F1 Fanatic

Ability to protest penalties, better pit action / function, better interaction.

Ummm, Online Time trial and practice sessions.

Also I would like to be able to watch races from other cars once I have been taken out or finished the race as well as replays of online races.

I am sure codeys based the game engine on the Racedriver GRID one and most of these features were availabe in that game!

Why not include GP2 and GP3 in the game just like MotoGP games include Moto2 and 125cc and WRC games include SWRC, PWRC and JWRC? It’d be a realistic career mode.
You start in GP3 and work your way up to GP2 and F1
Or you can expand it even more with Porsche Supercup and Formula BMW

Codemasters WANT to do all of this stuff, but can’t because of Formula 1 and there ridiculous contracts.
All I want from the 2011 game is for Codemasters to find a way around the contract to allow them to DO all this.
I think I read or listened to something somewhere about updates for the game takes about a 6 weeks or more to get the all clear, because it has to go through lawyers and testers and management and directors and emails and arghhhh…. That is why they haven’t bothered with making a visual update on the cars, so they all have Fducts and new wings and bits and bobs.

Annoying to say the least.

I wouldn’t mind a 2d top down view mini game while the race loads, to drive your car round a track.
A manager mode would be lovely.
Eddy Jordan as your manager instead of that stupid girl, who is so emotionless.
Love the GP3 to GP2 suggestion.
Helmet design ***Professor-Drool
Visual upgrades throughout the season.
Improved everything else, especially the ‘live the life’ aspect.

- Fixed penalties!!! I keep getting penalties for crashes that aren’t caused by me. It also drives me mad when I have a crash and while returning to the track I get a penalty for “cutting the curve”!

- Customisation – I would love to be able to put my photo instead of the ANON masked guy in my stats screen. It is also irritating that while you drive f.e. for Toro Rosso you can see J.Alguersuari written on the sides of the car. Helmet design would be nice too.

- Statistics – an almost complete lack of statistics made me start writing them in a notebook (and getting back in time at leat 10 years in the history of video-games)

- Podiums – because a press conference is not enough

- The ability to switch drivers at the end of the season. Codemasters can’t do it because of the contracts with F1, but leaving this option to us – players maybe would do the job.

The idea of a game starting with karting, then GP3, GP2, testing in F1, and finally full-driver job is fantastic. But I think it would be a much too expensive project for any PC games developer right now. But maybe some time..

Different voices for race engineers. Not all of us love Rob Smedley. John Cleese in Basil Fawlty mode, or Sir Patrick Moore, now there would be some awesome race engineer voices.

- First of all, helmet designs is a must.
– A mode for creating your own team, like a manager mode basically. Creating the livery, gaining sponsors, choosing from made-up drivers based on their cost and skill levels. Having the money to upgrade facilities like the wind tunnel and improving your technical department to make sure upgrades for your car are more efficient and quicker produced. That, would be awesome.
– The penalty system to be sorted out. I don’t understand why I should get a penalty for being crashed into as I come out of the pits, whilst another driver isn’t on the racing line…
– The AI to be more consistent. How can I be a second faster in qualifying and then be trounced and finish 8th in a race? Even with mistakes, I should be at least matching their pace. Not to mention, their overtaking maneuvers should be more realistic.
– I’m not a big fan of the feeder series idea, but the idea of pre-season testing is very good. I don’t want to be doing a HRT every season.
– They should definitely change the numbers after each season. I don’t care if drivers don’t move, but if and when I win the Championship, I want that number 1. Maybe choose the driver you replace in the team as well?
– More advanced damage system. All that really happens, is my front wing coming off. Little bit poor really.
– Better integrated “Live the life” system. This should include podiums, even if it’s from the driver’s perspective, a hell of a lot more varied press questions, with actual REAL consequences to your answers.
– Data and statistics from previous seasons. So that I can check what happened at this particular circuit last season, where I came in quali and the race. What the fastest times were in practice, qualifying and the race and things like that.
– As aforementioned, definitely need consistency in weather of sessions. I don’t want heavy rain in Q1, and then a completely dry track in Q2. It’s not realistic.
– Possible commercial backing from sponsors? Even if they’re made up. So a team’s decision to hire you could also be based on money reasons, and your money could help quicker development through a season. Worth a thought anyway. It doesn’t necessarily have to appear on the car livery, but could be on the custom helmet.
– Better data on the computer screen during a race weekend. I want to be able to see my lap compared to other driver’s, in braking zones and what not so that I can see where I’m losing and gaining time over a single lap. As well as being able to see everyone’s sector 3 times on the screen too :P. Also, being able to analyse tyre wear. Especially in this particular forthcoming season.
– Being able to compare and copy setups from your team mate.
– A MUCH more advanced race engineer. Even to the point that it’s possible to request certain information. The race engineer on 2010 was just too basic. It never really helped me.

I think that’s all for now anyway. F1 2010 is a great game in my opinion. But with these changes, it could become an all time classic.

As for safety cars and the like, i don’t really mind. Mainly because as nice as it would be, if it wasn’t done accurately, i’m sure it would become a major nuisance and possibly a bit of a bore.