Anything which takes the emphasis of LFS away from racing against humans is losing the intent of the game. Cruise servers themselves use this idea in a different way, and this too is against the original purpose of the game. I really can't see development time being invested in something like this, to be honest.
But you could always try and find a way to do it yourself
Just what I thought - we already had this - and people started complaining that they couldn't drive the faster cars
Now that it's gone, people want it back
I agree that there should be a little better offline mode (like Season/Tournament or something) but since the AI still doesn't change their racing lines when a players car is on it, everythin involving AI would scare new players away rather than convincing them to by a license
if people want offline play to be better it could be made to improve the online play once that player returns online. Like more/harder challenges in the training. If it is difficult to do then people may work harder to get better, thus increasing the pace once online again. However, if people dont like that because they cant do it they know where GT/PGR/FM etc are sold
Interesting point of view. I have seen sims that attempt to 'simulate' real life by offering a choice of Career Mode, where you have to start off with lower performance equipment and work your way up to the higher perfomance stuff by proving yourself. Or you can select Arcade Mode whereby you can have/do anything you want.
Although there may be some reasons not to have Career Mode I voted 'Yeah!', because I don't think the idea is 'silly' in the least. In fact, I feel that saying this idea is 'silly' is like saying that this sim should never ever have a Career Mode and should only have Arcade Mode!!! To me that seems pretty silly.
If more work were to ever be concentrated on the single player aspect of the sim, I vote Yeah!/Yes for a Career Mode in Single Player. And I feel it would be a welcome addition to Multiplayer, Career Mode servers and Arcade Mode servers.
If we are talking about a sim here, and thereby attempting to simulate real life, would someone care to explain how it works? Is there ever a possibility to start off racing a Formula or Grand Prix car right off the bat, if you have enough money in your bank account? Or is it absolutely required to start off in lower classes and prove yourself first?
I didn't say that. I said that I think a career mode is a bad idea. Your logic escapes me, because I didn't say LFS should have an arcade mode only. I don't know where you got that idea.
LFS is an online racing simulator, not a real life simulator. Otherwise we could start simulating engine revision, cleaning the pitbox, arranging catering for the team, etc. Yes I am stretching.
i think there is a possibility to have such a carrer-mode and it's online: CTRA-X System. primary lfs is (like the subtitlesays a online racing simulator, so it's right to have possibilities to practice offline, but the main focus is the online racing. and nothing is better than hard, clean races against driver you know
Would take too much time to develop and actually make 'worthwhile' in my opinion...
but not only that, LFS doesn't have a huge diversity of tracks, so the more and more you play certain tracks through each stage of your career (eg. slower class of cars and progressing to faster class)... it would just get quite boring.
You also don't have very many choices for doing a large championship that typically runs 10-20 different tracks in a season. LFS couldn't do that without playing the same environment over and over again.... while its just on a different combo. Leagues have this problem too, because we don't have much to choose from. Sucks doesn't it?
If you want to build a career, work with leagues... that is a REAL career.
In my oppinion LFS doesn`t need a career mode, it`s all about online racing. But I like that point that you got to have some experience before beeing allowed to drive certain cars, it was a system like that waaaay back in LFS time, point system.
I`ll agree with you than some of the suggestions he got is rather silly, but you`ll have to agree that it wouldn`t harm to have a system that somehow won`t let you drive certain cars before you got enough experience. Poinst/distance whatever, I like the idea.
a online racing simulator, so it's right to have possibilities to practice offline, but the main focus is the online racing. and nothing is better than hard, clean races against driver you know