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Career mode is a bit of an improvement over 2017 however i do again think its another lazy attempt by codemasters.

Theres so many little changes they should have made that would improve it and some are so obvious too which is why i call codemadters attempt lazy.

1. They need to have driver team changes ie. Le clerk moves to red bull or sainz moves to mercedes at the end of seasons.

2. Introduce driver ratings that are visible and that change over time.
Ie. Max verstappen start with a rating of say 82 and with his potential he can imprive to a 93 etc.
Kimi goes from say 82 down to 75 as he ages.
Obviously the teams that are at the top would therefore sign the higher rated drivers.

3. Surely they can have made up f1 youngsters that can come in to the frame in seasons 2 and 3 etc. So kimi retires for example and le clerk is signed by ferrari and le clerk is replaced by dos santos who could potentially becone your rival over time.

Theres so many ideas that codemasters need to introduce. Surely someone that works for them is employed to have these types of ideas? Surely???
If they have somobe employed then lets sack them and employ someone new please :)

Any more idea are welcome... who knows... maybe a codemasters employee may actually decide that we have some good ideas hahaha 

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1. Licence issues

2. 10 year career - so Kimi would be 49 by the end of career mode, unless each team had a young 3rd driver

3. As above and yes that could actually work

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That would be strict licence issues. Fifa et are able to transfer players so surely codemasters can sort that.

10 years can be made 20 or watever.
They need driver progressions etc... retirements and new drivers coming through is easy to sort out surely.
Just have 20 random made drivers that can enter the career mode. If sainz has a bad season he may be replaced by 1 of the random drivers but the following season he may be sign by another team etc etc

Im just suggesting very basic ideas... codemasters are there to put these type of ideas into the game and solve problem associated with the ideas.

If i play 10 seasons... i dont want it to basically be a re run of season 1 each season. Where is the replayability in that? Makes no sense.

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Try to at least understand how licensing and game development works before you start calling Codemasters "lazy".

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I dont understand licensing... im not employed to understand that sort of thing.
Surely they can implement these sort of ideas though? Surely?

The career mode may aswell be 1 season if they cant make some changes that encourage you to go into seasons 4 and 5.

There is nothing wrong with people wanting the game to be better. Im suggesting ideas which seem to solve the issue.
If they are not possible then thats fine. Nothing is impossible though and surely these kibd of changes could be made if codemastets were willing to have licensing discussions etc. I dont claim to understand the licensing issues tho :)
Not sure how they work etc... as i said its not my job but it is codemasters job to make improvements and they havent made enough in my opinion.

Do i like the game? Yes i do.
Is it better than 2017? Yes i believe it is.

Can they make improvements? Yes!!!!! Lots of areas.

Im not saying they should use these exact ideas but im saying that they do need to make some improvemts to improve the career mode going into seasons 2 omand 3 and 4 etc.
Thats their job to come up with ideas that are possible for there budget and ability levels

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You guys may have more realistic ideas?
Unless ur just happy to continue with how the career mode is?
Seems silly to not want an improvement though :)

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Brfc1986 said:
I dont understand licensing... im not employed to understand that sort of thing.
Surely they can implement these sort of ideas though? Surely?

The career mode may aswell be 1 season if they cant make some changes that encourage you to go into seasons 4 and 5.

There is nothing wrong with people wanting the game to be better. Im suggesting ideas which seem to solve the issue.
If they are not possible then thats fine. Nothing is impossible though and if surely these changes could be made if codemastets were willing to have licensing discussions etc.
Not sure how they work etc... as i said its not my job but it is codemasters job to make improvements and they havent made enough in my opinion.

Do i like the game? Yes i do.
Is it better than 2017? Yes i believe it is.

Can they make improvements? Yes!!!!! Lots of areas.

Im not saying they should use these exact ideas but im saying that they do need to make some improvemts to improve the career mode going into seasons 2 omand 3 and 4 etc.
Thats their job to come up with ideas that are possible for there budget and ability levels
When I think of driver transfers for a F1 game - Grand Prix World (barring Villeneuve of course, this was a licensed game) did this - so Formula 1 (CVC/Bernie Ecclestone) did allow this to happen previously? So there is always potential possibility that this could happen in future games particularly with Liberty Media running the show.

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100% it is possible turtlemoose.
Maybe its a financial issue? Maybe it would cost too much to be worth the improvement? Who knows... but if this option is not viable for watever reasin then they need to come up with a different solution becausr we do need some sort of changes.
I just want the game to be as good as it can be and i think the career mode has a lot of potential to be great but i stand by the point that codemasters appear to be a little lazy in their new game releases.
If thats a lack of understanding on my point then i accept that also. Just seems like there is a lot of unfilled potential

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I don't think "fake" or random A.I generated names would go down that well with a lot of people, unless you had the option of editing names. Only issue with that would be you could have a driver named "George Russell" but the driver model would look nothing like him.

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Ye you could be right... maybe use real up and coming drivers? Not sure how or what the best idea woul be but they would need to come up with a good idea :)

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Think codemasters are not that upset about no driver movement. Means you are more likely to buy new game each year to get the new lineups. No proof in that just my thoughts

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I think most experienced racers would be offended with a reduced rating for age lol! Alonso hasn't missed a beat and Kimi still has it, he is just too ice cold cool most of the time. Was hoping Massa would return too seeing him in the pits again this year as Williams REALLY need that experienced driver role. Or another Rosberg who can help setups etc.

Drivers changing, making a dream team like you can change players on FIFA would be amazing! But yes I think there are way too many hurdles and such BUT I don't believe it to be impossible, there have been many games that have allowed such changes in the past. And if they do allow one day the TRUE dream of creating your own team in F1 then being able to put a driver from the live roster in that other seat would be ideal! This would also help driver changes, you could have a live driver change update and still keep the replaced driver in the roster for use elsewhere. Career mode would be most realistic this way for a true dynamic feel as the teams continue to evolve their team performance in car and driver. Afterall if you manage to get a bottom running team into a winning team you'd expect them to head hunt the best drivers as well as more desire from the drivers to switch to that new winning team. One day @Faya if you can confirm that a create your team in career is even possible at the moment? Off the cards entirely, or hope for the future?
(Sorry to tag you in a general but you'd make a lot of people happy to hear any news on team creation in career mode on the table) ;) 

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^^^ Thats a good idea :)
Codemasters... you need to di something along the lines that we have mentioned for f1 19.
If next years career mode is the same then its completely pointless.
Ideally id love a kind of team msnagement mode kinda like described above

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