted to division 9 

But for division 9 you now need 12 points to be promoted( higher leagues require higher points to be promoted which increases difficulty as it should) but also if you get less than 3 points (not quite sure of the exact points) you end up getting relegated to division 10 but you can stay in a division if you earn less than 12 but more than 3 points

I would like something similar to be implemented into the F1 game...

My idea is as follows....

There is 10 divisions and you are promoted or demoted after each month depending on your position you have earned from the points you got from racing 

So you have one race every week so 4 races total per month. The reason for four is because you might one week have a bad race or getting taken out and as a result you get demoted for no fault of your own

 or maybe your busy that week and can’t play but if you have four races as I suggest per month you can afford to preform badly in a race or get taken out or miss one week possibly two because of other commitments and still get promoted or stay in your division 

I propose that at the end of each month the top 10 drivers who earned the most points from the 20 drivers you were in a league division with get promoted 

11th place to 15th place will stay in that division they are currently in 

While 16th to 20th place will get demoted/ relegated to the division below them (provided they are not already in divsion 10) 

Of course you have the problem of people deliberately taking people out and ruining their whole race but we heard of how Codemasters are implementing a way to prevent this by introducing a safety ranking(I forget the exact term used) which should help but remember you would also have 3 other races to preform well in so it doesn’t all come down to one race where you could possible be taken out of 

The racing tracks could be random whatever Codemasters decide or they could follow the normal F1 calendar so the first four racing tracks Australia Bahrain China Azerbaijan for the first month and then for the second the following four, but whatever they choose, you are warned in advance so you can have 5 or 6 days to practice your qualifying/race pace


The length of races could be a bit tricky, 3/5 Laps would be way to short, 25% is ok but sometimes is way too short as well, certain tracks are like 13/14 laps while others like Monaco are more Reasonable (20 Laps long)  so maybe 20 laps should be mandatory for all tracks
20 laps is not too short and not too long so people won’t get bored and possibly could make the two stop strategy come into play making races not just about racing but also a touch of tactical play involved just like the real F1 has.

Now on to the matter of how points should be allocated based on where they finish in a race 


I suggest that they should not follow the normal allocation of points F1 follows and suggest they should be as follows (my reasoning can be found below) 



1).    35  Points 
2).    28  Points 
3).    25  Points
4).    20  Points 
5).    18  Points
6).    16  Points
7).    14  Points 
8).    12  Points 
9).    10 Points 
10).   8 Points 
11).    6 Points
12).    4 Points
13).    3 Points
14) .   2 Points
15).    1  Points
16).    0
17).    0
18).    0
19).    0
20).   0

Why not follow the normal F1 points allocation where 1st place gets 25 points and 2nd gets 18 points and so on until you get to 10th place which gets 1 point

The reason for this is because after the first few laps if you followed the normal f1 points allocation, people who let’s say got in an accident lost front wing or forced to pit in lap 1( which happens a lot)  and are coming  16th 17th 18th 19th 20th position, they are just not going to see the point continuing racing as they see no chance of getting to tenth so you’ll see so many half-empty lobbies after the first initial few laps 

But if you followed the points allocation I created, now all of a sudden even you did crash and you’re coming 19th 18th 17th you still have hope of getting a few points, instead of having to overtake 9 cars to get to 10th. ( which is virtually impossible) only to just get one point you now only need to overtake one, two or maybe three cars to get some points so it would encourage people to stick around and continue to race, 

Instead of 17th or 18th place being meaningless and worth nothing it would make things a lot more interesting and competitive as you’re now fighting for points and not just feel like you’re making up the numbers in the lobby. 

Maybe for the higher divisions you could revert back to the normal points allocations to make it tougher to be promoted it’s entirely up to them. Or you could scrap my points allocation and just start with the normal one, I’m just laying out ideas.

Of course they could be prizes for the winners of division 1 let’s say the top three get paddock tickets to a Grand Prix of their choice which I think would be really cool but doubt Codemasters would do this but even still maybe a copy of F1 2019 for free or something. 

Id be really interested to hear your feedback on what you think.
I honestly don’t feel Codemasters will get this done,  because why would they go out of their way when they can still comfortably sell the game each year without much hassle so I hoping by writing this here, it will get the attention of Codemasters if every could like and generate hype by saying what you like or if this will work or the ideas you have for an online division because I really feel this game needs it, sprint online mode is fun sometimes but it’s nothing great, satisfactory at best, I’m just hoping to get this idea out there as well as much more for a more enjoyable game for the future of F1 

you guys don’t have to agree with everything I say, you can have you own views on certain aspects and so will others which I think is a good idea as we as a community could help create a better game for F1 2019 by giving our ideas and insights as well as constructive criticism on why this may or may not work...

I think this covers just about everything 
And once again thank you if you managed to read and get this far and I’d really appreciate if you liked and favorited this post if you did enjoy it so other people could come across it and hopefully then get the attention of Codemasters so this could actual happen and be implemented for F1 2019

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While I have not read you’re full post, this idea is maybe overestimating the scale of the games customers. While F1 is a popular sport not everyone buys the games and a smaller margin again play online.. not saying online is a waste of effort because that is my complete opposite opinion, I love racing online but hate these trolling drivers you speak of however later in the games lifecycle I can see new players hitting a glass ceiling in that they cannot match up to enough players to find a race. It might be explained better if I said it like this; if there is not enough to fill a lobby then players can finish first or second even if they’re last and this would mean easy promotion

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Thank you Reub for replying, yes I understand what you mean when saying people who technically come last could still win if there’s only 3 people in the lobby but maybe Codemasters could make sure that the lobby would have to be full before it can begin.

In regards to not having enough people I’ve done some quick calculations based on estimate sales, I’m not sure of the exact amount of sales but I know 170,000 were sold in the first week, so I’d say by now well over 300,000 copies
I agree not everyone plays online so let’s spilt it in half, that leaves 150,000 people who bought the game and play online, again of those people they may not be interested in playing an Online division but let’s say 25% of those 150,000 players are and  play it which is a reasonable assumption, that’s leaves 37,500 people so approx 12,500 on each platform (PS4, Xbox, PC) that should be plenty of people to ensure that the online division lobbies are full which would prevent people from getting promoted easily.

I do agree however that online racing is fun but it could be so much better than it is, I’m just trying to come up with ideas to help improve it but yes online trolls definitely need to be put an end to and I’m hoping their new safety matchmaking feature their implementing will help.

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AOR has 9 no-assists splits and 3 assists ones so far, with about 3s difference between 9th and 1st, so if you want to make 10 divisions, you will have to make around 200 people join, and considering that not many top drivers are going to join (they are already busy practising for AOR), there can be issues with attendance. The idea is good, but a bit too big at the moment.

Edit: Placement can be pretty hard to get right too.

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Thank you for reading and leaving your thoughts Path1337,

Yes perhaps at the moment it’s a bit too big, but F1 sales have continued to rise each year, I was hoping for this to be in F1 19 which would hopefully have an increased fan base but maybe then for F1 20, which the fan base and sales should be even greater, If Codemasters do introduce it and give it some hype I do believe well over 200 people would join. I’ve addressed the numbers I feel could be interested in playing an online division in my previous comments when I replied to reub up above if you would like to check them out.
Even if you shorten the numbers even more and only select 20% of the possible 12,500 it would still leave you with 2,500 people which is more than enough. But even 200 people would be sufficient for it to work so hopefully F1 sales continue to rise so there’s more potential players

 I completely agree with you that placement could be difficult like you don’t want amateurs going up against pros who are 5 seconds a lap quicker, maybe then Codemasters could make you run a short qualifying program or 5 lap race on your own during the week on to determine your average race pace and match you with similarly paced racers. 

As far as in races, the higher division you get in to, the more likely you are to come up against similar fast paced racers who are just as good if not better than you which should keep it competitive and not be matched will slower paced racers.


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This is one of the most constructive ideas I've read in a while.Hope someone from Codemasters read it and implement it in the near future!If you want to keep up with online racing you have to invest great amount of time, something that I personally can't do and this will help out a lot players like me and hopefully will attract plenty other gamers.

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Thank you Fiore for taking time to read my post, I too hope someone from Codemasters does see it and maybe put it forward so it can be implemented so hopefully from all the comments and likes you guys have given me it might get their attention and possibly happen, yes I agree you have to invest so much time with online racing so my idea would allow the casual player to still miss a few races and like you said will help out a lot of players and still get a chance to be promoted, once again thank you Fiore  :) 

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This is a great idea, however on Xbox, given that I am in the US, there is max like 150 players online if I go on at a reasonable time, and often as few as like 40. There’s need to be someway to allow cross-division play in order to build larger lobbies. If I’m division 3 or something, I d rather do a 20 person lobby with division 6 7 and 8 people than a 1v1 with div 3 folks. That may just be me, but sometimes having more folks, even if they’re slower makes things interesting. Especially in a last-first style challenge if you bottle quali. I think most of the “trolls” will get trapped in the lower divisions, so that should be fine.

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pijin said:
This is a great idea, however on Xbox, given that I am in the US, there is max like 150 players online if I go on at a reasonable time, and often as few as like 40. There’s need to be someway to allow cross-division play in order to build larger lobbies. If I’m division 3 or something, I d rather do a 20 person lobby with division 6 7 and 8 people than a 1v1 with div 3 folks. That may just be me, but sometimes having more folks, even if they’re slower makes things interesting. Especially in a last-first style challenge if you bottle quali. I think most of the “trolls” will get trapped in the lower divisions, so that should be fine.
Thanks for you imput and liking my idea pijn :) I think cross division play would really help increase numbers available to play. We see how Fortnite have cross gaming but whether Codemasters will be able to implement it remains to be seen, sadly I doubt it, yes I agree pijn, the more people in a lobby the more enjoyful and challenging it’ll be as you have more cars to overtake.

 Most of the “trolls” are bad racers so yes most of them will be in a worse division than any semi decent player so hopefully getting taken out on purpose wouldn’t be a big problem. 

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