With respect it may solve it for you, but it wouldn’t for those of us that would like the feature in Online Multiplayer so that we can race with a friend online and multiple drivatars of our choosing.
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I do not have friends that game. I would love to have the option to set up my own racing series without having to rely on getting together with random strangers over the internet and hope they show in order for the races to happen. It is extremely frustrating that week after week there is no mention of addressing Free Play and it’s current bare bones worthless state. To even call it Free Play is a joke. It is not Free Play it is Locked Play. You are locked into doing whatever the game decides to put up based off of the general garbage settings. I don’t care about the restrictions to how many CPU players I can have in a multiplayer match. Addressing that and completely ignoring the questions on why Free Play is garbage is BS man. If making Free Play as customizable as your fan base wants it is too difficult come out and say why that is the case. If it is not than fix it and the community will love you guys for it.
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What about Forza 5? It had at least 15 Drivatars in Multiplayer. Sorry but I can’t help myself thinking that this cannot be a solution.
This will make lots pf players really unhappy, including myself.
And why can’t you include it in the free play?
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I really hope this is fixed.
My friend gets back from his dads today and we can only have 10 drivatars!? Pretty ridiculous Turn 10.
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Thanks for the explanation voodoo it puts some clarity on the situation but is there any work around or any carrer events your thinking of setting up? I just want to do GT racing when ever I want where ever I want but instead I get pagani zondas and Bugatti’s in the way.
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I completely understand what you’re trying to do, and I do hope that I’ll have a great solution for you to be able to get the exact experience you’re looking for.
In the meantime, may I suggest the Showcase events in the FM6 career mode? There are quite a few events in there that feature a carefully selected grid of cars like you’re looking for. The endurance events are an example and the moments-in-motorsports as well the race driver experience offer shorter races with the kind of car selection that I think you may enjoy. The Unrestricted Early GT racing event is an absolute favorite of mine.
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Unrestricted Early GT! This is the perfect example. I absolutely adore this event and would love to do it on other tracks as well. Would be great if you gave us more options for Free Play to tailor events to our liking.
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Thanks for the technical explanation of why it’s limited, it makes it a bit of a softer blow at least. As long as the issue is sitting on a bug-tracker somewhere and Turn10 is at least aware of it from the future then I can remain hopeful.
I assume you guys are looking into having the advanced options/buckets and everything else available in Free Play? Because that way we won’t even need to use networked modes as a workaround like we did in the past.
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Yes, the issue is sitting on a bug-tracker (TFS, in case you’re wondering, you probably weren’t).
Yes, using workarounds sucks.
You know I can’t make any promises, right? I know you (and other GAFers) would understand. 
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I wasn’t wondering about the bugtracker but it’s definitely interesting. I love any and all insights into development of games, it’s something rare to come across since most stuff seems to be NDA’ed up the wazoo as far as I’m aware.
And yeah, no promises but I’m still going to remain hopeful. I always trust you guys to deliver a good game and despite this issue, I’m still like ~20 hours into a game that isn’t technically even out yet, so I hope you don’t think I’m complaining, lol. You guys all work your asses off and it totally shows in the unfaltering 60fps that FM has always stood for. I’m just glad it’s at least being looked into, better than no response at all and I appreciate that alone.
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Thank you Voodoo, I’ve been crying on the forums like a baby but your the first one to have a proper explanation can’t wait, I’ve also done a few of the showcase events they are quite fun! Thanks.
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Can’t you just put regular AI as an option in multiplayer instead of drivertars?
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I very much appreciate the response from Turn 10 developer.
Please find some way around this. If it can’t be implemented in private multiplayer then it’s back to wanting public lobbys in the hope of getting three players to add 5 AI each.
Failing that then a patch for “Free Play” which brings over most of the MP options would be ideal.
I would love to race the classic historic Grand Prix cars and at the moment I seem to be restricted to a single showcase event , restricted to race against 5 (private MP lobby) or have a grid of unlikely opponents in free play. This makes sandbox play so very restrictive!
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When we talk about AI in Multiplayer, I think there should also be an option to upgrade the AI Cars to the Player class. It is so boring to drive with a upgraded car against Ai with default upgrades…
The explanation does not help at all. I am a customer that has the Option of max Drivatars. But I only get 5 per human Player, which is just sad.
I am honest when i say: if i knew this before purchasing this for 109 Euros, i surely did not buy it.
The Game is great, absoluteley. It looks stunning, has amazing Handling and a lot stuff to Do. But this Problem is so frustrating…
At this very moment, I actually have an Xbox One in my “shopping cart” on Amazon (Saved up for over two months) - I was just about to pull the trigger on buying it, when I started looking around for Forza 6 videos to whet my appetite, and found this thread. As this game was the only reason I was even thinking about buying the console, if this isn’t fixed (as I loved running a “locked” lobby, with certain cars in FM4) I’ll stick to the “dark side” So gutted 
EDIT: Can you just run a race with a full grid of “non-Drivatar” AI?
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I was talking with another member here via PM. In CAREER MODE anyways there is a way to race against AI. You have to set your game to offline in the settings. Obviously this would nullify rivals times while this was active.
So if you set the game to “offline” in Career Mode, can you select the cars that you face on the grid? (Such as a single type of car etc?) And how come you can race against a whole grid of Drivatars in single player, but not in private online mode? Seems daft (Can we at least have the option added to turn the Drivatars off and run with basic AI?) So, so fed up
No…well I mean I doubt it. I don’t have the game yet. I meant going offline enables the AI to come back. I asked the guy what he thought and to score it out of 10 with 1 being worse than the current drivatar AI and 10 being awesome and not even the same game. He scored it a 7…which is good enough for me. So in career mode, try going offline and running against the AI
As for free play and online…like I said I don’t have the game and I’m not getting it until that is patched…free play at least. There is no excuse, in this day and age, with the tech available to the devs that you cannot pick which cars you race against. It’s not only sad, it’s embarrassing.
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If we cannot have a full field of Drivatars, would it be possible to have a full field of traditional AI drivers? I have seen familiar names (M. Rossi etc.) show up in the Career Mode Showcases for example.
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